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Simon Jones
Born
(1950-07-27) 27 July 1950 (age 67)
Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England, UK
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1976–present
Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor. He is best known for his multiple portrayals of Arthur Dent, protagonist of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Jones first portrayed the character on radio in 1978 and again on television in 1981. Jones also featured in the film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) in a cameo role. He is also known for his portrayal of Donald Shellhammer in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and for his multiple appearances on the Broadway stage.
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1 Life and career
2 Selected filmography
3 References
4 External links
Life and career[edit]
Jones appeared in various TV series, including Brideshead Revisited (in which he played the Earl of Brideshead, or "Bridey", heir to the Marquess of Marchmain), and the second series of Blackadder (playing Sir Walter Raleigh). His films have included Club Paradise, Privates on Parade, Miracle on 34th Street and The Devil's Own.
Jones studied at King's College, Taunton before going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights and met Douglas Adams. This led to Jones being cast in Out of the Trees and later The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The latter project, a 1978 radio broadcast, would be the first of Jones' several portrayals of Arthur Dent; Adams claimed to Jones that he wrote the part of Dent with Jones in mind.[1] In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Jones had a minor role as one of the guests at the dinner party. He has also appeared in some of the solo film projects of the members of Monty Python: American Friends, Brazil and 12 Monkeys.
Jones has appeared in several Broadway plays, including The Real Thing, as Max (1985), Benefactors, as Colin (1985), Getting Married, as Reginald Bridgenorth (1991), Private Lives, as Elyot Chase (1992), The Real Inspector Hound, as Moon, and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, as Hamlet, which played together in (1992), The School for Scandal, as Joseph Surface (1995), Ring Round the Moon, as Romainville (1999) and Waiting in the Wings, as Perry Lascoe (1999). In 2009 he appeared in Blithe Spirit, as Dr. Bradman, with Angela Lansbury and Rupert Everett. Off-Broadway he has a long list of credits, and was nominated for the 1990 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Privates on Parade.
In Regional theatre at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Jones starred as Christopher Gore in the American premier of Brian Friel's The Home Place in late 2007. He returned there in late 2008 to portray C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands.
Jones is also a voice actor and audiobook presenter, with more than 70 titles to his credit. Among them are:
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul for Simon and Schuster Audioworks for the US market
Star Trek: Cacophony, playing Lt. Commander Stewart Mulligan in an original "Captain Sulu Adventures" audio programme, again for Simon and Schuster
The Salmon of Doubt, for New Millennium Audio
Douglas Adams at the BBC, for BBC Audio
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud: The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate, The Ring of Solomon
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullins, which won the Audio Publishers Association's 2006 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction.
And Another Thing..., the sixth installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, written by Eoin Colfer.
In 2003, he reprised his role as Arthur Dent in a new radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The same year he was involved in the filming of the film version of the first novel, making a brief cameo appearance in the role of the holographic Magrathean answering machine/automated defence system.
He was heard in 2009 as master detective Sexton Blake on BBC Radio 2 in the six-part series, The Adventures of Sexton Blake!.
In addition to his work as an actor, Jones is also a co-artistic director at New York Off-Broadway company the Actors' Company Theatre (TACT), where he played the role of Jack in the play Home by David Storey.
On 25 November 2009, Jones met his cousin Daniel Craig after Craig's performance on Broadway in A Steady Rain for the first time. Daniel Craig is the grandson of Jones's aunt.[2]
Jones and his son Tim were hit by a car on 8 October 2010; though they suffered only bruises, he had to withdraw from the Actors' Company Theatre's production of Václav Havel’s Memorandum.[3]
He recovered enough to join in the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of "A Child's Christmas in Wales", a concert version of the Dylan Thomas work. This ran from 8 December 2009 to 2 January 2010.
2011 took him to Hartford, CT – the Hartford Stage Theatre – where he played 'Piero Soderini' in "Divine Rivalry"— a new play by Michael Kramer, directed by Michael Wilson, and produced by the Shubert Organisation. Jones had played this part in several previous readings of the play, and was delighted to finally be in a real, full production. Later in the year, he was in a new musical version of "Death Takes a Holiday", with book by Tom Meehan and Peter Stone, with music by Maury Yeston. It ran in New York City, at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, from 7 July to 4 September. A CD was released shortly afterwards.
