Very First Dance

I snook to my first dance at age 13- Morosini Whelans, across from
Roches Stores, next door to Eamon Andrews Studios-1966

The songs I remember from my first dance were:
Shotgun Wedding--?
Doo Wah Diddy Diddy-Manfred Mann
Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon-Kinks
Daydream-Lovin Spoonful
Black is Black-Los Bravos
Satisfaction -Stones
Paperback Writer-Beatles
I Can't Control Myself--Troggs
Out of Time-Chris Farlowe
Everywhere and Nowhere Baby -Jeff Beck
Keep on Running -Spencer Davis
Emily Play--Pink Floyd
Whiter Shade of Pale -Procal Harum


Don't correct me if these were not all out in the same year...Too lazy to
Google and going by memory...memory fading fast

Whoever was the DJ at that gig PM certainly knew his stuff

My first dance was Joey's in Fairview.

I was the ripe old age of 18. What they call a late starter

Can't remember a single song that was played

I you can call a Céilí a first dance,

mine was that in the Gaeltacht and we

had a lilter supplying the "music".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX18CMR1I9Y&feature=fvw

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Why the Irish dance that way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2NfIQAhwQ4&feature=relat ed

Apart from the Gaeltacht (aged 10) which was great craic, my first dance was at O'Connell's (aged 16). Songs I remember were Stones - Brown Sugar and JJF. The highlight of the evening was being asked to dance by this goddess who remembered me from National school, aged 7. Whenever I hear Nights in White Satin I remember my first ever slow dance.

Some sort of 'disco' was held in the Community Centre, near St Brendans School, after one of the Artane Summer Projects one year.  Think I was about 14 and was terrified to even talk to a girl!

Biker Pat wrote: I was a shy and slight young man in those days. Had a terrible time with asthma from a young age and well into my teens. Was very conscious of my appearance as I was a quite small and thin for my age One of the reasons why I enjoy life to the fullest now.

Jaz, I gotta give it to you now Pat. You sure are making up for it. I would be scared to death to sing on stage, but maybe because that's because I can't sing a note anyway.

When Karaoke first hit here I swore would never sing and always said that if I did it would be at closing time....to empty the bar.
 Well I finally got drunk enough one night to actually do it for a laugh and when I was finished the bar was COMPLETELY EMPTY....even the bar tenders were gone...
 I laughed my ass off, they were all out in the parking lot and the DJ had a wireless mike and when he said, Thanks Brendan and I looked up to a completely empty bar it was hilarous...( I never took my eyes off the feckin' monitor, still can't believe the whole bar could empty without me seeing it...A great laugh was had by all...still laugh about it.

Pogue and my older brother Jimbo were very good singers. But me..????????

Pogue you're a bollox.

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BrendanFella wrote: Biker Pat wrote: I was a shy and slight young man in those days. Had a terrible time with asthma from a young age and well into my teens. Was very conscious of my appearance as I was a quite small and thin for my age One of the reasons why I enjoy life to the fullest now. Jaz, I gotta give it to you now Pat. You sure are making up for it. I would be scared to death to sing on stage, but maybe because that's because I can't sing a note anyway. When Karaoke first hit here I swore would never sing and always said that if I did it would be at closing time....to empty the bar.  Well I finally got drunk enough one night to actually do it for a laugh and when I was finished the bar was COMPLETELY EMPTY....even the bar tenders were gone...  I laughed my ass off, they were all out in the parking lot and the DJ had a wireless mike and when he said, Thanks Brendan and I looked up to a completely empty bar it was hilarous...( I never took my eyes off the feckin' monitor, still can't believe the whole bar could empty without me seeing it...A great laugh was had by all...still laugh about it. Pogue and my older brother Jimbo were very good singers. But me..???????? Pogue you're a bollox.

Great story BF, am falling around the place.

And yes, I'm making up for lost time

When my time comes I know I won't have died wondering


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Groupie's at my age?

Group wave.......more like

Just googled a few that I remember, 67,68 & 69

Jumpin Jack Flash, Light my Fire, Gotta get a message to you, Revoloution, The Mighty Quinn,  Here Comes The Judge, Build me up Buttercup, Bad Moon Rising, Honky Tonk Woman, Oh What a night,

and what great nights they were.