[Radio Wrangler]

Billy Cotton Band Show... another dread from my past. Jimmy Clitheroe, too. These things just had to be endured waiting for the good stuff.

The Navy Lark was superb.

I was rather fond of the schoolboy humour in "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again" perhaps because I was a schoolboy at the time. They did one of the absolute funniest jests I've ever heard on the radio. They took a number of standard numbers from musicaals and expurgated them:

I could have <BEEP>d all night
I could have <BEEP>d all night
And still have <BEEP>d some more
I could have spread my <BEEP>s and <BEEP>d a thousand things I've never <BEEP>d before.
I'll never know what made it so exciting, for all at once my <BEEP> <BEEP> <BEEP>....

Of course, we all knew what the real words were, but the censoring made it sound unbelievably rude!

I've never heard it done since. Kudos to Garden, Oddy and Brooke-Taylor.. and whoever wrote it.

Gems like this made up for dreary Sunday afternoons on the way to relatives while suffering Sing Something Sinful.

David