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Smashie & Nicey Host One Off Pick Of The Pops

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Smashie & Nicey Host One Off Pick Of The Pops Reply with quote

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are to resurrect their spoof DJs Smashie and Nicey for a one-off Pick of the Pops special to mark the 40th birthday of Radio 2.

The pair, whose last full-length screen outing was in 1994, will present the classic hits chart rundown in tribute to Alan "Fluff" Freeman, the show's former host who died earlier this year.

Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas said: "It occurred to me that we could do it and it did not take long to get Harry and Paul signed up.

"Harry Enfield had been so affected by Alan Freeman's death, I thought he would want to do it as a tribute to Fluff."

The Pick of the Pops special is part of a day of programmes to mark the 40th anniversary of Radio 2, due to broadcast on October 7.

Radio 2's 40th birthday output will also include a repeated episode of the Kenny Everett Radio Show from 1981 and several programmes which aired during the station's first week on air, including a live performance of Paul Simon's I Am a Rock and another classic Radio 2 show, Semprini Serenade.

The station's first presenter, Paul Hollingdale, will also return 40 years after he played the first song broadcast on the station, The Sound of Music.

Smashie and Nicey - aka Dave Nick and Mike Smash - first appeared as characters in Harry Enfield's Television Programme on BBC2.

They appeared in spoof BBC1 documentary, Smashie and Nicey, the End of an Era, 13 years ago before reuniting for Comic Relief in 1997.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/story/0,,2111959,00.html


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could have just got Richard Allinson to do it. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
Could have just got Richard Allinson to do it. Wink



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Smashie & Nicey Host One Off Pick Of The Pops Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:

The station's first presenter, Paul Hollingdale, will also return 40 years after he played the first song broadcast on the station, The Sound of Music.


http://www.a12.btinternet.co.uk/tvuk.net/OURTEAM.html
Think he was 30 when he started on Radio 2. And people moan today that the DJ's are too young? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Radio 2's 40th birthday output will also include a repeated episode of the Kenny Everett Radio Show from 1981 and several programmes which aired during the station's first week on air, including a live performance of Paul Simon's I Am a Rock and another classic Radio 2 show, Semprini Serenade."

Semprini Serenade?

That's a remnant of the old Light Programme, rather than Radio 2. Ruined many a Sunday afternoon in my youth. And why the positive discrimination for a pianist? Let's hear it for violins - it would be nice to hear Max Jaffa again. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Light music should certainly be represented in any retrospective. But Semprini Serenade sounded old-fashioned even then. Would it be better to do a new edition of Legends of Light Music (or, even better, a new series)?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A good idea - there's a wealth of light music that's been gathering dust, radio-wise, for years, and deserves an airing.

And I know this may not meet with universal approval, but James Last, whose orchestra was arguably at its peak during the first 20 years of Radio 2, is touring the UK this autumn, and a documentary or concert of his would be welcome.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though James Last wasn't really up my street, I agree that this should be explored.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Though James Last wasn't really up my street, I agree that this should be explored.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smashie & Nicey on R2? I'll be listening, deffo! Very Happy

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Hmm....not sold on this idea yet, seems to me the 'joke' was old even back in the early ninetees, there'd be nothing new to bring to the party just plenty of 'not arf's.

Slightly digressing but this is the way current comedy is going - catchphrase, catchphrase. Even that Tate woman has had her day. Every show - you're watching the sketch knowing how it's going to end - catchphrase then huge applause, funny for a while but ultimately unsustainable.

Don't think I'll be tuning in but hope everyone who does enjoys it Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AndyAndy2 wrote:

Slightly digressing but this is the way current comedy is going - catchphrase, catchphrase.


Its always been that way. Morecame & Wise or Brucie werent short of a few catchphrases. Or Frank Carson, Dave Allen or a few others either.

But I agree that Tate and Little Britain seem to have little apart from catchprases to offer.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
AndyAndy2 wrote:

Slightly digressing but this is the way current comedy is going - catchphrase, catchphrase.


Its always been that way. Morecame & Wise or Brucie werent short of a few catchphrases. Or Frank Carson, Dave Allen or a few others either.

But I agree that Tate and Little Britain seem to have little apart from catchprases to offer.


But Eric and Ernie, and Dave Allen were actually funny. Reruns of the BBC Morcambe and Wise shows are must-watch in our house.
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:

But Eric and Ernie, and Dave Allen were actually funny. Reruns of the BBC Morcambe and Wise shows are must-watch in our house.


Yes but we all find the people we grew up watching to be the best. It's nostalgia and rose tinted specs.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Comedy is very subjective of course, but many of today's comedians just aren't funny in my opinion. What on earth are Jimmy Carr and Jenny Eclair all about? I'll stick to Laurel and Hardy, Bill Hicks and Tom Lehrer.
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AndyAndy2 wrote:
Hmm....not sold on this idea yet, seems to me the 'joke' was old even back in the early ninetees, there'd be nothing new to bring to the party just plenty of 'not arf's.


Fair comment - Harry Enfield and The Fast Show were just a couple of show me and my mates used to really love yet if you tried to analyse why, it wouldn't work. For instance, the "Channel 9" sketches on The Fast Show - a series of "the-the-the-the"delivered in a pseudo-Latin American accent, with the odd English phrase (i.e. "Chris Waddle") thrown in for effect. Analyse it and it dies - watch it and it was riotuously funny.... Smile

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A good idea - there's a wealth of light music that's been gathering dust, radio-wise, for years, and deserves an airing.
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In the early years Melodies for You on a Sunday morning was a must for me and I learned a lot through listening.

The archive shows that there's just one edition of the show still available from that era, first broadcast in 1970 and no doubt presented by the show's originator, Eric Robinson.

Any chance that this could have an airing sometime around the 40th anniversary?

I realise that not everyone will warm to the idea but, if you can get past ER's rather over-cosy style, you'll get a chance to hear some excellent light music.

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RockitRon wrote:
And I know this may not meet with universal approval, but James Last, whose orchestra was arguably at its peak during the first 20 years of Radio 2, is touring the UK this autumn, and a documentary or concert of his would be welcome.


Nothing wrong with Hansi at all - I used to think he was a bit naff, but I heard Keith Fordyce play some of his stuff on BBC local radio a few years back and became an instant convert! There was a documentary about him in 'The Arrangers' series on R2 a little while ago, wasn't there? Radio 4 covered him quite well more recently as well.
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