fcukwits Posted Fri Sep 1 23:41:01 BST 2000 by Justin

Advert for fcuk with Mr Benn music on it.

"Oh look - a children's programme! How kitsch! Do you see? And do you remember the bit where he used to....oh, obviously I didn't get any actual genuine pleasure from watching it, I merely get a cranial orgasm from talking about it in a giggly "Well, wasn't it crap?" way.

I just hope Duncan Lamont gets some royalties. (He wrote it. Not that anyone involved in the making of that commercial would give a siht)

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Posted By Simon Harries on Sat Sep 2 23:41:44 BST 2000:

>I just hope Duncan Lamont gets some royalties. (He wrote it. Not that anyone involved in the making of that commercial would give a siht)

Duncan Lamont wrote Mr Benn? I never knew that.

There was I thinking he'd faded from the limelight of Hammer's latter blockbusters ("Quatermass and the Pit", his best moment) into mid-70's TV obscurity ("Death to the Daleks", our survey said, uhhh-ohhh)

That's excellent. I shall put my mind to his work instantly... (and I promise I'mnot being sarcastic, despite the half-bottle of red wine) Is Duncan Lamont still alive (he asked, shamefacedly?)

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Posted By Justin on Sat Sep 2 23:44:52 BST 2000:

Duncan Lamont wrote the theme tune. The scripts were by David McKee.

Didn't make that clear last time, sorry.

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Posted By salmacis on Tue Sep 5 11:06:14 BST 2000:

Personally, I'm amazed he had time to be Chancellor.

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Posted By Unruly Butler on Wed Sep 6 01:50:28 BST 2000:

Wasn't the music for Benn by Don Warren? Together with a team of esteemed British jazzmen whose names momentarily escape me.

Incidentally, J.Hazeley and I once sat down and tried to count the number of musical stings and sigs in Mr Benn and lost count at a frighteningly high number. The notation covered pages and pages of A4 scrawl. And every one was so memorable that you instantly forgot the others.

That density of invention is what is missing from so many modern programmes, childrens or otherwise...

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Posted By Justin on Thu Sep 7 02:15:28 BST 2000:

Unruly Butler you are right, and I am rightly embarrassed. Bad enough that I get a basic fact like that wrong, worse that I then berate an ad agency for using the music without caring about its origins and STILL get it wrong.

Apologies - Lamont did, however, write the music for King Rollo (another David McKee/Ray Brooks vehicle for lunchtime childrens programmes). Definitely.









Er. I think.

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