Peppermint Patti
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Yes, AND Mr Pastry who threw bags of self raising around with gay abandon !
And when he used to to the Lancers dance.
Yes, AND Mr Pastry who threw bags of self raising around with gay abandon !
And when he used to to the Lancers dance.
WELL ! some of us have being saying for some time that Q and a lot of whats on the tele have 'kids' running the set up. No further proof needed, when Leslie and Charlie were on doing the Susan Graver show, Leslie said a pair of trousers reminded her of Doris Day - then a child in the Gallery said to Charlie "who's Doris Day?". Need I say more ? Sadly I know some of this generation haven't a clue who Fred Astaire or Frank Sinatra are. (shaking my head)
brissles, you sound just like me; when I watch quiz programmes on TV one of the things that strikes me is that so many of the under 30's know very little about entertainers who were around either when they were very young, or a few decades before. Younger contestants have even said "but that was before I was born!" as a reason for getting a question wrong - quite indignant that they've been asked such a question! Begs the question: should they only be asked questions about things that happened last week, and that they'll know the answer to? I'm amazed that 30-somethings, when asked a question about Morecombe & Wise and the Andre Previn sketch, didn't know it was about piano playing!! We're not talking about questions on Marie Lloyd or other Victorian music hall artists here, it's 20th century culture. I never saw George Formby or watched his films back in his heyday, but have seen clips from his films, read articles in newspapers and remember my parents talking about his wartime films. Of course, I know you shouldn't generalise, and plenty of the younger ones do know about popular culture from a while back, but if quiz shows are anything to go by, there are a heck of a lot who are only up to date on recent entertainers and TV programmes.