Song of the Day | 'GINGER GEEZER’ VIV STANSHALL | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

‘Ginger Geezer’ Vivian StanshallTeddy Boys Don’t Knit

so we have mentioned dear Viv before the brains and culture and voice behind the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Men Opening Umbrellas and Sir Henry at Rawlinson End fame before and he is always a treat . . . not least here from his album Teddy Boy’s Don’t Knit’ for his continuing foray into language and a smattering of rhyming slang (Cockney?) and gibberish! Mid-week madness I tells ya!

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Some Random notes from the t'interweb

 "There is a moment when you realise that Jim Morrison loved Pink Floyd and even got to see them play live but never got to hear Dark Side of The Moon!”

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'You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems, but if for my gifts I brought you silence “for I know silence” you would say : This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me.'

Leonard Cohen  from “The Spice-Box of Earth” 

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Someone posted this on social media:

“A friend of mine posted a photo of a euphonium he's about to repair and restore... Check out the lost and found address on the case!”

You have a friend who repairs euphoniums!

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A sixth of all Beatles songs reference the weather!

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Early shots of the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo Michigan.

My Kalamazoo guitar was made around 1936 when they first started making the  budget end Gibson acoustics mine is a KG14

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Joe Strummer 1974 then known as Woody Mellor

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Greg and Duane Allman and their Grandma

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I love this picture of Paul and Heather. 

(not credited where I found it but almost certainly taken by Linda)

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HAPPY 300TH ISSUE - UNCUT MAGAZINE!

 

Happy 300th issue, Uncut Magazine! The new issue features “The 300 Greatest Albums of Uncut's Lifetime,” since the magazine's launch in 1997. That includes Nonesuch releases from Wilco, Brian Wilson, Emmylou Harris, The Black Keys, Scritti Politti, Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabate, Dr. John, Randy Newman, Billy Bragg, and Buena Vista Social Club. You can see it all in the latest issue, out now. And listen to the featured Nonesuch albums on our new playlist at https://nonesuch.lnk.to/Uncut300

Also on this day . . . . . . 

Vivian Stanshall was born as Victor Stanshall in Shillingford, Oxfordshire on this day in 1943. He's the urban spaceman, baby, he can fly. He's a supersonic guy.

In a strange little coincidence, on the day the world learned that it lost NEIL INNES, the Tuesday 30TH DECEMBER 1986 10 p.m. broadcast on Channel 4 was a repeat of a 1968 episode of 'Do Not Adjust Your Set', the fledgling Thames Television show that included early appearances of David Jason, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.That very broadcast featured THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND performing I'M THE URBAN SPACEMAN, the video here."I'm the Urban Spaceman" was the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's most successful single, released in 1968. It reached #5 in the UK charts. The song was written by Neil Innes - who won an Ivor Novello Award in 1968 for the song - and produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth".The B-side was written by Vivian Stanshall. A well-known staging of the song involves Innes performing solo while a female tap dancer performs an enthusiastic but apparently under-rehearsed routine around him.

This skit originally appeared in a 1975 edition of Rutland Weekend Television, with Lyn Ashley as the dancer, and was more famously revived in the 1982 film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl with Carol Cleveland taking over the role.

And here's Vivian Stanshall in action, this is the b-side of their single, sports fans.

It may be slightly worrying to note that this blog's author knew this song word for word and learned it by rote!

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Blue Suede Shoes

3 March 2019  ·   · 

Here's a little number from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to lighten up your day. Nobody understood the BDDDB. We just learned to love them. I have a story regarding Viv Stanshall and didn't know he was native of Oxfordshire but I am sure I have told the tale ad nauseam . . . . . I will check and get back to you!