Curiouser and Curiouser! on tony-hancock http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic tony-hancock Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb I’m definitely getting...turquoise vibrations Wed, 04 May 2005 13:38:55 +0100 <p>While I was making lunch today I was listening to <a href="http://www.tonyhancock.org.uk/ham6scripts4.html">The Poetry Society</a> a Hancock's Half-Hour first broadcast on BBC Radio in December 1959. The first one I ever heard.</p> <p><blockquote>Bill: Hi ya, doll. How about you and me whizzing down to the pub? There’s a piano down there, its ‘talent-night’, tonight, in the saloon bar. Are you musical? Greta: I can only tolerate Bartok and Weber. Bill: Well, that’s all right, sing a couple of their songs, the lads won’t mind. Greta: What an intriguing little savage you are. Hancock: Bill. Come away, come away. I must apologise, Greta, he’s not one of us. He’s very suburban in his musical taste. He doesn’t appreciate the finer points of classical music like we Gilbert and Sullivan fans.</blockquote></p> <p>Tony Hancock is far and away my favourite comedian and, better than that, listening to him always reminds me of my grandpa who introduced me to him and, like my Dad, was also a big fan. One evening he gave me a tape player and 4 slightly crackly recordings. I was hooked. It was a marvellous gift from a kindly, good humoured, man that I miss.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002543.html