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🙂
Do not let negative people with their negative comments spoil your enjoyment of this 60's classic Radio show, I remember the coal fire, the wireless on, and listening to this lovely sound.
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.
In fact pick of the pops ran from 17 hours till 19hours than sing something simple came on followed by grand hotel the black and white minstrel show was a TV show
I'm right back to Sunday evenings in the 1970's. The death knell of the weekend and a nervous feeling in my stomach because I haven't done my school homework.
Wow. yes I truly remember these days. different world then . respect. whilst I was laying in bed would watch the suns shadow cross the wall as it set. and the evening stars come out.very emotional now. good memories. life goes so quickly. lost some good friends during my time.seen some sites. i would go back in a flash. take care folks.god bless you all.
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
Wow a true memory trigger from the bygone years. I am 61 now and remember Sunday afternoon with Mum and Dad; they reading the People and News of the World as I re-read the Beano. Sunday roast was 1:30 so we readied for supper which was afternoon tea and rhubarb and custard or Mums Baked custard; thence up for bath before bed- wonder years in deed: a thousand thanks for the memory of happy and innocent days.😊
I remember my father used to put the radio on for this - no doubt he listened to this episode. I was 13 at the time. I miss the 1960s - such a free yet elegant era.
I'd forgotten about this until someone mentioned it on a 70's Facebook group. I was 7 in June 1968 and this was three months before I had major heart surgery. My sister and I used to listen this with mum and dad, sadly all three of them are no longer here. I can now listen to this whenever I want and close my eyes to transport myself back to those happy days 💙💙
Had to reply as I was also 7 in June 1968, also had a sister and used to listen to this with mum and dad. mum and dad both now gone (2013 & 2015) my sister is still alive she is younger than me, but on the other side of the world due to me emigrating to Australia. Different times back then this brought back happy memories of mum and dad singing along with some of these.
My grandad loved these . Sunday evening around t time he’s turn the radio on him and my nana would make sandwiches we’d have pork pie and pickles and ice cream and a cup of tea . Happy memories of my wonderful grandparents .
I remember the weekly SSS : my father asked us to sit on our chair, keep quiet and listen to half an hour of nice music. More than 60 years later, I am happy to hear all these songs again. My professor of English in the high- school told us that during the transmission of SSS there was less trafic in the towns and that a lot of families gathered around the radio and sang all together. This is real cultural heritage.
Wonderful memories of a warm balmy Summer Sunday evening, my Dad getting ready to open the pub we had, in the bathroom shaving, singing along to the songs from this great radio programme. I am in tears now x
Hey Peter. I'm a Turley too....and this reminds me of living with my Grandad, James Turley, and those Sunday evenings before bathtime and back to school the next day. I also used to live in 2x pubs...my mum&dad being the landlady&landlord!
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.
I'm 71......I remember the same thing in 1964. Sunday night....first 'Sing Something Simple' and then later on around 8:30 TV Sunday Night at the London Palladium.'
Sundays...mum doing the washing in a twin tub, roast dinner and bananas and custard, getting school uniform ready, bath, bacon and baked beans on toast, Sing Something Simple, Famous Five and bed, school in the morning.
Sharon Mattinson I remember being driven to school Sunday night after exit that day.and Dad would put this on the car radio.this is the first time I ve listened to this since 1971
The times I have tried to describe the 'twin tub' to my sons! I doubt I have done it justice, but our upmarket neighbours were the first to have one. We listened to the 'wireless' on the monogram which was the size of a sideboard. As a child I loved to stack the records on it - and was told off!
Oh. I had to laugh! It was just the same in our house. Memories of a pilchard salad, followed by tin peaches and evaporated milk...And mum doing the ironing. Oh, the twin tub..Life seemed so much simpler then.
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 ❤
19:00 hours after Pick Of The Pops with Alan Freeman. We even listened to this when we went away on holiday to the Yorkshire Coast. Long gone days but not forgotten.
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.
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 !
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.
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.
