Carry on Conducting - Sid James BotD

[AuntDaisy]

John Shea's brother, Julian, seems to have a similar dry sense of humour.
He posted this on Twitter (& JS retweeted it)...

Julian Shea @juliansheasport
#OnThisDay in 1913 comedian Sid James was born. He is pictured here in the unreleased Carry On Conducting.
7:49 AM · May 8, 2024

[Roslynmuse]

Love it! (I have to confess to once amusing myself by making a GIF with BB's face and Sid James' 'yuk, yuk' laugh in the background...)

[cloughie]

https://youtu.be/KZM33ynvBKg?feature=shared

Alternatively does anyone remember this from Charlie Drake?

[french frank]

1913 clearly a vintage year!

[AuntDaisy]

https://youtu.be/KZM33ynvBKg?feature=shared
Alternatively does anyone remember this from Charlie Drake?

No, but it's brilliant - thanks cloughie, I really enjoyed that.

[pastoralguy]

Britten would NOT have been amused! I’m sure many here will be familiar with Dudley Moore’s take off of Britten and Pears in his ‘Little Miss Britten’ where he lampoons Britten’s composing style and Pears’ slightly strangulated singing. Apparently, Britten was apoplectic with rage when he saw it.

Sadly, if you showed it to a modern audience they would have no idea what was being parodied. The audience there knew exactly what the butt of Moore’s satire was.

[LMcD]

https://youtu.be/KZM33ynvBKg?feature=shared

Alternatively does anyone remember this from Charlie Drake?

How wonderful - thanks, cloughie.
(Does anybody happen to know which performance or recording of the Overture was used?)

[Roger Webb]

[QUOTE=pastoralguy. Apparently, Britten was apoplectic with rage when he saw it.
[/QUOTE]

Dudley Moore also did Schubert in 'Die Flabbergast'...... and you hear him complaining?....perhaps he had a sense of humour.

https://youtu.be/y9tb05DMlqg?si=pTo6jw1dDBNBPZRD

[french frank]

Dudley Moore also did Schubert in 'Die Flabbergast'...... and you hear him complaining.....perhaps he had a sense of humour.

https://youtu.be/y9tb05DMlqg?si=pTo6jw1dDBNBPZRD

There are knowledgeable take-offs and ignorant ones. One recentish controller hated a Dead Ringers take-off of R3 which in fact was a take-off of The Third Programmes c 1950, nothing like R3. But in any case a GSOH involves being able to laugh at other people's jokes, not just your own.

[AuntDaisy]

Britten would NOT have been amused! I’m sure many here will be familiar with Dudley Moore’s take off of Britten and Pears in his ‘Little Miss Britten’ where he lampoons Britten’s composing style and Pears’ slightly strangulated singing. Apparently, Britten was apoplectic with rage when he saw it. ...

But, would Sid James have been?

Thanks, I really enjoyed "Little Miss Britten" & Roger Webb's "Die Flabbergast".

There's also Flanders & Swann's "Guide to Britten" (in "And then we Wrote...." & "The Songs of F&S" p110-9) which starts:

Who-oo-oo? Who-oo-oo is
Benjamin Britten?
Please don't send him up again!

[AuntDaisy]

There are knowledgeable take-offs and ignorant ones. One recentish controller hated a Dead Ringers take-off of R3 which in fact was a take-off of The Third Programmes c 1950, nothing like R3. But in any case a GSOH involves being able to laugh at other people's jokes, not just your own.

Glorious silences... certainly not on R3.

[Roger Webb]

But, would Sid James have been?

Thanks, I really enjoyed "Little Miss Britten" & Roger Webb's "Die Flabbergast".

Well then you may be amused by a non vocal one - this shows Moore's versatility, I think.

https://youtu.be/GazlqD4mLvw?si=P_RJujXG3Xelc8_h

[cloughie]

Britten would NOT have been amused! I’m sure many here will be familiar with Dudley Moore’s take off of Britten and Pears in his ‘Little Miss Britten’ where he lampoons Britten’s composing style and Pears’ slightly strangulated singing. Apparently, Britten was apoplectic with rage when he saw it.

Sadly, if you showed it to a modern audience they would have no idea what was being parodied. The audience there knew exactly what the butt of Moore’s satire was.

I wonder if Arthur Wood was pleased or not when Britten ‘borrowed’ a bit of Barwick Green for his Simple Symphony.

[LMcD]

I wonder if Arthur Wood was pleased or not when Britten ‘borrowed’ a bit of Barwick Green for his Simple Symphony.

Perhaps the surviving members (if there are any) of a certain long-running series of British comedy films could be reunited and bring us Carry On Karajan.

[AuntDaisy]

Perhaps the surviving members (if there are any) of a certain long-running series of British comedy films could be reunited and bring us Carry On Karajan.

I think Jim Dale is still around (and doing Harry Potter audiobooks for the Americans)

Who would you cast as his nibs? (Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams as HvK would be ideal.)

Silly thought... If HvK also worked part-time in an Indian takeway, could it be Carry On Currying Karajan?