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This week, my recent dental surgery gets us into Niki Lauda jokes, stealth Australians and Ken Branagh’s lips. Then we talk about Hot Cross Buns: what they are, how much they cost, and why Puffy remixed the song. Then Paul takes a below-the-waist guess at what “The Old Grey Whistle Test” might be, and finally, I am proven spectacularly wrong about, well, dontists.
Paula Wilcox, was an actress who, most famously appeared in ‘Man About the House’ in the halcyon days of the British sitcom, the 70’s.
‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ was presented by ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, amongst others, he said the name came from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys – doormen in grey suits. The songs they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.
I learned hot cross buns as a flute student in the 5th grade. It was a song used to teach beginning students scales and finger placement. I always imagined them as cinnamon buns, thanks for popping that bubble James.