Hysterical

Has a Gold Commander been appointed to deal with this week's big BBC decision ?  The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, have decided that now DG Tony Hall now owns the apparent problem of whether or not to play a 74-year-old show tune, currently in the popular music charts, on Radio 1 this weekend. In their dyspeptic, dystopian world, this is their lead story.  In the words of many, you couldn't make it up.

It's Judy Garland's film version of "Ding, Dong, The Wicked Witch Is Dead" that's leading the way into the chart returns, with Ella Fitzgerald's 1961 take running behind. In instrumental form, the tune was the play-out music for many episodes of The Goon Show.



The wholesome US TV show Glee offered a more recent version...

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The chart show starts at 1600 on Sunday.