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And the natives rejoiced…

One can find such amazingly random things on Youtube. Here we have a clip (3:09) of the native Fifers of Bell Baxter High School, of which the President of the St Andrews University Catholic Society is a distinguished alumnus, dancing my favorite reel (the name of which eternally escapes me).

And then there’s this clip (2:07) of Peter Sellers (or is it the Maximum Leader?) reciting “It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night” in the manner of Olivier:

Published at 7:52 pm on Thursday 1 March 2007. Categories: Great Britain Scotland.
Comments

Thanks, Andrew, for the wonderful clip of the great Peter Sellers doing the Beatles ala Olivier. What a brilliant actor/comedian he was!

One of the all-time great political satires, I think, is Hal Ashby’s “Being There” with Sellers as Chance the Gardener. Besides Seller’s subtle performance, I remember being struck by the prescience of the tale as I watched it again during the early days of George W. Bush’s first term as President.

— kd 2 Mar 2007 9:31 am

Thanks for that one of Peter Sellers, one forgets how good he was.

— Scott 3 Mar 2007 5:31 am

Thanks for the Peter Sellers clip. I haven’t watched anything of his in a while, and that was brilliant.

I got dragged into a reel very much like the one you’ve posted (maybe that one, I dunno) by some Scottish country dancers when they found out I was an Irish dancer, and it was much fun. Even the social Irish dances tend to have a lot more figures than that, so that one was delightfully simple to pick up, as long as you can remember the order of things!

— JaneC 3 Mar 2007 7:52 pm

It must be Sellers. I am not nearly that talented. Indeed, I am a talentless hack most of the time.

— The Maximum Leader 5 Mar 2007 5:16 pm
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