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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 31, 2022 16:46:10 GMT
Yesterday's Forces TV episode 'Vicious Circle' was interesting as it was filmed in Rome & featured a few well known faces from Italian films including Luciano Pigozzi who appears in many Italian crime films of the 70's. Simon Templar enters the home of one character whose walls are covered with film posters from crime films of the period. I was also surprised to see Tessa Wyatt in a very revealing see through shirt, not sure how they got away with showing that on tv pre watershed. The episode was 'based on a story' by Michael Armstrong who wrote 'The Black Panther' which we've been talking about recently & directed by Sam Wanamaker, best known as an actor he also appeared in a different ROTS episode. When shown in Italy & other European countries the show had a different theme tune, 'Taking It Easy', by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis ( credited as Oliver Onions for some reason ) who scored a number of Italian films. The lyrics for this are quite bizarre & include the lines 'I'm gonna sit at home to watch your programme when it's on'
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 31, 2022 20:59:30 GMT
Wikipedia info regarding Guido & Maurizio De Angelis & why they were known as 'Oliver Onions'-
"The De Angelis brothers were among the most prolific Italian musicians of the 1970s. In fact, they were forced to use different names for many of their projects to avoid over-saturating the market; during their career, they were variously known as G&M Orchestra, Barqueros, Charango, Kathy and Gulliver, Hombres del Mar and Dilly Dilly. However, the name they came to be mostly identified with, and most popular, was suggested by their frequent collaborator and lyricist Susan Duncan-Smith, a British-born journalist who worked in RCA's foreign relationships department. She advised them that, although they did not run any risks in signing their early Spaghetti Western film score work under their own names (following in the footsteps of the popularity gained by fellow Italian Ennio Morricone in the same genre), their international credibility as singers of theme songs in English would be undermined if they did not perform under an English-language name. The brothers followed Duncan-Smith's advice and named themselves Oliver Onions after the homonymous British writer; the name was chosen mostly because it was easy to remember for both people who speak English and people who do not, and because the two words are pronounced the same as they are written".
Btw, Susan Duncan-Smith is the sister of, yes, Iain Duncan-Smith.
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