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The song of my childhood

hat was the song of your childhood? ’s We asked the people of East w The Deadwood Stage is Anglia to share the songs ’s and now he, and a host of celebs, are that transport them back to sharing their musical memories their youth, inspired by a very online to help eight million special charity campaign... children suffering silently in overseas orphanages. , Emeli Sande and are among musicians to join Elton in sharing their most childhood songs and memories for the ‘End the Silence’ campaign, which you too can take part in, helping to create the world’s largest online musical memory capsule before Christmas, while raising £1.5m in donations for UK-based charity Hope and Homes for Children. The scheme allows people to pick their most precious childhood song, and then share it on social media with a memory. By adding a donation, you can help Hope and Homes for Children find families for 120,000 children suffering silence in Ugandan and Rwandan orphanages. Mark Waddington, CEO of Hope and Homes for Children, explained: “When a baby in an orphanage cries and nobody comes to comfort them, they learn not to cry. “By internalising their pain, they suffer lifelong mental and physical damage. “Deprived of love, life, and hope, these children grow up in silence. They never hear laughter or music. These children will never experience the love and protection only a family can offer. “The idea of a childhood of silence and neglect in an orphanage – without love, family and music - is unacceptable. “By joining the world’s top Little Eva in 1962. musicians in sharing your most Picture: Wikimedia precious childhood musical memory, you can help us to end the silence.” Every pound donated to the End UK Government, meaning we will Peter, Paul and Mary. Picture: Wikimedia The Deadwood Stage and the Silence campaign before double the difference Britons can Doris Day The Chieftains December 27 will be doubled by make to those children in Rwanda “There are so many records Carrick Fergus the UK Government as part of its and Uganda, who are suffering in from my childhood but Doris “We lived in Yorkshire, UK Aid Match scheme. silence.” Day’s The Deadwood Stage was which is about a four or five International Development l End the Silence is supported by important because I was so hour drive to . My Secretary Priti Patel said: “No the UK Government, YouTube, frightened to go to the dentists. parents would commute and child should have to spend their Google and Fullwell73. The only way I was going to do I’d be sat on the back seat childhood in an orphanage, l To ensure no child suffers it is if my mum bought that and this was pretty much deprived of the love and support silently in an orphanage, share record for me after. So I had the only tape cassette we only a family can bring. Through your most precious childhood my tooth out, we went in had – that and . their End the Silence Campaign, musical memory at www. to the record store. I It’s the one song I remember. Hope and Homes for Children is endthesilence.com, or look out clutched it, I loved it so It takes me back to that providing struggling individuals for #endthesilence and #Ukaid on much, I couldn’t wait to specific moment, much like with the life changing support Twitter get home and play it. songs from my teenage years that’s needed to keep families For a child to be deprived take me back to being a together. Every donation made by Here are the of music is one of the teenager or songs from two the generous British public to the most wicked things I can years ago transport you back End the Silence appeal will be celebrities’ childhood think of.” there.” matched pound for pound by the songs... and yours Elton John Ed Sheeran

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Reader favourites: Patti Page and Sir . Picture: Wikimedia/PA