From there Jones returned to London where he attended the opening night of "No Naughty Bits", at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 September. The play, by Steve Thompson, was the story of Jones's wife, Nancy Lewis, and the Monty Python team's lawsuit against ABC-TV in America.
2012 found Jones back in Minneapolis, where he played 'David Bliss', husband of Harriet Harris in "Hay Fever" at the Guthrie Theatre. The director this time was from London, Jones' friend Chris Luscombe. After that Jones returned to New York where he appeared (in the role of 'Sir Francis Beekman'), with Megan Hilty starring in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at the City Center's ENCORES! concert series, which also resulted in another CD. Later in the year, he went to the UK, where he starred in a national stage tour of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Live!"
In the summer of 2013, he went to East Hampton, NY, where Tony Walton directed him in a production of "Tonight at 8:30", featuring 3 of Noel Coward's short plays. Blythe Danner was the co-star, and they performed "Hands Across the Sea", "Family Album" and "Red Peppers". This was followed by yet another UK stage tour of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Live!"
The tour of "Blithe Spirit", starring (newly titled) Dame Angela Lansbury, then went to London's West End in early 2014. This was accompanied by an appearance at a special cabaret (organised by co-star Janie Dee) at the Cafe de Paris, where Simon sang "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". When the West End performance ended, in June, he immediately went into the role of 'Emperor Joseph II' in "Amadeus", starring Rupert Everett. This was followed by BBC Radio appearances in Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett's "Good Omens", directed by Dirk Maggs and "Doctor Who" with Tom Baker. The year ended with "Blithe Spirit" again – with Dame Angela Lansbury – on a North American tour.
Selected filmography[edit]
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
Reds (1981)
Giro City (1982)
Privates on Parade (1982)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Brazil (1985)
Club Paradise (1986)
Green Card (1990)
American Friends (1991)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
12 Monkeys (1995)
The Devil's Own (1997)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Interview: Original Arthur Dent actor Simon Jones on Hitchhiker's writer Douglas Adams and performing live - Mancunian Matters". www.mancunianmatters.co.uk.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
Jump up ^ Itzkoff, Dave. "Actor Withdraws From Havel Play After Car Accident". ArtsBeat.
External links[edit]
Official website
Simon Jones on IMDb
Simon Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
Simon Jones at Internet Off-Broadway Database
BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Simon Jones
Simon Jones interview at TVParty.com
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Lavender's Blue
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"Lavender's Blue"
A 17th-century broadside version of the ballad
English folk song
Area(s)
collected in the United Kingdom and the United States
First publication
an English broadside (before 1680)
Catalogue(s)
Roud 3483
In music
The Turn of The Screw (an opera by Benjamin Britten, 1954)
Notable performer(s)
Burl Ives, Sammy Kaye, Dinah Shore, Sammy Turner; etc.
Genre
Nursery rhyme
"Lavender's Blue" (sometimes called "Lavender Blue") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts.
Contents
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1 Lyrics
2 Origins
3 20th century
4 Recordings
5 In other media
5.1 Film
5.2 Literature
5.3 Theatre
5.4 Television
6 References
7 External links
Lyrics[edit]
There are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many variations of each verse. A typical version, described by James Halliwell in 1849,[1] is:
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green,
When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen:
Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so?
'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.
Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work,
Some with a rake, dilly dilly, some with a fork;
Some to make hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn,
Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm.
If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap,
You shall be buried, dilly dilly, under the tap;
Who told you so, dilly dilly, pray tell me why?
