Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and… Read Full Bio ↴Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game Face the Music.
Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a Pickle (1938) and A Midsummer Day's Work (1939). Here his colleagues included the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. He had already embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up the concert platform for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947.
Cooper made a number of successful recordings and also began broadcasting on radio. In 1954 he accepted an invitation to work on the BBC radio quiz show Call the Tune. In 1967 the show transferred to television under the title Face the Music. Transmitted on BBC2 and repeated on BBC1, it ran until 1979 and was briefly revived in 1983-4. The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaboate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent. Face the Music also featured the Dummy Keyboard, in which Cooper played a well-known piano piece on a silent keyboard and the panel had to identify it. The music was gradually faded in for viewers at home.
During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by the independent company TWW, which served South Wales and the West of England. He became known for his acerbic, rather irascible interviewing style and for the fact that he regularly played out the programme with a gentle piano piece.
Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1982. He was married twice, first to Jean Greig from 1947 until her death in 1973, and then Carol Borg, from 1975 until her death in 1996.
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Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar, During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a Pickle (1938) and A Midsummer Day's Work (1939). Here his colleagues included the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. He had already embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up the concert platform for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947.
Cooper made a number of successful recordings and also began broadcasting on radio. In 1954 he accepted an invitation to work on the BBC radio quiz show Call the Tune. In 1967 the show transferred to television under the title Face the Music. Transmitted on BBC2 and repeated on BBC1, it ran until 1979 and was briefly revived in 1983-4. The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaboate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent. Face the Music also featured the Dummy Keyboard, in which Cooper played a well-known piano piece on a silent keyboard and the panel had to identify it. The music was gradually faded in for viewers at home.
During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by the independent company TWW, which served South Wales and the West of England. He became known for his acerbic, rather irascible interviewing style and for the fact that he regularly played out the programme with a gentle piano piece.
Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1982. He was married twice, first to Jean Greig from 1947 until her death in 1973, and then Carol Borg, from 1975 until her death in 1996.
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The Swan
Joseph Cooper Lyrics
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- Saint-Saens The frozen rivers, taker-givers, they make you shiver Ain't …
12012 There's nothing left Can you see what I'm feeling? I jus…
Anderson & Roe These lyrics This mind These words of mine They fail me some…
Barbra Streisand What are ya gonna do? Shoot the swans? These lovelies? …
Bob & Tanja By my side, You'll never be. By my side, You'll. never. be. …
Cheatahs The swan, he bleeds. His wings are still. If you take what…
Debussy/Poulenc/Saint-Saens/Satie The frozen rivers, taker-givers, they make you shiver Ain't …
Elliot Vernon The paths we've learnt to wander All narrow, winding, steep …
George Winston You made the tears of love Flow like they did When I…
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Saint-Saëns The frozen rivers, taker-givers, they make you shiver Ain't …
Skyforest Once I saw your grand beauty I couldn't believe my eyes You…
Tarpit Murder your TV Kill yourself Murder your tv Slit your…
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The Sheila Divine if you were there you'd understand my culture's frozen in …
The Swan Everybody got a dark side And dark thoughts They just might …
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Winds of March Journey/Perry tribute band
I disagree. Have you seen Everybody Loves Raymond?
There was one where Brad Garret was so thrilled their parents were moving away that he picks up his girl and puts her on the fridge.
Ray tries this with Pat Heaton, and she just slams into it...it's not even close.
I think the master was Carroll O'Connor on All in the Family. Much more subtle, but extremely well executed.
I know you said 50 years, but Jackie Gleason/Art Carney on the Honeymooners were excellent
LucyLovettLestrange
Natalie Portman actually said that she finds Black Swan parodies to be a pure compliment to her! I can imagine her laughing hard at this!
Colby Kelly
She's sharp as fuck.
shaikha alsaedi
@Denny Darkko both are diffrent stories, the two movies are brilliant on their own way 😒
Ama C
@Scott Brandts I disagree. Rachel Weisz, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman.
Ama C
Because the parodies can be taken more serious than the actual movie.
George Georgiev
What do you expect her to say?
Jacob Fieldz
To have kept his face straight when Jim was flashing his nipples and screaming, is the most professional and disciplined art I’ve ever seen.
Kevin Castle
@LucyLovettLestrange Agreed.
LucyLovettLestrange
@The Nymphomancer Of course! As he always cracks up while he’s Stefan! 😂
LucyLovettLestrange
You can tell he was trying not to laugh. You could see the corner of his lips starting to curl