Number One Singles of 1973 (Part 4)

[... "Number One Singles of 1973" continued from Part III]
October to December
• David Cassidy – Daydreamer/The Puppy Song
Released as a Double A-side to (somewhat cynically I feel) extend its shelf life and radio play, this was teen idol Cassidy’s 6th UK hit.
It would prove to be his last Number 1 in Britain and spent three [...]

September 2nd 1973

“Travelling Home on Train”
I guess, in keeping with my outbound journey, I could have written “got in taxi, got out of taxi, got on train, got off train, got on boat, got off boat, got on train, got off train, got on boat“?
But repetition is not in my nature
But repetition is not in my nature

August 31st / September 1st 1973

• “Went to Ottos. Went to Hannas”
• “Dad got bottle top from shop. Went up Mariannes. She had Beodeck!”
Otto and Hanna were yet more relations of my Mum’s.
Hanna’s husband Ib was a famous Danish sculptor, responsible for several famous public works including (later in his life) a piece that sits opposite Copenhagen’s Town Hall Square. [...]

August 30th 1973

“Went to Tivoli -
WON THE JACKPOT !!!!
Put it all back again though!”
Every so often “Lady Luck” has smiled on me.
However, after she leaves “Uncle Stupid” invariably visits and slaps me around the face.
I can remember this win. It was on one of the one-armed bandits (slot machines) located below the Tivoli Gardens’ concert hall building. Three [...]

August 29th 1973

“Felt sick all day. Went down the Stroget. Bort book mark. Nanny gave me tie – smart!”
The Strøget continues to be the longest pedestrian-only shopping street in the whole of Europe
The street runs from Rådhuspladsen (Town Hall Square), all the way to  Kongens Nytorv (King’s New Square), and along the way crosses a succession of other squares [...]

August 28th 1973

“Went up Mosters + then went to see Good, Bad  & Ugly wiv Dad. Had a very bad night”
Moster was my Grandmother’s sister. She lived in a suburb of Copenhagen. Two trains and one bus ride away as I recall.

“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” was the final installment of director Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” [...]

August 27th 1973

“Went to sea-side + 2 Sweden for 3 MINUTES!! Doctor in Charge on Telly”
 As if to prove that I was ahead of my time, please note my “text speak” with the use of “2″ for “to”!

I’m not lying when I say we went to Sweden for just 3 MINUTES either. If we ever spent a [...]

August 26th 1973

“Went to Bakken – or Tivoli Mk2. Good fun, came home and eat, drink, eat, drink”

I briefly mentioned Bakken – full name Dyrehavnsbakken (“Deer Park Hill”) – during my recent Tivoli Gardens dissertation.
Located 8 miles north of Copenhagen, it is the world’s oldest still-operating amusement park.
The origins of Dyrehaven as a ‘tourist trap’ can be [...]

August 24th/25th 1973

• “Went (hic!) to the (hic!) Carlsberg factory (hic!) with Dad – good! – got souvenirs.. 18 beermats”
• “Went to Holgers for the day – nufin’ much done except eat, drink, walk, eat, drink and eat”
Ah yes… the famous Carlsberg brewery. It is located  just half a mile or so outside Copenhagen’s city limits. Unlike many [...]

August 23rd 1973

• “Went to tivoli, went on dodgems, not much kop. Nufin’ else done except eat, drink, eat, drink & eat”

Despite opening as early as the year 1843 Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens was not the world’s first ever “theme park”!
That accolade is actually held by Dyrehavsbakken (1669) - now known more simply as “Bakken” – in Klampenborg, also in Denmark.
However, Tivoli [...]

August 20th/21st 1973

• “Woke up, got in taxi, got on train, got off train, got in taxi, got on train, got off train, got on boat”
• “Woke up, got off boat, got on train, got off train, got on boat, got off boat, got on train, got off train, got in taxi”
Thanks to a glitch at WordPress, [...]