When One Thing Leads To Another

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Helen and Bill disappear down the great internet rabbit hole of famous Shirleys to discover a treasure trove of fascinating facts about Shirley MacLaine, Temple, and Bassey, via Big Daddy, George Formby and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Shirley MacLaine meets Fidel Castro.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/shirley-maclaine-years-46804747/image-46808414

Shirley Temple’s mother always gave her 56 curls, not 55, not 57.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2014-feb-12-la-et-mn-shirley-temple-life-fun-facts-20140211-story.html#:~:text=Temple's%20mother%20styled%20her%20daughter's,kept%20my%20head%20on%20straight.%E2%80%9D

The Partridge Family opening theme, starring Shirley Jones and her real life step son, David Cassidy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k

Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks, Clash of the Titans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDBd6-SGo4

Shirley Bassey performs Burn My Candle, considered too saucy for the BBC who banned it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIdxoo4QcI

Bowie’s Space Oddity set to pictures of Apollo 11’s moon landing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVYwyWYpkU

George Formby performs My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock, too euphemistic for the BBC who banned it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQ6Wmbi5ig

The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band iconic cover  

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/whos-who-on-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-album-cover/

Trailer for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Writer, Tennesse Williams purportedly hated the movie version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzogcorjLOI

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Bill and Helen unearth a treasure trove of fact-based gems from the great internet rabbit hole that takes them from oysters and Casanova to Benny Hill and Elvis via Batman and Kate Bush. They also discover some alarming speculation about Elvi's' famous manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

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Casanova trailer. Heath Ledger didn’t much care for his performance in this film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSt1NFGgVUs

An amazing performance from Heath Ledger as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, starring Christain Bale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY

Johnny Rotten pens a song for Kate Bush

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-song-johnny-rotten-wrote-for-kate-bush/

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush perform Don’t Give Up. Peter had Dolly Parton in mind for the duet when he wrote it, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc

Video for Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill featuring the extraordinary dancing of Michael Hervieu who became Misha after gender reassignment surgery.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM

Jonathan Swift’s essay on the benefits of farting

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Benefit-of-Farting-Explaind-Or-the-Fundament-all-Cause-of-the-Distempers-Incident-to-the-Fair-sex-Wrote-in-Spanish-by-Don-Fartinando-Puff-indorst-and-Translated-Into-English-By-Obadiah-Fizzle-by-Puff-indorst-Fart-in-hando/9781385825464

Benny Hill performs Tinga A Ling A Loo which he claims was plagiarised by Spitting Image for their no.1 novelty hit, The Chicken Song 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFrt3V7nvI

Elvis’s saxophonist performs Yakety Sax, used in the Benny Hill Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo

Blue Hawaii trailer, starring Elvis Presley 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10-aqZKLKY

Did Colonel Tom Parker really go on the run after a murder, to become Elvis’s manager?

https://www.grunge.com/224820/was-elvis-manager-a-killer-on-the-run/

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Join Helen and Bill on another adventure down the never ending internet rabbit hole as they somehow get from places with funny names to Cilla Black, via Levi's jeans and Albert Einstein.

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Pennycomequick’s Wikipedia page: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennycomequick

Wetwang Village:

https://www.wetwang.org.uk/wetwang-history/

Croatia’s strangely named places:

https://www.croatiaweek.com/the-many-strange-place-names-of-croatia/

Fugging in Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

Shitterton, Dorset in Bournemouth Echo

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14515534.shitterton-doesnt-make-this-years-rudest-place-names-list-but-somewhere-in-dorset-does/

Albert Einstein’s leather jacket:

https://www.christies.com/features/5-minutes-with-Einsteins-leather-jacket-7510-1.aspx

Levi’s 1985 advert, starring Nick Kamen, featuring Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG_wym3p68

Eddie Kidd vs Robbie Kneivel (Evel’s son) in 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUn922fZLc

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder et al, A Toot and a Snore, 1974:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTY-k5epD0

Cilla Black’s version of the Righteous Brothers’ You've Lost That Loving Feeling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0HaJcirCVI

Bad Finger perform Come And Get It, written by Lennon/McCartney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU

Andrew Oldham’s advert in Melody Maker praising Phil Spector’s You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling:

https://spectropop.com/PPS/PPSpart3.htm

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Bill has successfully (and surprisingly) built a garden shed and from that, he and Helen unearth a rich treasure trove of fascinating facts about George Bernard Shaw and Julie Andrews, which leads them to the 2003 World Whistling Champion and Henry Fonda’s home made honey.

