Food in the 50's

[Mickey]

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[strang steel]

I remember listening to Heinz on Radio Luxembourg, with their 15 minute shows sponsored by all kinds of people, including Horace Batchelor and his football pools system from K E Y N S H A M, Bristol.

Heinz had very fair hair and sang "Just Like Eddie".

[Mickey]

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[Mr Bunt]

Buddy Holly , The BIG Bopper , Ritchie Valens and Rodger Peterson .

44 year ago to-day ....


mr B

3 February 1959. Fifty-four years ago today. Where did you lose ten of them?

[Mickey]

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[Mr Bunt]

Joe Meek's studio was actually above 304 Holloway Road (on the right as you're walking from Holloway Road tube towards The Nag's Head).

Odd this thread should crop up just as I'm listening to "Son This is She" by John Leyton, produced by Joe Meek but only a minor hit peaking at 15 in the UK singles chart in 1961.

Meek's got two blue plaques (one on 304 Holloway Road and another on his former home at Newent, Glos) and his protoge Heinz has got a road named after him (Heinz Burt Close, Eastleigh, Hants). In the meantime I suppose John Leyton's got the whole of London E10 and a Central Line station named after him!

[Mr Bunt]

I remember listening to Heinz on Radio Luxembourg, with their 15 minute shows sponsored by all kinds of people, including Horace Batchelor and his football pools system from K E Y N S H A M, Bristol.

Heinz had very fair hair and sang "Just Like Eddie".

Thats the bloke John he was born German but lived most of his life in England.

Yes he had a 'hit single' with the song 'Just like Eddie' a nod to Eddie Cochran which is a very good song (it features a young Ritchie Blackmore on guitar who went on to fame and fortune in Deep Purple in the 1970s).

Heinz recorded some other material with Joe Meek but unfortunately he couldn't follow that 'hit single' up and basically left the music business in the 1970s and died alone in his flat in Southampton in the year 2000 with just £18. in his pocket.

Heinz Burt died on 7 April 2000 following a stroke. He was only 57 and had been crippled with motor neurone disease for some time. An unlucky man.

His flat was in Weston (confusingly on the eastern outskirts of Southampton). It lacks a blue plaque, but as I've mentioned he has had a road named after him in Eastleigh.

[Mickey]

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[KX6465]

Remember it well, " The Infa Draw Method"

I remember listening to Heinz on Radio Luxembourg, with their 15 minute shows sponsored by all kinds of people, including Horace Batchelor and his football pools system from K E Y N S H A M, Bristol.

Heinz had very fair hair and sang "Just Like Eddie".

[StevieG]

Just checked up in http://www.imdb.com on a vague memory, and yes : Heinz acted in one film called "Live It Up!" (1964), which also featured Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Patsy Ann Noble, and (of early Coronation Street fame as 'Lucille Hewitt') Jennifer Moss.

[earlswood nob]

Morning all
Heinz played bass on the Tornados hit Telstar before branching off on his own.
I can remember when they first hooked up to the USA via Telstar, hazy black and white picturers, but we thought it was great.
Eddie Cochran, a rockabilly great, was a very good guitarist. I'm told he was the first to use a wire(rather than wound) string on the third position from the top on an electric guitar. This enabled the player to bend the string and led to the techniques used by Hendrix, Clapton etc. Eddie is supposed to have shown the re-stringing of his guiatar to Big Jim Sullivan who was backing Marty Wilde on Edddie's last tour.
Earlswood Nob

[Mickey]

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[Mr Bunt]

Two little known Joe Meek tricks:

(1) The sizzling noise in the intro/outro of "Telstar" is an 8-track tape recording of Joe flushing the lavatory at 304 Holloway Road re-played backwards;

(2) The sonorous drum beat in the intro to "Have I The Right?" By The Honeycombs is an enhanced recording of Joe stamping in the bath and nothing at all to do with the blonde girl who was their drummer.

304's bathroom seemed to play a big part in his music!

[Mickey]

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[strang steel]

Goodness me. I never knew any of this stuff. Thanks very much for all the nostalgia. I am surprised that railway sounds were never used on any of the records.

A Deltic accelerating would have been a good sound to have mingled in the background of Telstar. Ritchie Blackmore on guitar for Just Like Eddie, that is great.