COMPO & NORA BATTY - 'Nora Batty's Stockings' + BILL OWEN - 'Last Of The Summer Wine' - 45rpm 1983

[@andrewbailey2547]

Sunday nights had a bath ready for school monday then watched before bed.

[@thegamingbrit425]

I miss you compo TV ain't right without you

[@robjames9359]

Yes very true they don't make them like that anymore but it's the one and only nothing could take it's place

[@dollydee8883]

Watched this from the start in 1973 l loved the firs few series but when Bill Owen died the life went out of the show, l still watch the early series but l could not face the farce of the others, God bless Compo, Cleggy and Foggy may you go on in memory for ever for the fun they gave me and others rest in peace my lovely friends.

[@LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise]

It really did go :-(

[@tiglace]

It would have been Compo's Birthday yesterday, 14th March. I watched yet again "Dancing With Crime" (1947) with Richard Attenborough, He was fine actor and a credit to his family. God Bless The Unforgettable Three ♥♥♥

[@robjames9359]

Yes it was not the same but I still watch them all

[@davyd5629]

Fantastic programme rip Bill you are not forgotten love the record

[@coggsfs1950]

stayed in Noras cottage last year what an experience its amazing.

[@anneroy4560]

did you sweep the step? 😊

[@jays1198]

Bill Owen's soliloquy as the LOTSW theme is playing sure tugs at the heart... The gentle humor of the series is pure gold.

[@nelliedailey1917]

This is bitter-sweet. I miss them so. The best, their acting was so real.

[@princessbabyfirefly]

loved compo in last of the summer wine it just wasnt the same without him :(

[@kateanddavelacey2267]

Our lass was just putting her support pants on, when I played this and showed her it, she's gone for the yard brush!

[@shanaicollins8348]

I love them both R.I.P Kathy staff and Bill Owen

[@nelliedailey1917]

It's as if they were my family, my friends. The best series ever. Rest peacefully Compo, Nora, Sid, Cleggy, Foggy, and all the others.

[@darryllharden9141]

The Last Of The Summer Wine. The blossom soon begins to fade. A Lonely bird high on a hill sings Autumn's on it's way.The memories of Summer's gone like passing shadows crossed my mind. Deflections of the yesterday's that made our summer wine.The misty haze of golden days when we were young. That heavy bloom of finding love, Then love...Passing on. The Last of the Summer Wine.The sweet bouquet of memories when days were long and nights so warm, I still remember these.Humph!,We laughed and loved, ,Maybe too well, The best laid plans of yours and mine got left behind.Time went too fast...Just like our Summer Wine.(INSTRUMENTAL BREAK.) Those shadows grow longer now, Leaves start to fall. I still feel the warmth of you, But most of all, This cup of life of ours,We drank. Now grapes are few upon the vine. So let us toast The Vintage Years. The Last Of Our Summer Wine. And always remember this, The promise that I made to you. This Summer Wine of ours, My love, Will last our whole life through. 'BILL OWEN' a.k.a William 'Compo' Simmonite.

[@angelacooper2661]

Vintage stuff! I was thirteen when this song came out and liked the Compo-Nora banter! Especially Oh Shut up and eat your Choc Ice, my favourite episode

[@magdelenelouw558]

I. Love. This. Thank. You. Thank you. So. Much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@shanaicollins8348]

I LOVE them both

[@shanaicollins8348]

I heart Lotsw :-) Bill Owen thank you for being the best actor and Kathy staff thank you for being the best actress. :-*

[@thepastinthepresent1178]

Funny, this use to make me laugh, now it makes me cry, being a Brit and now in my late 50s, I am seeing all I grew up with and loved all slowly fading away

[@beetrootbertha]

ThePastInThePresent me to hun i feel exactly the same way .

[@garthhunt7238]

Pure gold!❤️

[@jagjitdusanjh8356]

Makes mel smile every time I hear it...

[@mattmervia6683]

Love this song rip both acrors

[@karlblanch3898]

I stumbled across this fun song by the late Kathy Staff and Bill Owen who played Nora Batty and Compo. RIP . Thank you to each and every one involved in Making Last Of The Summer Wine the hit it became and thanks also Nora and Compo . I shall enjoy listening 🎧 to that fun song time and time again ... with a glass of what else but summer 🍷.

