Bill Nighy
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3,126 appearances
11 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then there's a song, which I just like the title apart from anything, and it's very catchy, and it's called Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
Incidentally, I think dude, you can hear how uncomfortable I am saying it.
I think it should go on the band list, but with a...
With a caveat, I've never used that word in my life, but I think it's correct, that it's okay for people under 20.
But anyone over 20 that says, dude, you know, they always go that, you know, like, dude.
You know, at the beginning of a sentence, they'll say, dude, what the, you know, like that.
And it just goes through me like a knife.
Anyway, that's by Steely Dan, which is, I think you'll agree, a compulsive little number.
And then Nancy with the Laughing Face by Frank Sinatra, which is by no means...
a favorite song or a favorite Frank Sinatra song, but it has been one that is just lodged in my brain.
And I know a little-known pop fact about that song, which will get you five points in any pub quiz, which is the lyrics were written...
by Phil Silvers.
And, you know, I am aware that 98% of the people listening won't know who Phil Silvers is.
Phil Silvers used to have a show called, I don't know what the show was called, but his character was called Sergeant Bilko, B-I-L-K-O.
If you want to check it out in black and white, it'll make you laugh.
Anyway, he wrote probably the only song he ever wrote.
And he wrote Nancy with a Laughing Face, which is about Nancy Sinatra.
And her father used to sing it.
And I always remember, take Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner.
She makes my heart, wait for it, a charcoal burner.
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