And here he is with The Bluebells, playing the cheekiest violin solo 
ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5046ZbuUU

And if you want someone who looks like Clark Gable and sings like Bing 
Crosby, look no further than this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELftDzJjJuY&feature=related

P.



On 10 May 2008, at 23:55, Stewart Mason wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Gill" <mu51cal@philgill.co.uk>
>> Yay! The Fab Poodles - me and violinist Bobby Valentino used to go 
>> busking together in the pedestrian underpass here in Hastings in 
>> 1973......last time I saw him he was playing Clark Gable/Rhett Butler 
>> in a TV commercial.
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> I seem to recall he also played violin and mandolin all over Holly 
> Beth Vincent's fantastic and underrated HOLLY AND THE ITALIANS, the 
> fraught follow-up to the much more power-poppy THE RIGHT TO BE ITALIAN 
> and to my ears arguably the better album.
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