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Pages in category "Benny Hill songs" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
The show's closing theme tune, "Yakety Sax", which has gained a following in its own right, was written by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph.The show's musical director was pianist and easy listening conductor Ronnie Aldrich, and vocal backing was provided by session singers the Ladybirds (who also frequently appeared on camera from 1969 to 1974).
The song's content and style parody popular cowboy-story American country songs such as the 1966 Frank Gallop US hit "The Ballad of Irving". [citation needed] "The Ballad of Irving" was itself inspired by Lorne Greene's song "Ringo" from 1964, which had the same style and structure. Hill performed the song on The Benny Hill Show in 1970.
"Pepys' Diary" is a comic song written and performed by Benny Hill. Written to spoof a then-current TV series about the diarist Samuel Pepys starring Peter Sallis, it was one of Hill's favourites amongst his compositions. Hill performed it on his show The Benny Hill Show in 1958, 1971 and 1989
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In 1969, when Benny Hill joined Thames Television, he recruited them to The Benny Hill Show. The Ladybirds' first number was "Goin' Out of My Head". In 1971, Hill did a spoof of Top of the Pops, titled "Top of the Tops", but unusually, the Ladybirds were not on that programme. Instead, one of the musical guests, Petticoat & Vine, appeared in ...
The 'Notting Hill' star made the song request to activist Steve Bray, who describes himself online as "against Brexit + corrupt Torries." Hugh Grant Is Behind ‘Benny Hill’ Theme Playing ...
This use of the piece, and the chase scenes themselves, have been parodied in many other films and TV shows, including Get a Life, [18] the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in the 2015 Doctor Who episode "The Girl Who Died" (with a character referring to the song as the "Benny Hill Theme") and the animated TV shows The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park ...