Spinning the bottle

[DannyGill]

Hi Gang,
Can you remember [for me it was the mid 1960's onwards] going to a house party and there was no record player, so after having a good drink we all wanted a bit of entertainment so we got an old bottle and spun it around and where ever the neck of the bottle pointed to after it stopped spinning they were the first person to sing and then in a clockwise fashion after that for the next singer. Or you might have been sitting in the pub and somebody started chanting and other people would join in but you always had some punter shouting out= one singer one song ha ha.
Regards.
Danny

[amelia]

Hi Danny & Gang I don't think anyone sings at parties now even when you go to weddings at the "interval" when the band stopped for a breather somebody would get up and sing. If you went to a party and sung somebody else song you were soon told off " that's Wullie or Aggies song you're singing"
The last party I went to my daughter had one for our anniversary it was a surprise they all stood with the tumblers in their hauns like the Americans do but after a good few haufs they were all giving it belters.
Remember you used to buy a song book and you learend all the songs maybe that's away before your time Danny. There used to be a shop at the washhouse in Rutherglen Rd near the wee barbers and they sold records and song books. Do they publish song books now or is that a thing of the past
When I was young we had an inside toilet and when I was in it I used to sing because it gave out a good echo and you sounded better or I would sin into a tumber:lol:
Amelia

[margaretmcgettigan]

Yes, Amelia, you are right about the Americans standing aboot wi there glasses in their hands...Used to be the strong stuff, but now everyone here is into wine...But, when we have a party here with the grandchildren we play games and have a great time...Every since my grandweans were small I used to teach them, boys and girls, how to dance "Ball and the Jack and the Grand Old Duke of York." The big one still remember it and the wee ones love it...They all think I am mad when I start to dance with them..

Now there was another game with spin the bottle and a boy would stand out in the lobby and the bottle would spin and if it was a girl it landed on she would have to go into the lobby and kiss the boy...and then she would stand in the lobby waiting for a boy to come in...Of course, if there was a girl in the lobby and the bottle landed at a girl then it was spun again until a it landed on a boy and vice versa...then there was the game of stations, another kissing game played at parties. The boys sat on chairs around the room and someone was in charge of the lights and then the girls would sit on the boys knees and kiss them and then when the light went on you then moved around to the next boy and so on and so on...if the person on the light liked the person he or she got then the light took longer to go on again...Should I be embarassed to share this...ha. ha. I think we were probably about 13 or 14 at these parties. We were all so innocent...

[DannyGill]

Hi Amelia+Mags
On the point of not singing at partys any more I would have to agree with you, reminds me when I got married to my ex-wife Maureen here in London in 1978, my Ma,Da, sister n Brother in law were along with me the only Scottish born people there with everybody else coming from London. I poured everyone of the guests a drink and broke into a Tom Jones song well the Londoners looked at me as if I was mad [probably right ] ha ha. As for kissing at partys yes I remember that too and sometimes we would play an old 45 R.P.M. record and winch the person next to you [of the opposite sex] and when that record was finished playing the next record would play and you would move on to winch the next person OH LA
When I left school and started my apprenticeship as a bricklayer I [the same as most brickies] used to sing on the building site all day long, so I got lots of practice for the parties LOL.

Regards.
Danny

[Granny911]

Hi all,
I remember spin the bottle, and stations and like you Danny I remember it being played while a 45 record was being played.

Couldn't get used to parties in Canada either at first, when there was no sing songs. We had some fantastic singers in Glasgow and I really missed that that.

I used to work in a shop front office in Eglinton St and it was next door to a wee newsagents, I had a standing order in there for the song books which would come out every month, thought it was great to learn all the words of the new songs before all my pals. When it was our turn to wash the stairs, I would be out there washing them and belting out all the new songs. As the old song used to go.... "Those were the days my friend" Cheers, Sheila

[DannyGill]

Hi all,
I remember spin the bottle, and stations and like you Danny I remember it being played while a 45 record was being played.

Couldn't get used to parties in Canada either at first, when there was no sing songs. We had some fantastic singers in Glasgow and I really missed that that.

I used to work in a shop front office in Eglinton St and it was next door to a wee newsagents, I had a standing order in there for the song books which would come out every month, thought it was great to learn all the words of the new songs before all my pals. When it was our turn to wash the stairs, I would be out there washing them and belting out all the new songs. As the old song used to go.... "Those were the days my friend" Cheers, Sheila

Hi Shelia,
On the point of song books etc, wasn't it great getting your pay packet on a Friday and with your pocket money you could buy things like that or as I remember going over to Lewis in Argyle st and going down to the basement where the musi place was. You could say to the assistant you wanted to hear a "single" record or 45 RPM as they were also known and in old money six shillings and eightpence you could buy one or for exactly £1 you could buy three, oh happy days.
Regards.
Danny