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Sunday afternoons this was always on our radio memories!!

Love Joan Small this is great.

I also have the same memories of "Sing Something Simple" on a Sunday Evening as a young child in Ireland & after coming home from visiting our relatives ,getting ready for Bed & our Parents would turn on the Radio for "Sing Something Simple" & myself & my Sisters did not like it, thinking of School in the Morning & my Mother singing along with the Radio, now as an adult I think it is lovely & know why my Parents liked it.

You cannot beat Nostalgia . Sunday best.. Brings a tear to my eye now.

This takes me back to when I was 13 .My stepfather used to listen to this every Sunday night .He would be sat in his arm chair puffing on his pipe slowly tapping his feet along to the tunes.Such carefree happy times .

As a teenager in the 80s, you heard the end of Sing Something Simple before the charts started at 5pm. It became part of that experience. You hated it: Sing Something Simple was what old people listened to. But somehow you embraced it; they did a Rolling Stones number one week and it made you laugh; you heard Cliff Adams play the piano in the middle. Then it was years later. You didn't care about the charts anymore, but Sing Something Simple was still on; nothing changes. I remember in about 1999 just enjoying SSS for what it was, a singalong. Then, just as you though it would never go away, Cliff Adams passes away, and the show dies with him; and something dies within you. I still have a soft spot for SSS, and I'm so glad I get to hear it here on RUclips.

March 2024 I remember the holidays in our little blue caravan and at night my sister and I would sleep at one end and mum and dad would sit at the table the other end playing scrabble and listening to sing something simple. Very soothing and always fell asleep very quickly ❤

Grew up listening to this much better then today's music (noise) Thank you for posting

Watched a documentary on Guy Burgess, when he was banished to another country, it said he liked nothing better than listening to "Sing something simple" never thought of it or heard it for must be 50 odd years or more, life was simple then, we never had money but never had a care

Mum and Dad always had this on ,us kids had just had a bath and hot chocolate in a cup all snuggled up.happy memories

Excellent upload. Opening theme: 'Incandescence' by The Cavendish Ten. John Hooper (who sounded much nearer 50 than the 18yo student he is here!) now reports for _The Economist_ as their Italy and Vatican correspondent. That sidecar racing piece about Barbara Lawes (as she later became) was disgustingly sexist. Still, it was 1969 and therefore perfectly OK.

1960's & Sat in the bath with my older brother with this music blasting out from a huge old Marconi radio in my parents bedroom 🥲

Nostalgia overload..lol I echo everything folk are saying both positive and negative comments. I loved the top 20 just before this program but my mum and dad loved this, so I enjoyed it to but not all the songs but it brings back so many warm and happy feelings to me.

A lost land😢

It's a beautiful balmy summer evening in 1965 my family are all gathered around the radiogram, 9 children, 7 girls, 2 boys, mum and dad plus one golden labradore. Mum has her best china out and sandwiches and cakes while we all listen to sing something simple. Bliss. I'm getting emotional now just remembering those days.Jack Emblo, Cliff Addams and the singers brought so much joy to our Sunday evenings, the memories shine bright some 60 years later.love and respect.

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Just discovered this and it broght back lovely memories we had simple pleasures the as a young married couple wish the young people had the same stress less lives we had.

Sunday Evenings just wasn't Sunday without listening to this. So lovely to hear again

So good to hear music and sounds of a simpler, childhood life which to be honest is tinged with painful menories, know your life has flown by and you consider things that could have been and how what you thought was normal as a child . . . was not. The loss of innocence and trauamtic nightmares rip my soul apart nowadays on reflection but thanks for the nostalgia that out weighs the depressive tendancies. Take care to those who feel 🙂

Mixed thoughts as I listen to this again…I sadly associate this with the dread of School the following morning, but I’m also filled with warmth, as I remember being with my parents, gentle times, people’s expectations were far less than folk of today, we were happy with what we had, which were really just the basics🙂

I think in those days. Southern closed down at 5.30 p.m. only to open up 25 minutes later!

Sothern independent television started Colour Television in November of that year.

Barry Westwood and Trevor [The Weather] baker. Regional I.T.V. at it"s best!

The Great Lie came out in 1941. This skit would have been very stale satire in 1949. The Lend-Lease program would also be very old news by 1949 -- not a timely subject for humour.

Ray Gunter has now once again become a household name😂🤣

Probably the worst music I have ever heard.

Here is a rare one. For his winter BBC program 'Monday Night Melody', added a string session. This was October 1958. You still hear the distinctive Roy Marsh vibraphone

This was the antidote to the swinging 60's, A pure relaxing Sunday evening by the fire, and of course the wireless playing sing something simple.

Anyone under 45 would find it hard to believe that this light music reflected the type of society we had in the 60s and mid 70s. Sunday dinner was a regular time in early afternoon, when pubs closed at 2pm of Sunday. Very few shops opened on a Sunday back then. The first game played was on Sunday 1pm January 1974, Everton v West Brom FA Cup 4th round, . This was due to power cuts FA rules in place meant the price of the match programme was the means of entry. Sunday trading laws made it a family day, and TV was still closed down during the day. Sing Something Simple was always on the radio in my former family home, and captured a more relaxed period. Stress was never a constant challenge like today. And unlike the 24/7 mantra that took hold around the year 2000. Back in the 60s and 70s legions of workers were paid double time for working Sunday Now every day s seen as the same by some modern day employer's

this was on my 6th birthday 😮❤

Early 60ies my mother and I would listen from Copenhagen on a Sunday evening and we knew Dad would be listening onboard his ship wherever he was. Treasure !