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George Bernard Shaw’s shed:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/george-bernard-shaws-garden

George Bernard Shaw with Vivien Leigh at Shaw’s Corner: 

https://anniebeebuzz.com/2015/08/22/surprising-finds-5-a-revolving-writers-hut/

Gone With The Wind Trailer starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh featuring a halitosis-ridden kiss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X94oZgJis4

Opening scene to The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrew featuring the shot from the helicopter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fH2FOn1V5g

A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews featuring her whistling robin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4qauTiCY4

2003 World Whistling Champion David Morris whistles Flight of the Bumblebee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFhgMvxH40

Yuki Takeda whistles his rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHr1SKjycQ

Bumblebee Conservation Trust:

https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/

Sylvia Plath’s bee-based poems:

https://thebeeproject.weebly.com/sylvia-plath-and-the-bee-poems.html

The Beatles, She Said She Said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLzfo59AdEc

Peter Fonda inspires John Lennon and kills his buzz in the process:

https://reelrundown.com/celebrities/Peter-Fonda-and-the-Beatles

Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison how to play the sitar: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxI6IkH9Mvo

Surprising appearances on Coronation Street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2zlufPGqg

Cinzano advert featuring Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkjidE0WnAI

Clark Gable in It Happened One Night, the inspiration behind Bugs Bunny’s carrot crunching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcrth90C3D4

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Fun fact finders Helen and Bill discover something curiously interesting about the former University Challenge Question Master Bamber Gascoigne, and before you know it, they are stumbling across Paddington Bear, David Bowie, Diana Dors and the last woman to be hanged in the UK.

Related Links:

A classic incorrect answer on University Challenge answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SnI5GGqY8

The house that Bamber Gascoigne inherited:

https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/

Outtakes from BBC’s comedy series Ghosts (shot on location in Bamber Gascoigne’s inherited house):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6DOPitdVU

Bamber Gascoigne penned Share My Lettuce listing

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/sharelettuce.htm

Paddington 2 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x5HJ9H8DM

Paddington 2 was co-written and directed by Paul King, but not this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXtrnh-Ejo

Clip from Lady Godiva Rides Again, the 1951 film featuring Diana Dors and uncredited appearances from Joan Collins and the last woman to be hanged in the UK, Ruth Ellis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waH0HyzKC7I

Channel Four Television’s Who Got Diana Dors’ Millions? 

https://vimeo.com/130444535

Adam and the Ants, Prince Charming video featuring Diana Dors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g

Rolf Harris performs War Canoe which Prince Charming is a clear rip off of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2SOEVbKsTE

Rolf Harris performs Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport with The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd14NxZuvGg

Connie Francis performs Lipstick on Your Collar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8x5cUFoDnU

Johnny Cash, Fuego D’Amor (Ring of Fire in Spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0u5d2vQ8fw

David Bowie performs Helden (Heroes in German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6Gbi1MpoE

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This week, Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill begin their journey of discovery with Vincent van Gogh, which leads them to Clive Dunn and a hand grenade down his trousers to Christina Aguilera and Ben Elton, via Eastenders and Abba’s performance at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

Related Links:

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, MOMA New York City:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?hl=en-GB

Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: Great Art Explained on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE

You can visit the house Vincent lodged at, in Brixton 1873–74 

https://vangoghhouse.co.uk/

Don MacLean performs Vincent live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU

Vincent’s The Red Vineyard, the only painting he sold while alive:

https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/russian-federation/moscow-museums/pushkin-museum/the-red-vineyard-by-vincent-van-gogh/

