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Songs written and/or performed by Benny Hill. Pages in category "Benny Hill songs" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The song's content and style parody popular cowboy-story American country songs such as the 1966 Frank Gallop US hit "The Ballad of Irving". [citation needed] "The Ballad of Irving" was itself inspired by Lorne Greene's song "Ringo" from 1964, which had the same style and structure. Hill performed the song on The Benny Hill Show in 1970.
"Transistor Radio" is a comic song written by Benny Hill and Mark Anthony (a pseudonym of producer Tony Hatch), and performed by Hill. The song revolves around the story of a man whose attempts at intimacy with his girlfriend are constantly thwarted by music played from the girl's transistor radio. The song spoofs the Chipmunks, Elvis Presley's ...
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 18 April 1992) [1] was an English comedian, actor, and scriptwriter. He is remembered for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with Hill at the focus of almost every segment.
"Pepys' Diary" is a comic song written and performed by Benny Hill. Written to spoof a then-current TV series about the diarist Samuel Pepys starring Peter Sallis, it was one of Hill's favourites amongst his compositions. Hill performed it on his show The Benny Hill Show in 1958, 1971 and 1989
The show's closing theme tune, "Yakety Sax", which has gained a following in its own right, was written by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph.The show's musical director was pianist and easy listening conductor Ronnie Aldrich, and vocal backing was provided by session singers the Ladybirds (who also frequently appeared on camera from 1969 to 1974).
In the UK, comedian Benny Hill later made it more widely known as the closing theme music of The Benny Hill Show. "Yakety Sax" was first used, in a version arranged by Ronnie Aldrich and played by Peter Hughes, in the 19 November 1969 episode, which was also the first show for Thames Television. [citation needed]
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 [1] – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax", which became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show.