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Re: Mailbag

From: Martin Hanley <praxis!mph@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 17 Jul 89 09:33:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Mailbag
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Praxis Systems plc, Bath, UK
References: <8907130027.AA03801@GAFFA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Martin Hanley <praxis!mph@uunet.UU.NET>
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In article <8907130027.AA03801@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> IED0DXM@OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:
>
>exaggerated) versions of _Wuthering_Heights_ and _Wow_, and Pauline
>Yates (or is IED getting her name mixed up, |>oug?) did an original
>song called _The_Leotard_Song_ which is a pastiche of several Kate-ian
>chord progressions and instrumental cadences which suggest some of
>the early hits (it was done about 1980), and which has some quite
>witty (though undeservedly cruel) lines in it.
>
>-- Andrew Marvick


It was actually Pamela Stephenson who did this, as part of the Not The
Nine O'clock News series, and the title was _England_My_Leotard_.

Extremely funny, very cutting. (Oh, but of course it was very
irreverent ;-) )

Martin Hanley.
England.

"It's not your mind, it's your body they're in to," my business manager says
			- the very song.