The Blog-Tag Game

Posted on | December 20, 2006 | 5 Comments

How the hell do I follow Richard Sambrook in Jeff Pulver’s BlogTag game? Richard manages, in the space of 5 things ‘we don’t know about him’, to mention close encounters with Kim Novak, Tom Robinson and Polonium 210!!

But, John, it’s not a competition – so the 5 things ‘relatively few’ (Jeff’s original words – I checked!) people will know about me are:

1. I once played drums for the Krankies (just the once!….and an experience I would not want to repeat) – I did not know, by the way, until I saw their website that they are “Britain’s favourite comedy duo” – now I feel better….!

2. On 21 May 1966, I managed to fill a match programme with the autographs of most of the great Celtic team that went on just a year later to lift the European Cup – I was aged 9 and the match was a close-season game against Spurs in Toronto that Celtic won 1-0. But – the programme went missing when we moved back to Scotland just a few months later – and just 9 months after that I came to realise just how valuable that programme might have been! I can still feel the pain 40 years later!

3. I have won 3 pool competitions in my time!

4. When I worked in a Scottish local education authority many moons ago, I was given the task of producing the ‘report to council’ that got my old secondary school demolished – a joy that many desire and few attain!

5. In the late ’70s I met an old man called Scottie McLean who claimed that he wrote the original version of In the Mood – he said that he had played saxaphone for the Joe Loss Orchestra during the ’20s and ’30s, and called his composition Saxaboogie, a tune that, he said, was later purloined by Loss, and later again by Glenn Miller and many others as ‘In the Mood’. I know old Scottie was either delusional or he was winding me up (it was really written by Joe Garland, although even he seemed to have ‘borrowed’ the tune) – but I liked his story!

Forgive me all, but I tag: Nova Stevenson; Don Ledingham; Suw Charman; Judy O’Connell; Ewan McIntosh.

Technorati Tags: blogtag, krankies, celtic, inthemood

Category: music, personal

Comments

5 Responses to “The Blog-Tag Game”

Ewan McIntosh
December 20th, 2006 @ 2:07 pm

Grrrrr. I thought I had managed to get out of that one…
Nova
December 20th, 2006 @ 4:13 pm

Your connection with the krankies explains a lot
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