TOT: musical tastes
Bill Wright
Bill
Brian Gaff
sense of humour in fact.
He was a mate of George Martin you know!
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Graham.
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> Bill
Someone should have told Bob Dylan to stick with the guitar.
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Nick
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> Bill
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Was it 'The Goon Show' or 'Educating Archie' that he used to play on?
Terry Casey
Max Geldray played on the Goon Show. Not sure about Educating Archie but it doesn't sound
right to me ...
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Terry Casey
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No, it wasn't Adler on Educating Archie - it was Ronald Chesney.
Julie Andrews was on it as well, but I don't think she played the harmonica ...
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Max Demian
I saw him at the South Bank once. He was accompanied by George Gershwin (on
reproducing piano).
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Ian Jackson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qOCB57OMGg&feature=related
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Bill Wright
Bill
Bill Wright
way round?
Bill
Bill Wright
tail of it. Still can't.
Bill
Ian Jackson
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<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D9oTay_yd5gJ:www.tv
cream.co.uk/%3Fp%3D314+%22The+Navy+Lark%22+music+adler&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
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<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:l0ZxjTCfWOkJ:free-r
eed.net/essays/reilly.html+%22The+Navy+Lark%22+music+adler&cd=7&hl=en&ct=
clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.co.uk>
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madge
> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
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> Bill
How about lying down?
Woody
Summertime from Porgy and Bess on the Parkinson show in 1980.
At the end Parkinson turned to the camera and said
"Ladies and Gentlemen, they say television is made up of
moments - this has been one of them. Goodnight"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6wZNBLOY0
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Graham.
"Ian Jackson" <ianREMOVET...@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:nq5JxyFm...@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...
I would say that's what he's best known for.
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Graham.
"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:ij6bgb$9tr$3...@speranza.aioe.org...
It's proper name is a pianoforeplay.
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Terry Casey
Ha! That was Tommy Reilly! Yet another show that didn't feature Adler - that makes three
so far!
In fact, I don't recall that he ever did anything of this sort at all.
I'm sure these musical interludes must stem from the days of live broadcasts and shows
recorded on disc. It gave the cast a break and was a convenient place to switch discs,
possibly?
It was the norm at the time that Adler really came to prominence with Genevieve and for
some time afterwards but, because of his success, perhaps Adler was too busy with concert
work and/or too expensive for such jobs?
Towards the end of his life, he often phoned late night programmes on LBC, I recall ...
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Bill Wright
> In message <ij6be5$9tr$2...@speranza.aioe.org>, Bill Wright
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>> Nick wrote:
>>> "Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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>>>> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
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>>>> Bill
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>>> Was it 'The Goon Show' or 'Educating Archie' that he used to play on?
>> Every damn thing. The Navy Lark I think.
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> Tommy Reilly really?
There was a lot of them harp players in them days. A cheap instrument,
and one you could take on the bus or a pushbike without difficulty.
Bill
Bill Wright
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:28:00 -0000, Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
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>> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
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>> Bill
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> How about lying down?
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Adler! Put Luxy on!" It was regardless of the true identity of the
harmonica player. Something to do with the first war and the trenches I
think; something her uncles told her.
Bill
Bill Wright
Bill
madge
You're an Ovaltiney. http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/ovaltine.htm
Not that I'm old enough to know about such things.
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Didn't Peter Cook used to do likewise and wind up the late night presenters
by using strange names and funny accents?
I also seem to recall that Adler appeared to have some kind of long running
spat with the Private Eye.
"Adler also became an obsessive writer of letters to Private Eye"
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1336676/Larry-Adler.html>
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Woody
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Just to go off at a tangent, I'm sure you will have seen the new
Ovaltine ads that has a mug where the letters move when it is
stirred? It stops saying 'Keep calm and carry on.'
There are three books - I don't know if they are related to the
ads but their titles are
Keep Calm and Carry On
Sod Calm and Get Angry
Now Panic and Freak Out
In the latter is something that Confucius may have said:
'Never take down a fence until you know why it was erected in the
first place.'
Says it all really?
Graham.
>>>>> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
>>>> I saw him at the South Bank once. He was accompanied by George Gershwin (on reproducing piano).
>>>>
>>> How does that work then? Does the grand mount the upright or the other way round?
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>> It's proper name is a pianoforeplay.
>>
> Ohh hurrah sir! Hurrah!
I don't know how that apostrophe got there, and I apologise unreservedly to anyone
offended by it.
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Graham.
"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:ij6ja5$uo5$2...@speranza.aioe.org...
I can relate to what she said. Something to do with the melancholic nature of anything
played on that instrument.
