Bill Nighy
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3,458 appearances
12 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6d ago
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
Picture a tomboy in lace and then you has Nancy with the laughing face.
She takes the winter and makes it summer, but, wait for it, summer could take some lessons from her.
It's great writing.
And then another Frank Sinatra song, which I learned all the way through just so that I wouldn't have to always sing, it happened in Monterey a long time ago.
It happened in Monterey in old Mexico, and then stop there.
Now, I know that I can continue to sing.
Stars and steel guitars and luscious lips as red as wine stole somebody's heart and I'm afraid that it was mine.
See, I know the other verse as well.
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