Vincent’s most expensive painting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet:

https://www.vincentvangogh.org/portrait-of-dr-gachet.jsp

List of most expensive paintings ever sold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

Dad’s Army episode The Deadly Attachment, featuring a hand grenade down Lance Corporal Jones’ trousers: 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5sdx1f

Ethel Skinner is having trouble with her Willy in Eastenders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmNgaSqX9Y

Clive Dunn performs Grandad on Top of the Pops. The song was written by Herbie Flowers (who played the iconic bass line in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wildside), and features Rick Wakeman on keyboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC5fqzKxau8

One of the funniest answers ever given on Pointless, featuring Alexander Armstrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTTvn2muRM

Opening theme tune to the original Danger Mouse, written by folkie/comedian, Mike Harding sung by Sheila Gott (not Myfanwy Talog), featuring Penfold (hamster, not mole):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXYJwjL51w

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In this second instalment of When One Thing Leads To Another, the film Die Hard sends Helen and Bill down the garden path to Bruce Willis, Frank Sinatra, and Orson Welles via Taxi Driver, sweary words and Jonah Hill. They also discover what detrimental effect can happen if you take too much Vitamin B.

Related Links:

Die Hard trailer featuring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in his first feature film appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJuwKCmJbY

The Detective trailer featuring Frank Sinatra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odRuy4D-VA

Bruce Willis with The Temptations with their version of The Drifter’s Under the Boardwalk. There is a good reason you don’t hear this very often on the radio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zk56DDjGc

Moonlighting opening and closing titles, featuring the vocals of Al Jarreau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZI9aQLhgk

Glenn Gordon, creator of Moonlighting talks about Orson Welles’ appearance on the show: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJs3VSVFYCk

and that Orson Welles’ appearance itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ_x_XEQU8

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) goes on a disastrous date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd)  in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0ZybzuGcE

The famous “You talking to me” scene from Martin Scorses’s Taxi Driver, starring Rober De Niro as Travis Bickle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWL-FwX4t4

Top drawer swears from Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake La Motta in Marting Scorsese’s Raging Bull: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ownaVsRHTk0

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performing their hilarious Goodfellas parody, Badfellas: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKBlLyrRMI

Trailer to the world’s sweariest film ever made, Swearnet, The Movie (not for those with sensitive ears):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul19Dx8CKJk

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In this first episode of When One Thing Leads To Another, Helen and Bill get lost down an internet rabbit hole which somehow takes them from the Rolling Stones and Delia Smith to The Great Gig in the Sky and Lou Reed via the town of Northampton and Brooke Bond D. They even find out what to do if you accidentally drink washing up liquid, which may or may not come in handy.

Related Links:

The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed LP on vinyl:  

https://therollingstonesshop.co.uk/*/Vinyl/Let-It-Bleed/1J2U12J7000

The Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, taken from The Rock n Roll Circus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8

Article about Nanette Workman “borrowing” Nanette Newman’s surname:

https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-daily-mail/20200723/282278142649916

Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Nanette Workman with Lady Marmalade, featuring a certain Celine Dion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3NLfCTLTc

Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Doris Troy with Just One Look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtqW5G-tZQ

Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Madeline Bell with I’m Gonna Make You Love Me: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpY3bdvSNFI

Brooke Bond D Tea advert sung by Madeline Bell: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tvIdDCNYk

The Troggs with Wild Thing featuring drummer, Ronnie Bond, writer of the Brooke Bond D Tea Ad music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg

Delia Smith website article about that cake on the Cover of Let It Bleed:

https://www.deliaonline.com/features/2019/10/delia-and-the-rolling-stones

Clare Torry talks about her famous role in Pink Flloyd’s The Great Gig in the Sky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIW7xZSlZoM

Clare Torry’s cover version of Dolly Parton’s Love is Like a Butterfly, used as the theme to the BBC sitcom, Butterflies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGUDDtsFDoA

Brotherhood of Man with their Eurovision Song Contest Winner, Save All Your kisses For Me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhq_Q1Ut8SQ

Herbie Flowers talks about that famous bass line on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXUP5GqYJs

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