PSD - just for once you are wrong. They did two other good things. 1) I'm the KIng of the Swingers (oh, and the Bare Necessities) and 2) and most importantly, "When I See An Elephant Fly".



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isn't that the "BEAR Necessities", Jon?? Seeing as how it's sung by Ballou(sp) IIRC.....

I dunno. It could be either. Wasn't Ballou Jane Fonda?



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Jon, that'd be Cat Ballou you're thinking of ! A 1960s western that also featured Lee Marvin.

Or was it Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts? (ha!)

*cough* I do know, you know. Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole featured quite heavily, too.

Did you mag ever cover Richard Thompson, at all?



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PSD - The gopher was to get the attention of the American kids. Ther's a line when Pooh Bear is stuck in Rabbits hole and the gopher says something like 'I'm not in the book, but you can look me up'. the idea was that he's not in AAMilne's book but he's in the movie.

Yeah. right. Real clever.

Heard a good anecdote from Parky. He was chatting to Lee Marvin (presumably in BBC bar/canteen) pre/post interview and mentioned that he favourite scene was where he drew his guns in Cat Ballou and his trousers fell down.

'Oh, that's an easy trick,' says Marvin and before he knows what's happened, Marvin is pointing gun styled fingers at Parky with his trousers round his ankles in front of dozens of people out for a nice quiet drink...

Who's trousers were down? Parky's or Lee Marvins?

Lee Marvin's.

Should have phrased that better...

That would be a VERY scary sight.

jon (---.proxy.aol.com) wrote:

>Did your mag ever cover Richard Thompson, at all?

Sorry Jon, only just noticed this - yeah, a long while ago. We've interviewed most of the Fairports down the years, Richard included.

Favourite one from that period is probably (one time Fairport Convention drummer) Dave Mattacks who related the tale of when he was doing session work for Max Bygraves (of all people!). Apparently Max was at the mic singing, with the various session musicians working individually in little booths at the side of the recording studios. At the end of a "take" there was a tap on the door of Dave's booth and the bass player stuck his head round the corner.

"Psssst! What's the next song, Dave?"

(rustle of turning pages)

Dave: "Tulips of Amsterdam"

(brief silence)

"Bugger. I've just done that one...."

Two friends of mine, Steve and Helen Parkin, are serious Fairport fans, especially Steve. Not only do they attend concerts, collect records etc. the stud name for their Abyssinian cats is Fairport !

My dodgy connection to Fairport Convention is that the owner of an excellent second-hand bookshop in the town where my parents live, is a second cousin to Richard Thompson, the guitartist.

Guitartist! Oh, what a wonderful tyop ... it describes RT perfectly; I shall treasure that.

I was at school with Martin Allcock, who has featured among the Fairports at various times (but then who hasn't), but can't say I know him.

My favourite Fairport story concerns violinist Dave Swarbrick. A couple of years ago the Guardian printed a half page obituary of him, eulogising his many triumphs. Swarb wrote back to say he had been very ill, but he wasn't quite that far gone yet .... He now says "I was dead, but I got better."



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When I said Eeyore suffered least, I meant the others all got it way worse than he did.

EG: Piglet never used to say: ''Oh, d-d-d-dear!"

Tigger used to be crazy without yelling "Woo-Hoo!"

Gopher fortunately never used to exist.

Rabbit used to have "friends and relations" and was a normal brown colour.

Pooh used to play Pooh sticks, why wouldn't that be on the show?

Most of this I am guessing, because I haven't seen the show since I was 6.

CH5 have recently been running it in the mornings, now safely replaced by bear in the big blue house, and it was so far removed from the original 'poohness' of the books that it must be breaking the trades descriptions act or something.

There's a gopher in Winnie-the-Pooh now ? I'd say that sounds a ridiculous thing to find in an English wood, then I remembered Tigger and Kanga (and Roo). OK maybe A A Milne stretched the point a little, but then, it is a fantasy about toys.

<Ducks from stones thrown by Pooh fans yelling 'heretic'>

Yeah, but gophers as stuffed toys only came into vogue in the 1980s, with Going Live. I had a pupet, actually. My current dog had great fun ripping it to shreds...



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Aren't gophers the things you whack with hammers?



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In computer games, yes. The gopher in the poo Pooh drives me to acts of random violence, too.

Maybe that was the inspiration?



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