I would cite "An Ordinary Copper", the Dixon of Dock Green theme, I always made me
sad as a child, performed by Tommy Reilly I've just discovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LZVPc0tMo&playnext=1&list=PL81D6F97D8C4E2033
For some unknown reason Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage" always makes me
feel uneasy. I seem to remember listening to it on the brown bakerlite radio
in the kitchen in the late 1950s. I suppose I must associate it with an unhappy
time in my childhood but I've no idea why.
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Dave Plowman (News)
Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
> There was a lot of them harp players in them days. A cheap instrument,
> and one you could take on the bus or a pushbike without difficulty.
But not to a party, if you've sense.
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Bill Wright
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Bill Wright
this second time should have been less traumatic, in view of memories I
have of the first. But the first time I must have been too young to have
understood the enormities of what went on, so I wasn't upset by it.
Anyway, the second time was during the late 1950s, and the ward had a
loudspeaker on the wall high up central to the door, above the clock. It
played the Light Programme, and for a long time in my life I couldn't
understand why certain old records upset me so much, 'til I twigged that
they were all current when I was in hospital. There was a a version of
Dashing Away With A Smoothing Iron and one about a soldier that was far
far away. When I smell Lucozade now I get the shivers.
Bill
John Legon
> I can relate to what she said. Something to do with the melancholic nature of anything
> played on that instrument.
Mick Jagger would have something to say about that.
Bill Wright
Yes. It just goes to show.
Bill
Brian Gaff
inflicting his 'unique' voice on us.
I don't think there is anyone who I cannot stand, though I guess Telle
Savalis singing was pretty near
Brian
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>> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
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>> Bill
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> Someone should have told Bob Dylan to stick with the guitar.
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Brian Gaff
He was a victim of Mccarthyism in the states and came over here to get away
from it.
Brian
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>> If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
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>> Bill
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Terry Casey
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> Didn't Peter Cook used to do likewise and wind up the late night presenters
> by using strange names and funny accents?
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there from time to time, though whether Cook was one of them, I don't know.
Adler was always himself, if you see what I mean ...
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Rick
"Terry Casey" <kt...@example.invalid> wrote in message
A large part of my daily listening is to LBC, even though I don't live
anywhere near London, my guess is that the major portion of their listeners
don't, that's the one major advantage of DAB, the wider choice of listening,
not forgetting of course Internet radio, which must give them an even bigger
share of listeners worldwide.
Graham.
"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:ij7d02$s37$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
Andy Stewart - A Scottish Soldier no doubt. (Green hills of Tyrol), not exactly a cheery song.
The first significant person who's death I had to come to terms with was that
of my maternal grandfather when I was 10.
There was a record on the hit parade about then, "Three Bells" about the circle of life.
Not only did the song make me feel uneasy (it still does to an extent) but I was very apprehensive
that if my mother or grandmother were to hear it it would have the same affect on them.
As for the Lucozade, young people wouldn't understand that at all.
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Graham.
"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:ij7cft$qf1$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
Either you are the ghost of Christmas yet to come, or you need to check the clock
on your computer.
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Joke: What are the saddest fruit and veg you can buy?
Clue: Answer already discussed in this thread.
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Bill Wright
> The first significant person who's death I had to come to terms with was that
> of my maternal grandfather when I was 10.
> There was a record on the hit parade about then, "Three Bells" about the circle of life.
> Not only did the song make me feel uneasy (it still does to an extent) but I was very apprehensive
> that if my mother or grandmother were to hear it it would have the same affect on them.
The effect of these events early in life can be traumatic. It should
make us realise how careful we need to be in exposing young children to
certain life events.
Bill
Albert Ross
>As for the Lucozade, young people wouldn't understand that at all.
If you need a Glucose Tolerance Test our surgery makes you buy your
own Lucozade and bring it in.
They tried to make me take home the rest of the bottle.
I refused.
"Funny" said the nurse "everyone does that"
Albert Ross
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>If there was one thing my mother couldn't stand it was Larry Adler.
Hmmm. I wonder if David Cameron was a fan? This might explain the
cat's name.
J G Miller
> But not to a party, if you've sense.
Hmmm?
Dave Plowman (News)
J G Miller <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> > But not to a party, if you've sense.
> Hmmm?
You're not old enough. 'Twas a song by Gracie Fields.
'I took my harp to a party, but nobody asked me to play'
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Bill
J G Miller
> You're not old enough. 'Twas a song by Gracie Fields.
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> 'I took my harp to a party, but nobody asked me to play'
Aahh! Thanks for the explanation.