Wonderful memories of our Mum ironing our school uniforms on a Sunday night listening to this and singing along. I'm 70 years old now one of ten children and can still remember most of these great songs..
OMG! I can’t believe I have just found your comment. I was 70 in May just gone and I was telling my wife how I used to listen to ‘Sing Something Simple’ while my Mum did the ironing on a Sunday evening. How lovely to listen to this hugely evocative music of another time.
Lovely memories of simpler times. As I got into my teenage years, I used to moan to my parents that this was boring, but, now, I wish I could go back and revisit those lovely times.
Cindy Bluebell I so agree with your comment my dear Grandmother loved this and she would look forward to it on a Sunday afternoon thing during the early 80s think it was on from 4:30 till 5pm
Gosh- I very fondly remember my late father putting this on the radio in the late 1960's and early 70's as we went to bed as young chidren - and we would listen to it on the radio as we drifted asleep - it brings back great memories (albeit slightly sad because my late parents are no longer with us. Yes, such innocent times - maybe I am just being sentimel, but I do think that the world has somehow lost something since those days??
absolutely brilliant ! such memories of sitting in a room on a winters night with a lovely warm coal fire burning and the smell of sunday dinner still lingering. happy happy days, such innocent times, can still hear dad whistling along, many thanks.
Yes my memories are the same. I remember visiting my Grandmother on a Sunday afternoon. During the winter months of 1982 1983 and 1984 she would sit in front of an open fire and hum along to the tunes. She loved sing something simple on Sunday afternoon's
Fabulous memories of the tv going off & radio going on. Sundays with open fires & laid bk easy listening music that our familly listened to. How I miss those innocent days of b&w tvs & no s/m.
My mom used to play this when i was rearly tiny, i was in the sink having a wash, bless you mom, miss you, brought a tears to my eyes xx, i remember it so well.
Wow a true memory trigger from the bygone years. I am 61 now and Romberg the 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.😊
Wonderful memories of my childhood Sundays out with my Grandma & uncle who had a car. Mum n Dad hastily put together a picnic. Brother sitting on Dad's knees in front seat- no seat belts then either😮 A run out in the countryside followed by a Vimto with a straw in pub carpark listening to Pick of The Pops with Alan Freeman then Sing Something Simple.
Ahhh, how lovely! Me too, and I'm his son. He used to listen to it every Sunday, and I would too, with him whether I wanted or not out of respect. He was a perfectionist and wanted to feel comfortable that it broadcasted well.
After the usual Sunday picnic with Mam, dad, brother and sister we,d get home and eat, for tea, the food left over from the picnic whilst listening to " sing something simple ". A perfect ending to a weekend.
Always listened to this lovely programme and still enjoy it now, so much more enjoyable than the rubbish that passes for music nowadays. Pop music leaves me cold and is more suited for karaoke nights down the local pub. Thank goodness I was born in the 1940's when enjoyable music was a regular feature on the BBC Light programme.
This brought back memories Sunday ,visiting the relatives, auntie fi and her son Nigel biggest train station in the loft., you can watch dont touch. Then the evening waiting for the dreaded tune come on in to the bath then bed. They are no longer with us so now I have fond memories of simple times .Nothing open roads empty. I am 70 next month how time flies.
My mother is 90 and has dementia, and cant remember anything after about 1980. Playing this to her seriously cheered her up and made her smile. Post more please, as many as you can , thanks
always remember this returning home on a coach after a day out at the seaside the driver would always put this on wonderful memories the whole coach would sing
Consistent with previous comments, My Dear Lord what a rewind. My nana would hum the tunes God rest her soul. Time to run to the corner shop for a Crunchie before sing something simple. Sunday afternoon perfection. Life was so much more simple - no internet, Spotify or mobile.
Oh my!What memories come flooding back of Sunday afternoons and this programme on the wireless as we called it then.Sundays had a special feel when shops didn't open and everywhere was quiet.Roast beef dinner followed by jam tart and custard! I remember Mum and Dad singing along.Happy days.Thanks VintageLynx.
I used to do a somersault across our front room and the sofa in desperation to find the 'off' switch when this came on. Now, all these years later, I still feel exactly the same! Just kidding!
