The Stranger as a vocal?

[Uncle Fiesta]

Totally off topic I'm afraid, but has anyone tried playing a Pinky and Perky recording at half-speed to see what they really sound like?

(I'll tell you - Mike Sammes. He also did the voices for Ken Dodd's Diddymen - speeded up again of course.)

[captainhaddock]

Yes!. I remember doing that with my Pinky and Perky LP on my old Dansette portable back in the 60's.
It was the only thing that 16rpm was any good for.
I hasten to add that I no longer own a Pinky and Perky LP, honestly.

PS, For those of you who have a scratched vinyl copy of Pinky and Perky (Not the same as pork scratchings !)
You can now buy a pristine CD of "The Best Of Pinky and Perky" via Amazon.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinky-Perky/dp/ ... 789&sr=8-1

[Arpeggio]

'Tish'! 'Tish'! Gentlemen! Hijacking this fine thread with reference to that porcine duo!! Yes - I too loved P & P as a (young) child! LOL. To get back to "I Can't Forget". The revised English lyrics ("Although a year has gone, I can't go on...etc") were provided by none other than master wordsmith Don Black ("Born Free" etc., etc).

Rob

[JimN]

For those of you who have a scratched vinyl copy of Pinky and Perky (Not the same as pork scratchings !) You can now buy a pristine CD of "The Best Of Pinky and Perky" via Amazon.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinky-Perky/dp/ ... 789&sr=8-1

I certainly remember the Pinky & Perky versions of the songs Carolina In The Morning, For Me And My Gal, Pretty Baby and There's A Blue Ridge Round My Heart, because my aunt had a EP with those recordings (c.1959). The only other record I recall her playing was Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife. The lyric "...and old Lucy Brown..." always sounded very strange to me.

It seems that Pinky and Perky were on al Al Jolson kick with those songs. They were actually well-known in Liverpool from the mid-fifties onward, because the TJ Hughes department store in London Road hired the show* for several years on the run to be the main attraction at the Christmas Grotto. This was before they appeared regularly on television. Another character in the P'n'P troup was "Granny Smith", whose name embarrassed my best friend - Brian Smith - no end. And there was a frog in a plaid jacket who "played" sax on Hoots Mon and Tequila (which I always used to mistake one for each other).

Turning to I Can't Forget, on hearing the original version (I've heard it before), I was reminded of how some languages - certainly Italian, and also, it seems, Serbo-Croat - require the sung melody to have little extra notes added at the end of the line because of the way that words are inflected. I remember a long conversation about this with Roberto some years ago, with us both illustrating the thesis with records sung in English and Italian.

JN

[* I seem to recall that it was staged by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech post-wars refugees to the UK. Eastern Europe's loss and the UK's gain, as had also happened earlier with famous animator John Halas from Hungary.]

[anniv 63]

Seem to recall it was Morton Frog the sax player on Pinky &Perky Show!!!
Special guests were sometimes The Beakels a group of crows.
God how on earth do we remember such detail!!

Mike

[Bojan]

[Turning to I Can't Forget, on hearing the original version (I've heard it before), I was reminded of how some languages - certainly Italian, and also, it seems, Serbo-Croat - require the sung melody to have little extra notes added at the end of the line because of the way that words are inflected. I remember a long conversation about this with Roberto some years ago, with us both illustrating the thesis with records sung in English and Italian.

JN

[* I seem to recall that it was staged by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech post-wars refugees to the UK. Eastern Europe's loss and the UK's gain, as had also happened earlier with famous animator John Halas from Hungary.]

I think you are are right Jim.