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Thread #103048   Message #2094650
Posted By: Flash Company
05-Jul-07 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Obit: George Melly (UK Jazz singer) 5 July 2007
Subject: RE: Obit: George Melly (UK Jazz singer)
They call me Good Time George..... and boy, did he have a good time!
Remember reading in a book by Jim Godber about his appearance with the Mick Mulligan Band at Pentonville Prison. George wound up the first half of the show with 'Frankie & Johnny' and kicked off part two with 'Send me to the 'lectric chair' both with extravagant death scenes. That was a long time before Johnny Cash at San Quentin.
A dear friend of ours, (widowed elderly lady), recently read his three books of biography. She loved them. Although she did say 'Isn't he RUDE!!!!!'
RIP

Flash C