I loved this show my parents used to listen to it. It cheered us all up and had that 'feel good' feeling to it. When I heard of Cliff Adams passing and that the show was to end it was a sad day. Many thanks to all the singers over the years - Thanks also to Jack Emblow the best accordion player in the world! I still love my Trance, Euphoria etc - but always come back to SSS for a smile!
Loved listening to them every Sunday as a child while out for a drivr with my grandparents and them singing along trying to teach me the words, happy Days
I was listening to Sing Something Simple every Sunday since I was about 16 years. I was born in 1946 and has several LP of them. They make me still in a good mood.:)
With no father around as I grew up (I was born in 1941), my mother's father took his place. Sadly, this meant my thinking was of his generation, and that included the generally mushy music of SSS - instead of the start of rock and roll. Every Sunday at 4.30 pm on the Light Programme it was required listening by my grandparents, and it became part of my life. I was still listening to it up to the end, when the last already recorded editions were broadcast in the weeks following Cliff Adams's death. But who were the actual singers? Just session singers? And how many of them were there? Did the Stargazers do some of the programmes?
Reply ing to Eric heyman the cliff Adam's singers were known as the stargazer s at the beginning of their career in the fifties but by 1959 when sing something simple started they became the Adam's singers as the stargazer s they had 2 number one hit si see the moon and broken wings 3 of the Adam's singers were Danny street ken Barry and valerie masters
Aaaaaww. this takes me back to listening with my mum and dad( had no choice) and moaning how old fsshioned it ws. It was old fashioned and even for them in the 60's . I remember it comng on after tea time and we always listened to it in the back bedroom in our bungalow. Don't know why my dad always said it reminded him of his late mum and dad so now mine are gone its a bit special too and I'm back in my childhood home listening to this in the er bedroom we used to listen to it weird
That is so lovely to hear. I'm his son, and it so warms my heart to think that he is still being enjoyed. I miss him dearly but his music lives on. A happy Christmas to you. (There's probably a Christmas album on here somewhere, I know, I've got them all!!) ;)
@@rockstar600 Just to let you know that I have now bought myself some CD's, and it's lovely to hear some music that puts a smile on your face again and/or makes your feet tap. Your Father made some wonderful music!
I can still smell the tins of peaches and carnation milk being opened for Sunday tea. And as the songs came from the wireless, looming ever larger in my mind as the s
I remember my dear old Dad used to love listening this on the radio, what simple and innocent pleasure it was to listen to melodic music that's so easy on the ear
Thank you so very much for putting all the "Sing Something Simple" uploads on to RUclips. I just loved listening to them on the radio when I was younger... I wish there were even more on RUclips but thanks for yours! HAPPY MEMORIES . I love them just as much today. So glad I found them here.... Singing along with them now as i type this. :)))
The only bright occurrence on otherwise dull British Sundays in a fairly strict household where we were dragged to church in the morning followed by a "full" lunch and a cold cuts / left-overs dinner. (Bill Cottons Wakey, Wakey fades in comparison to 'Sing Something Simple' My 'Sing Something Simple' CDs are worn - so Thank You RUclips and Google for making them available.
Love this, oh the memories of my mam and dad on Sundays... Love lots of the clips you've uploaded, they all bring great nostalgic memories back once again.. Always been a big fan of the Seekers too, one of my first records bought was 'I'll never find another you' ... . Thanks for uploading them all.
Excellent, well done. First heard Sing Something Simple when I was a child and then through out my life when with my mother, either "at home" or when visiting her.. SSS and tea time underway, lovely memories. I always remember Charlie Chester too. I always remember him saying "Do good in the world and may it do you the world of good". My Good Mam...I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU.XXX
You sound about my age - I'm 75. But even as a young boy I thought Charlie Chester a bit naff - if the word existed then! SSS, Semprini Serenade ("Old ones, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones") and Alan Keith's Hundred Best Tunes suited my young fogey mind better. Remember the Show Band Show, Journey into Space, etc?
I only ever heard this program when we visited my grandmother, because she loved it. Mind you, I always thought it was called "Sing Something Sinful"!!!
This brought so many memories flooding back. Getting ready for a Sunday night bath next to the Pink Paraffin heater and dreading the thought of school the next day. What a wonderful time! Wish I could relive the 50s/60s. Everything seemed simpler and more innocent in those days.
Oh no, surely it's not Sunday already.....bath, bed and then.....SCHOOL! Still it's good to hear some wonderful songs from my childhood, now over 60 years ago.
Have the signature tune seared into my teenage brain back in the 80s from tuning into the last 5 minutes of Sing Something Simple before the Charts started. Many years later would put it on while studying at uni, very relaxing. Yes, it may have been cheesy for some, but I've often said that just because you don't happen to like something, doesn't mean it's crap! Thank you so much for posting the entire episode.
Thanks for posting this. I have memories of having to listen to it in the car while my sister pleaded for my dad to change the channel. Dad's now in a nursing home but I will play this to him on my next visit as I know he'll enjoy it.
Am now 60 but this brings back so many memories of Sunday afternoon tea around the fire with Mum and Dad. What happened to the simple life.Thanks for posting
I remember waiting for this to finish so that Radio 2 could hand over their FM frequency to Radio 1 for 2 hours as it was Top 40 time! (And blank tape at the ready). :-)
I remember the title song at the end and then primed for the Top 40. Never listened to much before so interesting to hear , not my thing but can see why others liked it.
Absolute vintage 60's, My late dad must have been a fan, Because the wireless was always on every Sunday afternoon, Jimmy Clitheroe was another regular, later on,
I hated Sing Something Simple. For me it marked the weekend coming to a close and school starting again Monday. My sister and I would moan as soon as my dad turned the wireless on and just to annoy us both parents would sing along. This would have been during the very late 50's and early to mid-60's. My mum died a year ago and my dad two years ago. Right up until the end of his life my dad would play his CD's of similar type music and sing along. I'd give anything to hear them both singing along to Sing Something Simple again.
I can remember this programme so well. My Dad loved it. Sunday dinners, Billy Cotton (?) Family favourites, so this must have followed. I had forgotten about the handover for the pop charts though......like Night and Day! ....well a week of school was then hot on the heels.....
It always seemed strange on radio London, going from the late Tony Williams reggae show to sing something simple. Hence the song stuck in my mind. Great days.
April 2022. If you search for Serenade Radio online you can listen again to a selection of sing something on a Sunday PM at 17:00 UK time and all the other "old songs" at other times.
My mum used to cook a nice roast Lamb on Sunday, I was playing Paper Boy on the Amstrad, smell of Lamb up the stairs. I was worried because I heard lots of wailing downstairs, wasn't sure if my Mum was arguing with my dad or her appendix had burst, either way I think she was singing .....While cooking din dins. Super memories thanks so much for sharing. ;)
Sing something simple , this used to play on my Dads car radio as he drove me and my brother back to boarding school after a visiting Sunday 1964 , I cried as I knew we were nearing the school YATELEY MANOR boarding school , I was only six , and knowing I wouldn't see my Dad for another full term made me feel sick to my stomach, and the horrible Mr Blum who looked after the boarders scared me to death .oh well I survived six years of it .
I also used to attend a boarding school in the sixties in billericay but came home weekends and on the journey back on Sunday evening s my father had sing something simple on in the car and we both sang along to this great show
Hi Colin , well I have very mixed memories of everything between the age of 6 and 11 some great , but mostly not so good , I missed my then separated mum and Dad oh so much
Me too! Dickensian boiled-cabbage-reeking boarding school in Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire. 7 years of homesickness and misery from age 6. Late 50s early 60s. My father driving me back there on a Sunday night in his cigar-smoke-filled Jaguar, with this on the radio. Three hateful months of school ahead of me. It’s quite amazing that I turned out so n-n-n-normal.
Ive just listened to sing something simple on serenade radio and it was lovely it is repeated at 50 clock am on Monday morning s there will be another edition next Sunday evening at 50 clock pm i hope serenade radio repeats this programme for many years to come serenade radio is available of n line or on dab radio they also repeat music while you work at 930 a m and pm Monday to Fridays sorry serenade radio is only available online
Happy memories of a safer time. Sunday afternoon - nana round for Sunday roast. I would nip to local shop for crunchie bars and then put the radio on.....