Frankie Howerd. Picture: Archant Library

Waterloo Sunset Boom Bang A Bang Above, Lulu: Her mum singing Brahms Lullaby. She The Locomotion Euro-hit Boom Bang A The Kinks Lulu Bang was a hit with an used to sing a lot when I was Little Eva “Maybe it’s a question of selective “Boom bang a bang takes me back Ipswich reader. young. She was singing it when a “Two pop songs I particularly memory, but I remember it being a to my childhood. I would have Picture: Dod Morrison policeman came to break the news remember from my early nice summer. Waterloo Sunset been 8, I can remember singing it that my brother had been killed in childhood are ‘The Lion Sleeps came out in May, which is the same on my swing in the back garden.” a road accident. She never sang it Tonight’ by Token and ‘The month as my birthday, I would Joanne Double, Ipswich again. I can’t hear it without Locomotion’ by Little Eva. The have been nine. It’s caught up in thinking of both of them.” records belonged to a friend’s happy...” Puff The Magic Dragon Maria Maes, Norwich brother and we listened to them Paul Weller Peter, Paul and Mary when playing at her house.” “There was a children’s request Sugar, Sugar Beverly Bowry, Suffolk Hero show every Saturday morning in Mariah Carey the 50s, same old songs but I “Sugar Sugar, reminds me of going Oh! Oh! Antonio “My dad introduced me to Mariah loved them! Puff the Magic for tea with my sister to her Florrie Forde Carey and her music when I was Dragon, I’m a Pink Toothbrush friend’s house. Is This The Way T o “Oh! Oh! Antonio, I couldn’t about seven years old. I remember etc, Windmill in Old Amsterdam, Amarillo? (original) also makes me have been more than four at this song specifically really giving Rawhide, Davy Crockett.” think of going on family holidays.” the time, but I used to get the me strength and empowering me Linda Human, Norwich Melanie Self, Ipswich man living next door to sing it to be who I was. I grew up in out of his bedroom window. Scotland, I loved growing up there” Little White Bull Galway Bay That was in about 1937.” Emeli Sande Dolores Keane Alan Forsdick, Norwich “Little White Bull was the first “My Irish mother always In The Midnight Hour record I ever bought. I developed a complied with my request to sing Boogie Oogie Oogie Wilson Pickett crush on Tommy Steele when I Galway Bay for me (mostly when A Taste Of Honey “I absolutely loved dancing to was about 5, and 60 years later, it we were in the kitchen). I always “They used to play Boogie Wilson Pickett’s In The Midnight hasn’t really gone away.” associate that song with her and Oogie Oogie all the time at the Hour at the Orford Place in about Bronwyn Reeves, Ipswich sitting in the kitchen after coming Bramford road fair that came 1966 or so. I was young and home from school in the rain and at Easter around 1977 I’d have carefree and Saturday night in the Lullaby eating home-made pea and ham been 13 years old, I loved it.” city was the highlight of my life!” Johannes Brahms soup.” Jane Garnham Woods, Shauna Mccue, Norfolk “A sad story, but I remember my Irene Mehigan, Norfolk Ipswich

Saturday, November 4, 2017 7 How Much Is That Doggie In The WindoW? : His hit John, I’m Only Dancing was Patti Page ‘magical’. Picture: PA “My dad used to sing a lot of Every pound you donate to the End the Silence songs to me when I was young, campaign will be matched by the UK Government. including How Much is That Doggie in the Window?, Boom Your support will bring us closer to the day when Boom Boom Boom and Deep in no child suffers silently in an orphanage. the Heart of Texas.” Francesca Johnson, Norfolk I would like to make a donation to the ‘end the silence’ appeal:

