Greetings, groovers! I'd like to introduce a new slot on my show soon and for this, I owe a great debt to Simon Bates for making 'Our Tune' so special all those years ago. I remember hearing stories of how big burly lorry-drivers would have to pull over to the hard shoulder when 'Our Tune' came on Simes' show and how they'd be weeping into their bacon butties as the great drama around the song unfolded. I recently asked my listeners to send in some 'Our Tunes' that I can play for them on my show. So, here's a special thank you to Lugwin S. Loggins, from Binfield, for this unusual tale of playground strife in the sixties ...
Lugwin grew up without ever really knowing his father as he died when he was very young. As a consequence, his mother Elsie had perhaps more influence over his development than what was usually considered normal. Elsie once confided to Lugwin that she had really wanted a girl seeing as Lugwin had two older brothers. Now that Lugwin's Dad was not around to give Elsie her wish,
Elsie became desperate and she started dressing Lugwin up in skirts and blouses to go to school in and encouraged him to grow his hair long so that she could tie it into pig-tails before she sent him off with his dinner-money.
Now this was the sixties and it was a time of great social change. However, the children at Binfield Hall Infants' School were not quite ready to embrace Lugwin's new feminine side and he'd always be overlooked when it came to picking the football teams in the playground.
Lugwin would be the last boy standing when the teams were selected and he'd traipse off in his ballet shoes to join his team-mates who'd already been laughing and joking ready to start the game. Now this made Lugwin very angry and he'd get into vicious playground fights when other boys would call him names.The teachers on playground duty were always surprised to be breaking up the fights where it looked like one of the girls was beating up one of the boys. Although he can smile about it now, Lugwin thought it was terrible back then especially as things didn't change until Elsie was asked to change her ways by Lugwin's teacher.
Lugwin says that whenever he plays this record now though, he still likes to try on one of Elsie's wigs to remember the feelings from the old days. He also has a tattoo with Elsie's name on his right arm as a reminder of how her influence helped to toughen him up. So, this one's for Lugwin and any girl-boys who "wanna come home all covered in mud." Here's The Who with 'I'm A Boy' ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_eSW6D6sc
Send in your tunes too, good folk of SZ. I know I've got a few from the 'Daydream Believer' thread, which I hope to use when I'm back on air from late September. Keep it retro! :thumbsup:
