For R5-00 at our local flea market yesterday (equivalent to £0-22p or $0-31c) I purchased a set of one CD and one DVD – obtainable from Amazon for £23-63 or R534-81. For anyone who grew up in and shortly after WWII years, this provides an amazing trip down Memory Lane and into the history of those times. The cine clips on the DVD are fascinating, and the recordings of the music plus the most notable speeches of Churchill, as well as the declaration of war by FDR in America after Pearl Harbour, add to the feeling of ‘being there’.
Oh, and far more expensively (for another R5-00!) I got a CD of Bill Haley and the Comets with all the usual suspects on it, and some I’ve not heard before. I didn’t even know that he had done a version of our Rhodesian (as was then) classic, Skokiaan – which refers to a home brew of great potency – or that the last tour of his life in 1980 was to South Africa.
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i didnt grow up with them but those wartime songs do have a nostalgic feel to them… and what an absurd bargain!
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Many of them seem to have survived way past the war years. What a bargain, indeed. I am still enjoying it.
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What a find! I haven’t heard that one by Bill Haley and the Comets. Coooool!
Enjoy your treasure.
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I am indeed!
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I love flea markets or so called car boot sales here in UK. I wish they were around in Poland when I was younger.
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I still use a number of bargains I got at UK Car Boot Sales! I even bought a bicycle at one and then resold it at a profit just before I returned to SA three months later!
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5 ront! What a bargain!
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The price was the right kind of shock!
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what a great find!
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It was a small batch that looked unlikely to contain any gems, too!
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The best finds!
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What a bargain!
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It certainly filled me with glee. I was waiting for the seller to say, ‘Oh, not that one; that will be … (an-arm-and-a-leg)’ but I even had a packet thrown in!
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Skokiaan takes me back more that 60 years!!
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Certainly it has been around for a while, and I had no idea how widely it had travelled!
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Flea markets are always a good place to find some rare deals.
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But one does have to watch out for parasites! 🙂
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Always true.
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ah Bill Hayley and the Comets…I remember that well…Rock around the clock I used to get my baby brother to sleep with this when I was 15 years old..as you say,,sweet memories for a few coppers or rand..justgoes to prove that money is not everything
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Colonialists Blog wrote:
> colonialist posted: ” For R5-00 at our local flea market yesterday > (equivalent to £0-22p or $0-31c) I purchased a set of one CD and one DVD – > obtainable from Amazon for £23-63 or R534-81. For anyone who grew up in > and shortly after WWII years, this provides an amazing tr” >
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Still, it is nice to get so much for so little!
What has become of your site? It claims to have been deleted …. ? !!
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Rock Around the Clock was the very first record I ever bought. I can’t remember what I paid for it, but it probably cost about a quarter of my net week’s salary as a production secretary at the Beeb.
I’d love to see your DVD.
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and my boss pinched it to go and play in a studio.
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Did he return it?
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Oh yes. when it was going home time!
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The DVD is wonderful. Apart from the shots of Vera Lynn and many others performing, it has some amazing war footage of the Blitz, wrecked London, war theatres sea, land and air, the King and Queen, Battle of Britain, Hitler ranting, occupation of Paris, etc etc etc.
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All my early life, in fact.
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It was there two days ago..under Gods Creatures
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The link is taking one to misswhiplash.com and saying it has been withdrawn.
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I will have a look tomorrow
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Look under patrecia(with an E)…I just seen it
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I have just tried that – same negative result. Can you copy the link on the bar at the top and paste in a comment? That may now work.
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Will try on wednesday when using computer
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Looks like you came across quote a bargain or two there, Col. Anything that triggers a memory is always good!
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And these trigger memories aplenty!
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