I always felt like that about Barry Cryer. When I was a kid he was everywhere on panel shows (well, Call my Bluff and Give us a Clue, but probably others that I can't remember) but I'd never seen him do whatever it was that he did.
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostI always felt like that about Barry Cryer. When I was a kid he was everywhere on panel shows (well, Call my Bluff and Give us a Clue, but probably others that I can't remember) but I'd never seen him do whatever it was that he did.Last edited by Capybara; 10-10-2019, 08:56.
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostI always felt like that about Barry Cryer. When I was a kid he was everywhere on panel shows (well, Call my Bluff and Give us a Clue, but probably others that I can't remember) but I'd never seen him do whatever it was that he did.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostLorraine Chase pretty quickly became game show fodder didn't she?
Originally posted by Lucy Waterman View PostAnd a duet on a song called “Robot Man” by... Kenny Lynch and Chaka Khan. I haven’t listened to it, because it will be awful, but it gladdens my heart that such a thing exists.
Last edited by Jah Womble; 10-10-2019, 09:39.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostKenny Lynch was always "Tarby's golfing buddy" to me.
Speaking of which, Tarbuck disappeared pretty much overnight as well - rising only for the funeral of famous Liverpudlians. His fall was as swift as that of Cannon and Ball and Little and Large. Possibly could have become a game show host but Monkhouse took that slot (superbly, I might add).
I remember the adverts he used to do for some brand of microwave ovens, which seemed to suggest you could cook a whole Sunday roast dinner in one, in one go, thereby freeing up more time to get tanked up in the pub beforehand.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
I'm struggling to imagine any kind of conversation between the two of them - but I'm with you that this being a genuine conceit is a very fine thing indeed.
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostAre you forgetting "Winner Takes All"?
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- Mar 2008
- 19074
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
If true, Kenny's songwriting creativity seems to have peaked in the '70s:
The same year (1978) he wrote '"Love Crazy", the theme used for Carry On Emmannuelle, and "You Can't Fight It", the vocal version of the theme to the John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13. He also oversaw the production for Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard's comedy version of You're the One That I Want which reached 22 in the UK charts in September 1978.
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Originally posted by irony towers View PostBy the early 80s Kenny Lynch's career seemed to consist of being on programmes and, er. that's it. I vividly remember a page of the Not 1983 calendar (as in Not the Nine O'clock News) that read "Thought for the Day: what does Kenny Lynch do exactly?" Apparently his chief occupation thereafter was playing in charity football matches.
A well-known online reference source states that Lynch formed a songwriting partnership with Buster Mottram, which is either a delicious piece of Iannucci-couldn't-make-it-uppery or some nifty Wiki-sabotage.
In 1964, Lynch collaborated with modern jazz musician Tubby Hayes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AS5Kdy0XxQ
Lynch was the first person apart from The Beatles to release a Lennon-McCartney song. They were touring with him in early 63.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HyjUZ60AdILast edited by Satchmo Distel; 10-10-2019, 11:49.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostOne kind of wonders just how much 'overseeing of its production' that particular record would've required...
hell of a lot of overseeing and then some.
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Originally posted by wittoner View PostJudging by Baker & Mullard's legendarily shambolic TOTP appearance to promote the record (after which sales plummeted) I would guess it required one
hell of a lot of overseeing and then some.
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Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View Post
I'm also not up-to-speed with British TV, but she was memorably in Run for Your Wife with Danny Dyer. (UK box office, £747.)
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- Mar 2008
- 19074
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
She's around a fair bit - she had a part in Eastenders not so long ago (maybe still does), does West End, and is the voice over for what I believe is known as TOWIE. She had a bit more to her than a lot of those 90s presenters, and probably finds it a lot easier to get work than most.
She was on Celebrity Gogglebox with her bloke a month or two ago, albeit mainly chugging large glasses of wine and making simple comments.
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With Philip Scholfield probably being the most ubiquitous TV presenter in the UK (Winkleman seems to be in decline) it's interesting to think of the big names who followed his career path but fell by the wayside, such as Sarah Greene and Andy Crane.
Other than that, Michael Aspel presented everything on ITV in the 80s, but I imagine he just retired. Aneka Rice was another one, before her brief stint on Strictly.
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