Dick? That's an interesting name

It was - remarkably - the 99th birthday last weekend of one of the entertainment world's last great "all-rounders", Mr Dick Van Dyke!

By way of a tribute, I thought I'd treat us to a couple of his classic movie moments:

Dick Van Dyke, Juie Andrews - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Music Box Dance Scene

Proving, however, that you can't keep an old trouper down, despite his venerable age - just released earlier this month is this rather emotional (and unlikely!) collaboration between Dick...

...and Coldplay!

Coldplay - All My Love

The video is lovely. The song? Hmmmm. It's OK, but on the whole, I prefer this!

Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and Sylvia Lewis - The Doodlin' Song

Happy belated birthday, Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born 13th December 1925)!

It's better than being a party-poop

Mr Cy Coleman, whose 87th birthday it would have been tomorrow, wrote a whole raft of our favourites from the Great American Songbook - not only those in one of my fave musicals Sweet Charity, such as Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now and There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, but also such standards as The Best is Yet to Come, Nobody Does It Like Me, It's Not Where You Start (It's Where You Finish), You Fascinate Me So, Hey, Look Me Over and Witchcraft.

But on this Tacky Music Monday it's an interesting version of one of his "novelty songs" (more familiar in its rendition by Miss Peggy Lee, of course) to which we turn to cheer us up as we stagger back to the office...

Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and Sylvia Lewis - The Doodlin' Song

Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman, 14th June 1929 – 18th November 2004)

Read my tribute to Mr Coleman on his 80th.

Have a good week...