SS Quah's Anything Goes

I came across these pictures of old Bukit Mertajam on Facebook. Old in the sense that they could have been taken in the 1960s or 1970s, or e...

Since I had already written about the origins of the Penang Bazaar building some time ago, I thought it was time for me to turn my sights o...

Just going to the Dewan Sri Pinang last Monday brought back memories of my long association with this grand old hall. It was not the first t...

I felt like listening to a bit of classical music today and pulled an old Deutsche Grammophon LP from the shelf: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 ...

I must have been seven, eight or perhaps nine years old when my father brought home these two Chipmunks records from Wing Hing Records, his ...

Ever since I wrote about old Gladstone Road several days ago, I have been thinking that perhaps a story about the schools, cinemas and amuse...

Some time ago, while browsing through a stack of records in my collection, I realised that I had two albums that, in their own very differen...

Over the years, I’ve accumulated what many people would probably describe as a fairly decent record collection. Once in a while, someone wou...

So there I was with this Bakat TV 1971 record in my hand. Until that first moment when I placed the record on the turntable, I was mainly i...

During my recent slow stretch away from the blog, I found myself revisiting something from the early 1970s that came back to me quite unexpe...

I came across two old photographs of the  Butterworth railway station platform that were  taken before the railway service was upgraded and ...

Every now and then I come across a significant album that I need to talk about. Getz/Gilberto is one of those. I’ve known it for years but ...