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Friday, December 16, 2011

Last Favourite Thing Friday for the Year.

                                      
For this last Favourite Thing Friday  over at SHAY'S I am going to probably embarass myself and show my age. I have included a photo of my beautiful Frangipani which has just started to bloom it's lovely head off and smell divine for most of you who will go.....never heard of them!
My Favourite thing this week is that my very clever husband has managed to track down and secure a copy of both Albums on CD of a very favourite band of ours from 1977 (yes you heard correctly). We have literally been trying for about 20 years ever since we wore out the cassette tapes (if you don't know what they are you can google it) to replace them to no avail. The lovely man at the HMV store in the city who I think knows my husband(who by the way needs a 12 step program for CD & DVD purchasing) on a 1st name basis tracked them down for us...one has arrrived and is in our hot little hands and the other is on it's way. Yippee!! You couldn't just buy them back then at the record shop as they weren't mainstream music here. We had to drive to the Gold Coast to the Record Imports Shop to buy them. We were dedicated 'groovers'. No downloading them on I-tunes. We had many a fantastic night with friends listening to them over a glass of wine or 3 or maybe more. We thought we were so cooool. Maybe we weren't but the music was.
The band is called "Sanford Townsend" and the CD is "Duo-glide" the one still coming is "Smoke from a Distant Fire". Has anyone else heard of them??? Anyone??? Ok so no one is as old as me. Don't care this is my favourite thing for quite a while and will be for a while to come and it will certainly get played maybe even quite loudly this weekend.
Gotta love those shirts and the mo.....oh dear!
Frangipani's as promised....the smell of  a Queensland Summer and home to me.
Have a great weekend everyone. If you have to venture out in to the Kringle Madness, keep calm, keep breathing, keep your sense of humour and remember Goodwill toward all men...even the crazy one who runs over your heel with the trolley or pushes in front of you.
Blessings Michelle xx
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15 comments:

  1. FeeDecember 16, 2011 at 10:04 AM

    I have never heard of them so will have to google it and have a listen :) Love the Frangipanni - I love the scent of them too.

    Hugs - Fee X

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  2. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM

    I am with Fee,Michelle i havent heard of them either,sorry and you arent that old,lol.
    Frangipanni scent is just the best,have a great weekend Michelle.xx

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  3. JeanetteDecember 16, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    Never heard of them. Like Fee will have to Google them. :) Oh i love Frangipani's. I was going to photograph my to but the winds & rain knocked them about. :( Hugs,

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  4. FionaDecember 16, 2011 at 12:05 PM

    Love the frangipani.. mine is way behind... Hubz is more into music so I will check if he has heard of them... not your age... I just grew up in the backwaters!!
    Hugz

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  5. theaDecember 16, 2011 at 1:08 PM

    I didn't know the name of the band but I love the song -- and remember it from when it came out.

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  6. bettsylyn (Lynda)December 16, 2011 at 4:45 PM

    `Just ran it past the rock trivia guru in this house and he names the album when I said the band. We don't own any of their stuff though - although I think we must just about own everything else. ( So you are not alone)

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  7. SunnybecDecember 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    Oh dear never heard of them.....but I do know what a cassette tape is!!!

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  8. UnknownDecember 16, 2011 at 8:25 PM

    I haven;t heard of either the band of FrangiPanni's....Google here I come!

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  9. Sarcastic QuilterDecember 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    The Frangipannis are gorgeous. I never heard of the music but I can say I do know what a cassette tape is! lol

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  10. bjDecember 17, 2011 at 1:28 AM

    Well, dear heart...I am old as dirt but haven't heard of your favorite people here. Have fun listening...:)

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  11. SuzanneDecember 17, 2011 at 4:53 AM

    Oh, can I relate to having your favorite tape and several glasses of wine with friends. See, I'm old too. How great that you have been able to get them transferred to CD! Most of mine the tape player ate. Have not heard of this group though.

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  12. MargDecember 17, 2011 at 6:33 AM

    You're not that old, because if you are, that means I am too, and no way am I calling myself old....yet!
    I haven't heard of them either.
    I absolutely love the scent of frangipani, I have lots of them growing in my garden.

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  13. WendyDecember 17, 2011 at 2:43 PM

    I haven't heard of them either but as long as you enjoy them!! Your fangipanni is gorgeous.

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  14. ShayDecember 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    You aren't that old Michelle. I hadn't heard of the band you mentioned but I bet they are wonderful.

    Frangipanni's I do know and they are gorgeous.

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  15. rosieDecember 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM

    Yes sirree, I do know them!! I used to travel an hour and ten minutes to work and I got to hear lots of music on that trip! It was a couple of years later than 77 but music is always repeated!! Brings back lots of memories.. You enjoy girlfriend....xx

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