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The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:44 pm
by Dressinggown
"You can dream a little, you can dream a lot, but the best things of all are that what you've got, building with the....."
Without Googling, offer your experience / knowledge of the matter.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:50 pm
by GetIntoEm
Burnley building society. Some tune that
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:51 pm
by ac99
Written by Salman Rushdie...
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:00 pm
by HahaYeah
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:03 pm
by martin_p
I suspect like quite a few on here my first experience of trying to save money was with the Burnley Building Society.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:06 pm
by mdd2
Anyone remember Little Thrifty?
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:07 pm
by addisclaret
martin_p wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:03 pm
I suspect like quite a few on here my first experience of trying to save money was with the Burnley Building Society.
Same, I remember being so proud of the little book and the plastic money box that I had.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:08 pm
by mdd2
Swallowed by I think National Provincial, then Abbey National and on to Santander
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:08 pm
by martin_p
addisclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:07 pm
Same, I remember being so proud of the little book and the plastic money box that I had.
Remember my money box being metal, it was green and shaped like a book.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:11 pm
by Shipclaret
Happy Days at Lancaster Uni with that blasting out
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:16 pm
by Burnley1989
Dressinggown wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:44 pm
"You can dream a little, you can dream a lot, but the best things of all are that what you've got, building with the....."
Without Googling, offer your experience / knowledge of the matter.
Ive got it on vinyl, such a great song
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:26 pm
by Dressinggown
Thel 45 rpm is still available for about £5.00 online but without the original sleeve which I thought was a sort of a 'Grease' copy.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:00 pm
by addisclaret
martin_p wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:08 pm
Remember my money box being metal, it was green and shaped like a book.
Ooh posh, mine was red plastic and if I remember right you had to put your coin at the top and turn it for the coin to drop into the box, then you turned it the other way to release the bottom part when you took it into to the building society with you savings book to get the coins out.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:04 pm
by Spike
I still have this on vinyl
Phil Davenport , Dozy to most of us had this on the juke box in his Bury local.RIP Dozy
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:08 pm
by Bfc
Martin-p, wasn’t the Green book money box, given out by TSB, which I’ve a couple of. I also had the round metal money box.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:15 pm
by martin_p
Bfc wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:08 pm
Martin-p, wasn’t the Green book money box, given out by TSB, which I’ve a couple of. I also had the round metal money box.
This is the one I remember.
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Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:17 pm
by summitclaret
I mentioned before that this would make a good 'anthem' for the Turf immediately before kick off.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:28 pm
by Vegas Claret
I thought it was going to be Boobs
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:37 pm
by mybloodisclaret
My Mum worked at the Burnley Building Society. Now into her 70's she perhaps met many Clarets on this board.
She really enjoyed her time there.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:40 pm
by Dressinggown
ac99 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:51 pm
Written by Salman Rushdie...
Excellent work.
Whist this was was an initial foray into the broadcasting arena for Rushdie, his subsequent endeavours brought much more global attention.
He wrote a **** book called 'The Satanic Verses' in 1988 which led to a quarter of the World's population to object and try to string him up by the balls and other stuff which goes beyond comprehension.
As far as I know, Rushdie is either dead or working at a convenience store near a major Motorway in the UK.
It's all the same.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:19 am
by CharlieinNewMexico
Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:28 pm
I thought it was going to be Boobs
Bourbon, surely
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:11 am
by AlargeClaret
Dressinggown wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:40 pm
Excellent work.
Whist this was was an initial foray into the broadcasting arena for Rushdie, his subsequent endeavours brought much more global attention.
He wrote a **** book called 'The Satanic Verses' in 1988 which led to a quarter of the World's population to object and try to string him up by the balls and other stuff which goes beyond comprehension.
As far as I know, Rushdie is either dead or working at a convenience store near a major Motorway in the UK.
It's all the same.
Pity you didn’t spend as much time googling his current status than you did his past .
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:37 am
by beeholeclaret
Good tune DG.
I worked for the Burnley (and its successors) for 33 years and was proud to have been part of a National giant created in my home town.
