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  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    Gamma Gamaliel wrote: »
    Wasn't 'Wakey! Wakey!' Arthur Askey's catchphrase?'
    Billy Cotton's as I remember it.
    It was how he introduced his Sunday lunchtime radio programme Billy Cotton's Band Show, very loudly

  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    Gamma Gamaliel wrote: »
    Wasn't 'Wakey! Wakey!' Arthur Askey's catchphrase?'

    No, it was Billy Cotton
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    Gamma Gamaliel wrote: »
    Wasn't 'Wakey! Wakey!' Arthur Askey's catchphrase?'

    These days catchphrases from 'The Fast Show' often fall on deaf ears.

    I was heartened though, when a young Millenial knew who 'Swiss Tony' was when I observed that the lift (escalator) he kindly summoned for a friend on a mobility scooter had a voice recording that sounded just like 'The Fast Show' character.

    Summoning a lift is like making love to a beautiful woman.
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