Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Benny Hill

This is funny. It makes me laugh. It’s unusual that comedy this old still makes me laugh. But Benny Hill had a lot of fun with nothing less than the experience of being human, and that doesn’t change all that much.

This in English – that dry British humour – and it predates Monty Python by about a decade, though Benny Hill followed Monty Python’s popularity to North American TV. He is here because he had a few records actually make the UK top 20. I don’t remember where I got this, but it’s called Golden Hour Of Benny Hill




Benny Hill:

• The Harvest Of Love – From the summer of 1963.
• Gypsy Rock
• Piccolo Song
• Pepy’s Diary – From the winter of 1961
• Transistor Radio
• Lonely Boy - Not the Paul Anka song.
• Bamba 3688
• Gather In The Mushrooms – The flip side of Pepy’s Diary, also made the top 20.
• Moving On Again
• The Andalusian Gypsies
• The Egg Marketing Board Tango
• The Old Fiddler
• Golden Days
• Flying South
• My Garden Of Love
• I’ll Never Know
• Wild Women
• Jose’s Cantina
• Rose
• Those Days
• What A World

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Had this album and came close to wearing it out. Still know "Gather in the Mushrooms" by heart. Thanks for the memories...we forget how many small, re-re-re-pressing labels were once out there, and how they were often the only way recordings of European artists made it to North America.

 
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