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Gideon Coe

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Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Watched West Side Story again and, for the first time, I watched the "graffiti" credits. Liked them. Now trying find out if anyone commented on them at the time.

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's a very short two-parter: On Monday evening, some film dialogue was going through my head. Solozzo pitching his idea to Vito where he talks about the politicians and cops that the Don has in his pocket. We go out and, a couple of hours later, we walk back through a largely deserted square.1/2

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Late to this and everything else but the chord which is played after a notable mushroom-related death in the Peter Ustinov narrated 'Barbar the Elephant' is the scariest sound ever recorded.

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last night of the Proms. Includes Holst's version of Manfred Mann's 'Joybringer'. For reasons best known to himself, Gustav cut out the noodly keyboard bit.

Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · 2w ago

My attempt to record an album of covers of 101 TV adverts before I *die* now struggles into the 40s – I blame parenting and more specifically my son for its slow progress

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Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Craig Douglas is credited with what I think is the best British big beat ballad ever recorded. Listen to his spectacular vocal performance on this amazing tune written by J A Freedman and impeccably produced by Tony Hatch. Why they hid it on a B side is baffling. youtu.be/8dwI1iJcgjg?...

Craig Douglas Don't Mind If I Cry

YouTube video by Soulhawk

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Sean Hannam@seanhannam.bsky.social · 3w ago

My godfather, Craig Douglas, died this week.😞He found fame as a pop singer in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s with a string of hits, including Only Sixteen, which was a number one in 1959. He told me some great stories about meeting The Beatles & The Stones: www.countypress.co.uk/news/2652524...

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Craig Douglas has died. Had his hits before the Fabs arrived. He topped the bill on one of their early stage shows. I wish I'd asked him about that when he was in the Marlowe Theatre Panto 85/86. "Cinderella". He may or may have been a temporary Buttons. I was selling the ice creams.

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Managed some more sleep thanks to the backwards-counting method. Was rewarded with a dream in which I flew a colander as if it were a kite. Inevitably, I lost it over a high wall. So that's another one gone.

Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · last mo.

Apparently, I asked two very boring questions in the space of two minutes while walking back with the shopping. “What time does the library close?” And “How deep is the lido?”