![]() Tommy Bruce - Ain't Misbehavin' 5/28/60 27. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Nine Times Out Of Ten 9/24/60 26. Matt Monro - Portrait Of My Love 12/17/60 25. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Voice In The Wilderness 1/23/60 24. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Fall In Love With You 3/26/60 23. Adam Faith - Someone Else's Baby 4/16/60 22. Duane Eddy - Because They're Young 7/23/60 19. Shirley Bassey - As Long As He Needs Me (from the musical "Oliver") 8/6/60 18. Michael Holliday - Starry Eyed 1/2/60 17. Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place - 1/16/60 16. Adam Faith with Bruce Forsyth - Poor Me 1/23/60 15. Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman 3/26/60 14. Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown 4/16/60 13. Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool 5/14/60 12. ![]() Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Please Don't Tease 7/2/60 10. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) 7/30/60 8. Ricky Valance - Tell Laura I Love Her 8/27/60 7. Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me 9/10/60 6. Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind 10/1/60 5. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight 11/19/60 4. Shirelles - (Will You Love Me) Tomorrow - 11/26/60 3. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - I Love You 12/3/60 2. Chet Atkins even rearranged it as a guitar piece, which he cleverly dubbed, “Yakety Axe.CHARTBUSTERS 1960-1964 ULTIMATE VIDEO 1960 (5 1: Once “Yakety Sax” blew up, it was recorded, performed, and featured everywhere. He played on the soundtracks of eight Elvis Presley movies and was the first saxophonist to record popular music with Presley on songs such as “Return to Sender” and “Reconsider Baby,” as well as with other artists like Roy Orbison, REO Speedwagon, and Al Hirt. ![]() The Randolphs had a family band, and Boots grew up playing the ukulele, vibraphone, and trombone, eventually settling on the saxophone.īoots played in the United States Army Band in his youth, then moved back to Kentucky and started a combo ensemble, and eventually took a shot at solo recording and session performing. At some point, he was given the name and it just stuck. There’s no real story behind the nickname Boots, except for that growing up, his father was also named Homer, and it caused some confusion. Homer Louis “Boots” Randolph III (1927-2007) was born in Kentucky. Especially because we pretty much always know what the outcome is going to be, we just want to watch it happen and pretend it’s all a big circus act. The Benny Hill version is another rendition entirely, recorded by Ronnie Aldrich and His Orchestra.ĭue to the nature of how “Yakety Sax” was predominantly used in The Benny Hill Show, car-chase videos shot from news helicopters tend to make for the best adaptations of the music. + Read more on Flypaper: “What Happens When You Mess with the Keys of Iconic Movie Theme Songs?” ![]() The song didn’t really catch on until they rerecorded and released it in 1963 when it went on to enter the Billboard Top 100 and chart as high as #35! The “ Benny Hill Theme” is actually called “Yakety Sax” and was composed and originally recorded in 1958 by Boots Randolph and James Q. Some people have started to call this the “Yakety effect.” In effect, this juxtaposition brilliantly exposes what’s behind the curtain, but then just lets us enjoy it for what it is. ![]() These “ Benny Hill Theme” re-edits of drama and violence on film are a nutshell microcosm of how easy it is for the internet to dull our ability to feel empathy, yet they’re also a pretty clever commentary on cinema’s ability to manipulate and sculpt our reaction through its many devices. ![]()
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