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In 1965 an E.P. was released "Sooty & His T.V. Friends" featuring Sooty's Signature Tune, Soo, Sweep & Harry. In 1973 a single and album were released. The single was "Super Sonic Sooty Spug" with "My Friend and I" on the B-side. The album was Around the World with Sooty...Harry Corbett and Sweep. This comprised eight songs with a linking story.
Sweep is a grey glove puppet dog with long black ears who joined The Sooty Show in 1957, as a friend to fellow puppet Sooty. [1] He is a dim-witted dog with a penchant for bones and sausages . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sweep is notable for his method of communication [ 4 ] which consists of a loud high-pitched squeak that gains its inflection from normal ...
The Sooty Show proved a success with children's television, due to the popularity of Sooty, spawning additional sequels including Sooty & Co. in 1993, as well as several stage shows, and a spin-off educational series titled Learn With Sooty. The programme itself was later made available on VHS and DVD, featuring episodes from primarily the ...
Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew all experience much good luck and bad luck. Soo finds £5 after seeing two magpies together, whilst poor Matthew ends up spilling tea all over himself, and things begin falling over in his bedroom after he leaves his shoes on the table! Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew are being very superstitious today.
His first appearance with the silent Sooty was in a 1952 BBC TV show, Talent Night. He was given a part in Peter Butterworth's TV show Saturday Special. Sooty was such a hit that the BBC offered Corbett six programmes at 12 guineas each. In a 1970 interview, Corbett recalled the conversation he had with his wife Marjorie about his next steps:
Sooty: Beloved puppet to return to stage for 75th birthday
Following the conclusion of The Sooty Show, Matthew Corbett sells up the cottage, before buying a bric-a-brac shop in Manchester for himself (which he actually inherited from a distant aunt), and the puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi, to run in which they buy and sell anything and everything, but with little luck.
The puppet joined others in his collection, such as George from Rainbow, Keith Harris' Orville the Duck, and Sooty and Sweep. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Fletcher also performs alongside Ricardo Autobahn in the duo Pound Shop Boys, covering theme tunes to children's television programs in the style of Pet Shop Boys .