The BBC show from 1979 -Part 2-

This is part 2 of the 1979 BBC-show with special guest Dusty Springfield. Dame Shirley welcomes Dusty back to the UK as she had been living and working in the States. For more Dusty Springfield indulgent I have two clips from the eighties from Dutch TV. that I found on one of my old video tapes. [...]

The BBC show from 1979 -Part 1-

By request of many viewers from the blog here is part 1 of one of the 1979 BBC-shows. Special guest in part 1 is Michel Legrand who composed ‘What are you doing the rest of your life?’ from the ‘Something’ album. Today the first Betamax video tapes arrived by mail and I will see how [...]

100 Greatest Women

I am delighted to announce that I am now able to convert Betamax videos to DVD after purchasing a high-quality professionally reconditioned Betamax machine so that even more rare footage can be saved for future generations. Betamax was a superior quality format to VHS and those of you who used these machines in the Seventies [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #158

This week I’d like to play a song requested by my dear friend Dieter, who asked me if i could include the song “This Time”. Hello, that’s me again from Hamburg in Germany. I would like to  thank you once again for all the fun you gave to me with this wonderful blog you made [...]