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Title: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Admin on 10/14/04 at 06:09:06

After playing at hundreds of dances and seeing thousands of couples leave arm in arm, I'm sure someone out there met their spouse or a very special person at a dance. Do you remember who was playing? Was it a big crowd? Did you go there all the time? What was the song playing when you "knew"? Come on, someone out there has a story to tell! Please?

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Pamela_Healy_sligo on 05/21/05 at 21:30:35

my friend susan met her husband at the silver slipper in strandhill sligo in april 1964 their relationdhip was off more times then it was on brendan bowyer and the royal was playing that night we sent up a request for brendan to sing "no more" but in 1970 they married and noe have 2 beautiful daughters.

P.S
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER SHELLY SINGING A SONG CALLES "ANGLE EYES IN ABOUT1972 WHERE CAN WE GET THIS PLEASE'

PAMELA

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Admin on 05/23/05 at 03:50:04

Hi Pamela,

Shelly is a member of our community. You should do a post under Music Wanted.

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Pamela_Healy_sligo on 07/02/05 at 22:49:45

Hi There,
thanks for the advice Shelley has been in contact with me
but unfortunitly she does not know where her old records can be bought.
Thanks again
Pamela. :)

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Admin on 07/02/05 at 23:56:10

Hi Pamela,

Yes, it is unfortunate that so much of the music of the era was owned by record companies that either went out of business, or were bought up by others...their catalogs of recordings never to see the light of day again. There was so much music produced by the bands of the 70's and 80's but nobody seems to know where the master tapes are today and even if they did, it probably wouldn't make economic sense to re-release the songs, unless on a nostalgia compilation. Unless an artist has remained a big name, their back catalogs are more or less gone.

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Barry Woods on 07/24/06 at 01:02:23

Hi,
I met my wife at the showbandshows in the Waterfront
Belfast 2001 she was a backing vocalist I was the keyboard
player.Both had been divorced but the music brought
us together again.

Cheers Barry

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by breezy_willow on 09/24/06 at 01:58:15

Hi

Many moons ago I met a young musician playing in a well known showband at The National Ballroom and ended up going out with him! I moved to Ireland to be with him. Ahh...No this is not a happy ending kinda story....I auditioned and got a job singing in a band and had to move away down the country,so we never got to see eachother - so the romance was over!!.Great times though! D

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by ronnie on 02/13/07 at 09:32:04

Met many at all the dances, and eventually did meet my husband at the Indians in 1974.

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by caroline on 05/31/07 at 00:03:17

Ok i met my spouse in the Flamingo Ballroom in Ballymena Co. Antrim. Philomena Begley Was playing cant remember the song i was only 15. (yip i got in at that age) . It was the start of a long off and on romance till eventually we married
HAPPY DAYS !

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Kathleen on 08/25/10 at 23:13:25

Met my husband in the Casino Ballroom in Castlerea 29 years ago. Married for 22 years. Tony Stevens was playing that night. Have fond memories of the Casino. Was a great place to go on a Sunday night. When I think of the crowds that would be there ... you wouldn't get a cricket out now on a Sunday night. How times have changed.

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by rafo on 02/17/11 at 22:40:24

like KATHLEEN I too met my husband in the Casino in 1977.Shaun o dowd was playing.

Title: Re: I know someone had to meet someone!
Post by Roy Gene Spencer on 09/22/21 at 17:14:29

Meet my wife at Borderland on Jan 2 1966. She has kept me around now for almost 55 years in November.. A Co Tryone Sionmills lady..