Have you tried serenade radio at 1700 Sunday evening s they are repeating this lovely programme serenade radio is an internet station which if you have ask alexia she would play serenade radio for you
I used to sit with my dad every Sunday to listen to Sing Something Simple until I started work then I would listen on my Sundays off. These were the best times of my young life and it gave me an appreciation of good music from the light classics to popular music.
These would come on just after the top 40 it used to bring tears to me because my gran and grandad would stay the wkend but go home Sunday just before this . Then the Saint would be on telly then bath bed for school next day 🙂
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 .
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.
What an era not like today people today have no morals makes me cry I had to listen to this with my parents after totps top 40 makes me cry now the good times
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 🙂
Wonderful memories. We'd listen and sing along to this in the car on the way home from afternoon drives my dad took us on most Sunday afternoons - which usually involved a pub and us kids playing games in the garden, somewhere along the way.
very similar to my experience..mum dad and my uncle and auntie..twilight, cruising, they would be singing along, warm comfort..sometimes drop into pub on way home and us kids would sit in car with fanta and crisps...happy memories...they have all gone now
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.
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.
I would listen to this in the car at uncle toms cabin southend on sea with my parents having spent the day at the seaside and then we would drive back home,very special memories.
OH my i remember my dad taking me out in his car on a Sunday and all too soon we had to go home and school the next day , the sun going down and evening shadows creeping and this sss playing on the radio a whole different world away OH Happy Days .
What's not to like?...Happy memories of days gone by, and when you stop to think of it; this was just another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of life that made things so perfect.
Thanks for posting. Although the Cliff Adams Singers were very talented I didn't appreciate it. At the time this was very depressing for me as an eleven year-old. Radio 1 had not long started but had limited air time and not on Sunday evenings. So it was back to the parents' 'Light Program'. Like others, Sunday evenings consisted of bath, pyjamas in front of the fire, fish paste sandwiches and thinking of an excuse to avoid school the next day. The only thing worse than forced listening to Sing Something Simple was my father singing along to every song, and he knew all the words! 'I Knew Susie' was his favourite which often started a row with my mother.
*@Carl Teacherman* Thank you for the window into your memories, some of them are similar to my own in regards to Sundays with SSS on the radio. You made me smile and chuckle. They were lovely times, and only now looking back do we realise how wonderful they were - what a gift we were given...
My overriding memory was a dark and cold Sunday night in winter. TV was off. My parents put SSS on the radio and my mood drpoped. Each any every dour slow depressing song took me down futher and further. School the next day, god how aweful. My mother and father loved it. My choice was to go to bed, upstairs, no heating, at least that was warm when you got into bed and you curl into a comforting foetal position
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.
Thank you for uploading this early edition of the programme. I loved this show and was so sorry when it ended, a good classic British BBC radio programme giving a warm glow of nostalgia.
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.
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
After the war, my father bought a radio and as a child I remember three moments on Sundays: in the afternoon, a program of opera-music, at 17.45 Sharp the results of all the footballmatches and at 18.30 Sing something simple. 25 years later I bought a cassette in the recordshop on Piccadilly Circus. Later I lost it. Today I found it back on youtube. Memories!...
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 😁🟩❤️
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!
Wonderful memories. We'd listen and sing along to this in the car on the way home from afternoon drives my dad took us on most Sunday afternoons - which usually involved a pub and us kids playing games in the garden somewhere along the way.
Nigel A. James - Vienna. I remember this being on the radio of a Sunday evening too. Like you said bath night and school the next morning. I remember so well, as a little girl, my Mum listening to this while doing all the ironing..oh such sweet memories.
I wonder how many people know the first edition a of sing something simple were on Friday night s at eight o clock in 1959 it move d to Sunday at six o clock in 1960 and stayed on Sunday evenings at 6 or 7 o clock for 14 years than moved to Friday night s at 730 than to Tuesday night's at 730 than to Wednesday night's at various times than back to sundays where it stayed until the end in 2001
I hope one day someone will post again some of the early sing something simple shows from the early sixties when there wasn't a piano solo instead an extra unaccompanied piece was featured also whynot download some sing something simple shows from serenade radio
Anyone notice d that the Greenwich time signal had all the pips the same length in those days now the sixth one is longer i refer to the news after this programme
Oh my - if ever a programme scared me when I was a small boy - it was this . . . and it haunts me now. Sounded like 'angelic sirens' luring me to the underworld. I think the mouth organ was a warning sound to beware. Sorry if you loved this but I only searched for this link to see if it has the same effect and it does. How ironic they are singing 'Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore' - I am plugging my ears right now.
