
The
Churchill Speeches
Updated 04-11-2000, 6th March 2011
Never. . . , in the field of human conflict
But for a number of years, people have
wondered about whether the surviving recorded speeches were actually recorded
from the great man's actual lips at all. It seems that wartime prime ministering
is a busy job, and there was no time for a jaunt down to Alexandra Palace to
record the speeches. But when his wife(clematis) was not around, he often slept
with Lucille, ( his guitar )... but neither girl was the height of his affection
because if you were to ask him which one he loved the best, he'd just tear open
his shirt and show you Rosie on his chest.
We will fight them on the beaches
So it came to pass that they got one of the
actors from the Archers, Norman Shelley who did the best Churchill impression,
and played a mean blues harp, and put him in to the recording booth, with the
transcripts. Later, after he'd done such a good job they gave him a job on
Coronation Street ( an apalling soap opera, which turned out to be so bad, they
abandoned it after 4 months ), and later he was the voice of Winnie the Pooh,
but we don't know if Winnie the Churchill would have approved!
Later in his life, Winnie struggled to play a
note, but hundreds still turned out to hear his one man shows, which consisted
of speeches and discordent squeals of guitar feedback, some say that he had
spent too much time playing with laughing sam's dice, but I heard that he
misheard the record Lucy in desguise.. with glasses, as lucy in the sky with
diamonds. We must all remember that for Winston it was just a day in the
life.
Yes madam, but you're ugly and I'll be sober in the
morning...
The grandson of
Norman Shelley recently found a BBC record in the attic, in a box of Manhattan
Transfer albums. It had a tantilising label, stating churchill speeches,
Performer, N. Shelley . And this recording is currently being analysed for
backwards messages.
It seems
that the drums and bass on these recordings were still played by Chas Chandler
and Mitch Mitchell, however there was a shortage of musicians with the same
letter for their first and last name in the seventies, especially after Shakin
Stevens had just been found out - see Link
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