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Old 04-29-2009, 12:29 PM   #5
johnfowles
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Default Re: Besides Gordon,other acts (even actors) you've met in person.

Oops I forgot another celebrity I have met
In my class at school in Sherborne were two boys.
One Bob Common eventually married an irish lass and lived in the local village of Yetminster
In due course she founded the Yetminster Irish Song and Dance Society
and need a band to play for the dancers
She got her husband to rope in three other younger lads from our school including the younger brother,Bonnie, of another of my classmates George Sartin,with Bob on drums and providing much of the humoUr until he left in 1979
Bonnie became the lead singer and the band has been in business for 42 years.
In my 30 years in Sherborne I went to many barn dances at which they provided superb music, with Bonnie doing the calling http://www.theyetties.co.uk/history.php

when I moved in 1982 I found myself for the next 19 years living almost opposite Bonnie
Here is one example of their style

That's Bonnie on the right
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Doing dances on the floor


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