We Are The Boys And Girls, Of the ABC Options

[betty2]

We are the boys and girls well known as Minors of the ABC

An every Saturday all line up to see the films we love an shout aloud with glee

We love to laff an have a sing song

Such a happy crowd are we

We are the boys an girls well known as Minors of the ABC

Riders of death valley that was my favourite

Oh if I could turn back time

till here in glesca

[wee mo]

Thanks Betty. You've solved a 40 year mystery for me. I remember singing that very song with glee as a child in the 60's but always wondered why we were the "miners" ABC.... I presumed it was due to the cinema being dark as a coalmine. Now I see.... minors.... duh!

[penny dainty]

Oh lol you stirred up a few memories there, I was a member of The abc Miners club at Muirend, The Toledo.Every Saturday morning off we would trot , my big brother would take me , ahem correction , was made to take me and we watched Batman and there was always an animal storyand a series as well but I cannot mind what it was.You could buy badges at the interval and one of them had a luminous edge which shone up in the dark and if you got one of them you were just the bees knees.I had forgotten all about the miners club, thanks for that one.

[Isobel]

Oh lots of memories there, every Saturday morning at the Parade cinema in Dennistoun. Old mother Rilley must have seen it a dozen times. I remember a contest one time and my pal and I went up and sang. We won a choc bar. Those were the days.

[stratson]

Welcome Home Betty2.(know am off topic, just so good to see you back)

[Gallusbisom]

Wow, did that ever ring a bell, now I will be humming/singing that tune for at least the rest of tonight Heaven help the neighbours.


GB

[dizzybint]

Loved the Minors wae Uncle Mac at the Olympia.. Flash Gordon and Zorro.. and you couldnt wait fur next week.. I remember a lassie at my school Moira Kerr, a talented wee lassie that always did her turn at school plays then sang with a group at the interval in the Olympia.. smashing she was.. and now she writes songs and sings.. another talent from Brigton...

[auldbutcher]

Minors at the plaza at govan ming the merciless aw the cowboy pics man it was magic

[bilbo.s]

Minors at the plaza at govan ming the merciless aw the cowboy pics man it was magic

Sectarianism rears its ugly heid wance mair - I wis an Odeon Club boy- Amulree Street, Shettleston chapter an a had a luverly bunch o coconuts, two lovely black eyes an a bicycle built for two - aw fur thruppence auld money.

[dizzybint]

we had an Uncle Sam at the Olympia at the break, god help that poor man.. the boos he got

[dizzybint]

we had an Uncle Sam at the Olympia at the break, god help that poor man.. the boos he got

jist been thinkin and I think it wiz uncle Max, no Sam.... Ive been in the Olympia during its construction and redevelopment, what a place it is noo... so happy it wiznae tunred intae flats as first proposed.... and as some of us were on a project wae Clydegateway and Streetlevel, we got invites to the opening of the latest phase the Mediatheque.. a right Red Carpet night...felt like a toff...

[*Guvinjimm*]

Thanks Betty. You've solved a 40 year mystery for me. I remember singing that very song with glee as a child in the 60's but always wondered why we were the "miners" ABC.... I presumed it was due to the cinema being dark as a coalmine. Now I see.... minors.... duh!

It was Minors of the A.B.C. You were a card carrying Minor until you reached a certain age, 12 or threabouts and you became a Monitor. Ner' missed a Seturday mornin in ra' Plaza in Govan.

[DavidT]

ABC minors 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4wgcpik4FY...be_gdata_player

[bilbo.s]

ABC Minors were a bunch o' wimps ! Shettleston kids went tae the Odeon Club.