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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Simon? Simon Cowell??
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Northender

      Yes, that Simon. 'U' is reportedly a great favourite of his, but not necessarily in the two versions referred to here.
      The punctuation of the question is correct.

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26524

        Originally posted by Northender View Post
        Yes, that Simon.
        Getting all greased up and limbered up for the return of X Factor this weekend, Northo?
        "...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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        • Northender

          Definitely not! It's just that Simon Cowell's name name cropped up when I was compiling the question. He very probably has views on the performances of this reported favourite of his by the trio and the duo who also feature in the question.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            One of the fourteen singles released by Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan a.k.a. 'The Goons'. From June 1955.The success of The Goon Show inevi...
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Northender

              Indeed! Now...what about these two characters Tucker and Garvey?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Northender View Post
                Indeed! Now...what about these two characters Tucker and Garvey?
                ... with their musket, fife and drum, perhaps?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Northender

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Coleslaw:

                    Unchained Melody:

                    a favourite of Simon Cowell;
                    recorded by the Goons (Harry, Spike and Peter all of blessed memory;
                    and by Robson and Jerome (who played the characters Tucker and Garvey in the 90s TV series Soldier, Soldier.)

                    ... and there was I, thinking I didn't have a Ghost of a chance!
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Northender

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Coleslaw:

                      Unchained Melody:

                      a favourite of Simon Cowell;
                      recorded by the Goons (Harry, Spike and Peter all of blessed memory;
                      and by Robson and Jerome (who played the characters Tucker and Garvey in the 90s TV series Soldier, Soldier.)

                      ... and there was I, thinking I didn't have a Ghost of a chance!

                      An exemplary answer, if I may make so bold! Over to you!

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        It's a lovely tune; also covered by Jimmy Young in the days before Raimondo kept asking him for recipes. (On his final programme before the Beeb "retired" him, his producer sneaked the recording in as a last item.)


                        This is probably a "repeat", but ...

                        A V connecting Death, Games and a Three-cornered Hat.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22115

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          It's a lovely tune; also covered by Jimmy Young in the days before Raimondo kept asking him for recipes. (On his final programme before the Beeb "retired" him, his producer sneaked the recording in as a last item.)
                          And nobody's mention Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley's version!

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22115

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            It's a lovely tune; also covered by Jimmy Young in the days before Raimondo kept asking him for recipes. (On his final programme before the Beeb "retired" him, his producer sneaked the recording in as a last item.)


                            This is probably a "repeat", but ...

                            A V connecting Death, Games and a Three-cornered Hat.
                            anything to do with Nijinsky?

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              anything to do with Nijinsky?
                              Not that I know of: but there is a connection with Diaghilev.

                              EDIT: restored dropped haitch!
                              Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 16-08-12, 14:04.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12797

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

                                Unchained Melody:

                                a favourite of Simon Cowell;
                                recorded by the Goons (Harry, Spike and Peter all of blessed memory;
                                and by Robson and Jerome (who played the characters Tucker and Garvey in the 90s TV series Soldier, Soldier.)
                                (I've said it before; I'll say it again... )

                                ... and here I was, thinking this was a Radio 3 site


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