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Fantastic foody treat on YouTube

24 November, 2009

Browsing around on YouTube earlier I came across a series from the 1970s where Marco Pierre White, at the height of his Harveys days, cooks for Albert Roux (then of Le Gavroche), Nico Ladenis (Simply Nico), Pierre Koffman (La Tante Claire) and Raymond Blanc (Le Manoir Aux Quat Saisons).

There’s a whole episode devoted to each of the chef he cooks for, and each episode is divided on YT into three parts. In each one Marco explains how he chose the menu, cooks it and then eats it over conversation with the guest at the end.

Gordon Ramsay was working at Harveys at the time, and it’s great fun to see him cooking away–quietly–in the background. That can’t have been easy *g*

Wow, that was great! I wish the Roux Brothers’ series was there too. Still, I think I have it squirreled away somewhere on a dusty video… (Edited to add: Ooooh! It *is* there!)

Here’s one eppy to get you started. Enjoy!

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Another blast from the past — heart skips a wee beat!

23 November, 2009

Here’s another. I insisted on singing this for the choir audition in the 2nd year at school, in place of the insipid thing the music teacher suggested, and failed to get into the choir. Ah, well… I was the only girl in the whole year who actually *wanted* to be in the choir, I think, but such is life. Or such was life, anyway, at my most peculiar school…

This recording is a little odd, but I like the arrangement *g*

Nana’s done one too, of course. It’s a little deadly, but WTF… I defo prefer the little girl’s rendition, except for Nana’s lovely resolving bit. (What is it with Nana and her endings???)

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Sigh… a blast from the extremely distant past :)

23 November, 2009

Another of my favourite tunes. At this stage in the game I’m not sure which version I heard as a child, but there’s a good chance that it was this one as my aunt was a Nana M. fanatic.

I confess that I like her too, as I inherited a pile of 33s and listened to one of them repeatedly as I read my favourite book of all time, about 30 years ago, so she’s rather stuck in my head… *g*

The ending on that version is dreadful, though, and I’m sure I’d have remembered that, so just in case it was Rolf Harris… *g*

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Astounding sand animation!

11 November, 2009

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Never Going Back Again (and more) — Whoooohoooo! :)

4 November, 2009

Another favourite tune. What an energetic recording!

I’ve been meaning to learn this for years. Must drag out the guitar and get to it!

I v. much like the Colin Reid version too, btw, but can’t find that one on YouTube. Here it is to listen to with Media Player or whatever.

However, here’s Colin playing Music For a Found Harmonium; yet another of my favourite tunez. Such a great arrangement! (Looks like he’s changed a bit since I drove to Birmingham years ago to ask him to show me how to play a tricky bit of one of his own compositions!)