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Are making me feel old!........................... Wasn't anyone else a teenager in the 50s?........... Jiving, rock and roll, Tommy Steel, Johnny Ray, Frankie Lane, Chris Barber with Monty Sunshine, Ella Fitzgerald, gathered skirts with hoops under. Ann Glos

Can't let it disappear so will nudge before I go to bed. Ann Glos

Alas...far too young (ahem) but I do remember the first record my older brother bought........Guy Mitchell......She wears red feathers and a hula hula skirt.......he played it that often I can still hear it in my mind 50 years on !!!!! Dave

Sorry Ann, I was born in the 50's so can't remember them that well, just wanted to add to your thread so you didn't think you were being ignored, lol. Frances x

Ann Thank you!! I was born in 1952 & you've made me feel young! Angela :-)))))

I like Tommy Steel use to listen to him all the time singing Little White Bull, and Singing the blues,my brother liked LittleRichard,Micheal Holliday, Our first tele in 1955 was a 12inch screen and the first show we watched was Arthur Askey Show. We also watched the Queens coronation on a nine inch screen with a magnifying screen over that. O dear I do feel Old, Fun days though. Sheila

Sorry Ann, I didn't arrive until '54.....lol Nanna-Moo ;-) (am a fan of Tommy Steel though!)

i was born 51, i remember tommy steel, guy mitchel. and what about dickie valentine! anyone remember him? sing something simple on the radio, my dad would have that on every sunday evening. jim reeves, my dad's favourite! i was'nt to keen then, but now i love to listen to jim reeves singing, i have a few of his cd's, i must be mellowing in my old age lol.

Hi Ann,,,sorry born 54, but remember Perry Como 'Magic Moments', 'Catch a Falling Star' and Guy Mitchell ' She Wears Red Feathers' parents always playing records,,,'she lives on just coconuts and fish from the sea, a rose in her hair, a gleam in her eye and love in her heart for me'. lol Jenni-Rose x

Hello Ann, I was; used to wear the paper nylon full petticoats with three bands of nylon boning in them; pulled them out before washing. And jiving with female schoolfriends; coming home alone from the school club late at night on Maltese buses, completely safe. Wearing a very long false pony tail which must have looked so fake, but I thought it was wonderful. Hearing the first Cliff record, and being called a living doll by a boyfriend (he needed glasses!) I still have the toy cat he bought me, rather battered now. My little pink Dansette record player - haven't thought about that for years! I loved it. Bought my first 45 rpm record for it from Woolworths. Hen baskets. White cotton gloves; one pair for wear and one in the wash. Really tight, very wide elastic belts. My first pair of shoes with one inch heels. How scandalized my Dad was! Having my ears pierced in 1959 because that was the only way I could wear earrings to school. All the black and white photos I took of schoolfriends whose names I cannot remember now. Autograph books - everyone had one and I can still remember a lot of the rhymes we wrote in them. Remembering how old I thought my Mother was - and she was then younger than I am now! Then of course, it was my first mini-skirt, but that was in the sixties. Thanks for jogging a lot of memories. Things I haven't thought of for years. Joanna

I remember Dickie Valentine,I thought he was gorgeous,Frankie Vaughan was my Sil favourite,She was always singing 'Green Door', What about the liberty bodice, and the little white socks,pixie bonnets to keep you ears warms,Ribbons in your hair,hair slides,Getting chewing gum all over my best hand knitted cardigan(my Nan had knitted) cor was I in trouble.Saturday morning pictures,at the local cinema. Seeing my brother eat jellied eels in the local pie and mash shop,he loved them,What me made me think of that. Lovely memories of my Dad who died in 1959, Good and bad times. As a last thought the London Smog- Ugh.

Ahh Jenni - 'Catch a falling star' I must have heard it on the rebound, born in '56. Ann The first film I ever remember seeing was Tommy Steele in 'Little White Bull'. My mum always listened to Jim Reeves and Mario Lanza. maggie

I will be 60 this year so I can remember all these things. My mum got me a circular sailcloth skirt from a local shop with a sale on, bright orange it was, and I ironed loads of transfers from magazines on to it, head and shoulders of various stars, prob Tommy Steele, can't remember who else? I was in the dog house but I thought it looked great. Those paper nylon petticoats used to sort of crack after a while, and the net ones scratched your legs lol Happy times tho.

Sorry, I was born in the early 50s so late 60s was my era, mini and white laced up boots, hot pants and the like. xx Jill

Ann, I was a teenager at the beginning of the 60's.....it was Cliff Richard, hooped petticoats, wide patent belts, flared skirts, pedal-pushers, track suits, baseball boots, chelsea boots, stirrup pants, grecian curls, flicks, cottage loaf, hand-jive, jiving, later the twist, Buddy Holly, can-can petticoats, long-points, gun metal shoes, stilletos, mohair sweaters, dayglo socks, ponytails, more and more and more....

Johnny Ray I seen him in Melbourne in the 50s all the women adored him.Did you know he was deaf ? I also remember when the movie Rock around the clock was screened in Melbourne all the parents were horrified .Then came Elvis it really doesn't seem that long ago ,those were the days . June

* sighs for lost youth* Those were indeed ,the days.. *she wears red feathers has brought it all rushing back* My aunts were teenagers so I knew all the latest pop songs... *waves to Sally * I remember that lot well as well...:-) I was at a convent boarding school and had a picture of Tommy Steele stuck onto my desk,,,,,,,,,confiscated...never got it back..!:-(

~~~~~~waves back to Polly~~~~~ yeah girl, those were the days......they tried to keep us down, but we were the generation to change everything..... we had the fashions, the make up, the hair, and most of all the freedom and the music......and oh boy did we make the most of it....

Nobody has mentioned teddy boys, National service (boyfriends being sent away to Germany). Loved Dickie Valentine. Had our first phone and TV early 50s, watched the coronation and so did half the neighbours. Oh yes, I had a red sailcloth skirt. First pair of jeans in 1957 when I started earning, was not allowed them before ('because they are common') Remember riding a bike everywhere, much safer on the road, much more freedom, used to ride down to the beach at 13years old with friends. Ann Glos

OK so I am going to give my age away. I remember & loved the fifties all those fab singers. Both my sons were born in the fifties & the youngest one was always singing Catch a Falling Star. Great Memories June xx