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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: Desmond Carrington |
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Am enjoying the Vivian Ellis selection, which is offering an unexpected degree of variety.
Re the Coronation Scot, the Scottish sound effects in the version played don't quite mirror reality. The piece wasn't in fact inspired by the LMS but was written on a train journey from Paddington to Taunton in 1938. Ernest Tomlinson writes in one of his many sleeve notes that the Coronation Scot title was employed because Cornish Riviera Express doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Like many other such pieces it was relatively obscure until the BBC used it as the signature tune of Paul Temple.
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Ian I forgot all about Desmond tonight, will listen again as I love Coronation Scott.
Thanks for the reminder.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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'Coronation Scott?' Ah, so he is to be crowned at last! |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I am! Talking of which, I had Coronation Chicken for tea! What a coincidence! |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Lovely programme again yesterday evening, with a theme of roads, streets and lanes (but--wot, no Penny Lane?).
I've a feeling that Percy Grainger's Handel in the Strand may refer to a location in Holland rather than London as implied. Whatever its origins, it's a very catchy piece.
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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iwarburton wrote: | I've a feeling that Percy Grainger's Handel in the Strand may refer to a location in Holland rather than London as implied. Whatever its origins, it's a very catchy piece.
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The Strand was the main centre of comedy performance in London at that time. The Grainger piece was supposed to remind people of vauderville or slapstick comedy, hence the association. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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The Strand was the main centre of comedy performance in London at that time. The Grainger piece was supposed to remind people of vauderville or slapstick comedy, hence the association.
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Thanks for this. Very interesting. My original info was inferred from the sleeve-note of an old vinyl LP (a 1970 collection by the now-defunct Orchestra of the Light Music Society) but may of course have since been superseded.
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