Arthur Askey
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Biography
[Edit]A veteran of the classic British vaudeville scene would no doubt build up pretty thick skin, thus explaining comedian and songwriter Arthur Askey's courage in taking on as potentially menacing an adversary as the world's population of bees; accusing the sting-capable creatures of such faults as "building up the honey-comb that looks like tripe" or "stinging all the cows upon the parson's nose." The final insult in his frequently covered "Bee Song" is this couplet: "Bees are allright when alive you see/but when bees die you really should see 'em/pinned on a card in a dirty museum."
Perhaps Askey was just looking for someone smaller than he was to pick on. He was a short fellow who right from the beginning of his professional career was said to have compensated for his lack of height with a surfeit of manic energy. His career lasted a good four decades, overlapping the worlds of radio, television, variety, and pantomime, and he also did quite well writing songs for a newly developing market of children's' records in the '50s. Askey did not begin performing professionally until his early 20s, when his first job was as a kind of wandering goof in a concert hall, coming up with jokes, songs, and dances; all of them "really really silly" according to Askey's biographical notes. The radio comedy and variety show Band Waggon was the first ride he caught to a higher profile career, even though it originally was canceled after the third broadcast. Askey and fellow cast member Richard Murdoch nabbed a hold of the replacement time slot, coming up with a show based on their own wild sense of humor. This new version of Band Waggon was a big hit, one of the first shows satirizing the actual production of itself, leading to a film adaptation that was Askey's welcome mat into the film industry.
He worked in movies through the Second World War. The animosity toward buzzing insects perhaps began with his first flop, a film entitled Bees in Paradise. As a result, he retreated back to radio and live shows, inching toward television as that medium developed and coming up with his own program, entitled Before Your Very Eyes. This clicked with the audience, once again leading to a renewed interest in film roles, although this second stage of his movie career was marked by a milder, less surrealistic form of yucks. While his career wound down as he got older, Askey continued performing pantomime even in the '70s, halting these shows only because bad circulation led to the amputation of his legs.
Title: Davis, C.: The World at War
Artist: Charles Trenet, Mantovani, Anne Shelton, Vera Lynn, Billy Cotton And His Band, Carl Davis, Gracie Fields, Noël Coward / Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Arthur Askey, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, The Mantovani Orchestra, Carroll Gibbons, The Savoy Orpheans, Александр Васильевич Александров / Aleksandr Vasilevic Aleksandrov, The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Red Army Choir, Lale Anderson, Studio Orchestra, Studio Pianist, Ronnie Munro, Studio Ensemble, Alan Breeze, Studio Chorus, Bruno Sealer-Winkler, Marshal Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Harry Bidgood Orchestra
Genre: Rock, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Collections
Title: Favorites of the 1950's
Genre: Pop
Title: Original Hits - Kids
Genre:
Title: Vintage Kids Songs from the '30s, '40s & '50s
Genre: Kids
Title: Classic Comedy Records, Vol. 2
Genre: Humor
Title: Comedy Classics
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Best of Musical Comedy
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Simply British Comedy Songs
Genre: Humor
Title: Classic British Comedy & Humor
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Timeless Comedy: Laughter Unlimited, Vol. 1
Genre: Humor
Title: Fifty Years of Radio Comedy
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Vintage British Comedy (1) - Volume 3
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 8
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 10
Genre:
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: British Wartime
Genre:
Title: Old Time British Humor
Genre: Humor
Title: Greatest Old Time Kids Classics
Genre: Kids
Title: Two Way Family Favourites, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: British Comedy - Diamond Jubilee Edition
Genre: Humor
Title: Remember Then Vol 5
Genre: Jazz
Title: Children's Songtime
Genre: Kids
Title: Wartime Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: Lambeth Walk & the Music of Noel Gay
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Retrospective British Comedy
Genre: Humor
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4
Genre:
Title: Children's Favorite Songs
Title: Vintage Novelty Songs For Kids
Genre: Kids
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 1
Genre: Humor
Title: They Played the Empire
Genre: Pop
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 6
Genre:
Title: Memories of Band Waggon - Happidrome
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 3, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: British Variety Show: Comedy Classics, Vol. 1
Genre: Humor
Title: The Best of British Comedy
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: British Variety Show: Comedy Classics, Vol. 2
Genre: Humor
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4, Vol. 3
Genre:
Title: Songs That Won The War (Disc 1) 'Wish Me Luck... '
Genre: Retro
Title: Best Christmas 100 (CD5)
Genre: Pop
Title: Kids - 140 Original Hits (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: A Time To Remember: 1940
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: Liverpool Sounds: 75 Classics From The Singing City (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Country, Funk
Title: Liverpool Sounds: 75 Classics From The Singing City (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Country, Funk
Title: Liverpool Sounds (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Country
Title: Liverpool Sounds (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Country
Featuring albums
Title: Children's Holiday Classics
Artist: Idil Biret, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Penrose
Genre: Kids
Title: Julie Wilson In London... With Friends
Artist: Original London Cast, Julie Wilson
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Julie Wilson In London ... With Friends
Artist: Julie Wilson
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: A Dance to the Music of Time (Original TV Soundtrack)
Artist: Carl Davis
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Heroes Collection (CD2)
Artist: Songs For Captain Tom
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Byzantine/Relegious, Country, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical