Thank you all so much for your contributions. I am really gratified at the response to this site.

My book is "The Moon's A Balloon" by David Niven and is highly appropriate for this site. It is David Niven's autobiography and chronicles his early life at Stowe school, England and his subsequent move to Hollywood and success in films like "Around the World in 80 Days". David N...

Judith I have checked TCM, I think it may be available on our Sky Satellite channel. I will follow it up and see. Thanks for the tip. There's a TCM.co. uk as well which seems to specialise in British products. It's very flattering to know that Brooklynites think it's classy if it's British. What a s...

Hey Judith You're a good sport considering my criticisms. Actually many of your TV shows are far better than ours. We used to have good shows twenty years ago, funny and socially relevant. Now they're just bland rubbish. We don't have anything as good as Friends, Seinfeld, Sex in the City, Desperate...

Many thanks Judith for your warm reply. Of course I do have favourite films and in the course of time these will emerge I hope in the appropriate context. I am afraid I tend to spend more time on the computer these days messaging my world wide YouTube friends than I do watching films. I get tremendo...

I'm certainly the only classic music buff in my family by which I mean I'm the only one who like 1920s and 30s music. So as 1930s musicals which I do like contain much of this music I suppose I am the only classic movie buff except I would hardly call myself a buff, more an appreciator.

I must say I am impressed with the comments on this site and the expertise and knowledge of the people involved. I feel somewhat humble and inadequate. I know very little about films to be quite honest and I suppose I can take them or leave them. I certainly have no expertise in any film genre or ty...

Now the final two decades, the 80s and 90s. 1980s Here again there was no contest. It's Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel(1986). I loved this record immediately I heard it, a brilliant semi-rock record. Peter Gabriel was a former member of the group Genesis before going solo. However the clincher is the...

I'm gratified at the debate I started here but I do feel more and more of an amateur. I think we will all have to beguided by Judith here in respect of US copyright law and the actions currently being taken to protect it. Yes we do get loads of bootlegged material in the UK from the territories you ...

Champagne is fine, but it better be an unlimited supply lol.

Take it from me EleanorPowellFan is an oracle, a guru when it comes to popular dance. I never bother consulting anyone else lol!

I now move on to the 60s and 70s. 1960s Well it simply has to be something by the Beatles who absolutely dominated the 1960s, but which one to choose because they made so many great songs. In the end I opted for I Am A Walrus which I think only ever appeared on an album. I have chosen this because i...

Again I'm overwhelmed with the response from everybody. Keep it coming. Many of your selections are in my favourites on YouTube but of course we can sadly only pick eight records.

On we go to the 1940s and 50s then. 1940s I'm afraid I'm going to cheat here. This song was written in the 1940s but in fact the version I have chosen was released in 1953. It's How High The Moon by Les Paul and Mary Ford. I loved this record when I first heard it as a seven year old. I think it sta...

Dear Brooklyn Girl You raise a very interesting point and I have cheated and looked this matter up. It appears that in the US copyright subsists from the moment the work is "created". I take this to mean from the moment it is completed because until that time I would not have thought it wa...