The Shopping Centre Showbiz Ladder

You really wouldn't notice that today was a bank holiday as it was just as dull as any other day this holiday.
My sister Kate however got back from America today where she's spent the last two months helping out on a summer camp for a second year although she's only here for a few weeks before going back to Nottingham.

I don't even know when I'm going back to London as Halls opens on the 27th of September but apparently the first year radio students arrive a week earlier so I'm hoping that those running Smoke Radio don't plan to start broadcasting before I arrive.
I'm hoping it doesn't all go balls up to make the upcoming Freshers Week worse than last year.

Terry Wogan's new daytime quiz show "Wogan's Perfect Recall" made it's debut on Channel 4 earlier tonight which wasn't really anything special but I wasn't expecting it to stand out.
I've always preferred him on television than on radio which is probably the result of seeing him on "Wogan" very reguarly all those years ago although at the time I always used to get him confused with Ken Bruce.

Also tonight was the final episode of "Return To Lakesiders" which looked at how perfume girl turned singer Emma Boundy fared after releasing an album on the back of the series, as well as having her house featured on "Through The Keyhole" and guesting on "Ready Steady Cook" alongside a rather enthusiastic Shane Richie.
The album itself consisted entirely of covers which is probably why it barely sold any copies although there were a few interesting song choices such as "Never Knew Love Like This Before" by Stephanie Mills and Alison Limerick's "Make It On My Own".

Which leads the to the signature tune composed for the original series which was done by Simon May, a composer who I absolutley despise of not just for writing the themes to "Eastenders" and "Howard's Way" but for turning them into actual songs as well.
I'm certain we've got an LP of them somewhere in the house.

Worst of all, the name of the vocal version of the "Howard's Way" theme was called
"Always There" performed by Marti Webb which sounded nothing like the Ronnie Laws tune, and Anita Dobson's "Anyone Can Fall In Love" contained the lyrics "sun and rain, joy and pain", an obvious steal from the Frankie Beverly and Maze song popular with many an 80s soulboy.

To have been brought up on the soul music in the 80s around rather than that rubbish would have made things a lot more enjoyable growing up back then.
I don't think I had even heard of Earth Wind and Fire until around 1996 when Stretch and Vern sampled "Boogie Wonderland" on their top 10 hit "I'm Alive".

Then again it's probably good I'm discovering all these artists now as I would have probably listened to them too many times at an earlier age.