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That was probably Junior Scrabble, designed for younger children, with a completed grid on one side, and a simpler scoring system.

As for why Scarborough, I presume it had something to do with Charles White, aka Dr Rock, a Scarborough resident who also penned the official biographies of both Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. He's still alive I think.

According to the link below, he recorded an album in Manchester for the Silvertown label jn late 1982, and this 9-week season with Cannon & Ball in 1983 was supposedly to promote this album. https://comedykings.co.uk/index.php/summer-1983-scarborough/

The first major music act I saw live. Unfortuantely he was supporting the terribly unfunny Cannon & Ball in Scarborough.

Drummer Albert 'Tootie' Heath reportedly died yesterday aged 88. He was brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and bassist Percy Heath, and was still touring last year.

A podcast I won't name, as it features someone on my 2025 DDP shortlist explaining why they're stopping doing what they do for a living. I've heard it's due to severe health reasons, but I've not heard anything confirming that so far.

FFS!

More evidence that The Old Crem is one something even stronger than those working at the Daily Express.

Can we move the Birthday and Death Anniversary posts to their own section entitled "Stuff Nicked From Wikipedia"?

Caroline Dowdeswell, who played bank assistant Janet King in the first series is still around, I believe.

The song was written and originally recorded by Sam Cooke, and has been covered many times. Here's a live performance of it by Otis Redding, Eric Burdon and Chris Farlowe, performed on Ready Steady Go in 1965.

My team has the wrong Michael Russell as my joker. I went for this TT racer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/65795090 - and not the Scottish politician.

It didn't get shown nationally until 1989, when BBC2 aired most of the episodes. It had been shown regionally by some of the ITV regional companies during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

That's two hits for my team already this year - last year's entry only managed to acheive three.

And Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.