harry_gill:
hiya,
“Show me the way to go home i’m tired and i want to go to bed” I never could map read.
thanks harry long retired
I thought yours would be (Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women) Harry.
For me it the Eye of the tiger. I was driving at the age of 15 in an F88 Volvo round a fieild wile they loaded it with Hay and straw. the 80s are brill and will be around even when the 90, 2000s have long gone.
Peter
I had a shadows tape which you could keep to 70 KPH , it was good running through the commie bloc.
It would have to be “Streets of London” by Ralph McTell.
The mechanic:
harry_gill:
hiya,
“Show me the way to go home i’m tired and i want to go to bed” I never could map read.
thanks harry long retiredI thought yours would be (Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women) Harry.
hiya ,
No “The mechanic” but 40 years ago maybe, puffing the Woodbines getting p"“”“d and getting a bird in the sack was on the agenda, but now getting p”“”"d and just hitting the sack are a bit more my style.
thanks harry long retired.
Peter Wells:
For me it the Eye of the tiger. I was driving at the age of 15 in an F88 Volvo round a fieild wile they loaded it with Hay and straw. the 80s are brill and will be around even when the 90, 2000s have long gone.Peter
That’s exactly right, the 70’s and all the 80’s were the time of musical innovation for me. I am back into my Ska and Two Tone at the moment 
“Band Of Gold” - Freda Payne
“War” - Edwin Starr
“Mama Told Me Not To Come” - Three Dog Night
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” - John Denver
“American Pie” - Don McLean
“Without You” - Nilsson
“The First Time Ever I Saw You Face” - Roberta Flack
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” - Jim Croce
“You Make Me Feel Brand New” - The Stylistics
“Pick Up The Pieces” - Average White Band
“December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)” - The Four Seasons
“I Will Survive” - Gloria Gaynor
“Seasons in the Sun” - Terry Jacks
“Afternoon Delight” - The Starland Vocal Band
“Angie Baby” - Helen Reddy
“Tea for the Tillerman” - Cat Stevens
And more from the seventies;
“Babe” - Styx
“Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” - Mac Davis
“Back Stabbers” - The O’Jays
“Baker Street” - Gerry Rafferty
“Ball Of Confusion” - The Temptations
“Band On The Run” - Paul McCartney & Wings
“Bang A Gong (Get It On)” - T. Rex
“Black Water” - The Doobie Brothers
“Boogie Fever” - The Sylvers
“Born To Run” - Bruce Springsteen
“Brother Louie” - Stories
“Brown Sugar” - The Rolling Stones
“Candida” - Dawn
“The Candy Man” - Sammy Davis, Jr.
“Dancing In The Moonlight” - King Harvest
“Day After Day” - Badfinger
“Do You Know What I Mean” - Lee Michaels
“Domino” - Van Morrison
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” - Thelma Houston
“Drift Away” - Dobie Gray
“Everything Is Beautiful” - Ray Stevens
“Fly, Robin, Fly” - Silver Convention
“Frankenstein” - The Edgar Winter Group
“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” - George Harrison
“Gonna Fly Now” - Bill Conti
“Good Times” - Chic
“Got To Be There” - Michael Jackson
“Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” - Cher
“Half-Breed” - Cher
And even more;
“Heart Of Glass” - Blondie
“Heart Of Gold” - Neil Young
“A Horse With No Name” - America
“Hot Child In The City” - Nick Gilder
“Hotel California” - The Eagles
“The Hustle” - Van McCoy with the Soul City Symphony
“I Am, I Said” - Neil Diamond
“I Wish” - Stevie Wonder
“I Write The Songs” - Barry Manilow
“I’ll Take You There” - The Staple Singers
“I’m Not In Love” - 10cc
“I’m Your Boogie Man” - KC & the Sunshine Band
“If I Can’t Have You” - Yvonne Elliman
“If You Leave Me Now” - Chicago
“It Don’t Come Easy” - Ringo Starr
“The Joker” - Steve Miller Band
“Kung Fu Fighting” - Carl Douglas
“Lady Marmalade” - Labelle
“Laughter In The Rain” - Neil Sedaka
“Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” - Melanie
“Lola” - The Kinks
“Love Hangover” - Diana Ross
“Low Rider” - War
“Lowdown” - Boz Scaggs
“MacArthur Park” - Donna Summer
“Make It With You” - Bread
“Me And Bobby McGee” - Janis Joplin
“Midnight Train To Georgia” - Gladys Knight & the Pips
“Miss You” - The Rolling Stones
“The Morning After” - Maureen McGovern
“The Most Beautiful Girl” - Charlie Rich
“My Sweet Lord”/ “Isn’t It A Pity” - George Harrison
“Never Can Say Goodbye” - The Jackson 5
“Night Moves” - Bob Seger
“The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” - Vicki Lawrence
