#WATCHWITHCUSHING! #VINCENTPRICE 'The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast' is a
concept album and subsequent live rock opera that was performed live in
both 1974 and 1975. The whole album and show was based on the children's
poem of a similar title. The album cover design, seen on our banner was
from #AlanAldridge's design for a 1973 book based on the poem.
THE ALBUM SPAWNED A HIT SONG, "Love Is All," which reached Number 1 in the Netherlands and #Belgium and has a wonderful #animated promo too! On 16th October 1975, a one-off performance at the #RoyalAlbertHall, #London took place, with #VincentPrice
as the story narrator! I have posted an extract of Vincent during the concert and the fabulous song at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE HERE! He does a fabulous job . .please wait for the
song at the end. It's worth waiting for and should get your feet tapping
and singing along. This was a very firm favourite with my children
too....
WHILE DIGGING THROUGH some of
the footage of the 'Butterfly Ball' concert, I came across a clip that
featured a dance and movement sequence.. and a figure I saw on the page
here just yesterday!!! Do you recognise it and where it was featured???
Small world!
THIS WEEKEND HERE IN THE UK, it's a Bank Holiday. Which means, traditionally means, The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews will be screened on tv for the 100th time, relatives will visit, over stay and eat you out of house and home, it WILL rain for the entirety of the holiday break, and boredom will reign too! SO, here's a little treat, to be enjoyed and savored, not only here by us Brits, but across the globe, or were ever people need a giggle.
YOU CAN WATCH MANY OF PETER CUSHING'S APPEARANCES ON THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW, IN OUR SPECIAL PLAYLIST AT OUR PCAS YOU TUBE CHANNEL :HERE!
FOR THE FIRST TIME we present Peter Cushing's appearance as a guest on the This Is Your Life UK show, featuring one half of that great British comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise. Sadly, Eric Morecambe had passed by this point in 1993, but Ernie bravely worked on for several years. Peter Cushing appeared many times as a guest on their show. The first was in 1969, he appeared in a comedy play 'written' by Ernie, where Peter played king Arthur. Throughout the BBC era of the show, he would regularly join Wise and his comic partner, Eric Morecambe. On stage; he would constantly seek payment for his first 1969 appearance, wearily asking "Have you got my five pounds yet?"
FULL FILM: Peter Cushing in 'A Chump At Oxford' with Laurel and Hardy
THIS RUNNING JOKE continued when the duo left the BBC and moved to Thames Television
in 1978. Cushing appeared in their first special for Thames Television
on 18 October, still asking to be paid, with the hosts repeatedly trying
to get rid of him; at the end of the show, Morecambe placed some money
in a wallet wired up to a bomb, in an attempt to blow Cushing up in
exaggerated comedic style. In the duo's 1980 Christmas special, Cushing
pretended to be the Prime Minister while Morecambe and Wise caroled outside 10 Downing Street; he made the comedians give him money and finally came out to declare "Paid, at last!"
ON FEBRUARY 3rd 1972 and "Live" on television, all glitter and
glamour, is the once-a-year event, held in the Albert Hall, when the
film and television industry presents awards covering the whole range of
the industry . . .. and Peter Cushing is there to present his pals,
Morecambe and Wise with their Best Light Entertainment Performance
Award, along with their writer, Eddie Braben . . . and no, they didn't
bring him his money!
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