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Don Fardon’s I'm Alive by Tom Kingsley

Jimmy Brown - 26th May 2010

A hit for Don Fardon back in the 70s and used in Five Alive's 'dancing dodo' tv commercial, the drinks company thought it would be exciting to make a fullscale music video of it - and what a cracker.

A hit for Don Fardon back in the 70s and used in Five Alive's 'dancing dodo' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=qQIOHJxqAUc" target="_blank">tv commercial</a>, the drinks company thought it would be exciting to make a fullscale music video of it - and what a cracker. "The week before the shoot, hoodlums broke in and stole all the copper pipes - so the whole ground floor was under an inch of water. A few days later, the miscreants broke back in and set fire to the place - possibly an over-enthusiastic attempt to get rid of the flood damage. Then they celebrated by having a fight with lots of margarine. Their weapon of choice: Bertolli. "But Sam and Arthur tidied it all up, and so the actual shoot went just fine. The old people had a grand time trotting around all day, Don Fardon popped round and had a cameo as the gardener, and amazingly we didn't have to cut any shots. Proper ballet dancer Patrick Wood was clearly brilliant in the lead role, Denzil Armour-Brown lit everything beautifully and speedily, Jim Cole ran the set like clockwork, while if Tamsin Glasson hadn't been producing I don't know what would have happened".

"The week before the shoot, hoodlums broke in and stole all the copper pipes - so the whole ground floor was under an inch of water. A few days later, the miscreants broke back in and set fire to the place - possibly an over-enthusiastic attempt to get rid of the flood damage. Then they celebrated by having a fight with lots of margarine. Their weapon of choice: Bertolli.

A hit for Don Fardon back in the 70s and used in Five Alive's 'dancing dodo' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=qQIOHJxqAUc" target="_blank">tv commercial</a>, the drinks company thought it would be exciting to make a fullscale music video of it - and what a cracker. "The week before the shoot, hoodlums broke in and stole all the copper pipes - so the whole ground floor was under an inch of water. A few days later, the miscreants broke back in and set fire to the place - possibly an over-enthusiastic attempt to get rid of the flood damage. Then they celebrated by having a fight with lots of margarine. Their weapon of choice: Bertolli. "But Sam and Arthur tidied it all up, and so the actual shoot went just fine. The old people had a grand time trotting around all day, Don Fardon popped round and had a cameo as the gardener, and amazingly we didn't have to cut any shots. Proper ballet dancer Patrick Wood was clearly brilliant in the lead role, Denzil Armour-Brown lit everything beautifully and speedily, Jim Cole ran the set like clockwork, while if Tamsin Glasson hadn't been producing I don't know what would have happened".

"But Sam and Arthur tidied it all up, and so the actual shoot went just fine. The old people had a grand time trotting around all day, Don Fardon popped round and had a cameo as the gardener, and amazingly we didn't have to cut any shots. Proper ballet dancer Patrick Wood was clearly brilliant in the lead role, Denzil Armour-Brown lit everything beautifully and speedily, Jim Cole ran the set like clockwork, while if Tamsin Glasson hadn't been producing I don't know what would have happened".

A hit for Don Fardon back in the 70s and used in Five Alive's 'dancing dodo' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=qQIOHJxqAUc" target="_blank">tv commercial</a>, the drinks company thought it would be exciting to make a fullscale music video of it - and what a cracker. "The week before the shoot, hoodlums broke in and stole all the copper pipes - so the whole ground floor was under an inch of water. A few days later, the miscreants broke back in and set fire to the place - possibly an over-enthusiastic attempt to get rid of the flood damage. Then they celebrated by having a fight with lots of margarine. Their weapon of choice: Bertolli. "But Sam and Arthur tidied it all up, and so the actual shoot went just fine. The old people had a grand time trotting around all day, Don Fardon popped round and had a cameo as the gardener, and amazingly we didn't have to cut any shots. Proper ballet dancer Patrick Wood was clearly brilliant in the lead role, Denzil Armour-Brown lit everything beautifully and speedily, Jim Cole ran the set like clockwork, while if Tamsin Glasson hadn't been producing I don't know what would have happened".

Jimmy Brown - 26th May 2010

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Director
Tom Kingsley
Producer
Tamsin Glasson
1st AD
Jim Cole

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Director of Photography
Denzil Armour

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Stylist
Hannah Glossop

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Choreographer
Alex Reynolds

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Tom Kingsley

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Colourist
James Bamford

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Post Producer
Munky

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Jimmy Brown - 26th May 2010

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