Reuploaded. Yes I looked it up in a newspaper a couple of years ago, the newspaper reported it TWO days after it happened. I'd since added the correct date to my documentation but forgot to change the filename.
Used to hear this in the car as kids on the way home from visiting my Grandparents. This was on the radio just before the Top of the Pops count down.....never a fan then, but can appreciate it now as it still brings back memories!
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🙂
Goodness, I am so shocked by the negative comments. I used to love listening to this with Mummy. So gentle. I found it uplifting.
Do not let negative people with their negative comments spoil your enjoyment of this 60's classic Radio show, I remember the coal fire, the wireless on, and listening to this lovely sound.
We ( JEAN & I used to listen to this ) in JEANS mum:s CARAVAN on a SUNDAY tea time
You obviously weren't made to bath on a sunday evening, and wash your hair in Vosene,and listen to this, it haunts me to this day !
You got a big thumbs up from me anyway, my mum always listened to this as well 👍
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.
In fact pick of the pops ran from 17 hours till 19hours than sing something simple came on followed by grand hotel the black and white minstrel show was a TV show
Pick of the Pops was Sundays 4pm - 5pm. Sing Something Simple followed at 5pm.
We had the same timetable for TV and radio, plus I remember Ed Stewpot's family favourites, I remember so many of the songs from that show.
I'm right back to Sunday evenings in the 1970's. The death knell of the weekend and a nervous feeling in my stomach because I haven't done my school homework.
So true !😆
Wow. yes I truly remember these days. different world then . respect. whilst I was laying in bed would watch the suns shadow cross the wall as it set. and the evening stars come out.very emotional now. good memories. life goes so quickly. lost some good friends during my time.seen some sites. i would go back in a flash. take care folks.god bless you all.
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Take me with you I'd go in a heartbeat proper memories hearing these .
Double Wow how lovely
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
Wow a true memory trigger from the bygone years. I am 61 now and remember Sunday afternoon with Mum and Dad; they reading the People and News of the World as I re-read the Beano. Sunday roast was 1:30 so we readied for supper which was afternoon tea and rhubarb and custard or Mums Baked custard; thence up for bath before bed- wonder years in deed: a thousand thanks for the memory of happy and innocent days.😊
Sunday afternoons this was always on our radio memories!!
I remember my father used to put the radio on for this
- no doubt he listened to this episode. I was 13 at the
time. I miss the 1960s - such a free yet elegant era.
I'd forgotten about this until someone mentioned it on a 70's Facebook group. I was 7 in June 1968 and this was three months before I had major heart surgery. My sister and I used to listen this with mum and dad, sadly all three of them are no longer here. I can now listen to this whenever I want and close my eyes to transport myself back to those happy days 💙💙
Had to reply as I was also 7 in June 1968, also had a sister and used to listen to this with mum and dad.
mum and dad both now gone (2013 & 2015) my sister is still alive she is younger than me, but on the other side of the world due to me emigrating to Australia.
Different times back then this brought back happy memories of mum and dad singing along with some of these.
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.
My grandad loved these . Sunday evening around t time he’s turn the radio on him and my nana would make sandwiches we’d have pork pie and pickles and ice cream and a cup of tea . Happy memories of my wonderful grandparents .
I remember the weekly SSS : my father asked us to sit on our chair, keep quiet and listen to half an hour of nice music. More than 60 years later, I am happy to hear all these songs again. My professor of English in the high- school told us that during the transmission of SSS there was less trafic in the towns and that a lot of families gathered around the radio and sang all together. This is real cultural heritage.
