Birthday Blues No.1 #6 - David Soul - Don't Give Up on Us
I am six years old and it’s Jimmy Carter’s first day as President. Also, Hutch from Starsky and Hutch is top of the pops . Not that I have any idea what that show is like. Say what you like about my parents, they did not fuck about with bedtimes for us as kids. I went to bed very early indeed, my mum had three of us to deal with and by the time the telly started getting good in the evening, we were being packed off to bed so she could get some peace. Just some of the programmes I had to pretend I knew what was going on in as a kid next day in the playground – The Professionals , The Sweeney , even shamefully the first series of The Young Ones . I missed them all, thanks to this strict bedtime bullshit. I had to watch YouTube to find out what this record was like. Instantly I recognised it from somewhere, it starts like somebody wanting to do MacArthur Park very badly, like Manilow levels of bad. Soul’s voice is pleasant enough but it’s hard to escape the idea that bored ho...