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Walk Like a Man - The Four Seasons

This is a real fun clip of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. They don't make them like this anymore sadly.

Big Girls Don't Cry - The Four Seasons

These all remind me of those little times when I could raid the radiogram and go through the records. It was great playing all the old 45s that my Mother and Father were always accumulating.

Sweet William by Millie Small

This one was in my Mum and Dad's forty five collection and when they were out, my sister and I would always play these. I used to think this was a smashing song and it gives me a nostalgic little buzz when ever I hear it.

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Marianne Faithfull

I fell in love with Marianne when I was an adolescent. I saw her in a film called Girl on a Motorcycle and I suddenly started realising that women were rather attractive. I felt a strong Wow! factor for her and could not quite work out why I should feel like a caveman who wanted to go out and hunt dragons.

I remember going to school the next Monday and we were all full of it; "Did you see Girl on a Motorcycle." It was an awakening of young male testosterone and suddenly came the teenage years - you know what I mean. Mood swings, pimples and used tissues. I was male, shallow and loving it - well... just a bit.

Freddie and the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now

I remember this one as a kid. It was in my Mum and Dad's record collection. I used to have a girlfriend who always used that title sentence as well. She often started by saying: "I'm telling you now..." and then it was followed by nagging or scolding about something. 

It used to make me laugh, because I would think of Freddie and the Dreamers and start singing this song in response. She used to get more wound up.