Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)

Subject: Calling all Bonzo's freaks
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:53 AM

Great prog on Martin Carthy last friday on BBC2. This week's programme features Viv Stanshall of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band fame. Should be good stuff.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 02:10 PM

Normal? If you're normal I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life!(My pink half of the drainpipe, from The Doughnut in Granny's greenhouse)

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks
From: Compton
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 02:28 PM

I see you have the same problem with your trousers as I do!

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 06:23 AM

Unfortunatly I'll be at Sidmouth - I'll have to scour Devon to find Jollity Farm.
Ray

'The luuuuvliness of Paris is somehow sadly gayyyy'

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 06:54 AM

I saw the show on BB4, enjoyed it but I found it a little sad.

I loved the Bonzos but always felt that they never quite achieved....... Perhaps that is exactly why they and Viv are viewed with such affection? Are we all still waiting for a punchline - that will never be delivered?

What instrument was Horace Batchelor (the inventor of the famous Inferdraw method)playing?

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 07:35 AM

He must have been playing the Keynsham spelt K - E - Y .....

If Roger Ruskin-Spear could reach new horizons in sound on the electric shirt-collar, nothing is impossible!

Are there any transatlantic Bonzo freaks out there, or are they all thinking the Brits have totally lost it at last?

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 07:41 AM

I was a fan... I hope the show makes it to Australia.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 08:49 AM

Five years ago I was a four stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

I really enjoyed this show on BBC4, it's a must for Bonzos/Stanshall fans out there, plenty of archive footage and interviews with relevant people.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 12:53 PM

Zebra Kidd and Horace Batchelor on percussion

Ray

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 01:51 PM

Thank you Eric.......

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 02:05 PM

Ok

Who was looking very relaxed?

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 03:42 PM

Looking very relaxed, Adolph Hitler on Vibes ---- Is there a prize?
Ray

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: RolyH
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 03:53 PM

That'll fix it, thought Ron ..........

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:08 AM

The prize is waiting in Granny's Greenhouse.

What was Roy Rodgers on?

And who was the Zebra Kid?

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:41 AM

Trigger.

And the Zebra Kid was a wrestler - or a whole series of wrestlers.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 10:01 AM

For more on the Zebra Kid.
http://www.geocities.com/percivalafriend/friend111201.htm

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 10:14 AM

The only one in the intro and the outro that I don't know is 'Franklin McCormack'. Who he?

That J Arthur Rank - he was from Hull as well.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 11:43 AM

That J Arthur Rank - he was from Hull as well.

I hear they all are........

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 01:00 PM

Franklyn McCormack was a Chicago broadcaster who died in 1971. Details HERE.
Assuming of course that that's who Viv Stanshall was singing about.
Ray

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 02:14 PM

Yes I suppose it must be, Ray. I'm not sure where Viv would have heard him, unless he had some connection with Radio Luxemburg (like Horace Batchelor and Garner Ted Armstrong).

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 02:28 PM

Here's the whole thing

The intro and the outro

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 03:15 PM

Count me as a major fan over here in Connecticut.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 04:53 PM

And now you can sing along:

The Intro

... here comes the spoon!

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 07:45 PM

Heh heh --- I'd forgotten just how funny that is.
Ray

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: GUEST,DavidfromSydney
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 08:14 PM

Hello

And how did you find yourself this morning?
I just rolled back the sheets, and there I was!

(I also hope the show makes it to Australia)

David

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 03:31 AM

"Got a light, Mac?"

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: GUEST,Scratchy-Bow
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 04:14 AM

"No - but I've got a dark brown overcoat"

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:09 AM

Nice OOOOOOOOOOOOOne Scratchy.

Everybody Do The Straaaaaaain.

There is a bio by Lucian Randall called Ginger Geezer. Not always a happy read but fascinating.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:59 AM

Les

How about a rendition of Urban Spaceman at the Monk's on Sunday?

rog

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Splott Man
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 08:06 AM

There's a story about Viv S and Keith Moon going into a boutique together once to browse, and eventually both deciding on the same pair of trousers. A tug-of-war ensued resulting in the trousers being torn down the middle. At which point a one-legged man (set up by them) comes into the shop and says something like "Just what I'm after"

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 08:25 AM

Must get out my Best of Bonzos LP and give it a spin again. Loved Intro/Outro. The tune was, of course, C-Jam Blues, which I've probably got more recordings of in my jazz collection than I have House of the Rising Sun in my folk/blues collection.

RtS

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: Les from Hull
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 10:05 AM

Rog - Yes I ought to dust that one off again.

Subject: RE: Calling all Bonzo's freaks (BBC2 show)
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:09 PM

A tug-of-war ensued resulting in the trousers being torn down the middle. At which point a one-legged man (set up by them) comes into the shop and says something like "Just what I'm after"

A likely story but:

I remenber spending a lot of time finding out about the best pair of binoculars, for the best price, a friend having asked me to. I reported back and few weeks later he proudly showed me a monocular he had obtained (for half the price). In all my detailed research, I had overlooked the obvious fact that my friend had only one eye!

Absolutly true so perhaps the trouser story was also?