Being Christmas it took me back to here. I went to the ABC in Gravesend Kent. May anyone who l knew in those days and has passed away, sleep peacefully in Gods heaven. That little ball that used to hover over each word, priceless.
I went to the ABC cinema in Northampton and wore my luminous badge. It's quite an impressive Art Deco building, although we didn't realise that at the time.
My dad used to go to the one in Fishponds when he was 10 years old. He speaks about it with a tear of joy in his eye. He also told me you got some prize if you claimed to be your birthday, and he claimed his prize several times a year.
wow, brings back memories, the ABC in Birkenhead on Argyle street, I'm 55 now so I was about 4-5 years old, my older sister used to take me and my brother every Saturday, Children Film Foundation movies were quite good, Danny the Dragon, Shazam, Mighty Mouse cartoons too, and in the kiosk you could buy this coconut sweets thing that was supposed to be a packet of tobacco we could eat, weird sweets them, edible tobacco, what were they thinking making kids think tobacco was cool? and I remember you could buy badges with ABC Minors on them, and badges that just had a letter of the alphabet so all the kids would be wearing all the letters that made up their names on their coats and sweaters etc, they actually had a host on the stage too who would sing with us and get the kids up to play games to win prizes and stuff, good fun, when we sang this song, the lyrics were up on the screen with a little dot moving along with the music to tell us what words to sing, imagine what the kids of today would think of it all? they would think we are knobheads probably, ha ha, thanks for sharing.
Happy days.. I'm quite a bit older than 55..but remember ABC minors very well.. I found my 1950s /60s minors badge a couple of years ago whilst going through a boz of old stuff.. not seen since at least 1962 /63..Those letter badges, are I think 1970s
I went to the Savoy East Acton 1957 ABC Minors. I thought I remembered Flash Gordon but my baby sister only just this year told me it was Batman. I got a memory like a sieve. I remember the song and sing it once or twice a year for 66 years, talk about an ear worm.
One paid in the front and 5 via the fire escape until they took all the curtains down, then it was like turning all the light on as soon as the door opened. Spangles, Lifesavers, Paynes Poppets and Twizzles was our sweets of the day (mid fifties). Thanks for the very happy memories.
OMG!!!Yes ,yes, yes, I remember SO well, 6d to in..( 2p !)pearl & dean. Kia Ora 🍊 .ZORRO .and Davy Crockett, Lassie, etc. The minors song... Just found my old ABC minors badge....I remember collecting ABC cards, and getting a special badge when it was full...Where are we all now, minors? By the way, different subject., but what happened to DAN DARE and EAGLE?
And poor sods like me had to come in early to make up the show (carry extra heavy cans up stairs, take individual films out of cans, put on reels, set up etc.) then show them once and do the reverse. All before the proper feature started an hour later. It was a thankless job for which we did not get overtime. Old projectionist.
I’m 61 and remember it very well still, I remember going to the one in Warrington, buying a tub of ice cream at the interval. Watching cartoons, Flash Gordon, Zorro, all great memories,
So, I never got the words right ! I can remember the tune, and the bits we shouted - but - turns out I was always shouting the wrong thing ! First time I went, I got lost on the way home. We had just moved in. I found the police station, back then it was behind/next to John Saunders. Somehow they worked out where I lived and drove me home in a police car.
Would be great if our kids and grandkids had things like the ABC Minors club. I remember that sometimes you would tell a porkie now and again 2 weeks on the run it could be your birthday you got in free the following week. OH to be a ABC Minor AGAIN
the ABC in Birkenhead has only just been completely demolished, it's just a carpark now, and the Classic cinema on Conway street is gone after a fire, both these buildings could have potentially been venues where bands could have played, so we don't have to go to Liverpool to see bands, it's a waste of theatres really, quite sad, my mum used to be a cleaner in the Top Rank bingo on Conway street, it was also a lovely theatre inside, could been a great venue for live bands, but they knocked that down too, sad.
Wonderful Memories ABC Savoy in Wolverhampton, I Was a "Monitor " Come on now kids Keep away from the dangerous Kerbside,Bless em ! Remember Uncle Jim of the Chronicle There every week,sort of a Compere etc.Happy Days 1959 -1963.
Anyone remember the the Best Guy competitions, held by many ABC. cinemas? Prizes were boxes of fireworks. Today's Health and safety twits would not approve!
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I am now 75 and can still remember all the words to this song. I used to go every Saturday morning to the ABC Empress cinema in Nottingham. Loved it.
I'm mow 78 and still remember the words
I haven't heard that song since I was 9 years old, Im now 60. Happy days!
So happy to find this. Best years of my life.
Being Christmas it took me back to here. I went to the ABC in Gravesend Kent. May anyone who l knew in those days and has passed away, sleep peacefully in Gods heaven. That little ball that used to hover over each word, priceless.
Still remember it word for word I am now 81. Yes happy days and amuse my grandchildren by singing it to them. My ABC RITZ was in Leyton East London.
I went to the ABC cinema in Northampton and wore my luminous badge. It's quite an impressive Art Deco building, although we didn't realise that at the time.
My dad used to go to the one in Fishponds when he was 10 years old. He speaks about it with a tear of joy in his eye. He also told me you got some prize if you claimed to be your birthday, and he claimed his prize several times a year.
We all did that, I got a happy birthday ABC badge and free entry to next week,soon got caught out
Wonderful! Remember it well. I ended up becoming a projectionist at the very same cinema I went to from the age of 8 til the age of 11. Great fun!
wow, brings back memories, the ABC in Birkenhead on Argyle street, I'm 55 now so I was about 4-5 years old, my older sister used to take me and my brother every Saturday, Children Film Foundation movies were quite good, Danny the Dragon, Shazam, Mighty Mouse cartoons too, and in the kiosk you could buy this coconut sweets thing that was supposed to be a packet of tobacco we could eat, weird sweets them, edible tobacco, what were they thinking making kids think tobacco was cool? and I remember you could buy badges with ABC Minors on them, and badges that just had a letter of the alphabet so all the kids would be wearing all the letters that made up their names on their coats and sweaters etc, they actually had a host on the stage too who would sing with us and get the kids up to play games to win prizes and stuff, good fun, when we sang this song, the lyrics were up on the screen with a little dot moving along with the music to tell us what words to sing, imagine what the kids of today would think of it all? they would think we are knobheads probably, ha ha, thanks for sharing.
Happy days.. I'm quite a bit older than 55..but remember ABC minors very well.. I found my 1950s /60s minors badge a couple of years ago whilst going through a boz of old stuff.. not seen since at least 1962 /63..Those letter badges, are I think 1970s
If it was your birthday you went onto the stage whilst they played the song.
very true happy days when we had a birthday everyweek to get a ticket for next sat.ha
We called it the Tanner Rush, because it cost sixpence. Now them were the days.
I went to the Savoy East Acton 1957 ABC Minors. I thought I remembered Flash Gordon but my baby sister only just this year told me it was Batman. I got a memory like a sieve. I remember the song and sing it once or twice a year for 66 years, talk about an ear worm.
Me as well, lol
One paid in the front and 5 via the fire escape until they took all the curtains down, then it was like turning all the light on as soon as the door opened. Spangles, Lifesavers, Paynes Poppets and Twizzles was our sweets of the day (mid fifties). Thanks for the very happy memories.
Thank you Theonly Engineer
OMG!!!Yes ,yes, yes, I remember SO well, 6d to in..( 2p !)pearl & dean. Kia Ora 🍊 .ZORRO .and Davy Crockett, Lassie, etc. The minors song... Just found my old ABC minors badge....I remember collecting ABC cards, and getting a special badge when it was full...Where are we all now, minors? By the way, different subject., but what happened to DAN DARE and EAGLE?
And poor sods like me had to come in early to make up the show (carry extra heavy cans up stairs, take individual films out of cans, put on reels, set up etc.) then show them once and do the reverse. All before the proper feature started an hour later. It was a thankless job for which we did not get overtime. Old projectionist.
I wish i could find the original ABC Minors film with the bouncing ball
Thank you for the memories.
Boy that took me back. My wife asked me how old I was and I told her I must of been 9 or 10
Not sure kids of that age would be safe today.
Very true we were always at the cinemas on Saturdays
Fabulous p osting, it turned the clock back so many years. Thank you. And I will be sharing,
got to give others the same opportunity!
ABC RITZ, Edgware - my cousin (7) and I (5) travelled from Stanmore, on the 142 bus, all by ourselves. 1947.
I’m 61 and remember it very well still,
I remember going to the one in Warrington, buying a tub of ice cream at the interval.
Watching cartoons, Flash Gordon, Zorro, all great memories,
Wonderful times they were, and all for 6d.
No No no! I remember the words going along the bottom Right to Left with a "Bouncing Ball" to keep you in time!!
manfree617 That's right.
I was a ABC Minor at the Piccadilly Cinema Straford Road, I didn't remeber the words just the tune, so this video helped to refresh my memory
I happy to have helped
Ah, happy memories, although I only went once to the Minors at the Castle Cinema in Merthyr Tydfil (alas, no longer)
Very sad not many cinemas left now
So, I never got the words right ! I can remember the tune, and the bits we shouted - but - turns out I was always shouting the wrong thing ! First time I went, I got lost on the way home. We had just moved in. I found the police station, back then it was behind/next to John Saunders. Somehow they worked out where I lived and drove me home in a police car.
Sang this at the Commodore
Brill. Brings back memories of the kids cinema sat mornings.
Thanks Jon
andy barr I wish they could stiil have this today to introduce kids to the real cinema experience
So that's the song Jack was singing in Still Game!
My mum used to sing this to me 😂
Such happier times.
Would be great if our kids and grandkids had things like the ABC Minors club. I remember that sometimes you would tell a porkie now and again 2 weeks on the run it could be your birthday you got in free the following week. OH to be a ABC Minor AGAIN
We did the same ha
Ha Ha !!
the ABC in Birkenhead has only just been completely demolished, it's just a carpark now, and the Classic cinema on Conway street is gone after a fire, both these buildings could have potentially been venues where bands could have played, so we don't have to go to Liverpool to see bands, it's a waste of theatres really, quite sad, my mum used to be a cleaner in the Top Rank bingo on Conway street, it was also a lovely theatre inside, could been a great venue for live bands, but they knocked that down too, sad.
Wonderful Memories ABC Savoy in Wolverhampton, I Was a "Monitor " Come on now kids Keep away from the dangerous Kerbside,Bless em ! Remember Uncle Jim of the Chronicle There every week,sort of a Compere etc.Happy Days 1959 -1963.
Yes. Self went to Regal, Gravesend. 😊
My local ABC Pictures was the Trocadera Humberstone Road Leicester..
ABC MINORS, WHERE ARE YOU ALL NOW?
@@melcomepay6668 Wolverhampton Still m8 You ?
@@RobWilliams888 Canterbury now.
6d downstairs 9d upstairs and your birthday every month to get free entry the next week. happy memories indeed.
ABC Minors Huddersfield.Afterwards we would all rush home ,get on our bikes and pretend to be Zorro.
up the town oh yeah, Zorro! And Davy Crockett too ..oh to be a kid again..
I used to go here on a Saturday, when Wallasey still had its roundabout covered in plants if I remember right?
Anyone remember the the Best Guy competitions, held by many ABC. cinemas? Prizes were boxes of fireworks. Today's Health and safety twits would not approve!
you just reminded me lots of fun - there were some pretty useless guys
ABC Southport
Ha! Liscard ABC in the pic Wallasey! Happy days early 60s!
Yes that's right
@@andybb in fact, you do say that in the caption! thanks for posting this. it's fantastic!
I went to the one down the peninsular, near Birkenhead market.
Ahh memories 👍
Hold on to them.. whist all around us, the world goes mad.
6d downstairs and 9d upstairs.
Saturdays ABC was always punch up time
Just tried to singalong but got too choked with emotions 😭 😂
Hello do you have any idea who owns the copyright to this song? Thanks..
Brings back brilliant memories - Do you know where I can buy the cd for my brother for Christmas?
+Maggie Rennie
Hi Maggie what cd do you mean
Try Amazon UK.
Aka... The 'Tanner Rush'
Yes. we'll remembered😊. Been told it was 6d downstairs, 9d upstairs.
Is this The Ovaltineys?
Hey since you appear to have not uploaded anything here in many years? Would you mind releasing this channel to me?
I still run this channel as i uploaded a few months ago
oh ok, well thanks anyway then.👍@@andybb
Totally wrong speed. It was a very brisk march.
Dreaded working Saturday mornings ........ showing rubbish CFTF films ........ and most of the kids thought so too !