Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 May 10 - 11:51 AM

Suprisingly I just heard this song for the first time recently from
Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen. Too late to teach it to my little kids.

D

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 May 10 - 12:22 PM

Hmmppfff! 'Taint no fun with 'it' identified. (Obviously, to do a cartoon, one has to PICK one of the most obvious choices...but...)

Still....cute cartoon.

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: GUEST,Joy
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 12:00 AM

Hi - I found all these messages SO interesting!

I remember 'Right Said Fred' all those years ago, and I always thought they were talking about a piano, AND I even thought a piano was mentioned in the song.

the Lyrics I've looked up, certainly don't say it was a piano, but when you're a kid, in Australia, back then - you believe what others tell you.

AND I thought the song ended by saying - 'and now we find we're at the wrong Flat'.

Anyone got any suggestions, on how I might have got that idea??

thanks a lot - Joy

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Oct 18 - 10:54 AM

Ok.
A (one) definitive answer. It was a piano.
Just been played on BBC Radio 2 (15:45 local time) during an interview with Bernard Cribbins. Bernard confirmed the author wrote it following the delivery of a piano to a basement flat.

The basement bit also answer's the question (from 2005):
What I could never understand was: if they want to "drop the blighter through" (presumably downwards), then why do they remove the ceiling ABOVE it??!

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: GUEST,C-flat
Date: 16 Oct 18 - 12:24 PM

If you stick around long enough someone's always going to come up with the answer....
I'm just amazed you remembered the question!

C-flat

Subject: RE: Origins: Right Said Fred-what are they moving?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Oct 18 - 01:12 PM

^^^^^^^^^^
BBC Steve Wright show : Bernard Cribbins: talking about "Right Said Fred" & Ted Dicks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000r4h > 1:43:00 (song 1:45:50)
approx


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thread drift
the song mentioned in this bit of interview
"Folk Song" Miles Ridge & Ted Dicks 1960
https://youtu.be/KodloQ414vw 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6TysIIsjMfx5yVKpGX36dq?si=q83KJch1RIe48FfODuH6-g