I don't mind Brucie doing his turn every year and thought the idea of singing was Lance was good.

But the song was a bit strange - even with Ola dressed as Goldilocks.

Mind you if Robin, Brendan and Vincent had appeared as the 3 bears it would have livened it up!

We expected bears to make an appearance too! (Although my mum rather mischievously suggested Widders could have made a return as Mummy Bear )

You're right that it was a strange song though, one I've never heard before in my life. Is it some sort of jazz "standard"?

It would have been better if they'd sung something Christmassy.

Lance - lovely voice.

Bruce - awful, just awful.

Song choice - strange.

Dance routine - half-hearted.

Every time they do this the doddery one is always upstaged. He needs to be put out of his misery, or is that our misery sufferting him.


Now where's my rifle

This was Bruce's swan song, wasn't it??

If not, I'll go and jump off a cliff to demonstrate my disappointment.


(PS shall select a very small cliff with plenty of pillows on the beach, and maybe Artem to catch me - shutup, shutup, wake up getalife stop fantasising - aaaargh - no, changed my mind, if no Artem then it'll be a very high cliff with Brucie doing the catching.)

It was all a bit weird. The old boy can no longer sustain a whole song by himself and only a couple of seconds of dancing. I thought it was rather sad. I haven't got a clue what Ola was up to - apart from earning her fee, that is.

The song was written by Ray Ellington and recorded by The Ray Ellington Quartet decades ago.
Ray was Lance's father, his was a well respected jazz quartet in their time.

Appeared regularly in "The Goon Show" on BBC radio.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thats-Nice-R...2252747&sr=1-4

Ah, fair enough, thanks for that.

Not very well-versed in takes drag from cigarette in a Fast Show "Jazz Club" stylee ..jazz, to be honest

For anyone interested in Lance's dad.

(the rest can scroll down now)

His group was featured for a number of years on "The Goon Show" together with the Dutch jazz harmonica player Max Geldray backed by Wally Stott's (who later became Angela Morley, but that's another story) Orchestra.
They both shared a spot on the programme from the early fifties through to the sixties. What was heard on the programme was pretty much the only jazz featured on BBC radio at the time.

Lance - Yay (when singing without Bruce).
Bruce - Nay.

I thought it was rather odd Ola just dancing on her own as Goldilocks. Didn't get it.

Lance was great, Brucie not so much.

Lance was amazing, Bruce was.. crap.

Ah, not such a strange choice then.

it was quite common at one time for nursery rhymes to be used for jazzy type recordings - Anthony Newley and Pop Goes The Weasel springs to mind

Brucie was absolutely fantastic. He MUST come back next year. Strictly would be an empty shell without him. He didn't miss a beat in a really challenging song and he was flawless. 82 ! and I doubt if one contributor on this forum could have held a candle to him

Strangely, I was quite disappointed with the routine Ola did during the song. Ola is one of my all time favourites but she was floundering and prancing around without any purpose. It was as if she had had a routine planned with James, but he got stuck in the traffic so she made something up on the spot ...

Wouldn't have called that jazz.

But this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpjImYjR9A

brucie really has lost his touch lol.

neither did i I called it "jazzy"

Anthony Newley wouldn't have known "jazzy" if it bit him on the bum. He did musicals.

You tried to be helpful but just gave a poor example. Not the end of the world.

I just provided a well known definitive example of the genre.

No need to "roll your eyes," just because you used a smiley doesn't mean that it's not bad manners.

And just cos you don't doesn't mean you're not rude

Bruce & Lance - Yay or Nay?

Second only to Take That!,,,, so Yay

PMSL..... Nay!