High Guise - her songs were brilliant. She really was a master at her art. Michael Ball once said (of the let's do it song) that Victoria Wood had to keep sitting up and down, whilst playing the piano, to get enough oxygen into her lungs to keep that song going. She was a fabulous lady.
It’s also one of the most musically sophisticated songs ever written with multiple key and tempo changes (and other things a musical ignoramus like I am would not understand).
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Fabulous. Brave. Intelligent. Funny. Taken far too soon.
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Her songs were torture.
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This is wonderful on her:
https://overcast.fm/+IPQIgqfLY
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I dunno, a Woman's Weekly can't do THAT much damage.
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High Guise - her songs were brilliant. She really was a master at her art. Michael Ball once said (of the let's do it song) that Victoria Wood had to keep sitting up and down, whilst playing the piano, to get enough oxygen into her lungs to keep that song going. She was a fabulous lady.
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Woman’s Weekly still exists. Weekly circulation of 250,000.
Kinky devils
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Comedy rarely travels the generations well. This is one for the boomers. Odd that Hyoo isnt a fan.
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Good comedy always travels generations.
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Play her songs in the car, do you?
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Yes comedy in our day actually made you laugh.
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^^^^^
Please report for reprogramming ;)
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High Guise - no, I don't. I doubt you would recognise Victoria Wood's talent.
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Acorn Antiques was genius
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probably the original funny woman
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Been showing her ‘great railway journeys’ * travelogue show from 1996 on tv recently
She went through the town I grew up in and I was scanning the crowd scenes for anyone i know
Pure nostalgia
* this tv series launched the travelogue careers of Michael palin and Michael portillo
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Yep. I watch Michael Portillo's travelogues. There is something about his voice that keeps me going back. His tone is soothing.
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Her stand up was genius but I found the sit coms a bit hit and miss although with some great moments.
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C5 thing the other night. Must be on catchup
“Not meekly. Not bleakly. Beat me on the bottom with a Woman’s Weekly.”
That would be a pen down, I’m finished for the day, moment for any writer.
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It’s also one of the most musically sophisticated songs ever written with multiple key and tempo changes (and other things a musical ignoramus like I am would not understand).
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Bit unfair on Joyce Grenfell, razor-sharp character creator and gloriously mal-coordinately loping St Trinians antagonist.
Let alone the Marie Lloyds whose oeuvre was not recorded. Or Hylda Baker whose best was pre-TV.
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