She Knows Y'Know [DVD]

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She continued making occasional appearances, including a hilarious 1978 musical parody with Arthur Mullard of the hit song from Grease, “You’re the One That I Want”. Dressed in costumes and wigs to ape Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, the 73-year-old Baker and 68-year-old Mullard gave one of the most bizarre “Top of the Pops” performances ever to a studio audience of bemused teenagers after their version reached number 22 in the charts.

The gavotte? She needs to make a concomitant calculation as to the point in time at which she might win such a plebiscite, rather then mount a defiant gesture. She needs to persuade the PM. Simultaneously, she needs to placate those in the independence movement who complain of slow progress. minutes in and the same nothing is happening. I feel I am wasting my time here... I can see why there is no plot posted for this dud. There is none! A spoiler would be impossible. There's nothing to spoil.Either way, this will pose problems for the UK and Scottish Governments, for Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon. The FM may hope to come out relatively well when her endeavours, notably in communication, are compared with Downing Street. Her biggest success, however, was in a sitcom called Nearest and Dearest, the story of Nellie Pledge, would-be queen of Colne, and her family of preserving cases. Hylda, all prim and malaproper - so excited, she said, that she could have a coronary trombonist - became yet more famous. Born in Bolton in 1905, she learned Lancashire clog dancing, made her stage debut at Tunbridge Wells (very red rose) and after spells as a buttonhole maker and fish and chip shop assistant (Plodders Lane, Farnworth) found a notoriously neurotic niche.

Today in history… ‘she knows, y’know!’ 12:00am Feb 04, 2019 | Admin - Acorn Stairlifts UK& Lifestyle Either way, this is shaping up to be another tough, inter-governmental battle. Nicola Sturgeon is only too well aware of that. She knows, y’know. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children. Her father, Harold Baker, was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. At ten, Baker made her debut at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, and continued to tour as a single variety act — singing, dancing and performing impersonations. By 14, she had started writing, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the North of England, with a silent, sullen companion named "Big Cynthia", almost always played by a man in drag (such as Victor Graham, and lastly by Matthew Kelly). [3] Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had become part of her public persona, the most familiar being "She knows, y'know!" and, when asked the time "It's quarter past... I must get a little hand put on this watch." [4] Film and television career [ edit ] The other issue is money, public spending. Not the daily decisions but rather a fundamental threat to her devolved budget. A threat which is presently just a spot on the horizon but which will loom larger as months pass. One memorable thing that happened to Hylda in March 1972, and which would stay with her for ever and was to give her great pride, was that she was the subject of This Is Your Life. It was Roy Bottomley's idea that she would be a splendid subject and he was now working on the programme.Even when he went into hospital, he was going round the beds selling pins," reports Muriel Graham, his mother-in-law.

The papers of Hylda Baker relating to her life and career are housed in Lancashire Archives, [15] reference DDX 1683.KEN Rowland, the champion fund raiser about whom we wrote on May 25, is recovering from a queer do (to use the medical term) involving pulmonary embolism, a condition with which the column is uncomfortably familiar. WITH a host of memorable catchphrases and hilarious malapropisms, all delivered in an inimitable Lancashire brogue, Hylda Baker was a comedy star unlike any other. He'd met Hylda, successfully transferred from music hall to television, at a show business party. "She looked all the way up at me, said she was going to need a feed at the end of the following week and asked if I'd like to give it a go. My attitude was that I'd do anything once." I remember sitting in my dressing room thinking that I'd been an actor for eight years without making the limelight and had been in variety five weeks, hadn't uttered a word and was at the London Palladium," he says.

However, glancing ahead, there are one or two issues on the horizon which may further challenge that hard-won reputation for sangfroid. People still seem to remember me," said the great old stager. "This business of ours really is quite extraordinary."

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And, of course, all those malapropisms. This is where a word is substituted for another with a similar sound which creates a comic effect. The term comes from the character Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan’s 18th century play The Rivals. “Promise to illiterate this fellow from your memory,” she said. George Hollingbery sold "accumulators" for early wirelesses, changed from Comet Battery Services to Comet Radio Services when the mains chance arose and begat a chain of Comets visible all over the country. He'd met his wife at Durham, their daughter named Gay after the comedy The Gay Dog. Times, and meanings, change. "She arrived on the Friday of the very best week we ever did in Spennymoor," he once recalled. Baker came to national attention in BBC television's The Good Old Days in 1955. This led to her television series, Be Soon (named after another of her catchphrases), in 1957 and a supporting part in the sitcom Our House in 1960, followed by her own sitcom, The Best of Friends, in 1963.