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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:56 am
by Timeless A-Peel
MikeR wrote:Thanks to everyone for showing interest.
The music for “Venus” was composed by Bob Sharples (who did the theme from ABC Television’s Public Eye and incidental music for various other TV series), but then the lyrics are credited to Sharples’ pseudonym Robert Early.
Julie gave an impromptu rendition at The Avengers at 50 event in Chichester, so about 250 people have heard it.
Neat! Anybody who was at the 50th Anniversary event willing to give their opinion on it?
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:51 pm
by darren
I wonder why they gave it to Bob Sharples to do as he had nothing else to do with the show.
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:26 pm
by mousemeat
Darren wrote:I wonder why they gave it to Bob Sharples to do as he had nothing else to do with the show.
budget thing ? or was Dankworth not up to it?
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:27 pm
by JohnSteedFr
Timeless A-Peel wrote:MikeR wrote:Thanks to everyone for showing interest.
The music for “Venus” was composed by Bob Sharples (who did the theme from ABC Television’s Public Eye and incidental music for various other TV series), but then the lyrics are credited to Sharples’ pseudonym Robert Early.
Julie gave an impromptu rendition at The Avengers at 50 event in Chichester, so about 250 people have heard it.
Neat! Anybody who was at the 50th Anniversary event willing to give their opinion on it?
I was among the guests and I did hear the song. It gave the impression of seeing Venus 'glorified' (like 'Glory to Venus!') but it abruptly ended by words meaning the opposite, just like the name 'Venus Smith', quite contradictory...
Julie Stevens is still a great singer !
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:13 pm
by Brendan Jones
Timeless A-Peel wrote:MikeR wrote:Thanks to everyone for showing interest.
The music for “Venus” was composed by Bob Sharples (who did the theme from ABC Television’s Public Eye and incidental music for various other TV series), but then the lyrics are credited to Sharples’ pseudonym Robert Early.
Julie gave an impromptu rendition at The Avengers at 50 event in Chichester, so about 250 people have heard it.
Neat! Anybody who was at the 50th Anniversary event willing to give their opinion on it?
Julie sang it very well, but they lyrics themselves were quite cringe inducing. Very much of its time, however- I was reminded of Roberta Tovey's Doctor Who songs...
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:29 pm
by Timeless A-Peel
Brendan Jones wrote:Timeless A-Peel wrote:MikeR wrote:Thanks to everyone for showing interest.
The music for “Venus” was composed by Bob Sharples (who did the theme from ABC Television’s Public Eye and incidental music for various other TV series), but then the lyrics are credited to Sharples’ pseudonym Robert Early.
Julie gave an impromptu rendition at The Avengers at 50 event in Chichester, so about 250 people have heard it.
Neat! Anybody who was at the 50th Anniversary event willing to give their opinion on it?
Julie sang it very well, but they lyrics themselves were quite cringe inducing. Very much of its time, however- I was reminded of Roberta Tovey's Doctor Who songs...
Too bad no one thought to transcribe the lyrics. Cringeworthy or otherwise, I'd love to know what they were.
Julie sounds so lovely whenever she talks about the show. She's had so few opportunities to do so, so practically everything she has to say is new.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:24 pm
by JohnSteedFr
Timeless A-Peel wrote:Brendan Jones wrote:Timeless A-Peel wrote:
Neat! Anybody who was at the 50th Anniversary event willing to give their opinion on it?
Julie sang it very well, but they lyrics themselves were quite cringe inducing. Very much of its time, however- I was reminded of Roberta Tovey's Doctor Who songs...
Too bad no one thought to transcribe the lyrics. Cringeworthy or otherwise, I'd love to know what they were.
Julie sounds so lovely whenever she talks about the show. She's had so few opportunities to do so, so practically everything she has to say is new.
She told me she lived in France or had a house there. And she speaks it fluently.
I took photos with her after the Laurie Johnson tribute, in Chichester. Souvenir I'll never forget.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:15 pm
by Timeless A-Peel
JohnSteedFr wrote:Timeless A-Peel wrote:Brendan Jones wrote:
Julie sang it very well, but they lyrics themselves were quite cringe inducing. Very much of its time, however- I was reminded of Roberta Tovey's Doctor Who songs...
Too bad no one thought to transcribe the lyrics. Cringeworthy or otherwise, I'd love to know what they were.
Julie sounds so lovely whenever she talks about the show. She's had so few opportunities to do so, so practically everything she has to say is new.
She told me she lived in France or had a house there. And she speaks it fluently.
I took photos with her after the Laurie Johnson tribute, in Chichester. Souvenir I'll never forget.
How lovely.
She sounds like a wonderful person.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:14 pm
by Brendan Jones
Julie was sensational, and quite mad. She would have made a stunning Doctor Who girl, in the Jo Grant mould!
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 10:52 pm
by MikeR
Having spoken and exchanged emails with Julie I can say she is absolutely wonderful.
She detested the Venus Smith theme tune, but sang it tremendously well at The Avengers 50 at Chichester.
In starting this thread I hoped that I would be able to track the copy that Julie auctioned off and the label would have given us more information.