“Oh Girl” - The Chi-Lites
“Over My Head” - Fleetwood Mac
“Pop Muzik” - M
“Reeling In The Years” - Steely Dan
“Rich Girl” - Daryl Hall & John Oates
“Rock Me Gently” - Andy Kim
“Sad Eyes” - Robert John
“School’s Out” - Alice Cooper
“Stay With Me” - Faces
“The Streak” - Ray Stevens
“Sundown” - Gordon Lightfoot
“Sweet Emotion” - Aerosmith
“Take Me To The River” - Talking Heads
“Tears Of A Clown” - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
“Temptation Eyes” - The Grass Roots
“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” - Sly & The Family Stone
“That’s The Way Of The World” - Earth, Wind & Fire
“Theme From ‘Shaft’” - Isaac Hayes
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” - Paul & Linda McCartney
“Up Around The Bend” - Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Venus” - Shocking Blue
“Want Ads” - The Honey Cone
“Waterloo” - Abba
“We’re An American Band” - Grand Funk
“Welcome Back” - John Sebastian
“What A Fool Believes” - The Doobie Brothers
“What’s Going On” - Marvin Gaye
“When I Need You” - Leo Sayer
“Will It Go Round In Circles” - Billy Preston
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” - The Who
“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
“You Needed Me” - Anne Murray
“You’re So Vain” - Carly Simon
“You’ve Got A Friend” - James Taylor
And many others, then from the Eighties;
The Enemy
The Clash
The Specials
Madness
Special AKA
Elvis Costello
Higson
The Beat
If that list doesn’t have you in the loft looking for vinyl. I apologise. I didn’t send your widow flowers! 
How can you “top” that list!!! Were you a driver or a DJ!!! Dennis.
guns & roses albums for keeping awake when on a friday night loading groupage out of prato,you had to get yourself north of lyon to get home saturday night.madness on saturday monings when running to orte to park up for the week end.was once stuck in ancona for a weekin 1998, every bar and every time you turned on the radio that song with the verse IM FEELIN HORNEY, HORNEY,HORNEY,HORNEY.IM FEELING HORNEY,HORNEY,HORNEY,HORNEY TONIGHT every where i went even the open air swimming pool.still happy days
The Enemy
The Clash
The Specials
Madness
Special AKA
Elvis Costello
Higson
The Beat
Bit worried here Wheel Nut as I’ve never heard of Higson & have’nt seen The Enemy live but as for the rest of them I have had the pleasure of seeing them in the flesh.
I’m guessing Muckaways favourite is “the Irish rover”
Trev_H:
I’m guessing Muckaways favourite is “the Irish rover”
I heard that Mucka was a big fan of Daniel O’Donnell!! Dennis.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Even remember Radio Caroline, i must be older than tea.
thanks harry long retired.
She’d still be in Ramsey Bay if you buggers from the UK hadn’t shut it down.Invading Manx waters,disgusting.
Chris Webb:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Even remember Radio Caroline, i must be older than tea.
thanks harry long retired.She’d still be in Ramsey Bay if you buggers from the UK hadn’t shut it down.Invading Manx waters,disgusting.
hiya,
Don’t mind pirate radio vessels Chris they can drop anchor wherever they want, so long as you don’t get lumbered with those Somalian pirate guys don’t want them fellah’s boarding “the Racket” and nicking Wheelnuts bike.
thanks harry long retired.
Try canadian railroad trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot
fly sheet:
The Enemy
The Clash
The Specials
Madness
Special AKA
Elvis Costello
Higson
The BeatBit worried here Wheel Nut as I’ve never heard of Higson & have’nt seen The Enemy live but as for the rest of them I have had the pleasure of seeing them in the flesh.
My apologies, it was The Higsons. And I could die listening to “I live and die in these towns.”
2-tone.info/artists/the_higsons.html
Hardest job in the world, lorry driving. I dun it man and boy
Never heard of The Higsons either WN but I can see they’ve had a few records out, must of missed them I’ll have a root about on ye olde net & see if I can hear them.
If you like all them bands like I did then give Alabama 3 a try. You may like them too.
coca cola kid:
Nikita, Elton John
Great story, cck!
I"I drove all night " seems to stick in my head for some reason
ramone:
I"I drove all night " seems to stick in my head for some reason
A couple of times recently,when doing my night trunk,I’ve just been arriving at my drop when “Big O” has been belting that out.
Ever since I retired, my theme song has been Louis Armstrong’s “What a wonderful world”!