Living in Gloucestershire, I was outside the range of the West of England transmitters. One day, probably in 1959 I was tuning my wireless and by chance came upon At The Luscombes. After that I tried never to miss an episode! Later that year I started at University in Birmingham and though I tried to listen every week, reception was effectively imposible. I later spent some of my grant money on a tape recorder and in the early 60s I recorded every episode I could. Sadly what I did then was to use the same tape overwriting esrlier epsiodes! Then around 1964 I realised my mistake and thereafter religiously recorded every episode till the sad day when the BBC shut the series down in 1967. At least when I knew the series there were episodes starting in October and ending mid-April - six months and so about 26 episodes per year. So recently, when I transferred these episodes to MP3, I had over 120 episodes. How exciting it was every October on a Saturday evening to listen to the West of England Home Service - the programme before The Luscombes was a local sports programme and they talked of teams from far-off places in Cormwall and Devon,,, outside someone ususally seemd to have a bonfire smoking away. What made the Luscombes so special was that unlike Mrs Dale's Diary or the Archers there was only one episode a week and only 26 episodes a year. So, as somone remarked here, each episode was complete in itself.

I like the bit of news at the end with a resignation of the government. In fact, at this point in time (1968) looks like Harold Wilson government was heading for trouble.....2022 now, somethings never change!

Sunday's were Sunday's. Sunday roast at 1pm on the layed table. Dad would have his only drink of the week at 12 till 1pm (pubs shut at 2pm) Then the lakes or park in the afternoon or gardening. If winter we watched probably Bob Hope (road films) on the black n white TV) then tea at Six and dad would put this on. Pubs opened at 7pm till 1030 but dad never went (work on Monday) No afternoon football no roudys no shops open no TV dinners, nice and peaceful...happy days.

7pm every Sunday. I seem to think in the early sixties they were called the black and white minstrels, but times started to change.

Classic memories from the 1950's Sundays. Loved it then and I still remember lots and lots of gentle songs and lyrics from those days. I find myself singing them at odd times and only now realise it is this old program I have to thank for that pleasure. It is true to say families and communities were much closer in the last years of the simple life. Not a deal of money, not a deal of posessions. No phone,no car,no TV,no computers. Holidays a few days in the works or pits holiday week. .....but childhood generally happy and safe.

I'm 69. If my memory serves me correct. I recall me listening to the top 20 on the radio from 5 till 6 with Alan (Pop Pickers) Freeman. Then dad put on Sing Something Simple and then the Black and White Minstrels followed. Priceless childhood memories. We had very little as kids. But boy were we happy, and lucky to have been a child then. Happy carefree days to play out, adventures galore. Summer, Winter. Rain, wind or snow. We didn't care, we were out playing.

The original “soap opera “ before they were called such!

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This show was broadcast on my 23rd. birthday, and here I am at 77years old, still loving music, despite the awful noise that some of it has made in the interim period of the sixties ,seventies, eighties, nineties, noughties, and what is euphemistically called RAP, music, perhaps they forgot to put the letter "C" before that genre!!! This music came from a period before the BBC became a propaganda arm of the fascistic state that Britain has become, and when the BBC could be trusted around the world, when Enoch Powell warned of illegal immigration which today is diluting our beloved national identity, and which in consequence has reduced our National Institutions to a laughing stock, the NHS, Schools, Transport, Gas Water and Electricity services, and telecommunications, and postal services are in disarray. I live now in The Netherlands, where life is as it used to be in the land of my birth, at the end of World War Two, and the Dutch speak better English than ninety percent of the English, sad to relate.Sing Something Simple is an example of the Best of British, now gone forever.

A very different time when a soldier would just happen to be strolling along and offer assistance.

I remember my Mum listening to this on a Sunday evening. The kitchen always smelt of the cakes she had baked and of the ironing. All so long ago now.

Mum listened to this in our kitchen on Sunday afternoon after cooking Sunday dinner good memories

Looking at the comments I’d say we’re not so different after all. It’s funny how one BBC programme can unite so many peoples memories.

Ahh, back to the good old lazy Sundays when everyone could just sit back and enjoy the day in peace. How wonderful those days were that we took for granted.

It was 1967, Ted won the "Conventioneers Trophy" for originality. This is one of the most non-patronising interviews on magic I have ever heard.

Brings back some memories. On Sunday’s my family would have radio 2 on all the time. In the morning we’d have Richard’s Baker, Melodies for you, followed by Desmond Carrington’s All Time Greats, then followed by Benny Green’s show…all of which I loved have have great memories of….but then after Benny came this. I’m sorry to say that I disliked this show intensely as it was just so….naff. I had to run to my bedroom and put a pillow over my head for the duration.

Sorry to go against the majority of positive comments here but.... I absolutely hated this show way back when! I'm back 60 years... Bath night on Sunday evening, school the next day and after Fluff Freeman came this!!!!! ARGHHH.

As for so called ‘ Diversity’ in todays’ world , in 1977 when BBC Radio 1 & 2 shared the FM frequency , the Sex Pistols’ “ Pretty Vacant “ played at the end of the Top 20 Chart programme was 5 minutes away from the beginning of This show …I’m now listening hoping to hear the jaunty one which went “ For all - we know - we will never meet again “ which I would love to hear for the 1st time in decades 😁🟩❤️