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Vereh Nice ! ( as Borat might say ) - Best of all no diesel playing nursemaid on the tail end - didn't need to get my old Ian allan book out - seen her before. Thanks for posting - great scene, brings back one of the few good memories of my 1950's.

Amazing how it stayed in the lane - most times when you just get a front wheel puncture the car is hard to keep in a straight line. I have seen a similar thing on an fwd car which had one rear wheel missing & that one gave a similar spark display as it shot past & went on for miles leaving a dee...

@buttons0603 unfortunately as a dyed-in-the-wool steam fan since the 1950's I could never get too excited about diesel locomotives even British built ones.- but undoubtedly there is a mega amount of tractive effort available here & if they help to take more stuff off our crowded roads, well, then...

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My mom says that I am not plain & I'm not ugly...........she says I'm just plain ugly !

Great Video ! Interesting to see the old buildings like Shapland's factory, the museum & buildings on the strand as they were .

I dont know why they demollshed the iron bridge after it had been unused for so long, it wasn't a shipping hazard & would have made an attractive restored feature if onl...

Nice informative video,

As a loco spotter around Manchester in the 1950's I saw & crawled over many " Black 5's" but everyone called them "mickeys" (an abbr. of mixed traffic 5MT in those days up north). Undeservedly the "Jubs" created more excitement with spotters then with their green livery & ...

Great stuff, The 1st vid is taken from Stott Lane bridge, Eccles at the spot where I used to train spot in the mid 1950's - There were 4 tracks then plus 2 running down & under to the Manchester Ship Canal sidings. The tour train is in fact stopping on the one remaining MSC line presumably to ge...

I didn't notice this one ! - Bobby Jasper awesome player, also nice to see the late Sasha Distel help move things along here - very enjoyable, thanks for posting.

My all time favourite Mel Torme - How can a jazz singer's voice remain SO pure & controlled here at the age of 69 when so many top vocalists "lose it" after 20 years, especially after performing in many hundreds of smoke-filled venues.

Guess Mel was an exception - pure musician. r.i.p. - Thanks e...

Probably the clearest steam vid on u-tube,

Certainly the sharpest I have seen. I only ever saw 8f's "weathered-up" with rust, oil & soot hauling freight trains at pedestrian speeds when I was a "kid trainspotter" in the 1950's. This is awesome - an eightfreight "kicking ass" (as the americans w...

I think it is great that millions can access this great music today with just a mouse-click whereas 50 years ago my pals & I only had the jazz records we could afford to buy with our "spends" - I'm not an old guy complaining as I have hundreds of recordings today - I'm Just pleased to hear & see ...

I videotaped this show from my TV many years ago - the empty house & swing, the lonely motel, driving off alone - this backdrop would probably appear corny if set up for someone else - but Frank Sinatra's exquisite delivery of these songs makes it all very realistic and poignant.

Thanks for posti...

This track (including the rehearsal comments) is taken from the "Jazz at the Blackhawk" 12" lp by DB. I owned this in the late 1950's - Someone borrowed it & never returned it so I am very pleased to hear it right now albeit 50 years later. Still sounds crisp " umpatabar umpatabar keep that goi...

Yes it is "cool" - an adjective all modernists used in the mid to late 50's. - This recording brings back happy memories of hauling a bag of jazz 78's (weighing as much as 3 house bricks) to friend's houses to play. I still have this original DBQ 78 in my loft along with many other vogue label r...

Great Song, very haunting - Thanks for posting - ( @Bluewind1313, the sax player is Branford Marsalis ).

Jasmine, My wife & I watched your documentary and were totally absorbed in your fascinating story - Love your positive gutsy attitude to life & your thoughtful disposition.

We can't wait to see more of your adventures - we won't ramble on right now about how amazing & pretty you are, it's been ...

Awesome performance - Wow, plays horn like Chet baker but sings better than Chet ever did - I just caught his version of "Tenderly", terrific - Australia must be well proud of this gifted young man.

Very nice jazz rendition of this beautiful Bricusse & Newley classic - interesting exploration of a tune you clearly love - I really enjoyed it & - Thankyou for posting !

Classic 70's stuff, Deniece Williams epitomises all that was good in popular music in that decade - Love all her songs - In my opinion she is one of the most uniquely talented female vocalists of that era & genre along with Anita Baker, but as someone has mentioned - not a household name.

Thank...

Another great artist from Canada - I think that this song is one of those great 70's recordings that music lovers of all genres will always remember & be happy & probably moved to hear again. ( I am a jazz devotee myself but I do love the 70's quality stuff )

Posting it will give youngsters a c...

@billmcljnr - I remember Alan doing alternate sets with Peter Leigh's big band at the palais with the occasional teddy boy's rumble going on in the crowd. Thinking back to the 50's, the dance halls were only source of live jazz & swing around in the NW apart from the jazz at club "43" on oxford ...

Great Song & Great Entertainment - I think that this was the best song in the film - L.O.L. at seeing 100+ people boarding the "toast rack" style open sided car in only 6 seconds flat ! It would speed up the world's crowded subway trains should this method be adopted - but I doubt that the "tran...

Awesome ! - to the cretins that say canadians are boring - they should listen to Fong & kesler - oh yes and Maynard Ferguson, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall et al.

Thanks for posting Danny - extremely enjoyable !

My wife just watched the last bit of this vid over my shoulder and said "is that in France ?" & I asked how she knew & she said "it's the exact same plastic chair that put YOUR backside on the floor in that "Gite de France" some years ago".

Weird - Small world eh ? - chaises en plastique français...

J-B, You are clearly the daddy when it comes to "a capella", Have you or any of your friends considered doing the business on David Raskin's " Laura" ?.

It's a beautiful song. the four Freshmen do it fine but I reckon that their improvosations on it could be extended to a higher level of cool if ...

Top scene - it impressed my son and my 8 year old grand-daughter so much they play out the roles over the dinner table when my son says "DRINK IT" & she says "I don't wanna drink it Dad" in a trembling voice.

Thanks for posting - hope these two do some more of this.

Elliot could sing the telephone directory and it would sound cool - this guy has class & will be up there with the all time greats - thankyou for posting !

How cool a Canadian are you !!!! , - it's great to see genuinely a talented 22 year old - you deserve to be successful, you work hard & have everything going for you. Thanks for posting your songs.

Me being a jazz fan of the "cool school" since 1955 I thought that I had seen & heard it all, but I've got to say all of you guys are nothing less than mindblowing ! Most enjoyable, and look at all of the jazz standards out there for you to work on ! Thanks for posting !

Nice posting, thanks - brings back memories of the South Lancashire Transport trolley buses which operated west of Manchester. This thing I remember most as a teenager is that you could chase a back-loading bus & leap on whilst the driver was changing gear, but you had NO chance of doing this on...

I remember trainspotting on Wigan NW platform on many a Saturday in 1953/4 & wiping the cabside numbers clean with my coatsleeve of locos like this one, totally in awe as they stopped en route on the "B/ham - Glasgow". Sad or what ! - still we didn't have colour tv, pc's, videos & wii etc.

OOoogh...

Superb film - a happy moment in Britain's history only 2 years before ww2, the peak before the gradual demise of our heavy engineering industry. The worker's faces, so proud of what was truly a work of art - no paid extras in that crowd !

As a retired engineer I am amused to think that these beau...