I like Hugh Laurie. His version of Forty Ginger sailors was a high point of the Jeeves and Wooster series.

But this stuff is crazy. Its like when all the celebrities used used to queue up to play the packing case with Mound City Blues Blowers. I'm sorry - the fact that they were film stars and politicians doesn't make them Eddie Lang or Mez Mezzrow. The music sounded bloody awful to me.

If you want to know how St James Infirmary should sound. Try Gerry Lockran, Josh White, Louis Armstrong -even our own Dave Berry with Jimmy Page on guitar. Its not a holiday project to make music worthy of man like Allen Toussaint.

By the way - out of courtesy most producers don't say to clients - this is total crap. They hum along and are encouraging.