Comments for THIS IS MY 1950s from Transdiffusion https://my1950s.com/ We grew up in the 1950s... and loved every minute of it! Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Comment on George Martin by David Miller https://my1950s.com/george-martin#comment-2415 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:56:28 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=790#comment-2415 David Miller says,
Mike Martin is my oldest friend, and indeed my Best Man at my wedding to my wife Sandy.
It’s such a shame that George Martins talent and contribution to show business has been virtually airbrushed from history. Such a shame.

]]> Comment on George Martin by Anna Cochrane https://my1950s.com/george-martin#comment-620 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:20:25 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=790#comment-620 Have really enjoyed reading about your father via looking into who wrote the basil brush scripts. Also, I grew up in Farnborough next to Aldershot.

]]> Comment on Junior Criss-Cross Quiz by Roger Callow https://my1950s.com/junior-criss-cross-quiz#comment-6 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:15:05 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=385#comment-6 Granda TV moved the production of Junior Criss Cross Quiz to London at some time in the early 60’s and I was fortunate to be a contestant on the show in 1963 and managed to remain champion for five weeks. I chose the stereo radiogram and gold plated watch as my prizes.

]]> Comment on George Martin by Mike Martin https://my1950s.com/george-martin#comment-5 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:07:12 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=790#comment-5 Lovely to see this… I am George Martin’s youngest son…

]]> Comment on What will the ad spots be like? by Ray Wilson https://my1950s.com/what-will-the-ad-spots-be-like#comment-4 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:19:14 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=817#comment-4 Very informative article,a good read.

]]> Comment on Television for younger viewers by Alan George Keeling https://my1950s.com/television-for-younger-viewers#comment-3 Wed, 18 May 2022 14:53:32 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=640#comment-3 BBC also showed episodes of The Cisco Kid + The Range Rider, during the early 1950s between 5 and 6pm. Francis Coudrill`s Hank the Cowboy series was produced in colour. An excerpt from The Powder Monkey was featured on the morning demonstration film, hosted by Jennifer Gay.

]]> Comment on Time flight: 1952 by Ben Grabham https://my1950s.com/time-flight-1952#comment-2 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:24:50 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=430#comment-2 ” Here in My Heart” was the very first UK Number 1 single in the NME chart – and it’s still easy to see why

]]> Comment on Time flight: 1950 by Simon Coward https://my1950s.com/time-flight-1950#comment-1 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:33:12 +0000 https://my1950s.com/?p=410#comment-1 It’s quite fascinating seeing you go so far back that it’s even before my time!

I must confess to being a bit of a fan of Paul Temple, though I have no memory of hearing any of the radio series before around twenty years ago. I think it does grow on you, although Temple himself can be a bit smug at times, which is hardly endearing.

Anton Karas’s theme to The Third Man was something I heard a long time before I’d seen the film. We may have had a record of it, I’m not sure, but I do remember my mum having the sheet music for The Harry Lime Theme, but arranged for the piano. It’s not an acoustic guitar, by the way, Anton Karas was a player of the zither. If you hang around in the 1950s for long enough you may encounter the Australian Shirley Abicair. She was another exponent of that instrument – I’m not sure what it was about the late 40s or early 50s that made them suddenly popular.

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