Remember that in the midst of innovative music from New York etc that The Angels Nite Spot played this time on a Saturday night to much acclaim.
Ronnie Bond of The Troggs arranged the musical elements I believe.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:39 am
by GetIntoEm
I'm too young to remember the building society, but I'm sure the song was on a Burnley FC cd they released in the 90s
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:32 am
by MalaysiaMo
There was a time when Burnley was globally known for three things, it's
Football club
Building Society
Grammar School
At least it's still got its Grammar School!
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:26 pm
by Vegas Claret
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 2:15 pm
by Woodleyclaret
Our first £6000 house was bought with a Burnley BS mortgage
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 3:39 pm
by BobSykes
I bank with Santander today by virtue of having a BBS savings account at primary school.
I found a copy of the Best Dreams single in my parents' loft a few years back. I hope it's still there.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:12 pm
by Hipper
'that what you've got'?
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:15 pm
by Hipper
BobSykes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 3:39 pm
I bank with Santander today by virtue of having a BBS savings account at primary school.
I found a copy of the Best Dreams single in my parents' loft a few years back. I hope it's still there.
I arrived at Santander from the National Giro Bank via the Alliance & Leicester B/Soc. We never got any music.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:52 pm
by Bfc
Martin-p, I will have to look up my money boxes, thanks for the pics.
mybloodisclaret, I possibly know your Mum. Ask her if she worked with Neil Beecham, who was the branch manager of the Burnley Parker Lane branch and Bill Dooley, which might have been when it was taken over. Also employed there was Jim Thompson, who a lot on here remember working matchdays for Burnley Fc. They had a Sunday League football team called the Bees. I and Red Wasp played against them for Red Wasps and the Burnley Express, referred to it in the write up, as the Bees v Wasps.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:58 pm
by Dressinggown
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:20 pm
by HahaYeah
I like how he says Burnleh in our accent.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:58 am
by Hipper
MalaysiaMo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:32 am
There was a time when Burnley was globally known for three things, it's
Football club
Building Society
Grammar School
At least it's still got its Grammar School!
It used to be good to see their adverts at various football grounds.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:36 pm
by ArmchairDetective
What a great tune. Not heard it before. Can we adapt to be a song sang/played on the turf?
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:49 pm
by sjb
Bfc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:52 pm
Martin-p, I will have to look up my money boxes, thanks for the pics.
mybloodisclaret, I possibly know your Mum. Ask her if she worked with Neil Beecham, who was the branch manager of the Burnley Parker Lane branch and Bill Dooley, which might have been when it was taken over. Also employed there was Jim Thompson, who a lot on here remember working matchdays for Burnley Fc. They had a Sunday League football team called the Bees. I and Red Wasp played against them for Red Wasps and the Burnley Express, referred to it in the write up, as the Bees v Wasps.
An ex girlfriend of mine, Marianne Cavanagh, worked at the Parker Lane branch in the late 70s early 80s. She was a lovely girl who sadly passed away from cancer last year.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:16 pm
by ClaretTony
Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:16 pm
Ive got it on vinyl, such a great song
I did have, they were giving them away at the BBS.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:18 pm
by ClaretTony
MalaysiaMo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:32 am
There was a time when Burnley was globally known for three things, it's
Football club
Building Society
Grammar School
At least it's still got its Grammar School!
Grammar School long, long gone. Building Society long, long gone.
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:33 pm
by Blue Skies
Back to Lancaster University, The Juke Box Manager (yes there was such a post) of Cartmel College put it on the jukebox and it became a hit and College anthem in the early 80s. All the discos ended with the song as well. Burnley had a big presence on the campus around that time and there were converts as well. SCAN the uni newspaper also had the headline "Hamilton sinks the Mighty Spurs" after our Milk Cup win in 1983
Re: The Best Dreams Begin With B......
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:06 pm
by basil6345789
summitclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:17 pm
I mentioned before that this would make a good 'anthem' for the Turf immediately before kick off.
Or the instrumental B Side, "Dream On"
