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18 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006 [email protected] comedy music film on line radio pop culture live television albums easy listening Tony Bennett DUETS: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC A new book celebrates the escapades (Columbia) THE GOODIES: He has a phenomenal, smoky voice, probably of left-field 70s British TV comedy Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim only rivalled by Frank Sinatra for recognisability Brooke-Taylor and class among master crooners. Given Ol heroes, The Goodies. Blue Eyes died in 98, that makes Tony Bennett the king. And to celebrate his 80th birthday in August, An agency of three blokes, who do anything, he got in a live studio with a genre-crossing whos who of admirers including Bono, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, at any time. Stevie Wonder and kd lang, and cranked out 19 duets. With his And for The Goodies, that pretence meant orchestral quartet accompaniment, Bennett and the luminaries everything from basic sitcom-type humour to tour his easy-listening songbook If I Ruled The World, Put On mercilessly satirising the Grand National A Happy Face, etc. The chemistry with Billy Joel (The Good Life) steeplechase with riders hurling their mounts and Diana Krall (The Best Is Yet To Come) is delightful, while in over and through Aintrees giant fences. Even other tunes the likes of Elvis Costello, Bono and James Taylor their own employers, the BBC (with which they seem content to let themselves be overshadowed by the master. His signature I Left My Heart In San Francisco, with only a piano never had a formal contract), copped The for company, is Bennett superbly and defiantly greeting his 80s. Goodies treatment, with news broadcasts to sex This will be a huge pre-Christmas seller and delight many, but I education films having the mickeyy think its a concept which doesnt quite work. Currently floating taken from them. about in New Zealands top 10 album chart. Every Tuesday night, the nutty British trio of Tim Lester Thorley Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie homegrown and Graeme Garden climbed aboard their Jacquie Walters trandem, and cut loose STEP INTO THE LIGHT with a brand of madcap (Independent release) slapstick humour. In early Miriam Clancy series, each episode started with the three Garden thehe LUCKY ONE (Desert Road Records) Aucklands Miriam Clancy is a name which inventor, Oddie the rough will be on many peoples lips if she tours to environmentalist type, and wherewh it (The Goodies humour) came Characters and identities from different Although it was expensive, there was very promote this, her excellent debut album. With Brooke-Taylor, the effete and often maniacal from, says Edwards. historic eras would crop up in various sketches, little money wasted. We literally priced jokes! deliveries ranging from the personal to the establishment figure waiting for their next Often scathing of the British establishment some of which jumped between full colour and recalled Bill Oddie, who often drove the shows rhythmic, Clancys tales are wonderfully job. and politics, The Goodies humour incorporated black and white Frankensteins monster would musical elements including the famous Funky absorbed. With crisp acoustic guitar over a Only Monty Pythons Flying Circus came elements of comedy classics like the Keystone clash with cowboys, who in turn would bowl Gibbon tune. tight band, her stark ballads including the close to the utterly ridiculous sometimes Cops and Charlie Chaplin. A normal joke or over a neanderthal (all at accelerated speed). Despite its success and cult following, the lyrically adept The Game, Solemn Brigade, And So It Begins expose her soul, laying bare songs of sorrow surreal humour of The Goodies. In fact, The skit would spiral into something totally absurd, Initially with the BBC before switching to a BBC was never particularly keen on The and loss. Her assured and distinctive vocal is at one with her Goodies and Pythons John Cleese, Eric Idle and like the giant Dougal from The Magic short stint with London Weekend Television, Goodies. Unlike other popular comedies commanding presence. Elsewhere, the catchy pop of Dont Let Graham Chapman all attended Cambridge Roundabout chasing the three comics across The Goodies were part of an important period Fawlty Towers, The Two Ronnies and Dads It Get You Down and the upfront Transistor Radio display more University at the same time in the 1960s. fields. in British broadcasting. Army The Goodies wasnt repeated energy. For a debut album Lucky One is mature, passionate and Perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight, the Giant Dougal had about 10 people in it, all In the recent documentary Goodies Rule...OK! extensively. The Beeb refused to run Goodies highly memorable. Kerikeris Jacquie Walters releases her second foundations for the two famous British comedy running behind us. Thank God for silent movies, (yet to screen in New Zealand), producer John repeats after 1986. album, Step Into The Light, and its more in the fine folk vein, the focus on meaningful reflections. And with hints of cello and troupes were laid when the comic geniuses because there was an awful lot of swearing, said Howard Davies said: There was more money Perhaps, with a new book out and DVDs violin creating slight avenues between Walters inventive picking worked together at the Cambridge University Oddie in a recent interview. than we knew what to do with. Wed just available from various online retailers, its high and rich vocals, the songs are warm performances. Driving Footlights Club, an amateur theatre group. Says Edwards: And they werent just into colourised, and it was a period of huge expansion time The Goodies made us laugh again. Home, Harvest of Tears and Icarus a tribute to David Lange While Python created iconic animated fantasy, but it was surreal fantasy. A lot of it was for the BBC at the time. speak volumes of Walters sincerity. And while a country flavour humour, as Times film critic Sam Edwards to do with extraordinary narratives the The Goodies was very lucky anything was The Goodies Rule OK, by Robert Ross (with is revealed on My Little Girl, the atmosphere changes once again points out, The Goodies stuck with live action images were put together in strange ways, which possible, provided you could think of what it contributions from The Goodies themselves) is as subtle harmony and the glorious cello embrace the beauty of throughout their 12-year, 70-episode run from really made people laugh. should be. in bookstores from tomorrow through Allen Shine On. Step Into The Light is an engaging listen with a fine and Unwin. Recommended retail price is $55. 1970. All except Americans, notes Edwards: They Whatever they wanted to try, chances were wine on a cosy evening. www.goodiesruleok.com (Jaquie Walters) It had a reality element you could see just didnt get it. The Goodies could pull it off. 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