Old Peter Sellers recording Posted Fri Dec 15 21:14:42 GMT 2000 by 'Phil'

I need some help to identify an old Peter Sellers radio sketch (from the sixties, I think). It turned up on old reel-tape of "The hound of the baskervilles" along with a few other radio clips.

The sketch (in which Sellers plays all the voices) concerns a French record producer attempting to record the Irish folk music of "Patrick O'Shaugnassy and his Caly Band". As the recording progresses, the band start to argue amongst themselves ("Don't tell me when I'm playing a bum note or not! etc.") before a huge fight breaks out, and the studio is destroyed, much to the producers agitation.

Any ideas as to what this could be?

Subject: Re: Old Peter Sellers recording [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Mogwai on Sat Dec 16 00:33:03 GMT 2000:

It's from his first LP. If it's just the music it may well be taken from the LP cut "Suddenly It's Folk Song"; however if there's an interview with "Pat Shaughnessy" beforehand then it's from "A Drop Of The Hard Stuff", the exact same sketch but an extended version, released as a B-side on the single "I'm So Ashamed", also taken from the first alsum ("The Best Of Sellers").

I don't know his entire back catalogue off by heart or anything, I've just got the box set.

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