1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive
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- Meet 74-year-old Dolly Allen. Instead of retiring and putting her feet up, the former factory worker took the West Midlands by storm with her successful stand-up comedy career. His act incorporated broad Black Country dialect which even some people from Birmingham struggled to understand.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Monday 26 February, 1979.
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😸This lady's accent reminds me of a joke told by the jazz musician Tommy Burton, another proud Midlander.
A man from the Black Country goes into the vets, and says "I'd like to have my cat doctored."
The vet asks: "Is it a tom?"
"No," he replies, "it's outside in the car."
I love it that theres about a 2 mins of set up between each punch line.
Got to say, she was looking and sounding great for 74.
I hope she lived for many happy and healthy years.
Died in 1990, according to Wikipedia.
2:07 😂😂😂
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@@ACC_org_uk jesus christ lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
£300 in 79 would be worth around 1400 quid now
£1422.54 to be exact.
It would depend on what you're buying I suppose. Petrol or cigarettes would be a bit more I think
40 cigarettes cost £1, now it's about £40 for 40 cigarettes
An average house in 1979 was about £7000. (I bought a 6 bedroom Victorian terraced house for £6500 that year). That same house now would cost at the very least £250,000 ie minimum 30 times the '79 price, so £300 would, by that metric, be £9,000. A new Ford Escort 1300 Polular plus (I bought one) was £1300. An "equivalent" car today would be $25,000 ie 18x more. A loaf of bread is now about 15 x more than in 1979 and petrol is about 12x more. My best guess is that prices are a minimum of 12 times 1979 prices and more likely 15 times. These inflation calculators on the internet are always incorrect and the inaccuracies always understate the extent of inflation. If anyone out there thinks they can get a 3 bedroomed house for £35,000 (£7,000 at the 1979 price times a internet calculated inflation rise of only 5 times), good luck.
Still good money now !
Three hundred a week in 1979 must have been a pretty penny.
My first wage as an apprentice electrician back then was £18 a week , an absolute fortune at the age of 18 , forward to 1982 , time served getting £44 a week
A good lesson there for us.
She was out there doing something productive with her time, having a laugh. It was a good earner, too. 300 a week!
Agreed, better than being home in front of the telly every night.
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Note to self: ... The telly, or the screen.
2:05 🤣
I don't know this lady ,being from the US, but our version would have to be Minnie Pearl.
translation please
What language is she speaking?
Old Style!
Google translate did not work here
Brummies are easily pleased it seems.
We bai Brummies, we'em yam-yams! Gerrit roight!
2:04 good to see that Brummies were quite liberal even back in 1979 !
My grandmother (and other older relatives) used to say this particular word for a collective noun of a group of sticks. ie. Tinder.
But, whatever was on that spoon in that advertisement, it certainly wasn't a group of sticks collected for firewood.
I'm not from around that way.
Just saw your comment at that exact moment ~ thought exactly the same !! 😂😂😂😂😂
I'd completely forgotten that that was the name for a type of meatball. 😂
@@jasonayres Purchased from the butcher - good for dinner. The nationally-available brand: 'Brains' is still going.
@robinvanags912 Thanks.
I do remember offal covered in a salty gravy, from my youth.
Salty gravy used to make certain dishes palatable.
I was taught to just eat what was put in front of me, regardless.
Now a bland London accent is taking over the south of England moving out.
Funnier than Jo Brand.
To be fair a lifeless corpse would be funnier than that clown.
You might like to look up the word subjective.
I'm funnier than Jo Brand and I'm a miserable sod.
@@chrisredditch yup. I'd believe it 👍
@@octaviussludberry9016 OK. I think this woman was funnier than Jo Brand.
Then again, a chair is funnier than Jo Brand.