Woody Guthrie might have sung the programme.
Tomorrow sees the release on download of a charity single sung by the programme's contestants in aid of Great Ormond Street hospital, which is very likely to hold the No 1 slot until this year's winner is ready to take over, effectively locking up the top of the chart until 2010.
I was thrilled to discover the music of Catherine Lamb, whose hypnotic Portions Transparent/Opaque painted vivid, evocative orchestral colours, while Exaudi's astoundingly well-sung programme included Christopher Fox's heady tangle of voices in Preluding and the mesmeric keening of Cassandra Miller's Guide.
For Mahler the symphony had to be 'like the world – it must embrace everything', and even those that have neither sung texts nor programmes appear to invite programmatic or philosophical interpretations.
As well as the television show, Live and Kicking launched a music CD, composed of the best music that artists had sung live on the programme.
But he is not going to start singing on the programme.
Martin Hässler chewed the scenery engagingly as the mad doctor, Alison Langer negotiated Norina's vocal athletics powerfully, and David Shipley, soon to join the Royal Opera's young artist programme, sang stylishly as the hospital owner.
Singing Together Request Programme, Autumn 1974.
"He even appeared on a popular Spanish TV programme singing My Way.
Sing with your best karaoke computer programme, sing to the radio, in the shower, in the car.
I never warmed up and I'd sit in the dressing room holding the programme singing the Billy Joel song Don't Go Changing It.
