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I remember the Argonauts Club well, but I don't recall that particular song. I do recall the "Argonauts, Row, Row, Row!!", and.... "the wireless says to hurry and run, and leave your games and toys, the wireless says the time has come, for all the girls and boys!..." songs.

 

Gee, I didn't realise how much the "jolly-good, what-oh!" Pommy accents and mannerisms were the prevalent speaking manner of the day, back then. Sounds so 1930's, today.

 

Wish I knew where my Argonauts badge got to - or if I could even remember my Argonaut name!

 

 

 

 

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By the time I was 7 the school gave me a book I still have." How it works and how it's done". Things like that make you miss out on a lot and I built radios and listened to" Voice of America" on short wave in the middle of the night.. and poured over every popular Mechanics and model aeroplane book I could find and "Robbery Under Arms' and Air Adventures of Biggles (or someone) in the afternoons on the radio. No wonder I'm weird. Nev

 

 

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The air adventures of Biggles replaced the Argonauts for me. And I read lots of Biggles books. As I recall there was Algernon Lacey, Ginger Hebbelthwaite, Lord Bertie Lissie, and the evil Erich von Stalhein. Must have made more impression than Jason.

 

 

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For those older Baby Boomers, Sunday mornings meant "tuning in the wireless" and "listen in" to Charlie Chuckles on the radio. When Sunday comics ran to four double pages, Charlie Chuckles used to read at least some on air. Charlie Chuckles, introduced Superman, Joe Palooka, Popeye and the rest of The Sunday Telegraph comics. Kids could join the Charlie Chuckles Club to be a Chuckler and and get a the Club's Kookaburra badge.

 

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They could enter competitions and submit poems, stories and hints. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248477639?searchTerm=charlie chuckles&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales

 

"Charlie Chuckles" was the  broadcaster Howard Craven. spacer.png

 

In this link https://www.australianotr.com.au/blog/charlie-chuckle-vs-charlie-chuckles there is a audio piece of Howard reading the comics.

 

 

 

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Gee, Nev - Now you're talking ancient history, long before any of us "oldies" were born!  :cheezy grin:

 

Roy "Mo" Rene and Harold Francis Lashwood were certainly famous comedians, but probably most popular between the Wars, and as stage comedians - although I see where Roy and Lasho did turn to radio shows between 1946 and 1950, when Roys poor health started to impact on him. Roy only did two more radio shows for the ABC, one in 1951 and one in 1952. He died in 1954, aged 63, from chronic heart disease.

 

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rene-roy-mo-8181

 

http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/lashwood-harold-francis-hal-17116

 

 

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Some of you young Fella's have a lot to learn yet. I forgive errors of omission based on youth and inexperience. That's only fair isn't it?  You don't build bridges out of saplings.   A bit more time will help..Nev

 

 

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Mo made a posthumous comeback in the late 1950s in a show called “ memories of Mo”. The theme song was set to “ thanks for the memories” and it went:

 

thanks for the memories, the memories of Mo, the old friends that you know, we'll have more for you next week, but now we have to go, so thank you, Roy Rene, Mo.

 

so we young'uns still learned about all the characters and cop that young Harry.

 

 

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Apparently, most taxi drivers only listen to the first word said to them by a client.

 

Which could explain the overly large number of Chinese people, . . . . in Harrow.

 

 

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