Remember my dad listening to this on the wireless in the early sixties and I couldn't wait till it finished so I could listen to pick of the pops and after that it was in the tin bath. I Sundays were always bloody boring when I was a kid.
BBC Four always well received!... for instance while listening SING SOMETHING SIMPLE... Thanks to You, dear listener-with-C-60 recorderIn the same time ; with "Les Cingles (mad of ) du Music hall, on "France Musique" ...In France ...Jean-Christophe AVERTY said : "Tous à vos K7!" Thanks to you for the favour you made to us with those recordsRayParis
when this started in our house it was without fail the moment my dad said to me get in the kitchen and wash up the dishes and then after you've done the dishes upstairs have a bath and get ready for school tomorrow, i'd find every excuse to avoid it, the repeated one that i had to go the toilet, lol
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Wonderful memories of our Mum ironing our school uniforms on a Sunday night listening to this and singing along. I'm 70 years old now one of ten children and can still remember most of these great songs..
OMG! I can’t believe I have just found your comment. I was 70 in May just gone and I was telling my wife how I used to listen to ‘Sing Something Simple’ while my Mum did the ironing on a Sunday evening. How lovely to listen to this hugely evocative music of another time.
I’ve just scrolled down and seen all the other similar comments. 😢😊
My mum always listened to this while ironing my school uniform on a Sunday night too and I would be reciting my times tables for Monday morning! ❤
Lovely memories of simpler times. As I got into my teenage years, I used to moan to my parents that this was boring, but, now, I wish I could go back and revisit those lovely times.
Cindy Bluebell I so agree with your comment my dear Grandmother loved this and she would look forward to it on a Sunday afternoon thing during the early 80s think it was on from 4:30 till 5pm
Yes Cindy think of my late Mum Connie, miss her so so much, very sad 62 year old Male!!!!!
I think most of us would as a 65 year old this is not my world anymore xx
@@lancefranklun4596 Couldn't agree with you more, Lance!
@@cindybluebell thank you
Cindy bluebell
Gosh- I very fondly remember my late father putting this on the radio in the late 1960's and early 70's as we went to bed as young chidren - and we would listen to it on the radio as we drifted asleep - it brings back great memories (albeit slightly sad because my late parents are no longer with us. Yes, such innocent times - maybe I am just being sentimel, but I do think that the world has somehow lost something since those days??
absolutely brilliant ! such memories of sitting in a room on a winters night with a lovely warm coal fire burning and the smell of sunday dinner still lingering. happy happy days, such innocent times, can still hear dad whistling along, many thanks.
Yes my memories are the same. I remember visiting my Grandmother on a Sunday afternoon. During the winter months of 1982 1983 and 1984 she would sit in front of an open fire and hum along to the tunes. She loved sing something simple on Sunday afternoon's
I remember listening to this with my mum in the early 1960s . We didn't have a TV in those days, we would listen in candlelight as it was nicer .
Fabulous memories of the tv going off & radio going on. Sundays with open fires & laid bk easy listening music that our familly listened to. How I miss those innocent days of b&w tvs & no s/m.
My mom used to play this when i was rearly tiny, i was in the sink having a wash, bless you mom, miss you, brought a tears to my eyes xx, i remember it so well.
Wow a true memory trigger from the bygone years. I am 61 now and Romberg the 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.😊
Has brought a lump to my throat.My mum used to love this in the days when we all knew our place and had a simple life.Thanks for sharing
Reminds me of Sunday tea time back in the 1970s when the world wasn't such a crazy place..
Wonderful memories of my childhood Sundays out with my Grandma & uncle who had a car. Mum n Dad hastily put together a picnic. Brother sitting on Dad's knees in front seat- no seat belts then either😮 A run out in the countryside followed by a Vimto with a straw in pub carpark listening to Pick of The Pops with Alan Freeman then Sing Something Simple.
