Carry on, Dame Cleo

[Serial_Apologist]

Profuse apologies to all for my having overlooked this item, on tonight (Friday 15 Dec):

BBC Radio 2
8 pm Friday Night is Music Night

Guy Barker conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Big Band in a celebration of British vocalist Cleo Laine, who was 90 in October. The concert features songs associated with Laine's career - including her work with her husband John Dankworth and albums with James Galway, Dudley Moore and Ray Charles - and she's joined on stage by Clare Teal, Kandace Springs, Jacqui Dankworth, Alec Dankworth and Charlie Wood. Recorded on 29 November at the Town Hall, Birmingham.

This may not be to every jazzer's taste - and Mr Barker appears to be fast taking on the mantle of today's answer to Jack Hylton and Sunday Night at the London Palladium, ca. 1958 - but respect where respect is due, say I. Not to mention the fact that Alec Dankworth was very complimentary about my bicycle when he visited the Oval Tavern back during the summer - it turned out Mr Dankworth Jr is a keen cyclist. But I'm willing to bet "One Day More", the album for which Daryl Runswick composed the songs for her in 1979, which in my view is one of the best things either one of them has done, will not get any mention. After all, it's only a two-hour long programme.

[Stanfordian]

Profuse apologies to all for my having overlooked this item, on tonight (Friday 15 Dec):

BBC Radio 2
8 pm Friday Night is Music Night

Guy Barker conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Big Band in a celebration of British vocalist Cleo Laine, who was 90 in October. The concert features songs associated with Laine's career - including her work with her husband John Dankworth and albums with James Galway, Dudley Moore and Ray Charles - and she's joined on stage by Clare Teal, Kandace Springs, Jacqui Dankworth, Alec Dankworth and Charlie Wood. Recorded on 29 November at the Town Hall, Birmingham.

This may not be to every jazzer's taste - and Mr Barker appears to be fast taking on the mantle of today's answer to Jack Hylton and Sunday Night at the London Palladium, ca. 1958 - but respect where respect is due, say I. Not to mention the fact that Alec Dankworth was very complimentary about my bicycle when he visited the Oval Tavern back during the summer - it turned out Mr Dankworth Jr is a keen cyclist. But I'm willing to bet "One Day More", the album for which Daryl Runswick composed the songs for her in 1979, which in my view is one of the best things either one of them has done, will not get any mention. After all, it's only a two-hour long programme.

Thank goodness for that. At first glance I thought it read 'Carry on Cleo' with visions of Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey et al.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thank goodness for that. At first glance I thought it read 'Carry on Cleo' with visions of Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey et al.

That, in part, was my intention, Stan!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That, in part, was my intention, Stan!

Infamy!

[Barbirollians]

A staple with Johnny Dankworth of the music bits when you could go and make a cup of tea in 1970s light entertainment shows .

Talented artists no doubt but her voice is one I have never warmed to .

[Serial_Apologist]

A staple with Johnny Dankworth of the music bits when you could go and make a cup of tea in 1970s light entertainment shows .

Talented artists no doubt but her voice is one I have never warmed to .

She has described herself as "a failed opera singer".

[Stanfordian]

That, in part, was my intention, Stan!

Hiya Serial Apologist,

But I only admire the 'Carry On Films' starring Hattie Jacques!

[Stanley Stewart]

Instant memories of Dame Cleo and her annual Spring Collection recitals at the QEH in the early 70s, her prime years.
Versatility at its best. Time to get a CD off the shelves and listen to her perform, "It Might as Well be Spring"

[Serial_Apologist]

Hiya Serial Apologist,

But I only admire the 'Carry On Films' starring Hattie Jacques!

Always advisable to have ones testimonials to hand if applying as an extra, as they used to say.

[Barbirollians]

Scat singing I just do not like .

[Quarky]

That's a surprise.

Jacqui is coming over more strongly than Kandace. Kandace may be better suited to a more intimate piano trio setup, whereas Jacqui fits very well on the Big stage (but not vice versa).

[Stanfordian]

Always advisable to have ones testimonials to hand if applying as an extra, as they used to say.

What about 'Privates on Parade'? Oops sorry, wrong film!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Off thread but still with Brit jazz singers, I have just found a ripped off DVD copy of "The Beast must Die" (1974), a British horror movie, so low budget that the beast (a "terrifying" Werewolf) is played by an amiable German Shepherd! Anyway, the lead female's dialogue (spoiler, she's a werewolf too) is entirely dubbed on, post production, by...ANNIE ROSS! She did get around...Now, if the Werewolf had burst into a duet on "Little Pony", it would have been a classic movie. As it is, a Dog.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Off thread but still with Brit jazz singers, I have just found a ripped off DVD copy of "The Beast must Die" (1974), a British horror movie, so low budget that the beast (a "terrifying" Werewolf) is played by an amiable German Shepherd! Anyway, the lead female's dialogue (spoiler, she's a werewolf too) is entirely dubbed on, post production, by...ANNIE ROSS! She did get around...Now, if the Werewolf had burst into a duet on "Little Pony", it would have been a classic movie. As it is, a Dog.

- I remember that film: it stops about half-an-hour before the end, and a voice-over reviews the story (as if anyone could [a] forget so mindless a plot, or [b] give a t ... monkeys) and invites the audience to guess which of the guests is the Werewolf. Made Agatha Christie seem like Proust!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The weird thing (well lots of them) is that it seems to be regarded as a camp horror semi classic. And with a 70s music track that believes that when you've got a black lead character, you need something well, a bit "Shaft-lite", even if it's about a werewolf. Classic line at the end when he starts to turn" hairy after being bitten...."Oh, there must be a cure!". Not on the Tory NHS, Dear...

BN.