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Sniffity commented on the post, “Breathless” wordy songs 2 days, 9 hours ago
My problem with this number was that, title apart, I couldn’t understand a word he was singing – and until I saw a photo, thought it was a woman doing the lead vocal.
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Sniffity commented on the post, “Breathless” wordy songs 2 days, 15 hours ago
Written by Oz country muso Geoff Mack in 1958.
A favourite version was by The Farrelly Brothers (ie Graham Bond and the Aunty Jack crew) – hint: they hadn’t been to many places…
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Sniffity commented on the post, hipster formats 2 days, 15 hours ago
Sounds like the Afterword version of that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith and his books.
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Sniffity commented on the post, “Breathless” wordy songs 3 days, 11 hours ago
Dave Edmunds’s version of Get Out Of Denver is pretty full throttle.
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Sniffity commented on the post, The Who’s Tommy Orchestral – Roger Daltrey 3 days, 15 hours ago
Don’t forget Tommy – A Bluegrass Opry by The Hillbenders, from 2015
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Sniffity commented on the post, Cover Aversion 1 week, 2 days ago
Pinball Wizard?
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Sniffity commented on the post, Are you seriously going to eat that…….. 1 week, 3 days ago
Such talk always puts me in mind of this sequence…
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Sniffity commented on the post, Analog newspapers 1 week, 4 days ago
I used to sell ’em on the roadside after school – it funded my comics and records fix.
Unfortunately it was The News, the first paper Rupert Murdoch owned. I owe my adolescent pop culture education to that man.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Help please! What’s that tune? 2 weeks, 5 days ago
They’re turning up on Youtube.
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Sniffity commented on the post, D-Day 75 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Presumably meant an AC-47.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Dog-eared Brisbane Penguins, underwater engraver Robert Gibbings and the saintly …… Simon Templar! 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Enjoy your hamper, Mr Dad.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Name Three Flying V Players. 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Dr Roy Wood played occasionally in his Wizzard days.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Good Omens 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Neil Gaiman
@neilhimself
5 hours agoIt’s not meant to be better or worse. It’s meant to be a TV interpretation.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Bluemoose Books from Yorkshire, the man who invented Scotland and the Little Book of Calm. 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Some translators contribute in more ways than one, as this obituary for Anthea Bell (who translated the Asterix books among others) describes.
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Sniffity commented on the post, Monty Python songs 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Cleese may not be able to sing, but he has sung on Broadway! In the 1965 production for Half A Sixpence he played the small role of Walsingham the stockbroker. Apparently he was told to stay up the back and mime […]
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Sniffity commented on the post, Bluemoose Books from Yorkshire, the man who invented Scotland and the Little Book of Calm. 3 weeks, 5 days ago
And here’s former Faber & Faber Editor-in-Chief Robert McCrum reminiscing about the halcyon days of 1980s and 90s publishing…
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Sniffity commented on the post, Bluemoose Books from Yorkshire, the man who invented Scotland and the Little Book of Calm. 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Of course it’s not all just reading manuscripts and attending launches, oh no….have a look here
and watch between 20:15 and 26:48 as a couple of publishers recall Joe Orton’s first attempts to get into […]
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Sniffity commented on the post, Monty Python songs 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I’m more partial to a spot of Background To History
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Sniffity commented on the post, Bluemoose Books from Yorkshire, the man who invented Scotland and the Little Book of Calm. 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I would not have lasted a week as a Commissioning Editor!!
Entertaining and educational extracts from publishers’ correspondence might make you feel not so alone, KFD
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