Touch your nose and blow your toes and mind

Aaaaaargh! After sixteen lovely days off - our trip to Amsterdam being its pivot - it's time to come back down to earth (with a bump!) and remember that work is still a necessary evil...

Sigh.

Never mind, eh? Let's let the wonderful and sadly-missed [in fact she departed for Fabulon ten years ago this very week] Miss Judy Carne and her safety gays provide us with a suitably energetic wake-up call, and hope for the best...

Judy Carne - The Ring Around the Rosie Rag

Have a good week, dear reader.

I won't.

Socked

And so, farewell then, the lovely Judy Carne.

Born Joyce Audrey Botterill in Northampton, after acting school and a stint on British telly she left to seek her fortune - travelling to the United States in 1962, just ahead of The Beatles and the 'British Invasion'. She briefly married Burt Reynolds, co-starred with the beauteous (but doomed) Pete Duel, and eventually became a household name as the "Sock it to Me" girl on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Her time after leaving the show was not quite such a "laugh", by all accounts, with periods of addiction and a traumatic car crash, and she eventually retired back home in the UK, where she died last week.

She'll always be the woman who managed to get Richard Nixon to ask America to "Sock it to him", however:

Say Goodnight, Dick

Here's the lady herself, with an odd choice - an Arlo Guthrie anti-establishment ditty disguised as a song-and dance number:

Judy Carne - The Ring Around the Rosie Rag

RIP Judy Carne (27th April 1939 – 3rd September 2015)

Read my previous tribute to Miss Carne

Sock it to me, sock it to me!

Happy 71st birthday today to the "Sock it to me" girl from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In Miss Judy Carne!



Unbelievably to us now, its non-stop corny jokes and sketches made Laugh-In a worldwide sensation in the late 60s, laying the ground for such manic classics as Banana Splits, and providing a platform to launch the careers of such modern greats as Goldie Hawn.

Northampton-born Judy's career never quite reached those Oscar-winning dizzy heights. She was married for a while to Burt Reynolds (one of four husbands), later admitted that she was bisexual, and retired from showbiz after a life-threatening car crash in the late 70s to (hopefully) a happy retirement in the UK.

Here, for your delectation, is Miss Carne's bizarre cash-in single based on "that" catchphrase - enjoy!

Judy Carne - Sock It To Me song

Judy Carne's autobiography "Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside"