Julian and Sandy

[DavidS]

In the 1960's BBC radio comedy series, 'Round the Horne' with Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick played two homosexual bookshop keepers, Julian & Sandy. Except those people who cannot find anything comic in sex, most people found their weekly routine very funny. It now turns out that the sketch contained a whole series of slang messages which only members of the gay community would have understood at the time. Homosexuality was still illegal then. Can anyone assist regarding what these messages were.

[steve56]

changing the subject for a while in 1965 the kinks recorded see my friends the rock journalists thought it was about homosexuals as in those days my friend was slang for a gay mate i never knew this till recently.

[Bronson Lee]

A classic comedy !

[steve56]

i rolled up laughing at this series got a few tapes too in fact it was getting near the end once and i recall thinking no jules and sandy this week when all of a sudden they arrived,does anyone recall beyond our ken from earlier in the 60s?Elton Dong wrote:

>
> A classic comedy !

[Bronson Lee]

Also worth checking out is Ken Williams "Rambling Sid Rumpo"

folk music full of gay slang , that was very popular !

with songs like "How green my naggers grow" and "the Cod wangler" !!!

[Ace]

steve56 wrote 'changing the subject for a while'

No changes there then, Stevie

[DavidS]

Thanks Steve56, I'd forgotten about The Kinks. Many of their songs were considered to carry hidden meanings, paticularly Lola. I just thought their songs made rather a nice noise and still do!

[Terry May]

go and see the West End show on at the moment (just off Leicester Square) its fantastic!

[steve56]

lola was about danny la rue i think,i was 8 yrs old when i 1st heard you really got me on a reel to reel tape the raw energy still sounds good today.DavidS wrote:

> Thanks Steve56, I'd forgotten about The Kinks. Many of their
> songs were considered to carry hidden meanings, paticularly
> Lola. I just thought their songs made rather a nice noise and
> still do!

[DavidS]

I do recall Beyond our Ken, but I was a bit too young to appreciate it at the time. I was reminded of Round the Horne recently when someone remarked how good it was compared with the vastly overrated Goon Show. Your recommended website is very useful. Thank you.