Ahhh, how lovely! Me too, and I'm his son. He used to listen to it every Sunday, and I would too, with him whether I wanted or not out of respect. He was a perfectionist and wanted to feel comfortable that it broadcasted well.
After the usual Sunday picnic with Mam, dad, brother and sister we,d get home and eat, for tea, the food left over from the picnic whilst listening to " sing something simple ". A perfect ending to a weekend.
Always listened to this lovely programme and still enjoy it now, so much more enjoyable than the rubbish that passes for music nowadays. Pop music leaves me cold and is more suited for karaoke nights down the local pub. Thank goodness I was born in the 1940's when enjoyable music was a regular feature on the BBC Light programme.
This brought back memories Sunday ,visiting the relatives, auntie fi and her son Nigel biggest train station in the loft., you can watch dont touch. Then the evening waiting for the dreaded tune come on in to the bath then bed. They are no longer with us so now I have fond memories of simple times .Nothing open roads empty. I am 70 next month how time flies.
Beautiful and brings a tear to my eyes.Reminds me of a lovely time with my nana and granddad.Can hear them singing now.
my thoughts exactly .
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Teatime on Sunday,visiting my paternal grandparents.All the adults would sit around the wireless,singing along to all the old songs!
My mother is 90 and has dementia, and cant remember anything after about 1980. Playing this to her seriously cheered her up and made her smile. Post more please, as many as you can , thanks
I am 84 myself so give her a. kiss from. Me xx
always remember this returning home on a coach after a day out at the seaside the driver would always put this on wonderful memories the whole coach would sing
Consistent with previous comments, My Dear Lord what a rewind. My nana would hum the tunes God rest her soul. Time to run to the corner shop for a Crunchie before sing something simple. Sunday afternoon perfection. Life was so much more simple - no internet, Spotify or mobile.
Oh my!What memories come flooding back of Sunday afternoons and this programme on the wireless as we called it then.Sundays had a special feel when shops didn't open and everywhere was quiet.Roast beef dinner followed by jam tart and custard! I remember Mum and Dad singing along.Happy days.Thanks VintageLynx.
Spot on, mate
I used to do a somersault across our front room and the sofa in desperation to find the 'off' switch when this came on. Now, all these years later, I still feel exactly the same!
Just kidding!
I thought you were serious because I loathed it as a child and shuddered the first few bars listening to this.
Bathtime for me ready for school on Monday. Had the transistor radio on the windowsill. Great memories. Thanks!!
Omg that takes me back, I'd listen to tbe top 40 then this would come on and I liked it so kept it on
I loved this show my parents used to listen to it. It cheered us all up and had that 'feel good' feeling to it. When I heard of Cliff Adams passing and that the show was to end it was a sad day. Many thanks to all the singers over the years - Thanks also to Jack Emblow the best accordion player in the world! I still love my Trance, Euphoria etc - but always come back to SSS for a smile!
Same from me
Memories which will live forever....thanks!
Loved listening to them every Sunday as a child while out for a drivr with my grandparents and them singing along trying to teach me the words, happy Days
Brings back memories of my mum's sunday afternoon before the top 40
So many happy memories! Sing something simple, the Sunday Half Hour, and then Alan Keith with Your Hundred Best Tunes
this bings back memories of lazy Sunday evenings in front of the radio with my parents :) I miss those days
I was listening to Sing Something Simple every Sunday since I was about 16 years.
I was born in 1946 and has several LP of them. They make me still in a good mood.:)
With no father around as I grew up (I was born in 1941), my mother's father took his place. Sadly, this meant my thinking was of his generation, and that included the generally mushy music of SSS - instead of the start of rock and roll. Every Sunday at 4.30 pm on the Light Programme it was required listening by my grandparents, and it became part of my life. I was still listening to it up to the end, when the last already recorded editions were broadcast in the weeks following Cliff Adams's death. But who were the actual singers? Just session singers? And how many of them were there? Did the Stargazers do some of the programmes?
