Alan Partridge : Knowing Me, Knowing You/Knowing Me, Knowing Yule - Complete BBC Series [1994] [DVD]

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Danish singer Sanne Salomonsen recorded her cover of the song for the 1992 Swedish tribute album ABBA – The Tribute, released on the Polar Music label. ABBA the World - Canada". Billboard. 8 November 1979. p.ABBA-8. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 3 November 2020. The Paraguayan singer Perla recorded a Spanish version, Conociendonos Mas for the 1977 album Relaciones Internacionales.

I think we made it because the title was so good,” laughs Marber. “But Christmas is very much Alan territory. It’s a festival of naff and vulgarity. You knew immediately that he’d have a great sweater and that he’d want a Christmas special. It would be very important to him. It’s a status thing in the BBC light ents world.” a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp.338–9. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.Downey, Pat; Albert, George; Hoffmann, Frank W (1994). Cash Box pop singles charts, 1950–1993. Libraries Unlimited. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-56308-316-7. I’m really not sure what it was going for. I’d rather have simply watched The One Show (and I really don’t like The One Show). Was the whole thing about how Steve Coogan is even more desperate for the pay cheque than Alan is? I wouldn’t have thought so. Definitely one to skip next week. pretentiouspenguin ‘Thank God it’s not Mrs Brown’s Boys’ I thought Knowing Me Knowing You was almost always hilarious. I’m Alan Partridge is probably one of my favourite sitcoms of all time. But this was barely one star, at best.

Right Said Fred covered the song on the German album ABBA Mania, which was a tie-in to a TV special in Germany. Knowing Me, Knowing You drew inspiration from what David Schneider calls “comfy cardigan chat” – a burgeoning trend in the early Nineties. “Just as The Day Today was preying on news, Knowing Me, Knowing You was preying on chat shows and morning TV,” says Schneider. “It was contemporary in that way – morning TV was really just exploding. I think that was Steve’s great talent – to swallow all these different people, whether it was Alan Titchmarsh or Richard Madeley or John Motson, and come up with this amalgam that you immediately recognised.” Knowing Me, Knowing You" continues to be regarded as one of ABBA's finest songs. In 2017, Billboard ranked the song number four on their list of the 15 greatest ABBA songs, [11] and in 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the song number two on their list of the 25 greatest ABBA songs. [12] Music video [ edit ] A version by Swedish heavy metal band Tad Morose was included on the ABBA tribute compilation ABBAMetal (also released as A Tribute to ABBA). Terry Norton, dodgy boxing promoter ( Alan Ford); Five Miss Norwich contestants ( Barbara Durkin, plus four uncredited); Ronald Biggs ( Lib Dem) ( Felix Dexter)Czech singer Věra Špinarová recorded a Czech version, Slunečné pobřeží (meaning Sunny Beach in Bulgaria), in 1977. Swiss singer Richard Gyver released an electro-pop cover of the song in October 2020 together with a music video very much inspired by Lasse Hallström's original work for the ABBA promotional footage; replicas of the ABBA kimono outfits are worn by mannequins in the video. Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 8 January 2022– via Imgur.com. Knowing Me Knowing Yule - the Alan Partridge Christmas Special. This show is available in VHS format. Interviewing both Tony Hayers and Mary the bell-ringer on the sofa, Alan displays the full gamut of his personality foibles, from cringe-inducing brown-nosery to condescending contempt. But Alan’s comedic reflexes are as fast as ever, and his barbs just as pointed. When puritan Mary protests about the “pornographic” BBC and its apparent depiction of masturbation, Alan asks: “Look luv, what’s your problem with it?” “I don’t like it.” “Well don’t do it.”

I didn’t laugh once, which is rather spectacular. Not even a slight smile. There was no bite or edge to the comedy; there wasn’t much comedy at all. The jokes were very safe. It seemed to steer away from all controversy and danger. Especially when you compare it to similar parody stuff like Brass Eye and Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe (and others), it just wasn’t in the least bit funny. South Africa". Home.zipworld.com.au. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015 . Retrieved 27 March 2014. Pennanen, Timo (2021). "ABBA". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.8 . Retrieved 21 June 2022.

Sheffield, Rob (2 September 2021). "The 25 Best ABBA Songs, Ranked". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 28 March 2022. a b c d e "ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs. 1977 . Retrieved 27 March 2014.

Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge – the comedy chat show first broadcast in 1994 – is perhaps best remembered for Alan’s “A-ha!” catchphrase (indeed, it’s dogged both Partridge and alter-ego Steve Coogan ever since: see Coogan shouting “A-ha!” into the northern wilderness in The Trip). The Alan Partridge Playmates; the Maclean brothers, irritating child film-makers; Joe Beazley and Cheeky Monkey, awful ventriloquist act (John Thomson) ABBA fenomen ili fenomenalna ABBA". Džuboks. No.33. April 1977. p.5 . Retrieved 3 November 2020– via Popboks. Martin Dwyer, alias Lt. Col. Kojak Slaphead III (Bald Brummies Against The Big-Footed Conspiracy Party) Hunter, Nigel; Scaping, Peter, eds. (1978). "Top 100 Singles in 1977". BPI Year Book 1978 (3rded.). London, England: The British Phonographic Industry Ltd. pp.216–17. ISBN 0-906154-01-4.The song is performed in the musical Mamma Mia! by the character of Sam. In the context of the musical, the song is used as Sam's description of his failed marriage. Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016 . Retrieved 12 October 2016. I love seeing Alan in all his glory,” says Marber, “but beneath it there’s a terrible desperation – that it might not go to a second series, that it might be a disaster but no one’s telling him. But I guess that played into how we were all feeling. There was truth in it. Suddenly we had the keys to this little kingdom. You immediately fear that you’ll have a flop and the circus will leave town.” The pleasure of the follow-up sitcom series, I’m Alan Partridge, was seeing Alan at his lowest ebb – comeuppance for his social inadequacies and cynical ambition. But the pleasure of Knowing Me, Knowing You is seeing Alan in his career pomp, atop the proverbial ladder, and wielding a modicum of power. Much like his later mistreatment of downtrodden PA Lynn Benfield (Felicity Montagu), it’s an alarming insight into the man – or more specifically, the ego – behind the badge and blazer combo. Danny Wilson recorded a live version of the song, which was released on their bonus album Three-In-A-Bed Romp in 1991. The instrumental solo is played on an accordion.