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Wonderful memories of a warm balmy Summer Sunday evening, my Dad getting ready to open the pub we had, in the bathroom shaving, singing along to the songs from this great radio programme. I am in tears now x
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Hey Peter. I'm a Turley too....and this reminds me of living with my Grandad, James Turley, and those Sunday evenings before bathtime and back to school the next day. I also used to live in 2x pubs...my mum&dad being the landlady&landlord!
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.
riding home in car after day out with my parents and their friends...twilight, warm car, people i loved and have lost..sweet memories
Those Sunday evenings just aint the same any more !!,,,So sedate , one may fall asleep listening to these old songs, but what's wrong with that ?.
I remember it so well, just after Jimmy Clithero which I liked a lot more 😄
John bates I liked sing something simple more than Jimmy clitheroe
Clithero kid was lunch timeish... this was evening
@@johnbates2709 yes of course, same here ! happy days. for sure.
Now you can loop the songs 24 hrs a day seven days a week. No need to wait till Sunday.That's technology! All good🤣😂
Everyone saying the same thing, reminds them of Sunday night and school in the morning. Good days
I'm in my 50th year and recall the exact same emotions. Madcap rush to complete homework then off to school at eight AM the next morning.
I'm 71......I remember the same thing in 1964.
Sunday night....first 'Sing Something Simple' and then later on around 8:30 TV Sunday Night at the London Palladium.'
Sundays...mum doing the washing in a twin tub, roast dinner and bananas and custard, getting school uniform ready, bath, bacon and baked beans on toast, Sing Something Simple, Famous Five and bed, school in the morning.
Sharon Mattinson I remember being driven to school Sunday night after exit that day.and Dad would put this on the car radio.this is the first time I ve listened to this since 1971
The times I have tried to describe the 'twin tub' to my sons! I doubt I have done it justice, but our upmarket neighbours were the first to have one. We listened to the 'wireless' on the monogram which was the size of a sideboard. As a child I loved to stack the records on it - and was told off!
Oh. I had to laugh! It was just the same in our house. Memories of a pilchard salad, followed by tin peaches and evaporated milk...And mum doing the ironing. Oh, the twin tub..Life seemed so much simpler then.
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 ❤
SUMMER SUNDAY.
Ice-cream man, Dannies van.
Summer swelter, tar-melter.
Hop-scotch square, do or dare.
Cricket crease, go-kart grease.
Bird’s nest found, walking round.
Climbing trees, scabby knees.
Nobby’s pond, bulrush frond.
Cold frog spawn, my front lawn.
XL5, Juke box jive.
Thunderbirds, lemon curd.
Playing out, Mother’s shout.
Coming home - not alone.
Noise and din, running in.
Daddies there, combing hair.
Wireless plays, Summer days.
Sunday night, golden light.
Feeling glad, watching Dad.
Hear the song, evening long.
“Sing Something Simple, as time goes by.
Sing Something Simple, just you and I.”
Dannies ice cream aztec commercial &compared em to a mars bar..Nostalgia..Dannies s Yorkshire..
A ye sure done a lot that day ,lad.nite nite.
Grew up listening to this much better then today's music (noise) Thank you for posting
19:00 hours after Pick Of The Pops with Alan Freeman.
We even listened to this when we went away on holiday to the Yorkshire Coast.
Long gone days but not forgotten.
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.
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 !
Mum listened to this in our kitchen on Sunday afternoon after cooking Sunday dinner good memories
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.
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.
Have you tried serenade radio at 1700 Sunday evening s they are repeating this lovely programme serenade radio is an internet station which if you have ask alexia she would play serenade radio for you
I used to sit with my dad every Sunday to listen to Sing Something Simple until I started work then I would listen on my Sundays off. These were the best times of my young life and it gave me an appreciation of good music from the light classics to popular music.
These would come on just after the top 40 it used to bring tears to me because my gran and grandad would stay the wkend but go home Sunday just before this . Then the Saint would be on telly then bath bed for school next day 🙂
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 .
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.
Timeless Sunday evenings will go on forever !
What an era not like today people today have no morals makes me cry I had to listen to this with my parents after totps top 40 makes me cry now the good times
Thanks for the post. My dad's favourite on Sunday evening. Just made me very emotional.
