There's a ghost in my house
Sep. 20th, 2023 10:53 pmIf you haven't heard it or seen it, the second 'Prom' in this year's season featured covers of 'Northern Soul' classics and was fab.
Fascinatingly, the TV version has the songs in a different order to the radio one! So the TV has the same singer doing 'The Night' (originally by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons) in the first half and the even more wonderful 'There's a Ghost In My House' (originally by R Dean Taylor) in the second. The radio has these two one after the other in the second half.
I presume the radio one was what actually happened because the switch between songs in the TV one definitely shows signs of editing. But why do it??
Looking at Spotify, they have what I think is the 1970s UK single version of 'Ghost..' I remember and one where his vocal is much more prominent. (Possibly I mixed the links up, but if you listen it should be fairly obvious which is which.)
The other Proms I'm keeping my 'get-iplayer' copies of are the operas. Two of them only got radio coverage, but the 'Oorrible Opera one got a TV edited version.. on CBBC, so it's not with the other Proms on iPlayer!