'One Song to the Tune of Another': A small compilation.
u know... dis iz dat gud bit off of dat Soz I Ain't a Clue off of dat Radio 4...
My personal favourite here has to be Tony Hawks doing Morrissey (skip to 1:10)... I distinctly remember pissing myself laffing when that was first broadcast.
line-up:
- David Mitchell singing 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' to the tune of 'The Muppet Show'
- Tony Hawks singing 'Girlfriend in a Coma' to the tune of 'Tiptoe Through the Tuilps'
- Rob Brydon singing 'Jim'll Fix It' to the tune of 'Mad World'
- Graeme Garden singing some Lilly Allen song to the tune of 'My Grandfather's Clock'
- Tim Brooke-Taylor singing 'Psycho Killer' to the tune of 'Ruler of the Queen's Navy'
- Rob Brydon singing 'Anarchy in the U.K.' to the tune of 'Just When I Needed You Most'
- Harry Hill singing 'The Ugly Duckling' to the tune of 'Without You'
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spacehog, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 2:05,
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My favorite:
Gilligan's Island sung to the tune of Stairway to Heaven -
www.hostropolis.com/april/mp3/StairwaytoGilligan.mp3
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tubaman, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 4:19,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_metre
Ballad meter.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 6:52,
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One of the original line up recordings
Had Graeme doing 'Lovely Bunch of coconuts' to the Toreador's Song.
Can't hear the latter without thinking of the former now.
That and 'My Favourite Things' to 'Tubthumping'
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moogthedog, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 8:59,
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Show 5 1996 about 8:20 into the show.
/just went a dug out a copy of it to listen again.
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Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:24,
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Bloody fantastic!
Shame there's nowt to watch, a simple bit of animated heads might have been nice, but love the songs, so many I remember well and one I hadn't heard before!
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..wil, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:58,
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That's the beauty of anything on the radio-
the pictures are better.
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Duncan Disorderly, Wed 3 Nov 2010, 17:30,
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Perfect timing
as I'm going to see ISIHAC live this evening, can't wait!
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Mad World
Is by Tears for Fears of course, not Gary Jules, but we all knew that, didn't we...
(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 17:25, Reply)
Awesome stuff.
R.I.P Humph :(
btw, lots of free recorings here if anyone's interested...
www.archive.org/details/ImSorryIHaventAClue
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dirtyscarab intends to live forever. So far, so good..., Tue 2 Nov 2010, 18:16,
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^This
Weird, but my reaction when I heard him was basically, "Aww... Humph." Tremendous always to hear him again, though.
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HUGE *Click*
That was hillarious. Although Tony Hawks was indeed the pick of the bunch, I thought Rob Brydon's "Anarchy in the UK" was a close second.
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No Jeremy Hardy?
Linda Smith's Psycho Killer to the tune of Rene & Renato's Save Your Love is my all time favourite. Shame I can't find it online but Series 44 Episode 1 apparently.
Off for a listen now...
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Ha, yeah but Jeremy Hardy singing, outside of context on a youtube clip?
wouldn't work, if you think about it.
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spacehog, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:01,
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Recently he made quite a good job of Bob Dylan
...and somebody shouted "Judas!"
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Not from the show, but very much in the spirit
Weird Al Yankovic sings the theme to 'Beverly Hillbillies' to the tune of 'Money For Nothing' by Dire Straits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4SDhrTPOiI
Yes, Mark Knopfler played the guitar part. All the rest is Al's band.
Also, Al is playing 4 dates in the UK for the FIRST TIME EVER this December. Woooot!
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The words to 'My Old man's a Dustman fit beautifully to the tune of 'The Girl from Ipenema' and even better to 'No Matter What'.
ISIAC will always be the greatest show ever played on radio.
RIP Humph. I miss you.
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