The Randolphs had a family band, and Boots grew up playing the ukulele, vibraphone, and trombone, eventually settling on the saxophone.īoots played in the United States Army Band in his youth, then moved back to Kentucky and started a combo ensemble, and eventually took a shot at solo recording and session performing. At some point, he was given the name and it just stuck. There’s no real story behind the nickname Boots, except for that growing up, his father was also named Homer, and it caused some confusion. Homer Louis “Boots” Randolph III (1927-2007) was born in Kentucky. Especially because we pretty much always know what the outcome is going to be, we just want to watch it happen and pretend it’s all a big circus act. The Benny Hill version is another rendition entirely, recorded by Ronnie Aldrich and His Orchestra.ĭue to the nature of how “Yakety Sax” was predominantly used in The Benny Hill Show, car-chase videos shot from news helicopters tend to make for the best adaptations of the music.
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+ Read more on Flypaper: “What Happens When You Mess with the Keys of Iconic Movie Theme Songs?” The song didn’t really catch on until they rerecorded and released it in 1963 when it went on to enter the Billboard Top 100 and chart as high as #35! The “ Benny Hill Theme” is actually called “Yakety Sax” and was composed and originally recorded in 1958 by Boots Randolph and James Q. Some people have started to call this the “Yakety effect.” In effect, this juxtaposition brilliantly exposes what’s behind the curtain, but then just lets us enjoy it for what it is. These “ Benny Hill Theme” re-edits of drama and violence on film are a nutshell microcosm of how easy it is for the internet to dull our ability to feel empathy, yet they’re also a pretty clever commentary on cinema’s ability to manipulate and sculpt our reaction through its many devices.
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