Reply ing to Eric heyman the cliff Adam's singers were known as the stargazer s at the beginning of their career in the fifties but by 1959 when sing something simple started they became the Adam's singers as the stargazer s they had 2 number one hit si see the moon and broken wings 3 of the Adam's singers were Danny street ken Barry and valerie masters
Aaaaaww. this takes me back to listening with my mum and dad( had no choice) and moaning how old fsshioned it ws. It was old fashioned and even for them in the 60's . I remember it comng on after tea time and we always listened to it in the back bedroom in our bungalow. Don't know why my dad always said it reminded him of his late mum and dad so now mine are gone its a bit special too and I'm back in my childhood home listening to this in the er bedroom we used to listen to it weird
Linda Ward Glad that you enjoyed it.
I heard Cliff Adams singers on Angel radio today, and I was hooked.
It's wonderful to read all the lovely memories in the comments on here too!
That is so lovely to hear. I'm his son, and it so warms my heart to think that he is still being enjoyed. I miss him dearly but his music lives on. A happy Christmas to you. (There's probably a Christmas album on here somewhere, I know, I've got them all!!) ;)
@@rockstar600 Just to let you know that I have now bought myself some CD's, and it's lovely to hear some music that puts a smile on your face again and/or makes your feet tap.
Your Father made some wonderful music!
This was my childhood - grandma round for Sunday roast. Good God this takes me back so many years xxxx
Dad liked it, mum not so keen. I couldn't stand it and it just made me worry about a new week at school. Now I can appreciate the voices.
Exactly the same situation for me as a kid
my grand parents always listened to this when we stayed at theirs every sunday knowing we had school the next day lol
I can still smell the tins of peaches and carnation milk being opened for Sunday tea. And as the songs came from the wireless, looming ever larger in my mind as the s
school week
I remember my dear old Dad used to love listening this on the radio, what simple and innocent pleasure it was to listen to melodic music that's so easy on the ear
Great memories of the 50s and 60s coming back from fishing with my Dad with this on the radio. A different world than today.
Reminds me too of sunny afternoon's on the radio at around 4:30 pm. Tinned salmon on Hovis for tea. Thank you.
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WOW what a blast from the past, lots of good memories, of my child hood, thankyou!
Loved that programm. Always looked forward to the Sunday afternoon to tune in. Thank you very much for posting this here and make me go back in time.
Thank you so very much for putting all the "Sing Something Simple" uploads on to RUclips. I just loved listening to them on the radio when I was younger... I wish there were even more on RUclips but thanks for yours! HAPPY MEMORIES . I love them just as much today. So glad I found them here.... Singing along with them now as i type this. :)))
The only bright occurrence on otherwise dull British Sundays in a fairly strict household where we were dragged to church in the morning followed by a "full" lunch and a cold cuts / left-overs dinner. (Bill Cottons Wakey, Wakey fades in comparison to 'Sing Something Simple'
My 'Sing Something Simple' CDs are worn - so Thank You RUclips and Google for making them available.
So relaxing and very gentle music to enjoy!
Thanks for sharing you have brought my Mum lots of happy memories!
You are more than welcome Dave - glad your Mum enjoyed the music.
My mum used to listen to this in the kitchen around tea-time. Brings a tear to my eye....
I was about 6 before we could afford a tv ilovedlistening to this on sunday nights at 7pm if I remember correctly
Love this, oh the memories of my mam and dad on Sundays... Love lots of the clips you've uploaded, they all bring great nostalgic memories back once again.. Always been a big fan of the Seekers too, one of my first records bought was 'I'll never find another you' ... . Thanks for uploading them all.
Excellent, well done. First heard Sing Something Simple when I was a child and then through out my life when with my mother, either "at home" or when visiting her.. SSS and tea time underway, lovely memories. I always remember Charlie Chester too. I always remember him saying "Do good in the world and may it do you the world of good". My Good Mam...I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU.XXX
You sound about my age - I'm 75. But even as a young boy I thought Charlie Chester a bit naff - if the word existed then! SSS, Semprini Serenade ("Old ones, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones") and Alan Keith's Hundred Best Tunes suited my young fogey mind better. Remember the Show Band Show, Journey into Space, etc?
I only ever heard this program when we visited my grandmother, because she loved it.
