Well done Scott @scottmitchell74 for joining in! The sad thing is I can recall most of your list (and you were just a nipper then) but totally clueless with todays pop music. Coincidently, I watched Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner" last night with Vangelis's evoking soundtrack (Dick Morrisey on sax).

Tim

Fun! Good idea.

@Moonglum  - I'm a big fan of that list!

I'm just old enough to play along during the first death of vinyl.

Singles: 1980-1985 (6 to 11 years old)

1 - Prince - When Doves Cry
2 - Hall and Oats - Say It Isn't So/Kiss on My List
3 - Kenny and Dolly - Islands in the Stream
4 - Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
5 - Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
6 - Alabama - Lovin' Man
7 - Alabama - Mountain Music
8 - Vangelis - Chariots of Fire (Which I have yet to see but it's in my playlist and with me being a huge Track and Field nut)
9 - Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
10 - Styx - Mr. Roboto
11 - USA for Africa - We Are the World (The biggest thing to happen to us 10 year olds!)
12 - Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
13 - Oak Ridge Boys - Bobbie Sue
14 - Bobby Goldsboro - Watching Scotty Grow (My mom's favorite)
15 - Rogers/Carnes/Ingram - What About Me?
16 - Kenny/Easton - We've Got Tonight
17 - Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time (Really, young Scott?)
18 - Queen - Another One Bites the Dust/Keep Yourself Alive (Proto-Scott's getting a taste for the heavy stuff!)
19 - Hall & Oats - I Can't Go For That
20 - Sheena Easton - Strut ("sigh" Sheena...)

Quote from: port perran on July 09, 2026, 06:40:08 PMExcellent Scott.

That B12 looks rather incongruous at the head of those wagons but hey ho - it's all about enjoyment.
She looks to be a lovely smooth runner.

Cheers
Martin.

Yep! Once that pink foam starts turning into Black Douglas Vale she'll look at home (ish).

Excellent Scott.

That B12 looks rather incongruous at the head of those wagons but hey ho - it's all about enjoyment.
She looks to be a lovely smooth runner.

Cheers
Martin.

Some good ones there Tim and all of an age.
I really liked most of those especially Mr Bloe (which is still on a couple of my playlists), Norman Greenbaum and Frijid Pink's version of House of the Rising Sun.

Great memories of the Friday evening Youth Club.

The UM was very well packaged yet came with the wire to the tender broke in two.

Luckily it was very fixable, even by me, and I had my life's first successful soldering, despite the amateur-looking result. Doesn't matter; no one else will know until my widow sells it.











I think for $300 US: DCC fitted UM Class b12/3, plus DCC fitted Dapol A4, plus six Dapol Gresley coaches plus the bonus track cleaner car was a good Ebay purchase.

Interesting Martin @port perran , that's a nice first LP to have, not familiar with the Fleetwood Mac. Beachboys eh!

Here is my list of singles (fresh off the press):

Tim's Singles list - Circa 1970(13yo) to 1972(15yo)

1.   Amen Corner – If Paradise was Half as Nice?
2.   The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby?
3.   Black Sabbath – Paranoid
4.   Blue Mink – Melting Pot?
5.   The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn
6.   CCS – Whole Lotta Love
7.   CCS – Tap Turns on the Water
8.   Creedance Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend
9.   Curved Air – Back Street Love
10.   Deep Purple – Black Knight
11.   Deep Purple – Strange Kind of Woman
12.   Deep Purple – Fireball
13.   Family – The Weaver's Answer
14.   Frijid Pink – House of the Rising Sun
15.   Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
16.   George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
17.   Hawkwind – Silver Machine
18.   Jethro Tull – The Witches Promise
19.   The Kinks – Lola?
20.   Matthew's Southern Comfort – Woodstock
21.   Mr Bloe – Grooving with Mr Bloe
22.   Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Waters
23.   Three Dog Night – Mama Told me not to Come?
24.   Traffic – 40 Thousand Headmen?
25.   Waldo de Los Rios – Mozart 40

I had a plastic singles "album" which I think contained about 20 singles. My cousin told me I was silly buying singles so by 1972 I was buying LPs with the odd exception. Those marked with an ? I cannot be 100% sure of.

My first single was Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun and LP Nicky Thomas "Love of the Common People", I think the second was Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence"... Then I discovered Black Sabbath...

Tim

Quote from: Moonglum on July 09, 2026, 05:30:53 PMYes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

I too had few singles but my first two LPs were :

Renaissance (the original band) - self titled album.

Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On.

My first single (1969) was Breakaway by the Beachboys.

Yes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

Thanks, Tim. Being an oldie, I have 'Silver Machine' on 45 with the flip side being the preferable (to me) 'Seven by Seven'