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| La Lollo, "on set" at Scotland's famed Gorbals Castle - roll 'em! Action! |
Gentlemen of a certain age, and skeevy geriatrics such as like you, will remember "La Lollo" [above - Ed.] with wistful fondness, from an age when dames wus dames and us guys wus just a buncha chumps wit' us tongue hangin' out. But did you know she nearly joined a contemporary Scottish folk music group?
Let La Lollo tell the tale!
"We were filming Haggis - Italian Style! in the wonderful English Highlands, with all the wonderful actors, like Lord James Robertson Justice and Sir Gordon Robertson Jackson. I am autographing to the musicians who make the wonderful tradition music for the banquet scene, and they propose I am making a record with them! I had a natural, how you say, feeling? For the proud Scottish culture. The Scottish and the Italians are so much alike! Italians are beautiful, passionate, live life to the full. We have the best food and cars and buildings and art in the world, and the best and most beautiful cities and countryside and beaches, and ice cream and sunshine. The Scots have ... they ... well, they are ... anyway ... unfortunately, we must to return to Roma! I was heartbreaking! But I will never forget my weekend filming in your wonderful country and the wonderful friends I made there!"
Bread Love And Dreams, the banquet scene musicians, attempted to exploit their brief association with the sultry sex bomb from Sienna in trade advertisements [above - Ed.], but swift legal action prevented further use of her name and/or image in any context and for any purpose whatsoever. "Feck tha' bitch," said vocalist Angie Davis at the time, "she needs us muir tha' we need heer."
The band retaliated by removing (Theme From) Haggis - Italian Style! from their album, although it appeared briefly on the import-only soundtrack recording [below - Ed.].
Sadly, Bread Love And Dreams are currently residing in the where are they now category, although they doggedly released three swell albums before taking up full time sporran farming and alcoholism in the Outer Hebrides.
If you like albums, you'll like these. Fireside and candle listening. Skin one up, listen to the rain against the window. References - ISB, the Strangelies, Pentangle ...
This post made possible by an insane amount of technology wedded to an almost supernatural yet fundamentally misguided intelligence, and don't kid yourself.
Who among you will step forward and make his reedy voice heard in the echoing silence of the comment section?
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me I have a tin(!) of haggis in the cupboard. As an Englishman, am I alone in really liking haggis?
ReplyDeleteAs a sentient carbon-based lifeform, you are alone in liking haggis. In tests, starving rats were seen throwing haggis away.
DeleteOh dear, I won't be getting an invite to Kreemés Island Tasting Menus any time soon then.
DeleteForget the haggis, what about Scotland's most famous poet Ewan McTeagle!
ReplyDeleteLend me a quid 'til Friday was a bit of a classic.
DeleteCame for the cleavage, left with a tummy ache.
ReplyDeleteAh . . . Lollo - I have been searching for many years for a copy of her magnum opus album "Gina's Biggest Tits" in its 12" incarnation - thus far to no avail. Mayhap, an aficionado hereupon will come up Trumps and satisfy my needs before it's too late (well, at 82 perhaps it already is).
ReplyDeleteThe lead guitarist of Bread Love and Dreams had two sons who continued in their father's less than impressionable footsteps, and founded The Jesus and Mary Chain.
ReplyDeleteThat very special Scottish joie de vivre passed down from generation to generation!
DeleteHaggis looks like shit and when you taste it you wish it would be. Then andouillette is like politics, it has to smell like shit but not too much.
ReplyDeleteI'm here for content like this. Gina hoped to marry Dudley 'Dud' Moore, of course - but she had already interfered too much in his visits to the local library and compiling of incidents leading to bus-service closures.
ReplyDeleteThe one time we tried 'haggis ' in Scotland I believe it was a very tourist version of the thing because it neither looked nor tasted disgusting. In fact it looked and tasted a lot like my adopted home country's Haché Parmentier. We wanted to bite the bullet and get the haggis thing over with, being good tourists and all, but I guess we dodged a bullet there...
ReplyDeleteTrue fact; best kind. 1963-64 my father, a semi-world famous chemist, had a sabbatical at the University of Rome. The apartment building where the university put us was also home on the same floor to an actress called Luciana Paluzzi, soon to be a "Bond girl" who would invite my parents to parties; my parents would put us to bed and head down the hall, two geeky US academics (Well, OK, my mom looked like an Italian movie star, but she was also a chemist). Anyway, at at least one of these parties Ms. Lollobrigida was present and captivated the room.
ReplyDeletePlus in 1974 she interviewed Fidel Castro because, why not. And some male holiday star--I think my father would say it was Bogart, but who knows--said she made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple, which is epic and if it isn't true should be.
Italian women are the most spectacularly gorgeous creatures on earth. Italian cars, cities, art, architecture, cooking, cities, landscapes, roads, wine ... it's an impossibly rich culture. This is why France and the French are so fucked up - caught between the cold, rigorous efficiency of the Anglo Saxon, and the passionate beauty of Latin culture, they have no clear identity, as shown by the diametrical opposition of Marseilles and Paris, which are evidently not in the same country at all.
DeleteThe most beautiful woman I ever knew "lit up the room", absolutely head-turningly hypnotic. From Southern Italy. Where they dismiss Northern Italians as Austrians.
Only one area of culture isn't dominated by the Italians, and that's music. Apart from some catgut scrapings and operatic warblings from the curly wigs era, Italian music is mostly shit.
(Comment may contain generalisations, inaccuracies and errors of judgement.)
he he, I forget the name (probably some Prussian general) who exclaimed "Austrians?? A dismal attempt to make Germans out of Italians".
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DeleteCharles the Something or Other: I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. German is increasingly spoken in DC these days.
Clever Austria! Made everyone think that Hitler was German and Mozart was Austrian!
DeleteFun fact. Due to his mother being an . . . uh . . . "immigrant"? from Scotland, the current il douche of the soon-to-be kingdom of the America is said (by many, the same many who whisper "tertiary syphillis") to carry haggis around in his wallet. When asked once why, the reply, "identification." I mean, it looks enough like shit, dunnit? --Muzak McM.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds similar to the current wannabe Stalinist tyrant currently shacking up in Downing Street who many believe has a haggis in his head, particularly considering his habit of wearing a kilt despite being born south of the Thames
DeleteThree albums Freeloaded© on request - the first, self-titled, the second, with a long title involving hunchback captains from Shannon or something, and the third, Amaryllis, which looks the most interesting.
ReplyDeleteyou mean this BL&D thing ISN'T one of your little games? Like The Shoes?
DeleteRight. Like the Shoes, this Bread Love And Dreams (the Subway sandwich that never was) "thing" isn't one of my (or the Yardbirds') little games. We take "things" seriously in our house.
Deleteit is sad but true to say that the heathen clans have never appreciated Romanic culture but even so B,L&D's albums are quite listenable...
ReplyDeleteThis link will take you to Sintra blog, where you may listen to expertly-chosen individual pop music tracks on YouTube links. I'm a little baffled, frankly.
ReplyDeleteIf you want the Bread Love and Dreams tri-ology, ax!
Okey dokey, Farq!! Still in Surrey Steve here!! .. and I is intriqued by this ..so Issa axing for the BL&D 3ology!!
ReplyDeleteAnd here, specially for Stockbroker Belt Steve, are the three swell albums (I haven't managed to locate the Haggis - Italian Style! ost). Listening to the first right now, even as we speak. I love this stuff.
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/5gqV6KL6sfe
Thanx, Farq!!
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ReplyDeletemusicasdosanos60.blogspot.com
for the 3 albums on vinyl @ 320 - links good
taipanicus
Thanks for the link! Nice blog.
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