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David Malouf, Garrison Keilor, Groucho Marx, Henry Rollins, Henry V, Jeff ST John & Copperwine, Jim Parker, Kirsty McColl, music, Rex Harrison, Sir John Betjemen, Stan Freberg, The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, The Pogues, Warrigal, youtube
There Goes The Neighbourhood
Quiddities by Warrigal Mirriyuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETAQJFaTn64
Sir John Betjemen and Jim Parker, Late Flowering Lust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3hNZkO0cY
Sir John Betjemen and Jim Parker, Indoor Games Near Newbury
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6sb-vOFqCU
Rex Harrison, Let A Woman In Your Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3sTKtvclmc
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Rawlinson End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzF2Jw2jZd8
Garrison Keilor, Lake Wobegone News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMdTmRae6c&feature=related
Henry Rollins, Surreal Conversation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM
Henry V, On Crispin’s Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVEdm2H9lJc
David Malouf on Memory, Reflection and The Music of Writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqqF9nN2sMo&playnext=1&list=PL6979895F1AA5A4CE
Stan Freberg, Winding Down The War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8&feature=related
Groucho Marx Say Have You Seen Lydia The Tattooed Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFvm40F7-Xk
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl, Christmas Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32p6ZyhSgU
Jeff ST John & Copperwine, Teach Me How To Fly
Keywords: Sir John Betjemen, Jim Parker, Rex Harrison, The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Garrison Keilor, Henry Rollins, Henry V, David Malouf, Stan Freberg, Groucho Marx, The Pogues, Kirsty McColl, Jeff ST John & Copperwine
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Betjeman was interesting… and I’ve always loved Rex Harrison’s ‘Let a Woman in Your Life’ ever since I first saw ‘My Fair Lady’ in the Rialto cinema in Easington Colliery… this was the one that didn’t get turned into a bingo hall… for a while there Easington had the luxury of two local cinemas, and with a third just a couple of miles down the road at Horden, we felt particularly blessed… that is, before the coming of the ‘bingo-hall blight’!
😉
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From the title I though it might be a Harry Potter ensemble … not really.
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Waz, one of the best things about your playlists is that they so often start me off on wonderful rambles. The Mark Knopfler Local Hero version is one of literally dozens. I think this soundtrack is an all-time great. I could listen to all the dozens of versions. The Sydney ’86 gig was a beauty.
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Emmers, please check your email. The rest of this list, the missing bit, is there.
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When I hear Betjeman, it reminds me that although I have Australian citizen ship, I really live in a foreign country.
Oh well, no good carping, or I’ll be sounding like a resident drummer.
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Working my through the list though Warrigal. Nice mushroom.
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You live in a foreign country? I though you lived in Queensland.
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I suddenly had maudlin moment.
It’s probably the result of visiting my old school and seeing it partly boarded up; visiting old haunts; listening to the vernacular………………………………and surreptitiously, pining for my youth 🙂
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I just listened to David Malouf’s talk on memory , reflection and the music of writing. Very interesting, he ‘remembers’ things before he was born , because of other peoples’ stories that made him feel vividly that he was there too.
Reading Hugo Hamilton’s memoir “The Speckled People” I felt the nine year old Hugo ‘remembered’ what his German mum had experienced in her homeland even she wasn’t really able to talk about those events much, just the feeling there had been bad things happening, and of course in Ireland, in Hugo’s father’s country, even the dead can ‘talk’…
A wonderful book!
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Totally agree, H. Garrison Keillor kills me with his laconic humour. Funny, funny guy with a memory that would shade an elephant. He just stands or sits there on stage and delivers. The Guy Noir Private Detective skit is brilliant too. Valentines Day – or singles awareness day 🙂
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Good one Warrigal! I have watched the two by the lovely John Betjemen about late lust and young love, absolutely beautiful, especially with all that snow and Christmacy stuff in the background, it has made me homesick for a Nordic Christmas.
I also love Garrison Keillor, what a charmer with snowballs…
Will view the rest later on.
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I saw Jeff St John at North Wollonong as a teenager. He was fantastic and had a great stage presence, oh and great wheel stands.
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Many moons ago. It was so. The wheel stands. Did he do “Teach me how to fly ?”
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I reckon it was 1972. He would have been lynched if he didn’t do his signature tune. Here was a band that was on with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoke1wUwEXY
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