Скачать или смотреть Alfie Bass - Bootsie & The Beast (1963)

The old story as told by Alfie Bass in the style of his character Bootsie from popular Granada sitcoms The Army Game and sequel Bootsie & Snudge. Released in 1963 when Bootsie & Snudge was still on air, two stories for children were released by Bass as Boostie (although using Bootsie's vernacular he does speak with a more cut-glass straight voice for clarity), the first was 'Boostie and the Beast' and the second was 'Bootserella', which had also been made as a short pantomime with the cast of The Army Game, including Bass, for the Chelsea At Nine television show in 1960, which is available as an extra on the Army Game DVD from Network.

Both the 1963 'Storytime Discs' by Bass for children are available on my channel and as far as I can tell were the only two made. The rear sleeve notes say they are £the First [and second] in a new series of records for the young, the old, and the in between" but I don't know if there were any other recorded by anyone else either. Both were wrritten by Bootise & Snudge scriptwriter Barry Took with music by Dino Castro and "Alfie Bass records by kind permission of Granada Television". They didn't get a glowing review in Gramophone magazine so I expect any futher records were likely cancelled.