100 years of Television

It doesn’t seem to support NOW, which she wants. It says Humax are due to release a box as well, so I’ll keep my eyes open.

Edit: Just found the new Humax Freely box specs and price. She doesn’t want any recording … she doesn’t have a working aerial anyway just t’internet. At £249 I can buy her a new Freesat Play TV

Yes noted, I was looking for an android based device that would allow side loading of Brave browser to get around YT ads. However looks like they have locked down the system. For now I will stick with the Netgem pucks

When the 1969 moon landing happened I was staying in the St James hotel in London. The lounge was packed with American tourists watching on tv and the cheering and yelling when Armstrong put his foot on the surface of the moon was deafening. I had flown back from Geneva earlier and the pilot announced at one stage “if you look out to the left you can see the moon and I can confirm that they have just put down the lunar lander”. Exciting times!

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There is a moon rocket launch this Friday I believe, no televised film now it’s so 1960’s

Edit: it’s live on YT now, I am watching

Looks like the Starlink rockets lost a few tiles,

I think the NASA flight is Friday

I am not sure now, Spacex is going to the moon.

Second launch to the moon imminent

I think the livestreamed SpaceX launch was a bog standard Falcon 9 rocket carrying a GPS satellite.

It’s NASA’s Artemis II mission that’s going around the Moon - launch planned for Saturday February 7th.

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Spacex is taking a NASA payload to the moon with an automatic landing and NASA experiments on board. 3 mins to the falcon launch. That was the earlier launch today

Cunning devils. I could only see the GPS one mentioned on YouTube.

It’s the live footage I was watching. Had to go out now but it was very interesting

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Now then my fellow golden oldies…

Who remembers a song “The Locomotion” way back before Kylie etc :wink:
and did you ever get to do it??? :wink: :wink:
The song came out as a single on a vinyl disc… with another catchy number on the flip side…
and who can tell me what song was the “B” side.. ? preferably without using Google et al..

I’m too young to remember when the song came out, but I do remember hearing it quite a bit when I was young. If I ‘hear’ the song in my head whilst thinking of it (is this how others remember songs ?) then it’s always the original I ‘hear’ and not the Kyle remake.

Life’s too short! He’s the Boy

Surprised to learn written by Carole King (and hubby)

Is the B side a duet with Little Eva and a male singer? I think it’s a tough question though, you’d have to have bought the single to know the answer. I didn’t buy it.

EDIT: I realise He’s the boy is the answer, a bit slow on the uptake there. I can’t say I’ve ever heard it.

Pretty grim!

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Around 1962 … I bought a vinyl 45rpm Little Eva’s single "The Locomotion "… and sang and danced… and drove my family mad. :rofl:

The B side was just as crazy… Let’s Turkey Trot

I think both songs were re-issued separately in later years
(I found the disc when we were moving to France… a lifetime later)

Interestingly, not according to Wiki. Seemingly, you had TWO Little Eva records: :slight_smile:

Yep… easy to be confused. our shop got the first trial runs in those days… things moved fast and songs were reissued if there was perceived to be popular demand.
Turkey Trot was the original B side to Locomotion, then swiftly went to it’s own A side…
I’ve only ever had the one Little Eva disc !

I’ve no recollection of the song “He is the boy” :rofl:
I’ve just listened to the link… and .. nope, certainly not had the record.

I do. It was sung by Little Eva.

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I grew uparound the US space program in Florida. My father worked on the Apollo program for General Electric in Daytona Beach. Whenever there was a launch we just walked out on the driveway to see it. Years later, I worked for GE in Daytona Beach myself (they weren’'t doing NASA work by then) and saw the Challenger disaster out my office window.

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