Pennies from Heaven - You Rascal, You

[puccini007]

Anybody knows who sings this version of the song?

[RockinMichel]

@puccini007

This version is by The Blue Lyres.

[Cool2BCeltic]

@puccini007 Joe Crossman, a saxophonist and singer with the Ambrose and Lew Stone orchestras. I have a postcard he sent me in 1989.

[puccini007]

homicidal fantasies and tap dacing on a coffin can be a laughing matter...

[Cool2BCeltic]

@puccini007 That's Dennis Potter for you.

[woofer32]

lovely Gemma.........

[antiwarmom]

@woofer32 Named my daughter Gemma in part because of Gemma Craven! She is lovely isn't she!

[woofer32]

@antiwarmom indeed she is.

[jvc0107]

Now that's good television! Thanks for the post,

[petegalvs]

I've always wanted to see the full series of Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective, and Lipstick on Your Collar.

[gerard1875]

God Rest Dennis Potter as he was an interesting and great mind

[TheTexastom62]

I watched this as a kid ( 15 yrs) and thought it was so funny and never missed a episode 

[cheesenedd]

so clever, wish they had this scene in the movie. well propably wouldnt have been as funny in the movie since they're american

[MsSarjen]

@cheesenedd Haha, I love this scene! How everyone there having a nice conversation, but never actually say what they mean. And of course, loads of tea.

[Gareth7685]

Ah - 'the songs, the songs, the bloody songs' - Dennis Potter was a genius and he used these tunes brilliantly in his groundbreaking, often disturbing, frequently funny dramas. Here's to Potter, who showed us that TV could be something very special indeed. Thanks OhYouNastyMan (if indeed that IS your name) for uploading my favourite tune from his '78 series. Elbow.

[OhYouNastyMan]

it's my fave too! Thanks!

[Paulmancieri67]

What a wonderful movie. Copied many times over but never bettered. Great music too.

[allmoderncons]

love it love it love it......

[OhYouNastyMan]

I havbe uploaded a clip too- You Couldn't Be Cuter from episode 2, The Sweetest Thing..

[Q2Mars]

love this song so much!..wish i knew where to download this version of the song..

[ratae1950]

Great stuff. I just saw this via NetFilx in the US and I am sure Hoskins did not appear in the scene being knifed..... His is in the coffin later on in the scene???? Censorship?

[marmadukesymesparker]

No doubt it was too much for sensitive American viewers.

[thekroton]

@marmadukesymesparker -Can you briefly explain what the plot was

to this-i can remember seeing a repeat of this but i've totally forgotten

the plot! i know Bob Hoskins was in it and that's it.

[impbr]

Memorable scene from the days when tv was worth watching, Dennis Potter must be turning in his grave at the state of tv today. Shame he's not still around to provide an oasis in the midst of all the merd.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

To be honest I don't his ideas would get past the commissioning editors these days. They have a fundamentalist belief that we are all troglodytes who just want to watch celebs making over peoples' living rooms, losing weight or enaged in some other fatuous 'reality' activity.

[morethansalt]

Why do people always seem to think that it is 'cool' to say that what's popular is the fault of some heirarchy? It isn't. What is made is what MOST people prefer, if the things that I liked were popular then that is what what would get produced. My taste, and perhaps yours as well, are NOT popular, that's the real criteria. Get over it. I have- because the world is vast enough for us to find what we like... and that's all that is really pertinent.

[stacksovids12]

WRONG it IS, the BBC is run by the Labour party, their politics pervade it like a cancer, promoting the lowest common denominator, the gutter mentality, and giving NOTHING but that as a supposed choice. All part of the enforced attack on intelligence, just look at Browns letter, no wonder he hates REAL intelligence, he is subnormal. Virtually everyone I talk to says the TV is appalling, and that I sfrom all classes, so WHERE is this majority that wants the crap they excrete onto our screens?

[morethansalt]

Oh, please, get a clue. Take a walk outside of your room and you will see the majority.

[stacksovids12]

Perhaps you miss read my comment? Try reading it again; I said "Virtually everyone I talk to says TV is appalling and as I am not in the habit of having the public tramping through my home you may deduce that it is indeed outside my room I hear these comments. I think your comment says more about the area you live in.

[devonlongbow]

Well said-couldn't agree more.

[constanzavictrix]

stacksovids12 ...Brown'!s letter - Brown would know when to place an apostropheeeeeeeeeeeee...... Brown would form sentences properly too. ..... 'that l sfrom' .. ?... what IS that? Is English your second language ?

[MANFROMMARS46]

You and the bloke below are absolutely right. Why do we have to put up with the unmitigated crap we have to suffer these days but I fear our friend is right. This wouldn't even get commissioned these days.

[OhYouNastyMan]

can we have "you couldn't be cuter" so we get to see eileen?

[OhYouNastyMan]

Thank you SOOO much for this! excellent stuff. yes, agree gemma craven is amazing!

[paulweller]

the best thing EVER on british TV. many thanks for posting this..

im with erik - gemma craven is fantastic.

[crash669]

Agreed. Except maybe take it further than Britain. One of the best things on TV Ever. Aren't many to match it...

[Cool2BCeltic]

Do you recognise Jenny Logan of Shake and Vac fame as Irene in this clip. Spontaneously bursting into song in suburban living rooms must be her speciality.

[marmadukesymesparker]

So it is!

[erikericksson]

Gemma Cravens brilliant in this scene - love dennis potters work :)

[CantCopeWontCope]

why cant i post comments?

[marmadukesymesparker]

Um... that was one.

[CantCopeWontCope]

That should be my praise!

I hate you!!

I HATE YOU!!

acchh i love you really

Just never do it again, ya hear?

[rugbybem]

Thank you very much for this posting. I have been waiting for this one for a very long time. Great!!!