Mind you, I always thought it was called "Sing Something Sinful"!!!
timeless entertainment that brings back so many sunday evenings by the fireside with my whole family,
This brought so many memories flooding back. Getting ready for a Sunday night bath next to the Pink Paraffin heater and dreading the thought of school the next day. What a wonderful time! Wish I could relive the 50s/60s. Everything seemed simpler and more innocent in those days.
Oh no, surely it's not Sunday already.....bath, bed and then.....SCHOOL! Still it's good to hear some wonderful songs from my childhood, now over 60 years ago.
Have the signature tune seared into my teenage brain back in the 80s from tuning into the last 5 minutes of Sing Something Simple before the Charts started. Many years later would put it on while studying at uni, very relaxing. Yes, it may have been cheesy for some, but I've often said that just because you don't happen to like something, doesn't mean it's crap! Thank you so much for posting the entire episode.
Sundays were meant to sound like this ! great memories from the 60's. Thank you Vintage Lynx.
This is what we need now and then.
Thanks for posting this. I have memories of having to listen to it in the car while my sister pleaded for my dad to change the channel. Dad's now in a nursing home but I will play this to him on my next visit as I know he'll enjoy it.
Sing Something Simple popped into my head a few minutes ago.
As a teenager some 55 years ago and and big glam rock fan this was my secret vice
THANK YOU! Very happy memories.
1001saar And on a Sunday afternoon too!
Used to love listening this on a Sunday evening with my parents..always made me feel warm and secure...long gone days..
Am now 60 but this brings back so many memories of Sunday afternoon tea around the fire with Mum and Dad. What happened to the simple life.Thanks for posting
While in Germany with the RAF 1959-1962 My wife and I would sing a long. We used to enjoy BFN but this was home to us.
Spot on Cindy, I always think the same when I hear this music.
Wonderful stuff - brings back many warm memories of simpler times! :)
So happy to find this on youtube.... Sums up every Sunday of my childhood :)
Thanks for this. They were great. Anita Harris often sang with them. Wonderful!
I remember waiting for this to finish so that Radio 2 could hand over their FM frequency to Radio 1 for 2 hours as it was Top 40 time! (And blank tape at the ready). :-)
Yes me toooo :) great days. I still have the cassettes.
I didn't record the top forty i recorded this though great show
I remember the title song at the end and then primed for the Top 40. Never listened to much before so interesting to hear , not my thing but can see why others liked it.
I remember this used to be on the radio just before the top 40 chart run down 😊
Absolute vintage 60's, My late dad must have been a fan, Because the wireless was always on every Sunday afternoon, Jimmy Clitheroe was another regular, later on,
I hated Sing Something Simple. For me it marked the weekend coming to a close and school starting again Monday. My sister and I would moan as soon as my dad turned the wireless on and just to annoy us both parents would sing along. This would have been during the very late 50's and early to mid-60's. My mum died a year ago and my dad two years ago. Right up until the end of his life my dad would play his CD's of similar type music and sing along. I'd give anything to hear them both singing along to Sing Something Simple again.
Remember when dad would come home on leave from the navy. Always listened every Sunday evening. Miss you dad. X
I can remember this programme so well. My Dad loved it. Sunday dinners, Billy Cotton (?) Family favourites, so this must have followed. I had forgotten about the handover for the pop charts though......like Night and Day! ....well a week of school was then hot on the heels.....
It always seemed strange on radio London, going from the late Tony Williams reggae show to sing something simple. Hence the song stuck in my mind. Great days.
Thanks. Brought back memories of being with nan as a kiddy in Stoke on Trent.
April 2022. If you search for Serenade Radio online you can listen again to a selection of sing something on a Sunday PM at 17:00 UK time and all the other "old songs" at other times.
My mum used to cook a nice roast Lamb on Sunday, I was playing Paper Boy on the Amstrad, smell of Lamb up the stairs. I was worried because I heard lots of wailing downstairs, wasn't sure if my Mum was arguing with my dad or her appendix had burst, either way I think she was singing .....While cooking din dins. Super memories thanks so much for sharing. ;)
Always on at my Grandmas Sunday night early evening 60 years on I still remember it
Love it!...So many happy memories as far as I am concerned :-)
good to remember this show,ran from 1959 to 2001
Sing something simple , this used to play on my Dads car radio as he drove me and my brother back to boarding school after a visiting Sunday 1964 , I cried as I knew we were nearing the school YATELEY MANOR boarding school , I was only six , and knowing I wouldn't see my Dad for another full term made me feel sick to my stomach, and the horrible Mr Blum who looked after the boarders scared me to death .oh well I survived six years of it .