Ray Oxborough me too- truly great radio entertainment, very emotive x
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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 🥲
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 🙂
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.
Wonderful memories. We'd listen and sing along to this in the car on the way home from afternoon drives my dad took us on most Sunday afternoons - which usually involved a pub and us kids playing games in the garden, somewhere along the way.
very similar to my experience..mum dad and my uncle and auntie..twilight, cruising, they would be singing along, warm comfort..sometimes drop into pub on way home and us kids would sit in car with fanta and crisps...happy memories...they have all gone now
@@loonylinda Fanta and crisps. Oh yes. Heaven!
Dancing around the living room on my dad's feet. Good memories
Pure gold dust ❤️🧡💚💙🖤 I love it.
The Sunday night dread of school the next day........beam me back Scotty.
Listening to s.s.s on the car radio whilst driving my Nan back home from East Finchley to Edmonton.
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.
Omg I was 14 remembering listening to this on a Sunday afternoon with my parents where has the time gone memories for sure ☺️☺️
My Dad worked seven days a week for years. After dinner on Sunday he would sleep in the chair with this programme on.
Brings back memories of lovely quieter times gone by 🌸🌸🌸
Very true
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.
You cannot beat Nostalgia . Sunday best.. Brings a tear to my eye now.
Sunday Evenings just wasn't Sunday without listening to this. So lovely to hear again
When visiting my Grandparents with mom and dad this was always on. as a child. Great memories of them. and the times
Takes me back to my childhood - I was 6 in 1968 - driving home from Prestatyn in Wales to Manchester
We weren't allowed to move or talk for half an hour but great memories of my old dad .
I would listen to this in the car at uncle toms cabin southend on sea with my parents having spent the day at the seaside and then we would drive back home,very special memories.
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
Aww .... how lovely . My Mum and Dad and me and my brother driving home from Wales in our Morris Minor on a Sunday evening ! Precious xxx
A very welcome memory of what the BBC used to produce in the days before it became "trendy" and obsessed with the type of noise it churns out now.
OH my i remember my dad taking me out in his car on a Sunday and all too soon we had to go home and school the next day , the sun going down and evening shadows creeping and this sss playing on the radio a whole different world away OH Happy Days .
What's not to like?...Happy memories of days gone by, and when you stop to think of it; this was just another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of life that made things so perfect.
played every sunday in car after fishing perfect end to a day 1959
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.
Great, My grandfather loved this programme, and Alan Keith later in the evening.
Very easy listening closeting my eyes to listen drifting away lovely ❤️
I knew I had to get out of the bath when this came on after the 'Hit Parade'!
Thanks for posting.
Although the Cliff Adams Singers were very talented I didn't appreciate it.
At the time this was very depressing for me as an eleven year-old. Radio 1 had not long started but had limited air time and not on Sunday evenings. So it was back to the parents' 'Light Program'. Like others, Sunday evenings consisted of bath, pyjamas in front of the fire, fish paste sandwiches and thinking of an excuse to avoid school the next day. The only thing worse than forced listening to Sing Something Simple was my father singing along to every song, and he knew all the words! 'I Knew Susie' was his favourite which often started a row with my mother.
*@Carl Teacherman* Thank you for the window into your memories, some of them are similar to my own in regards to Sundays with SSS on the radio. You made me smile and chuckle. They were lovely times, and only now looking back do we realise how wonderful they were - what a gift we were given...
My overriding memory was a dark and cold Sunday night in winter. TV was off. My parents put SSS on the radio and my mood drpoped. Each any every dour slow depressing song took me down futher and further. School the next day, god how aweful.
My mother and father loved it. My choice was to go to bed, upstairs, no heating, at least that was warm when you got into bed and you curl into a comforting foetal position
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.
Brings back memories best days ever
Good Lord! I used to listen to these marvelous simple songs by that not so long ago time of youth! Thanks, many thanks for uploading!
Did you know the programme came off in September 1963 but returned on Christmas day 1963 than ran right round to November 2001
Thank you for uploading this early edition of the programme. I loved this show and was so sorry when it ended, a good classic British BBC radio programme giving a warm glow of nostalgia.
i was too used to sing to amy on this and feed her cheese s bring it back xxxx
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.
