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by John Harris
Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: Malcolm Vaughan
Replies: 3
Views: 6303

Re: Malcolm Vaughan

Afraid I have not checked the website for some time now, and am extremely sorry to learn that Malcolm Vaughan has died. He was my favourite male singer - in fact the only male singer I ever really liked or followed. I met him in Great Yarmouth (near to where I lived at the time) one summer when Ruby...
by John Harris
Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Happy New Year!
Replies: 3
Views: 3916

Happy New Year!

So sorry I have been absent for so long; December has been an even busier month than usual - nineteen gigs (with another one coming up tonight), my birthday, my next-door neighbour's funeral, the wedding of an old schoolfriend's son, the Christmas Day Swim at Hunstanton (I raised £700 for charity!) ...
by John Harris
Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Bernie's 80th Birthday
Replies: 9
Views: 7694

Bernie's 80th Birthday

Two days early - Happy Birthday, Bernie, and congratulations on becoming an octogenarian! (Don't suppose many of your friends will believe it possible!) Afraid I might not be able to get to a computer on Thursday, but will be thinking of you and will drink your health. Will also try to be in touch m...
by John Harris
Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Happy New Year.
Replies: 1
Views: 3878

Greetings from Norfolk, and a Happy and Healthy New Year to all friends from me too. John H.
by John Harris
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Remembering Ruby
Replies: 6
Views: 6694

Belatedly, but no less sincerely, I also should like to pay my special tribute to the memory of dear Ruby. I was so overwhelmed by my 65th Birthday on Sunday that I did not manage to get to a library to use a computer on Monday, though of course I remembered Ruby, and again am so thankful she did no...
by John Harris
Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: Rubys portrait
Replies: 18
Views: 18033

Delighted to follow the discussion of Ruby's portrait. I admired it every time I visited Ruby and Bernie at Wootton, and was touched to see it again when Tim and Julie kindly drove me back to the reception after the funeral at the end of 1996. I have a nice photograph of all three of us taken in fro...
by John Harris
Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:06 am
Forum: General
Topic: Birthday
Replies: 5
Views: 5549

Belated birthday greetings from me too, Bernie - I have just returned from a visit to France, and have not been able to get to the library to use a computer until today. Of course I rememberred the date (and the year!), and shall certtainly try to be on time for the big one next year! Nice to be in ...
by John Harris
Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

Well done, John! December is, of course, the month I had been waiting for someone to identify. Saying that someone would guess it in the end was a clue (end of the year); also, the words 'I'll Remember Today' (one of my favourite songs, incidentally) are those I spoke to the Mayor of Belfast last ye...
by John Harris
Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

I am very pleased that my teaser has given the chance to so many friends to listen again to some of Ruby's recordings they had not heard for quite a time. As I admitted last week, I have more or less been beaten by my own teaser, as I firmly thought that November was the only month mentioned more th...
by John Harris
Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

Well done again, Gerald! The clue would have been that the month (July) comes as part of a complete date, including year. I seem to have been caught out by my own teaser, as I hadn't thought of 'welcome as the flowers in May'. Even without the second recording of this song, which does not count as a...
by John Harris
Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

Well done, Gerald, and thanks for the kind comment. However, there are still two other months which come into Ruby's recorded songs which no-one has mentioned yet. Clue - one is my birthday month, which I have mentioned more than once before, for a special rerason. John H.
by John Harris
Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

I have slipped up, insofar as May is another month (in addition to November) which is mentioned in more than one of Ruby's songs. In fact, in two others, apart from 'The humour is on me now', although in one of them I think it is more the blossom than the month which is referred to. Which are these ...
by John Harris
Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

Well done, Gerald! November is indeed the month in question (an unlikely one, when the majority of songs are about spring and summer months, September being the one which occurs most frequently, though not, I think, in any of Ruby's songs?). I didn't want to give the answer until both songs had been...
by John Harris
Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am looking for a month which is mentioned in TWO of Ruby's songs - please state the month, and then preferably give both titles. Then, as an afterthought, please mention any other months mentioned in any of Ruby's songs. I make it at least four more! Will say no mor...
by John Harris
Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:58 am
Forum: General
Topic: New Teaser
Replies: 25
Views: 22267

P.S.

Which other months are mentioned in any of Ruby's songs?