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You're probably right, she could sing but sang badly for the laughs.
The comedian Les Dawson also played the piano badly but could actually play. He said it was harder to play out of tune on purpose than it was to play in tune.
I would never had thought Edith Piaf would have led us to Les Dawson, but so glad she did.
Down the rabbit hole of tenuous links we go 🤣
We're just one link away from Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise sketch with composer and conductor Andre Previn, doing Grieg's Piano Concerto. That's 13 minutes of your day gone there and well worth it.
Absolutely! ‘I’m playing all the right notes…’ brilliant..
I've watched this thousands of times and it still cracks me up, timeless.
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I’ll stop short of sharing a clip of the actor who went on to play Lt Gruber in Dr Who’s ‘Genesis of the Daleks’. Not just a rabbit hole but a very niche British rabbit hole…
That’s who I had in mind with the really good to be that bad comment.
I think you're spot on here. To know what sounds bad and sound bad well you need to know how to sound good. I agree and think she knew exactly what she was doing.
My guess is she probably could sing and just did it badly for the take. Lots of comedians have done that in the past. To be really bad (for laughs) you need to be really good to start with.