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
Lovely show cliff Adam's was a great pianist and The singers were great sorry it ended
Brings back lovely memories of those Sunday afternoons listening to radio 2
The comments here make me feel I am among friends.
Oh this is so LOVELY!
Long ago, but not forgotten💖
Forgotten dreams is one of my favourite pieces of music
It was on on a Sunday evening at 7 immediately after the top 20.
After the war, my father bought a radio and as a child I remember three moments on Sundays: in the afternoon, a program of opera-music, at 17.45 Sharp the results of all the footballmatches and at 18.30 Sing something simple. 25 years later I bought a cassette in the recordshop on Piccadilly Circus. Later I lost it. Today I found it back on youtube. Memories!...
Except there wouldn't have been any football on Saundays back then!
i member listening to it when i was a kid by the fire good time
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 😁🟩❤️
Sorry that song is not on this programme
If only my father had been cool enough to listen to luxy on 208m !
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!
This is bloody peaceful listening
Sunday bath - cold meat sandwiches - school in the moring!
Nigel James you've totaly summed up my Sunday evenings in the early 70s. Care free days😊
Wonderful memories. We'd listen and sing along to this in the car on the way home from afternoon drives my dad took us on most Sunday afternoons - which usually involved a pub and us kids playing games in the garden somewhere along the way.
Nigel A. James - Vienna. I remember this being on the radio of a Sunday evening too. Like you said bath night and school the next morning. I remember so well, as a little girl, my Mum listening to this while doing all the ironing..oh such sweet memories.
Same :)
+the homework crammed into the last hour before bed
bath and bed school in the morning , brings back memories
Crumpets toasted on the fire , celery and salad cream and strong cheddar cheese .
I wonder how many people know the first edition a of sing something simple were on Friday night s at eight o clock in 1959 it move d to Sunday at six o clock in 1960 and stayed on Sunday evenings at 6 or 7 o clock for 14 years than moved to Friday night s at 730 than to Tuesday night's at 730 than to Wednesday night's at various times than back to sundays where it stayed until the end in 2001
this was on my 6th birthday 😮❤
Shudder, bad memories on Sundays for me.
Ah yes Sunday afternoons, followed by The Jimmy Clitheroe Show. Then tea of potten meat sanwiches and fruit salad and ice cream if we were lucky.
Dairylea cheese sandwiches and cake whilst watching The Sooty Show”.
“Bye-bye everyone, bye-bye.”
Ray Gunter has now once again become a household name😂🤣
This programme was only due to run for 7 weeks it certainly ran longer than that did not it 42 years to be exact
7pm every Sunday. I seem to think in the early sixties they were called the black and white minstrels, but times started to change.
No they were the cliff Adam's singers
I hope one day someone will post again some of the early sing something simple shows from the early sixties when there wasn't a piano solo instead an extra unaccompanied piece was featured also whynot download some sing something simple shows from serenade radio
Anyone notice d that the Greenwich time signal had all the pips the same length in those days now the sixth one is longer i refer to the news after this programme
I remember the equal pips. Just one of those small things that changed and somehow life wasn't the same anymore!
come on bbc bring this back
for a one off r ep called alex and amy In love i the nibbles
xxxxxx
Serenade radio are repeating this lovely show at 5 pm and am on Sunday evening s and Monday morning s
Oh my - if ever a programme scared me when I was a small boy - it was this . . . and it haunts me now. Sounded like 'angelic sirens' luring me to the underworld. I think the mouth organ was a warning sound to beware. Sorry if you loved this but I only searched for this link to see if it has the same effect and it does. How ironic they are singing 'Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore' - I am plugging my ears right now.
Reuploaded. Yes I looked it up in a newspaper a couple of years ago, the newspaper reported it TWO days after it happened. I'd since added the correct date to my documentation but forgot to change the filename.
Used to hear this in the car as kids on the way home from visiting my Grandparents. This was on the radio just before the Top of the Pops count down.....never a fan then, but can appreciate it now as it still brings back memories!