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"Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"R.Peffers." <peffers50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shads of Tom Leherer ---

The tune is that of The Major-General's Song from Gilbert & Sullivan's
The Pirates Of Penzance.]

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

Have you seen this site? http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
Very good for a giggle.
Lesley Robertson


I had not seen that site. Thank you.

There is a little story about my first hearing of Tom's work. When TV was
just starting up again after WWII, my friend was serving his apprenticeship
at the Fleet Air Arm Base at Donibristle, but we had attended the Dockyard
College together and both travelled from Edinburgh. Anyway I continued to
work for the MOD while he left and got a job with the BBC TV in Glasgow. In
those days the Scottish contribution to the TV programmes was only a few
minutes Scottish insert in the UK networks News and the Saturday Sports
Programme. This new world of TV was more or less try and see if it worked
for no one had done it before and it was feel your way as you went. Unlike
today there were no guards on the doors and it was our usual practice to
take in a football match on the Saturday and rush back to the BBC studio in
time for the News insert and then to go dancing in one of the Glasgow
Ballrooms.

Some years later the BBC started the very popular, "White Heather Club", and
this meant my friend was not then able to leave the studio early so we could
go dancing. So after the news we would remain in the studio after setting up
the White Heather Club gear for later in the evening.

To fill in the time the crew would try out any kind of new thing they could
think up. It was during one of these sessions we decided to contact the USA
to see if it was feasible to use the Trans Atlantic lines to record sound
programmes and this was when I first heard Tom Leherer. We recorder some of
his stuff right from the USA and I liked it so much I transferred it from
the very large BBC Reel to Reel audio tape recorder to my own machine for my
own use. Strangely the only other recording I ever made this way was Giacomo
Puccini's Tosca but that one from the BBC's own sound archives in London.
When I think of it now I have to wonder just why I never plundered much more
from those old BBC archives.
--

Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
(When replying take pam away from peffers.
Scotland).



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