Valerie Wilkins (Comic Song)

Subject: Valerie Wilkins
From: Mo the caller
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 05:52 PM

Just listening to Mike Hardings programme on listen again http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/playlist.shtml

Go on give yourself a giggle, it will be there for a week

Subject: RE: Valerie Wilkins
From: Lanfranc
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 06:55 PM

There were a few smiles to be had, "Valerie Wilkins" and Jake Thackray's item for two, but it would have been better if Harding had (a) not perpetuated the canard that "She Loved a Portuguee" from Derek Brimstone is either attributable to Paddy Roberts or has anything to do with "The Ballad of Bethnal Green" and (b) omitted the item from his own back catalogue, which I found to be cringe-making, especially as he ran it last.

Alan

Subject: RE: Valerie Wilkins
From: Mo the caller
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 07:31 AM

Guide cats for the blind, definitely.
I wondered whether Mike's own piece would have sounded better at the time it was recorded.

Subject: RE: Valerie Wilkins
From: Mo the caller
Date: 21 Sep 06 - 08:01 AM

Or not at the end when we'd had our fill of similar stuff.

Subject: RE: Valerie Wilkins (Comic Song)
From: GUEST,annie
Date: 15 May 07 - 03:05 PM