Wednesday, October 22, 2014


Captain Sensible - Happy Talk

Thanks to extended family member Greg Condon for alerting me to this one (indirectly) in this great mix. Hearing the refrain of Dizzee Rascal's "Dream" I thought, "This is great, but with all due respect, there's no way Dizzee Rascal wrote this." Upon learning that Dizzee had sampled Captain Sensible I thought, "A-ha! But with all due respect, there's no way Captain Sensible wrote this." (Rodgers and Hammerstein did, in 1949.)

Nice to hear our old friends The Dolly Mixture on backing vocals.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wot is that? Yihau! It's the Captain! Good one!

Do you know the Claudine Longet Vers.?

ano 2

Emmett said...

Hey Ano, just checking out Claudine's version now. It really highlights her inability to say "R"'s, but still great. ("You've got to have a dweam.") Prob the direct antecedent to the Captain's version?