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From: Jerry Cadden <cadden@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 13:58:58 -0500
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Hi all:

A Happy Christmas to all!

I've got an obscure trivia question for you. As you listers in the
"Olde Country" may or may not know, there is a trend in the States for
our public television stations to show BBC and Channel Four comedies,
new as well as really old, in infinite reruns--Are You Being Served?,
The Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, etc. Of course some are
old and full of corny jokes and easy stereotypes--like all sitcoms--but
you can get some good chuckles out of them...

My question has to do with an old AYBS? episode. Last evening, the
Boston station ran various years of Christmas episodes of the three
shows I mentioned just above (of which the Vicar of Dibley episode was
a real peach!). In this particular AYBS? Christmas show, copyrighted
1975, the cast went out singing (again!) a custom-written song to the
accompaniment of a brass band. It sounded like a reduced group, but
there was enough playing that I thought I recognized some individual
players by style/sound from old recordings of Championship section
bands.

My question: is there anyone on the list that might have played the
taping of the show, or perhaps know if the ensemble was a pick-up group
or a reduced group from a permanent band?

Cheers,

Jerry Cadden
Boston College
  Music Department
  Irish Studies Program


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