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  • CallMePaul
    Full Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 790

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    Playlist says Tito Gobbi. If it was the EMI recording with Callas and di Stefano, he might have been lurking in the background …
    A centenary tribute to one of last century's greatest baritones should have featured him as the solo artist. As I recall, the sound was too good for a mid-50s recording. No details of orchestra or conductor were given and all I can say is that the voice did not sound like Pavarotti or Di Stefano. On the assumption that a R3 presenter is not musically illiterate I would have expected Victoria Meakin to query this item with her producer. I have seriously considered a formal complaint about this item but I suspect that the BBC would brush this under the carpet and supply a stock answer plucked from a computer by someone who could not tell Tito Gobbi from Elvis Presley!

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30286

      Originally posted by CallMePaul View Post
      I would have expected Victoria Meakin to query this item with her producer.
      Yes, your point was entirely appreciated - I just didn't happen to hear it.

      Victoria Meakin is a weekend bussed-in presenter from other parts of BBC radio (actually, I suppose, a freelance who takes what she's offered). She it was who pronounced Boulez as Boolay - so take it from there.
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8782

        Stop fretting all we have Skellers tomorrow. ....

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12823

          ... ah, that old problem - a gun with just one bullet.

          Victoria Meakin or Tom McKinney?

          (... other presenters are, of course, available.)

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          • Black Swan

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            ... ah, that old problem - a gun with just one bullet.

            Victoria Meakin or Tom McKinney?

            (... other presenters are, of course, available.)
            Well a very interesting situation.... I think I know what I would do....

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            • ahinton
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 16122

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              Victoria Meakin is a weekend bussed-in presenter from other parts of BBC radio (actually, I suppose, a freelance who takes what she's offered). She it was who pronounced Boulez as Boolay - so take it from there.
              Ah, yes - Patti Boulaye; indistinguishable from Pete, as we all know...
              Last edited by ahinton; 27-10-15, 06:02.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26536

                Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                Ah, yes - Patti Boulaye; indistinguishable from Pete, as we all know...
                Oh yes... separated at birth!



                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Old Grumpy
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 3612

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  I know it's early in the morning and only Rumpole and the larks are about but did Tree Lawn just say we have Skellers all next week?

                  Indeed - and long may he reign!

                  OG

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                  • Black Swan

                    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                    Indeed - and long may he reign!

                    OG
                    I totally agree. I am not working this week and was so pleasantly surprised to turn on R3 and hear Skellars and not the twittering of one of the other normal morning hosts.

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                    • antongould
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8782

                      Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                      I totally agree. I am not working this week and was so pleasantly surprised to turn on R3 and hear Skellars and not the twittering of one of the other normal morning hosts.
                      ..... I, obviously, agree .....

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22120

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Oh yes... separated at birth!



                        Sure it wasn't Patti Labelle - surely would be more in keeping to lay de marmalade on de toast at breakfast!

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                        • Schrödinger's Cat
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 47

                          Originally posted by CallMePaul View Post
                          Did nobody else motice the massive boob made this morning by Victoria Meakin? She played a recording of La Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto and claimed it was by Tito Gobbi! OK he was born 100 years ago today as she stated, but he would never have sung a tenor aria - not in public anyway! How do BBC producers get away with this? Gobbi, of course, was a baritone and [I]La Donna e Mobile/I] is one of the main tenor showpieces in Italian opera! Someone needs shooting!
                          In addition she pronounced his name as Gobi (to rhyme with Toby) at the start of Saturday's programme.

                          On Sunday, before she played Gobbi's Largo al Factotum, she said that she had "accidentally" played the wrong track the previous day, no attempt at an apology. In a way this was worse than the original mistake.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26536

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            I know it's early in the morning and only Rumpole and the larks are about
                            I'm watching you, anton...

                            Having a lie-in?
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8782

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              I'm watching you, anton...

                              Having a lie-in?
                              This is becoming a bit scary Rumpole - waiting for your Music Box selection to be played by the Great Man are you?

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8782

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                I'm watching you, anton...

                                Having a lie-in?
                                One presumes this is one of your, very rare, early starts to discuss Joint Enterprise with Perry Mason ......

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