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LOONY TUNES

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Published date30 March 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Tattyfilarious tunes: Sir Ken Dodd enjoyed music hit after music hit during his career. He was presented with a silver disc at the London Palladium for selling more than 250,000 copies of Tears, and also released tracks like Happiness and Love Is Like A Violin

1971 Mine's a pint: Comedy song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) earned comedian Benny Hill a Christmas number one hit. He actually worked as a milkman before entering showbusiness.

2010

Calling the tune: American comedy star Steve Martin won a Grammy for his album The Crow: Songs For The Five String Banjo. He often played the banjo during his stand-up routines and once joked: "All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work".

1996 Knowing the score: Comedians and Fantasy Football League presenters Frank Skinner and David Baddiel brought out Three Lions with Ian Broudie from The Lightning Seeds for Euro 96 and it quickly became a soccer anthem and went platinum. It has been played at every major football tournament since.

1983 It's no joke: The Office and Extras star Ricky Gervais (right) joined forces with Bill Macrae in the 1980s to form a group called Seona Dancing.

Their single More To Lose proved popular in the Philippines and began with the lines: "We used to cry about the day when one of us might fall weak and blindly into another's arms".

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