Fred and Janet [spotify]

Marty Wilde — Abergavenny
Soft Cell - Where The Heart Is
Jackie Lee - The Town I Live In
Morecambe & Wise - Positive Thinking
Those Dancing Days - I'll Be Yours
Sister Sledge - Thinking of You
Cliff Richard & The Shadows - In The Past
The Pale Fountains - Thank You

This is mostly about a yearning for the past. I still bore my wife bringing up stories of how we first met and then unmet and my kids patiently listen to tales of when I was a kid a long time ago. Thank you kids for your patience.

So this is a healthy stab of teen family melodrama (Soft Cell, Jackie Lee), out and out kitsch nostalgia (Marty Wilde) and straightforward romance (Cliff, Sister Sledge). Even the newest track from These Dancing Days reminds me of love affairs and indiepop from 25 years ago not 2 years ago.

And Eric & Ernie (it would have been Roy Castle if i could have found it)  prompt me of where I was happiest. In my front room in the 70s. Lying on the floor in front of the TV with the two people who I've named the list after.

About Playlist Club-er: Jem Stone (@jemstone)

Jem is a father of three from mid Sussex, works for a large broadcasting company and is waiting for Bobby Gillespie to give him back that biography of Joe Meek that he lent him 22 years ago. He owns the entire Sarah Records back catalogue.