[@dacrlit]

This is a great Record.

[@francesjbutterworth5083]

After Bill Owen died the programme wasnt the same Bill made it so funny RIP Bill (Compo)

[@shanaicollins8348]

I love you Last of the Summer wine especially Nora batty and compo

[@Pander1985]

Finally found a physical copy of this, look forward to playing it on my record player, thank you for adding this! Without this video I wouldn’t know about this lovely piece of history..

[@MorrisManDanceMan]

l haven't herd this before thanks

[@shanaicollins8348]

I'm studying Kathy staff for my costume and voice for school for Children :-) God rest her soul and god rest Bill Owen'a soul 3 you both.

[@shanaicollins8348]

I3 Kathy staff and Bill Owen RIP both of you

[@Derwentcub]

One word - fabulous!

[@dpallio5765]

This is USA Calling... Our PBS station is currently showing the post-Compo episodes of "Summer Wine". There are some funny moments but, like a later Three Stooges film without Curly, there is something missing...

[@l.salisbury1253]

D Pallio I've seen at least two 3 Stooges gags used by "thems lot"!

[@danforbes3573]

***** Dont you mean Bill Owen? Tom Owen is still alive an well.

[@kimmolaine4182]

Great to hear youguys got this in the US too! This was somewhat big in Finland back in the day and they have done dozens of re-runs :) Same with another british series "Heartbeat" that has this similar old english feel.

[@buddyfan1959]

haha, made me laugh did the first track :) i do love this time of the series, Compo and Nora was the best times RIP Bill&Kathy (Compo&Nora) and RIP LOTSW, forever remembered

[@MorrisManDanceMan]

that was so brilliant thanks for that. it brings back thy good days watching them so brilliant thanks.

[@Antoninesguard]

A great show and cast, sadly missed.

[@margaretravel8143]

This drove me batty but it still ran round and round my head

[@Qibilii]

I loved these guys, wrote a poem called Dear Nora inspired by Compo's pursuit for Nora( with wrinkled stockings).

[@MrShruggy]

great bill and kathy!!!

[@Px828]

RIP Bill and Kathy. :(

[@traciepearce1888]

Love it

[@darryllharden9141]

This is quite a rare record here!.

[@MST3Claye]

Thanks for re-upping this from 45junkee's collection.

[@Twinkler]

Wonderful...thank you!

[@MorrisManDanceMan]

@spoonido so brilliant thanks

[@MrShruggy]

GREAT

[@darryllharden9141]

🎼(DOORBELL!.)"Nora!". "Oh,It's not you again, Is it?...Get of me steps!"."Here!...Hold me ferrets,I've something to tell you!. "Oh!".I'm mad about thee Nora...I loved thee all my life...Of course I'm very glad that you are someone else's wife...But there's one thing about thee...That sends me up the wall...Of course it's confidential...So I won't tell a soul...I just can't stand them awful wrinkled stockings!". "Oh!, Just shut yer mouth!,What will the neighbours think?". "It's like they've had a perm...They make you look infirm...Or else you're going fishing...And that's where you keep your worms!". "I will not have you talk about me stockings...Depraved you are, You should be put away!". "I see your knickers on the line and passion sends me reading...But when I see them stockings, Oohh!, I kind of lose the feeling!". "Be off with you or else there's something else that you'll be feeling!. "Now!, Nora, Put that yardbrush down!"."Go on!". "Put it down, Will you!" "Get away,You're weird!". "Ooh!...Ooh!.". "Go on,Get off!"."Ooh!...Ooh!". "I guess I can't stand them awful wrinkled stockings!". "Ohh!,Get off me steps, You're always talking legs!". "Please pull them up, I beg...I heard from Norman Clegg...He says, You've not got wrinkled stockings, You've got wrinkled legs!". "Will you stop going on about me stockings!". "It must be cramp or rising damp, I'm sure...If your elastic's getting slack, Then see The Doc about it...He'll tell you tie em up with string when you walk round the houses!, Ere,You can have this piece of rope what's holding up me trousers!"."Wooaahh!". "Whoops!". "Your trousers have fallen down!". "Don't worry!...Don't worry,Nora!...I'll play me ukulele, Listen to this!". "Doesn't this get you, Nora?". "Aw,It's beautiful!". "Who is this Sigovia?"."He lives round the back!". "Oop!...Pardon me,I got me plecktrum!". "I don't care what you think about me stockings, Men write and say the wrinkles turn them on, They want to start a Fan Club and send me their best wishes, And then one who calls me, 'Passion Flower' and sends me love and kisses!". "I've got to sit right down and write to Terry Wogan's Missus, She'll stop his little game,Right Now!...You're mine forever!". "Who do you think you are?... Will you get off me step!, I've just mopped it!". "Here, listen!, Let's go round the chippy and have some mushy peas!". "Ahh!,You're weird!". "All right, We'll have some weird mushy peas!"." Aww, Get off!". "Here!". "Wally!"..."Put that !"."Come and help me get rid of him!". "Put that brush down!". "Go on!". "Mind my ferrets, They're poorly!"."Go on!". "Get off!". "Go on!". "Get off!, Oohh!".

