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but can you name the background music?

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I would just about have been a teenager then, I like the cars, don't know the music though.

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Gibbo2286 wrote: 10 Jul 2020, 09:29 but can you name the background music?
The show more bit below the video shows the music in the Video

1. Lene Lovitch The Freeze
2. I'm Cramped by The Cramps

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and A linked bonus...saw Omo on one of the buses....its still around today under the unilever umbrella, but washing powder ads these days dont compare to things like this.... :-D



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..and when you get Alan Freeman explaining WM7 all the better....not arf!



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:rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:

hard to believe we were so gullible in those days!!
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Nothing changes Mick. :)

That 'icicles' video Neil linked to is a bit weird isn't it. Lene Lovitch The Freeze
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Still don't know the music, was it really from my generation? Doesn't sound a bit like the Everly Brothers. :)

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This might suit you Peter.

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You also have this;

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I usually wore a sports jacket + tie and trousers - but I recognise the clothing.

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This is post number 85,009 on the off-topic chat lounge and this is locomotive 85009 at......

Birmingham New Street......how appropriate
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This ex Birmingham Corporation Bus with its Birmingham Coat of Arms has now made its way up to Cresswell on Druridge Bay Northumberland to the Drift Cafe. Still a viable entire bus used until recently by Belle-Vue Coaches of Manchester and still appearing on their website here http://bellevue-mcr.com/services/vintage/
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