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Posted by GD Nicholson Esq. on 31 July 2011 - 10:57am.
Danny Baker on Desert Island Discs at 1115. Go you to you wireless sets.
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Greatly enjoyed hearing
Kirsty's forensic pencil beam being swamped in the legendary Baker searchlight ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wcl4
Wonderful...
He can't half natter that Baker. Brilliant record choices too.
His choices were...
Helen Shapiro — Marvellous Lie
Dean Martin — A Day in the Country
Max Bygraves — Underneath the Arches
Peter Sellers — I’m So Ashamed
Bing Crosby — Ain’t got a Dime to My Name
Tommy Steele — What a Mouth (What a North and South)
Bernard Cribbins — I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Cliff Richard — The Next Time
Some clarification
If you haven't listened to it (and I recommend that you do) he narrowed down his choices by picking songs which he had heard by the time he was 8. Perhaps he's hoping to be invited back several times so he can choose records from each stage of his life.
"Brilliant record choices too".....
... may be... but i wonder when you last listened to any of them... or indeed thought about listening to any of them ?
... or are they just "brilliant choices" because Danny says so ?
What a curious comment...
For what it's worth, I'd suggest that they provide a good overview of the state of pre-Beatles music.
Tommy Steele, certainly, doesn't get the credit he deserves for his part in the development of early British rock and roll.
I listened to the Summer Holiday soundtrack only a few weeks ago and his choice of the Sellers has certainly inspired me to dig out the Parlophone-era Sellers stuff.
I don't think I'd heard any of the songs before...
and loved most of them. Why on earth would I say they were brilliant just because Danny Baker likes them?! I have no need to be swayed by the tastes of others... mine are impeccable as it is.
on reflection
anyway isn't DID about records that are mean something to you personally rather than the "Best" 8 pieces of music ?
you decide
but i agree with Stimpy. These are songs that Danny has played regularly on his shows over the years.
It's a different version of the Dean martin song but you'll get the idea.
http://open.spotify.com/user/arthurdog/playlist/0D9a3cl8nlod0lORfi8xbm
Unusual choices but the more interesting for it.
I found it rather unsettling how much I enjoyed singingalongaMax Bygraves, how you suddenly realise you remember the words to a song you haven't heard for thirty years.
That Max Bygraves tune was ace...
The older I get the more I appreciate that entertainers like him and Bernard Cribbins didn't have decades-long careers for no reason.