Genevieve Stokes - With A Lightning Strike - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD reissue. If you ask any British comedian for their favorite of their peers, anyone over the age of 40 years old (and quite a few under) is going to unanimously say Peter Cook! Actor, raconteur, comedian, TV star and foul-mouthed recording artist, he is possibly best known for his decades long partnership with the diminutive Dudley Moore. In 1961, at the height of the post-war boom in satire, Cook opened a nightclub called The Establishment, which featured such luminaries as Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, David Frost and a jazz trio with a diminutive pianist. Cook and more continued their partnership -off and on- until Cook drank himself to death in 1995 at the age of 57. During the Swinging Sixties, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were the hippest comedians around. In 1966, they even enticed John Lennon onto their TV show, playing a cameo role as a lavatory attendant, and they made this insanely funny record, which still makes one laugh even though more than half a century has passed.

A musical institution. A religious experience. A student tutorial. A difficult commute from Paris. These are all things that could be said about Jarvis Cocker's (PULP vocalist) much-missed Sunday Service radio show, BBC 6music's seven-year gift of gentle musical heroism to their weekend listenership. Jarvis now brings together for Ace Records an eclectic and exciting mix of the records and the features that made the show the unique experience it was. From listener suggestions that became personal favourites such as Nina Simone's 'Baltimore', unusual cover versions like Antony & the Johnsons' stunning performance of Beyoncé's 'Crazy In Love', and the Katzenjammers' rendition of Gary Numan's 'Cars' as played on steel drums - a record so irresistible, it remains the only time Jarvis has ever felt compelled enough to ask another DJ what they were playing. We revisit the Radiophonic Workshop bed that made the intro to each show and a special reading from Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood, read live on the show by Jarvis and accompanied by David Cunningham from the Flying Lizards on kalimba. And if you listen very carefully between tracks, you may even hear a hidden jingle or two. Brought together on heavyweight 180g double vinyl and CD digipack (each featuring different covers, as designed by Julian House) and with full accompanying sleevenotes by Jarvis, it's a keepsake of the show you can thankfully hold onto for any and every Sunday.

French chanteuse Geneviève headlined The Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in Manhattan after becoming a star on TV and on Jack Parr's InchTonight ShowInch in which she got laughs with her broken English. She also toured the country starring in InchCan-CanInch and InchSilk Stockings,Inch as well as InchIrma la DouceInch and InchThe Genevieve Show.Inch This is the first-ever CD of her recordings including songs from InchCan-CanInch.