[@MorrisManDanceMan]

@StutteringStevie me and they wife love the last of the summer wine the very best program ever

[@Kitty-wb1kf]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@naytch2003]

Nora Batty is like my mother in law,lol

[@robjames9359]

Hehe 😅 brilliant

[@l.salisbury1253]

I read Kathy Staff was a foil to Benny Hill. Anyone have that footage? I'd LUV to see Benny Hill vs. Norra Batty!

[@l.salisbury1253]

At least one Summer Wine fan suggested that, if Bill Owen had lived, Compo & Nora would have ended up MARRIED!!

[@SusanOughtibridge]

❤🎉😢😮😅😊

[@jlewis31510]

❤

[@VinylHell]

Easily done, for he is me! (this will soon re-appear on VinylFun account)

[@karlblanch3898]

Does anyone out there.know where I can purchase this song or any other songs the cast may have recorded ?

[@Pander1985]

EBay if your lucky, just bought mine - a small record shop may be able to help though..

[@karlblanch3898]

@@Pander1985 Thanks for your reply Phill regarding Nora Batty & Compo song . I'll search charity shops as I'm no good ordering on line . I will track said single down eventually.

[@Pander1985]

@@karlblanch3898 really hope you find it! Mine didn’t have a cover so I do wonder what it may look like, I’m just grateful for the video above it’s so very touching

[@VinylHell]

er....says at the top, matey

[@ACNC1]

Ha ha I did this in Karaoke and sang both parts.

[@carljohnson1997]

Just great Sadly missed don,t make them like this anymore

[@ryanclaffey5203]

Is that Compo saying the poem?

[@ryanclaffey5203]

@@CheckingEngine An actor is the closest thing to a TV Character in real life (in my opinion)

[@ryanclaffey5203]

​@@CheckingEngine Why Thank you!

[@YOYOKE64]

Is that bill reciting the poem

[@NemesisHero123]

I need to know the lyrics to these :D

[@nelliedailey1917]

The theme song is so heartwarming, yet heart-aching too.

[@97channel]

Wasn't he always attracted to the wrinkled stockings though, in the show? It's not my memory, is it? He always used to go "Phwoar, those wrinkled stockings!" and mean it, didn't he?

[@MrDannyDetail]

I've got the 31 series boxset and I've watched through from 1973 to 1984 so far, and whilst he does go phwoar at the sight of Nora on many occasions, he does also usually shudder, seemingly in disgust, at her wrinkled stockings, going as far as to attempt to pull them up for her on at least one occasion. It's possible that later on he has learned to love even her wrinkled stockings, but not by 1984 (so already later than this record).

[@97channel]

I've seen episodes from all over the various seasons at some point or other, but I can only ever recall him seemingly having a "thing" about those stockings. I know he's even said something like "It's those wrinkled stockings that do it for me.". Perhaps he was just being sarky and I didn't know the back story well enough to get it. Interesting though, thanks for that.

[@VinylHell]

just scour ebay. you never know what you'll find!

[@bessiesbestboy]

Holmefirth is nowhere near the Yorkshire Dales

[@levimacdonald5188]

Yorkshire dales!!

[@garthhunt7238]

It’s spelled Holmfirth-no e.