That you might drink, dilly dilly, when you are dry.[1]
Origins[edit]
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Diddle, Diddle: Or, The Kind Country Lovers
The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679,[2] under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.[3] The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune of "Lavender Green", implying that a tune by that name was already in existence. The lyrics printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking.[4]
According to Robert B. Waltz, "The singer tells his lady that she must love him because he loves her. He tells of a vale where young man and maid have lain together, and suggests that they might do the same". Waltz cites Sandra Stahl Dolby as describing this broadside version as being about a girl named Nell keeping the singer's bed warm.[2]
Here is the first of ten verses:
Lavender's green, diddle, diddle,
Lavender's blue
You must love me, diddle, diddle,
cause I love you,
I heard one say, diddle, diddle,
since I came hither,
That you and I, diddle, diddle,
must lie together.[5]
Both Waltz (citing Eloise Hubbard Linscott) and Halliwell have noted the song's association with Twelfth Night and the choosing of the king of queen of the festivities of that holiday.[2][1]
"Lavender's Blue" emerged as a children's song in Songs for the Nursery in 1805 in the form:
Lavender blue and Rosemary green,
When I am king you shall be queen;
Call up my maids at four o'clock,
Some to the wheel and some to the rock;
Some to make hay and some to shear corn,
And you and I will keep the bed warm.[5]
Similar versions appeared in collections of rhymes throughout the 19th century.[5]
20th century[edit]
"Lavender Blue"
Single by Sammy Turner
from the album Lavender Blue Moods
B-side
"Wrapped Up In A Dream"
Released
1959
Format
7" single, 45 RPM
Recorded
1959
Genre
Soul, doo-wop, R&B
Length
2:13
Label
Big Top
45-3016
Songwriter(s)
Traditional
Producer(s)
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Sammy Turner singles chronology
"Lavender Blue"
(1959) "Sweet Annie Laurie"
(1959)
"Lavender Blue"
(1959) "Sweet Annie Laurie"
(1959)
A version of the song, titled "Lavender Blue", was featured in the 1949 Walt Disney film So Dear to My Heart, where it was sung by Burl Ives. This version was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1949 (it lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter). This version of the song was credited to Eliot Daniel (music) and Larry Morey (lyrics). "Lavender Blue" was one of 400 nominees for the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Songs" list of the 100 greatest film songs, which was presented on a television program of that name which aired on June 22, 2004, but it didn't make the final list.[6][7]
The appearance of "Lavender Blue" in the Disney film sparked a revival of interest in the song. Burl Ives released a record of the song in 1949, as did Vera Lynn, Sammy Kaye, Dinah Shore, and others. Ives's version was his first hit,[citation needed] Kaye's version charted at #5,[8] and Shore's version went to #1 in Australia.[9]
Ten years later, a doo-wop / soul interpretation by Sammy Turner reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.[10][11] Other popular artists recorded the song throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st.
Recordings[edit]
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Several versions of the song were collected in the US and UK.[2]
Burl Ives released a recording in 1949.
In 1949, Vera Lynn recorded a version of the song.
Sammy Kaye's 1949 version charted at #5.[8]
Dinah Shore also released a version in 1949 which went to #1 on the Australian chart.[9] It was the title track of her album Lavender Blue.[12]
In 1955, jazz pianist Jack Pleis recorded it for his album Music from Disneyland.
In 1959, Sammy Turner released a version which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.[10][11]
There was also a British single by gravel-voiced singer Tommy Bruce in 1963 which was not a hit.
The Fleetwoods recorded a version of the song in 1965.
In 1965, Ray Walston and a children's Chorus sang the song from the album "Songs from "Mary Poppins" and other children's classics".
In 1975, the song was interpreted by Leon Russell and Mary Russell for their Wedding Album. The song was entitled "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)".
In 1983, the rock musician David Bowie sang a couplet from the song as an introduction to his song "Heroes" in the live recording of his Serious Moonlight Tour.
On their 1985 UK number one album Misplaced Childhood, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion recorded a song called "Lavender", which had lyrics derived from the folk song and became a number 5 hit on the UK singles chart.[13][14]
In 1988, Broadway legend Barbara Cook recorded a version for her The Disney Album.
In 1990, the early music group The City Waites recorded the original 17th-century bawdy broadside version of "Lavender's Green, Lavender's Blue" on their album Pills to Purge Melancholy.
In 1991, The Wiggles included this song on their albums The Wiggles and Pop Go The Wiggles. There are two versions of this song. One is sung by Greg Page and the other is sung by Sam Moran.
In 2011, Laura Wright recorded a version for her album The Last Rose.
In 2012, Alyse Black recorded her rendition of the Sammy Turner version with her band 'Night, Sweet Pea on their album A Little Line of Kisses.
In 2016, Reinhard Mey recorded a version for his album Mr. Lee.
In other media[edit]
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Film[edit]
In 1949, the song was featured in the film So Dear to My Heart.
In 2012, the song made several appearances in the film Christmas Oranges, sung by the protagonist, Rose (Bailee Michelle Johnson).
In 2015, the song was used again by Disney in Cinderella. It is sung to Cinderella by her mother (Hayley Atwell) when she is a child and later by an adult Cinderella (Lily James) when she's locked in her room by her stepmother Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett). The film's score uses an orchestral version of the song at various points.
Literature[edit]
In John Updike's 1960 short story, "A Sense Of Shelter," the story's protagonist sings the song to himself.[15]
Andre Norton's 1975 novel, Lavender-Green Magic includes the lyrics to the song, and the title of the book is drawn from the second line of the song.
In 1989, the song was a prominent motif in M.M. Kaye's children's novel The Ordinary Princess.
In 1989, the song appeared in the horror novel Walkers by Graham Masterton.
A ghost named The Harper's Bride in Nora Roberts best selling in the Garden Trilogy sang it for many years as she haunted a mansions nursery an watched over the babies.
Sabrina Spellman’s mother, Diana, is seen singing the song while she is imprisioned in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic series.
Theatre[edit]
In Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera, The Turn of The Screw, the song is sung by the two children, Miles and Flora.[16]
In Brad Fraser's 1989 play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, lyrics from the song are repeatedly sung by the character Benita.
Television[edit]
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In an episode of U.S. sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir aired in 1969, British child star Mark Lester, playing a visiting English schoolboy (Mark Helmore) sings this song to regular cast member, schoolgirl, Candy, in a dream sequence.[importance?]
In the Broadcast to the Empire Christmas Night with the Stars episode of Dad's Army broadcast in 1972, Sergeant Wilson says a few lines of the song as a microphone test for the BBC Radio Christmas Broadcast.[importance?]
In 2010, during episode four of season one called "I Remember Nothing" of the Australian drama series "Spirited", produced by Foxtel, the main protagonist Henry Mallet sings the song to Suzy Darling's young sleeping daughter Verity.[importance?]
On the Australian children's TV show Wurrawhy, Wubleyoo and Lauren performed a song, with Lauren strumming the guitar.[importance?]
In 2011, the character Freida Short sings it to Van Alden's newborn baby in the episode "Peg of Old" (Season 2 Episode 7) of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.[importance?]
In 2017, in Hallmark Channel's original movie "A Royal Winter", the children's choir sings this song which the King used to sing to the Prince when he was a boy.
The 2018 Budlight made TV commercials for its medieval series of commercials in which the words "dilly dilly" were used. The producer said that the words were made up and were used just for fun and to try to get some further viewer usage. He made no reference to the original use of the words in any previous form. Probably because he did not know that the words had actually been used before.[citation needed]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Halliwell, James Orchard (1849). Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. London: John Russell Smith. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0370012551. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Robert B. Waltz & David G. Engle. "Lavender Blue". Traditional Ballad Index. California State University, Fresno. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
Jump up ^ See also here
Jump up ^ (Traditional) (1674–1679). "Diddle, Diddle (or The Kind Country Lovers)". Traditional Music Library. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter (1951). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford University Press. pp. 265–7. ISBN 9780198691112.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs (nominee list)" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs". American Film Institute. 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Billboard Best Sellers Chart History – "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)" by Sammy Kaye 1949". Song Database. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Song artist 62 - Dinah Shore". The World's Music Charts. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Billboard Hot 100 Chart History – "Lavender-Blue" by Sammy Turner 1959". Song Database. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Sammy Turner Top Songs". Music VF. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Dinah Shore – Lavender Blue". Discogs. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Marillion: Misplaced Childhood". Dutch Progressive Rock Page. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
Jump up ^ David Roberts British Hit Singles and Albums, Guinness World Records Limited
Jump up ^ Updike, John (January 16, 1960). "A Sense of Shelter". The New Yorker: 29. Retrieved March 7, 2017. (Subscription required (help)). Shuffling through the perfumed crowds to his next class, he crooned to himself, in the slow, over-enunciated manner of the Negro vocalist who had brought the song back this year, "Lah-vender blue, dilly dilly, / Lavendih greeh-een; / Eef I were king, dilly dilly, / You would: be queen". The song gave him an exulting sliding sensation..."
Jump up ^ Philip Rupprecht (11 February 2002). Britten's Musical Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-139-44128-5.
External links[edit]
Media related to Lavender's Blue at Wikimedia Commons
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