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Thread #65865 Message #1088588
Posted By: Jeanie
08-Jan-04 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
As Geoff the Duck mentioned earlier, the "thing" became a piano in people's consciousness (and hence the later illustrations in schoolbooks etc.) because of the TV animation which was shown when the song was in its heyday. If I remember correctly, the people moving the piano in the animation (which was done in the 'Bagpuss' style: a series of photographs) were *GONKS*. Gonks...now there's a trip down memory lane....And if they weren't exactly gonks, they were "Mr.Potato"-type people, wearing stripy shirts and flat cloth caps. At any rate, I used to re-enact this song with my gonks...
Ok...old lady will shut up now and take her medication...
- jeanie