Rediscovering old memories

[Headbanger]

I've just dug out some old LPs which I haven't played for years and rediscovered some absolute treasures.bringing back some beautiful memories, including this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTuKDK9U0qg

[hc4361]

AOG, I agree that some of the music and songs featured on the Minstrels was very enjoyable but I can listen to all those American African songs performed by black people.
There is no need for white people to black up and sing in that dialect any more - black people are no longer banned from performing on stage.
Try the wonderful Bessie Brown or the Dixie Hummingbirds.

[boxtops]

AOG //That maybe but then that is your free choice, if others disagree please allow them to also enjoy their choices.//

certainly AOG - and I do - I hope you'll find that I don't criticise others' choices in anything - but I am of an age, too, to remember all these programmes from days gone by, my choice (as you say) has been to start to appreciate multicultural music sung and played by those to whom it belongs. hc - I agree with what you say!

[paddywak]

Thanks for that post missprim,it certainly brought back the memories. If my two sisters and myself were going out we'd all get ready, then sit around the kitchen table with a cuppa, biscuits and cake and have a sing along before going out, our friends knew better then expect us before it finished unless something really special was going off.

[missprim]

When I used to watch 'The Black and White Minstrel Show' with my Mum and Dad, we weren't thinking 'Oh white men blacking their faces to sing songs because 'real' black men are not allowed to perform on TV'.
We watched it because it was part of the entertainment of the day.
Just like we watched programmes like 'Love thy neighbour.'
Racism didn't enter our heads until it was brought to our attention and so as not to offend people, these programmes were taken off, but it didn't stop there as we discovered the words politically correct and we weren't allowed to show certain programmes or say certain things and that's fair enough, but please don't be critical of the people who remember these programmes just as they were meant to be seen at the time as light entertaiment.

[missprim]

My Mum was like that with 'Friday Night is Music Night' Paddywak

[boxtops]

Exactly, missprim - they were there and we watched them. Sing Something Simple reminded me too, of Music While you Work, on the Light Programme, 10-10.30 every weekday morning (as I recall) - played to people working in the factories to cheer them up.

[hc4361]

And not forgetting good old Family Favourites.

I have never regarded Love Thy Neighbour as being racist - it is a comedy programme that shows racists as ignorant bigots and that it works both ways.
In no way was it 'pro racism'.

You trying telling those people who came up against the 'no Irish, no blacks' signs that racism didn't exist.