hello, I hope all is groovy. All is well here.

It has been a busy week this end, I now have permission to repress Bedazzled on vinyl, but it will be done differently to the recent issue, and without the 7". More news on that will follow.

For the #50pFriday download today I decided to stick with the origins of modern British comedy, but avoided Peter Cook this time. Instead we have something from 1957, the important first recording of Kenneth Williams. This is Share My Lettuce, a book written originally by Bamber Gascoigne that was then turned into a stage performance at the Lyric in Hammersmith and then transferred to the West End. It was Williams' stage debut, alongside Maggie Smith and a few very talented others who never reached the same popular heights as these two icons. The music, by the way, was by Patrick Gowers who went on to score some other quite odd things, like The Boy Who Turned Yellow. I also recently read that Maggie Smith puts many of her slightly camp mannerisms (especially seen in her more recent work) as being influenced by Williams in this very stage show. Share My Lettuce for 50p can be found here.

I also found this unusual Parky, with both Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith plus John Betjeman. 

And after last week's mailing, I got a few emails about the Charles / Ray Eames film called Powers Of 10. Made the same year and similar to last week's film but it's different enough and therefore worthy of 9 short minutes.

Also, I tried to find somehting funny with a lettuce, but instead I came across a hampster eating a carrot. 

I am now heading West, as I have to take back the ancient heat press and remaining 1970s tee shirt transfers from the groovy party last Friday. Most of the kids in Stoke Newington are now running around wearing super period skateboard or car transfers on their tee shirts, but one or two have went for weirder sayings such as "The Baker Ate My Crumpet" and "The Milkman Left His Cream In My Back Passage". Oh dear. 

Thanks for listening

Jonny