The Infectious Laugh of Margaret Powell
Posted By Randy on June 30, 2016
This morning, and for reasons too convoluted to recount, I remembered an interview I watched back in my long lost childhood on a CBC Television show called Take 30. The interview was with Margaret Powell and was conducted by Adrienne Clarkson. Margaret Powell’s notoriety at the time arose from her memoir titled Below Stairs, based on her eleven years of service as a maid in one of the Great Houses of England. Her book has been credited with inspiring a popular television series called Upstairs, Downstairs.
My reason for mentioning Margaret Powell and the Take 30 interview, both to Mrs. LFM earlier today and you now, was the lady’s infectious laugh, and the way it completely slew the normally serious, dignified, and staid Clarkson. I’ve so far failed in my efforts to find that interview in the Land of Internets, but thanks to Mrs. LFM, I can offer you this from Margaret Powell’s recording career. What had to be a hit accurately titled I Laugh and Laugh and Laugh. If you’re having a bad day, or you aren’t at the moment but it so happens that you ever do, this should help. However briefly.
Just what the doctor ordered.I’m actually creacking up while I am listening to it.
it worked, I was larfing along with the song. :o)
and by the way – there was another laughing song from my childhood which actually used to cause me a bit of uneasiness, as the fellow started with a laugh but after a couple of minutes it sounded as though he was demented, moving into a maniacal serial killer sort of sound, that made me think of him stashing children in the trunk of his long black car! Other people thought it was a great song, but gave me the willies. I will post a link and let you decide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qiDyWPexJE