I Know an Old Lady Who Name Address Swallowed a Fly Peter, Paul and Mary “Jimmy Hanley used to play this Tel Email on a Saturday morning radio show called Junior Choice... I’m really showing my age now!” I enclose a cheque for £ made payable to Hope and Homes Sue Oxbury, Norwich for Children or please debit £ from my credit/debit card (details below) Tubby the Tuba Danny Kaye I would like to receive future newsletters and information “Children’s Favourites on the radio Home Service, occasionally I would like to donate by debit/credit card featured Tubby the Tuba, Sparky Visa Mastercard Maestro AMEX CAF card and His Magic Piano, and The Maestro only Emperor’s New Clothes. I loved Card no. - - - - these because they told a story. Start Expiry Issue Security date date no. no. - On the other hand I couldn’t bear Maestro only on signature strip AMEX only singing I’m a Pink Toothbrush. A romance between Signature Date toothbrushes pushed one’s suspension of disbelief just a little too far… although a frog teaching a talking tuba a tune was fine. Make your gift grow by 25% at no extra cost to you I also loved the Drinking Song I want to Gift Aid my donation and any donations I make in the future or have from Sigmund Romberg’s light made in the past 4 years to Hope and Homes for Children. I am a UK taxpayer and operetta The Student Prince. I understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount was under the impression it of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay began; “Drink, drink drink any difference. Eliza…” The actual lyric is “Drink, drink, drink! To eyes that are Name of taxpayer Today’s date (bright as stars …)” I am not a UK taxpayer (this helps us to know not to contact you about this again). Lynne Mortimer, Features Writer for East Anglian Daily Times Please remove my name from your mailing list. Please make cheques payable to Would you like to “Hope and Homes for Children” and swing on a star send to Hope and Homes for Children, Pinky and Perky FREEPOST RTKX-TYLS-JHHB, East Clyffe ...who were puppet pigs. I used to Farm Barn, Salisbury Road, Steeple watch it in the 60s and loved the Langford, Salisbury SP3 4BF. You can programme as they were quite also donate online at endthesilence.org, naughty. They had weird little or alternatively call 01722 790111. voices too. I think that’s why I Registered charity (No. 1089490) have such a love for pigs now. Bernice Lawless Morning Town Ride the next crop and seagulls The Seekers You are my sunshine following the tractor. It was the “I’m 60 and still sing along The song ‘You are my sunshine’ season which heralded collecting every time I hear this song!” reminds me of my childhood as food boxes for the elderly and Sheree Leeds, Norwich my mum would always sing it to needy; of Hallowe’en and having me. homemade toffee apples and Also Morning Lou Bega – Mambo No.5 always Apple Bobbing; then Bonfire Town Ride! takes me back too, as soon as I night with crispy, frosty mornings This was actually called hear it I think of all me and cobwebs filled with dew Morningtown Ride. If you and my brother would play it stretched across the hedgerow on Google it you’ll find it on really loud and dance around the my way to infant school. Lovely YouTube. The Seekers was living room, jumping from sofa to times and happy memories.” an Australian group. Judith sofa, before acting innocent when Cate Emmie, Norfolk Durham was the lead singer my mum would come back into at a time when few women the room. John, I’m Only Dancing headed up groups of any Megan Aldous, Ipswich David Bowie kind. As a little girl I “I was obsessed with music from thought she was great and Living Doll a very early age due to my Dad’s loved her voice. I later went Cliff Richard influence. My older cousins to Australia to live and work “I used to love listening to Living helped and this was one of the in my late twenties/thirties Doll by Cliff Richard. He was my first records they gave me. and saw Judith at a jazz first grown up fancy!” Magical.” festival. She was 20 years Rosemary Hare, Norwich Anthony Ashton, Norwich older but her voice was just as good. We Plough the Fields Jayne Lindill, editor, and Scatter Running Bear Suffolk magazine “We Plough the Fields and Johnny Preston Scatter the Good Seed on the “My brother was a DJ and he would Ground, not from a religious point play this all the time. Little White Three Little Fishes of view, but it reminds me of the Bull was also played a lot a reminds Frankie Howerd Ladybird book with a tractor me of our childhood and Wild “I remember sitting in our ploughing a field with birds Thing by the Trogs as a teenager, I living room at Thorpe with following the plough on the front remember this well with my best mum and singing along to cover. This image mirrored the friend Jane jumping out from it. Also the nursery rhyme view I had when walking past a behind the curtains singing Wild There was an Old Woman field, which is now Asda and the Thing - lovely memories.” who swallowed a fly.” Sports Village, while I watched Sue Pope, Norwich Johannes Brahms. Debra Ribbans, Thorpe the farmer preparing the fields for Picture: Wikimedia

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Above top to bottom, Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Paul Weller. have shared their About Hope and Homes for Children childhood songs for the charity An estimated eight million likely to get a criminal record. Pictures: Hope and children live in orphanages l It can be 10 times more cost Homes for Children worldwide. effective to support struggling parents with social services

l Orphanages are unnecessary, than to fund orphanages. because 80 per cent of l Hope and Homes for Children children confined to them demonstrates to governments are not orphans – most have how to close orphanages by living parents, but have been preventing child abandonment, abandoned because of poverty, developing family support disabilities or discrimination. services and establishing foster l 100 years of scientific and adoption care networks. research shows how children l Hope and Homes for in orphanages are exposed to Children works directly greater levels of neglect, abuse in eight countries, and and even trafficking. supports likeminded partner l In some orphanages, organisations in another 20. mortality rates can even be as l They believe it really is high as 80 per cent. possible to achieve the global l Even when a child leaves eradication of orphanages. an orphanage, they are 10 l To help transform a child’s times more likely to enter life visit prostitution and 40 times more www.hopeandhomes.org

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