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Monday, 21 April 2014

"The Last Blast of the Blasted Bugler" - for all fans of the film and the poem "Gunga Din"



And, in case that strikes you as disrespectful, here's a trailer for the splendid film, which seems to contain the line "Kill for the love of curry!":

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Friday, 16 April 2010

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” - I'd rather have eczema than listen to crooners

                      “The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay
                        The glory that was Rome is of another day…”

If you’re of a certain age, those words will probably bring to mind the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band’s hilariously vicious parody of a lounge singer getting ready to murder “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, from their 1967 LP,Gorilla. For even older folk, it can only mean Tony Bennett, whose signature tune it has become.