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alehouse
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| My son lived in San Diego for three years and every time I went to see him we always drove past Frankie`s house. even last year in January 2007 I went past his house, I should have taken time out and called to see him, I am sure he would have given us a welcome. a couple of weeks later he went into hospital to have an operation on his knee, but died under anesthetic.
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gerry
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| Tony I must say after hearing Frankie Lane singing My Desire at 92 he certainly aged gracefully. He must have had the longest singing career than anyone.
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tonydw
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| alehouse wrote: |
| My son lived in San Diego for three years and every time I went to see him we always drove past Frankie`s house. even last year in January 2007 I went past his house, I should have taken time out and called to see him, I am sure he would have given us a welcome. a couple of weeks later he went into hospital to have an operation on his knee, but died under anesthetic. |
You would have had to warm him up a bit to get any chance of a welcome, he's dead?
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alehouse
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| He was still alive Tony, when I drove past his house, he was waiting for a knee operation and he died two weeks later on the op table.
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gerry
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alehouse
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Thats a good one Gerry,
A lot of songs there we sang as lads on deck 56 years ago.on No five hatch with a can of Barclays.
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gerry
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| Yes Brian songs certainly bring back the memorys. I was looking for the words to "liverpool Blues" when I came across this site. I see they have Sailors Home listed on there links.
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gerry
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tonydw
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A fantastic entertainer, when I was at uni I took a part time job driving a canal type boat (Glassed in carried 100 passengers) up the Swan river to the vinyards and along the way we would pass the very modest Harris family home, I always played his song, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" and many times his white headed dad would come onto their landing to wave to the passengers. Rolf's family were really nice people, although Rolf was born in Perth I believe his parents were Welsh migrants... In my opinion Rolf Harris is 100% entertainer, here is another favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI
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shytalk
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| I used to love those huge paintings he did on stage with a 6" brush. They looked like nothing until the last few strokes. He is a brilliant artist too.
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