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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2009-09-12 01:18 am
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Crivens...

I am stunned.

I have just witnessed Su Pollard's rendition of Back in the USSR on BBC iPlayer.

I am glad I was sitting down...
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[identity profile] captainweasel.livejournal.com 2009-09-12 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2009-09-12 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sometime last week, the Beeb broadcast "sings the Beatles" on BBC3 (I think) -it's on iPlayer for a few more days anyway. It was a whole hour of other artistes singing Beatles songs from the vaults.

The oddest ones I remember were a Korean girl quartet from 1964 singing 'Can't Buy Me Rove', Petula Clark from about 1974 doing Sgt Pepper's 1920 Charleston style and the Su Pollard from her own show in er about 1984 (there seems to be a recurring ten year loop of strangeness here) doing USSR.

The first one was an honest performance with an Asian overlay, the second was a deliberately BBC-whacky stunt and Su Pollard was er...

[identity profile] captainweasel.livejournal.com 2009-09-12 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
found it...

ok, need the brainsoap now.
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