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Re: Nicholas Parson's "Dance Record"???

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Robert TorresApr 10, 2007
 

 
I remember hearing that episode in the car with my wife, and we both nearly crashed we were laughing so hard, mostly because of the idea of Nicholas recording a dance record, but then again, he is following a grand tradition of people who've made it big overseas but nowhere else...  John Tesh, David Hasselhoff, Naomi Campbell, Kathy Lee Gifford. 

Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:

On Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at 09:09 AM, Dave wrote:

> A very good episode that. unfortunately. to date, I have failed to ever
> find a version of such a track on WinMx - but from the sound of it I
> think it does actually exist...... I'm sure someone will know more.

This is the part of the 2002 show we're talking about - one of the two
shows I saw live! The show was broadcast 2 September, the other
panellists were Clement and Sean Lock.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: But actually the Norwegians speak some of the best
English in the whole of the world...

PAUL MERTON: You know that! You’re very big in Norway aren’t you
Nicholas?

NP: Absolutely, my, my pop record was number three in the hit parade
over there.

LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE

PM: You made a pop record?

NP: Yes! It’s called Fantasy.

PM: We’re wandering into the middle of one now! So when was that?

NP It came out last year and er...

PM: Did it?

NP: It was a sort of dance record. They tell me, tell me I should take
it to Ibiza. I could clean up over there.

ROSS NOBLE: You could clean up in Ibiza!

NP: Oh I see!

RN: If you keep producing records like that!

NP: Oh they didn’t mean financially, they thought I could go over there
and...

RN: Just cleaning up! Yeah!

NP: Oh I see!

PM: How, how did this record go? The Norwegians grasped it to their
bosom! How did it go?

NP: Well it sort of said “I want to be your fantasy!” And then we went
into the beat, you know. "Da-da-da (sings) she wants to be my fantasy...
(normal voice)" and I went... "yes! Coming on long, coming on strong..."

APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE

NP: I wish I’d done that last year up at the Edinburgh Festival when it
first came out, I might have sold a few more records in this country! So
actually the Norwegians speak very very good English so they, they could
have said that. So Clement they enjoyed your challenge because it was
very apt and clever. So we give you a bonus point but Paul was
interrupted so he gets a point and he keeps the subject, 33 seconds,
locks starting now.

PM: I remember moving into a new bedsit. And because it was brand
spanking newish to me, I put the keys somewhere where I couldn’t find
them. And when I came out of my bedroom about half past four in the
morning, I wanted to visit the loo, I took a wrong turning and found
myself outside the front door with no key, stark naked! I was there for
about seven weeks, it’s unbelievable! The only thing that kept me going
was a copy of Nicholas Parsons’ record, Fantasy! It was an enormous hit
in some countries overseas, not here of course, nobody would buy it
here! But it was a wonderful brilliant tribute...

WHISTLE

NP: So Paul Merton speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point.

And later

NP: Paul it’s your turn to begin, and the subject is the seven seas.
Tell us something about the seven seas starting now.

PM: Well there used to be five. And then that was decided that wasn’t
enough and so another two were added, making a grand total of seven. I
have sailed all of the seven seas in the last four weeks. I was
sponsored by a record company that wanted to make a follow-up to
Nicholas’s marvellous dance track called Fantasy. But they needed to get
the money together because apparently the last release, well, it wasn’t
so much released as escaped...

BUZZ

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