• Re: Question for Roger

    From Roger@21:1/5 to Steve Mc on Sun Aug 4 16:41:36 2024
    On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 16:16:03 +0000, Steve Mc wrote:

    Backstage in March '67, the Animals were drinking gin and singing this
    song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekp0mVVEe-4

    We had never heard it... thankfully. Sorry I re-heard it just now.

    Was this popular in England ? I can't imagine it was, anywhere.

    It certainly wasn't popular in my house (and no I don't think it meant
    much anywhere else either)

    I do note tho that 45cat has the Decca single of this currently valued
    at £30 (aprox $39)

    Of course both of these guys were big comedy stars on TV here at this
    time and later Dudley Moore went on to star in some movies that were big
    hits on both sides of the puddle ("10","Arthur" etc)

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  • From Steve Mc@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 4 09:16:03 2024
    Backstage in March '67, the Animals were drinking gin and singing this song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekp0mVVEe-4

    We had never heard it... thankfully. Sorry I re-heard it just now.

    Was this popular in England ? I can't imagine it was, anywhere.

    --
    Steve Mc

    DNA to SBC to respond

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 5 05:27:12 2024
    On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 09:16:03 -0700, Steve Mc <stevemc209@sbcglobal.net>
    wrote:

    Backstage in March '67, the Animals were drinking gin and singing this song.

    PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE - 'The L.S. Bumble Bee' - 1967 >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekp0mVVEe-4

    Was this popular in England ? I can't imagine it was, anywhere.

    In a letter from December of 1981, Dudley Moore offered a bit of
    insight: “Peter Cook and I recorded that song about the time when
    there was so much fuss about L.S.D. The exciting alternative offered
    to the world was L.S.B.!, and I wrote the music to, in some ways,
    satirize the Beach Boys rather than the Beatles.

    Apparently this track appears on some Beatles bootlegs;
    but you would have to be very naive to think that this track
    was by the fab 4; at 1:39 "Dudley M" is in the lyrics.

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