I also used to attend a boarding school in the sixties in billericay but came home weekends and on the journey back on Sunday evening s my father had sing something simple on in the car and we both sang along to this great show
Hi Colin , well I have very mixed memories of everything between the age of 6 and 11 some great , but mostly not so good , I missed my then separated mum and Dad oh so much
Me too! Dickensian boiled-cabbage-reeking boarding school in Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire. 7 years of homesickness and misery from age 6. Late 50s early 60s. My father driving me back there on a Sunday night in his cigar-smoke-filled Jaguar, with this on the radio. Three hateful months of school ahead of me. It’s quite amazing that I turned out so n-n-n-normal.
Brilliant. Thankyou.
I used to do the washing-up to this as a kid with my Dad.. so many years ago xx
Ive just listened to sing something simple on serenade radio and it was lovely it is repeated at 50 clock am on Monday morning s there will be another edition next Sunday evening at 50 clock pm i hope serenade radio repeats this programme for many years to come serenade radio is available of n line or on dab radio they also repeat music while you work at 930 a m and pm Monday to Fridays sorry serenade radio is only available online
Happy memories of a safer time. Sunday afternoon - nana round for Sunday roast. I would nip to local shop for crunchie bars and then put the radio on.....
Thank you so much!
1969 and after the chart run down with Fluff Freeman this came on, bath time, then bed...school in the morning!
+Brad Brassman That's just how I remember it , happy days.apart from school the next morning,
+robert harding Aye, and I can still feel that twinge of dread even now!!!
Remember my dad listening to this on the wireless in the early sixties and I couldn't wait till it finished so I could listen to pick of the pops and after that it was in the tin bath. I Sundays were always bloody boring when I was a kid.
It used to make me clinically depressed - that and thought of school next morning. It really triggered an abject horror in me during bathtime.
L4LTV Can seriously relate to your comment. Just came here through some kind of morbid curiosity. Gotta go now...And Quick!
Yeah me to!! LOL.
***** yep..me too..Aaaaaagggghhhh!
And me
I remember that radio programme. I was also tortured with the nit comb and I had long hair.
Frantically looking for the Radio Luxembourg frequency at this moment!!
Memories of my mum (RIP).
reminds me of when l belonged to a family in the 60s my own long lost family,
well done, brilliant.
Colin
I used to listen to this with my Nana on Sundays.
Much missed radio 2 programme wish we get it back all you get is shout something complicating
If you listen to serenade radio an internet station at 1700 on Sunday evening s you can hear repeats of this lovely programme
Ah"" that Sunday feeling is here again, School tomorrow though !,,,,,if only.
MM.
Yes always came in on a Sunday evening after being out playing with friends to hear mum n dad singing to it and thinking school tomorrow oh no ☹️
Came to check this out cos of still game wasn't disappointed :)
Very nice. New to me, and a fine discovery.
I did enjoy listening to this,but did the top 40 start before or after this cannot remember.😭
The top forty started after sing something simple at 50 clock on FM only
BBC Four always well received!... for instance while listening SING SOMETHING SIMPLE... Thanks to You, dear listener-with-C-60 recorderIn the same time ; with "Les Cingles (mad of ) du Music hall, on "France Musique" ...In France ...Jean-Christophe AVERTY said : "Tous à vos K7!" Thanks to you for the favour you made to us with those recordsRayParis
This was played driving home on a Sunday night thinking about school the next morning. I can't listen to it
when this started in our house it was without fail the moment my dad said to me get in the kitchen and wash up the dishes and then after you've done the dishes upstairs have a bath and get ready for school tomorrow, i'd find every excuse to avoid it, the repeated one that i had to go the toilet, lol
I remember singing now is the hour in a competition in a park when I was small I won lovely song