@HannahHowe@toot.wales

HannahHowe

@HannahHowe@toot.wales

Mother, author, publisher, genealogist, SOE historian, Welsh, European, vintage movie and music fan. 👩 ✍️ 📚 🌳 💼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🎥 🎼 Joined 2019. Active since November 2022.

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HannahHowe, to cars

A lady charging an electric car in 1912.

HannahHowe, to music

What are your earliest musical memories, or the first records you bought?

My earliest musical memories are of listening to my grandparents’ records. They included:

45rpm Danny Williams - Moon River
78rpm Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
33rpm Winifred Atwell - Double Seven: Seven Rags Seven Boogies

I also loved the record labels, particularly the HMV labels.

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe,

@ianRobinson Thank you. Whiskey in the Jar is one of my favourites. What was Radio Luxembourg like? Were the programmes good? Was the sound quality good?

HannahHowe, to random

My youngest son just received his GCSE results: A* in Biology, Physics and History. A in Chemistry, English and Welsh. He takes after me 😉

HannahHowe, to music

When the qualifying process is complete, in about a month, on Mastodon we will start voting on our top twenty favourite records of the 1950s/1960s, placing them in order. Through 190 match-ups, we will create a unique chart, every song a classic.

Here is some background on one of the qualifiers, Respect by Aretha Franklin.

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe, to music

When the qualifying process is complete, on Mastodon we will start voting on our top twenty favourite records of the 1950s/1960s, placing them in order. Through 190 match-ups, we will create a unique chart, every song a classic.

Here is some background on one of the qualifiers, I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles.

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe,

I Want to Hold Your Hand was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The song was recorded on 17 October 1963 and released on 29 November 1963. It was the first Beatles record made using four-track recording equipment.

HannahHowe,

With advance orders exceeding one million copies in Britain, I Want to Hold Your Hand should have gone straight to number one, only there was a problem: The Beatles’ She Loves You occupied that position. After two weeks, I Want to Hold Your Hand dislodged She Loves You and remained at number one for five weeks.

HannahHowe, to art

Overall, the quality of movie posters declined with each passing decade, true or false? If true, why should that be?

A woman and man dressed in 1920s clothes

HannahHowe, to movies

It’s an “Ashes Summer”, one of sport’s great rivalries, Australia v England at cricket, which dates back to the late 1800s. Here’s Boris Karloff playing cricket for the Hollywood Cricket Club. Other team members included Ronald Colman, Clive Brook and C. Aubrey Smith.

HannahHowe, to movies

Clara Bow’s fifty-fourth movie was No Limit, produced between September and October, 1930, with location filming in New York between 17 - 30 October. The movie was released on January 24, 1931. Clara played Helen “Bunny” O’Day. Gloria Jacobson stood in as Clara’s double.

HannahHowe, to Rugby

Rugby World Cup Reflections

Favourite Match: Portugal v Fiji, not the greatest quality, but great fun.

Best Play: The first half of France v South Africa, both sides were awesome.

Most Disappointed Teams: France and Ireland, both must have reckoned this was their year.

Wooden Spoon: the organisers. Who on Earth thought it was a good idea to match-up the top four teams in the quarter-finals?!?!

HannahHowe, to music

I'd like to invite you to nominate your favourite pieces of classical music. For example: Pachelbel - Canon, Ravel - Bolero, Vivaldi - Spring. If there's enough interest I'll run a poll.

HannahHowe, to movies

Reluctantly, I have decided not to follow any new followers on Mastodon. I have made this decision because since the new year too many people are following with the expectation that I will follow back, and when I do that they unfollow.

In the main, I post social history based items on Mastodon - vintage movies, music and genealogy. If these items are of interest to you, please take a look.

Apologies to the genuine people out there who deserve follows.

HannahHowe, to music

Hands up if you owned one of these…

HannahHowe, to music

Looking at the results of the music polls we’ve been running, and thinking about Elvis Presley. Does he remain an icon of twentieth century popular music, or has his reputation faded? What are your thoughts?

HannahHowe, to movies

A 1930s “Golden Age of Hollywood” menu, served on luxury liners.

HannahHowe, to ArtificialIntelligence

I just said to my beloved, “I need a spare plug socket. I’ll have to unplug Alexa.” Alexa replied, “I’m not sure about that.” 😱

HannahHowe, to music

1950s/1960s Favourite Record Chart

A generalisation - at the moment, songs from the second half of the 1960s are doing better than songs from the early 1960s and 1950s. Is there a reason for this - do you have a theory?

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe, to music

What is your favourite Christmas song? Please nominate your favourites, from any era. If I receive enough replies I will run a poll to determine which is our favourite Christmas song.

HannahHowe, to music

Previewing our forthcoming 1950s/1960s Favourite Record Chart, here are five more song profiles https://hannah-howe.com/2024/05/04/favourite-song-of-the-1950s-1960s-3/

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe, to escribiendo

Two items brought to my attention today, in relation to Eve’s Peace, my Heroines of SOE sequel. One, the proof copy of the paperback version. Two, this wonderful review. “Love, distrust, trust, & secrets galore. Woven superbly by the author makes for wonderous reading, hard to put down book. Rating the book a 9 1/2 only because now I must look for sequels & prequels for this wonderful series...”

HannahHowe, to music

1950s/1960s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Advance information for our poll that begins on Tuesday.

The format: twenty songs, each matched against each other over thirty-eight days, five match-ups a day.

I will feature the results on a separate post each day, and update the chart at the conclusion of each round, every second day.

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

HannahHowe, to books

This week, I started writing The Ninety-Three, a murder-mystery set in 1918, during the closing months of the Great War. The narrator is Dr Anna Richards, a sociologist, suffragette and socialite. The story opens in Downing Street with someone hurling a brick through the prime minister’s window…

#Books #Novels #Mysteries #WW1 #History #Suffragettes

HannahHowe, to music

When the qualifying process is complete, in about a month, on Mastodon we will start voting on our top twenty favourite records of the 1950s/1960s, placing them in order. Through 190 match-ups, we will create a unique chart, every song a classic.

Here is some background on one of the qualifiers, Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals

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