I first saw a clip of this song on ‘Film 86’ presented by Barry Norman when the film of ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’ was released and thought it was the most hilarious thing I had ever seen! Steve Martin is gloriously rotten (in a melodramatic way) as the Sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello DDS and I love the way he performs this number.
I missed the film at the cinema but watched it later on video in 1987 when I was round at my friend’s house one Saturday evening after dinner. My friend’s parents were away and he was planning to make a Chilli Con Carne for dinner but ran in to problems when his cat climbed up onto the kitchen work surface and ate all the raw mince leaving only a few morsels in the polystyrene tray and some half eaten cling film! Needless to say we were both very disappointed and had to get a takeaway but the cat was very happy and sat bloated and purring at on the floor! The unnamed cat (usually referred to as ‘Kitty’) was like a beach ball with a small head and tail appended and four short legs buckling underneath her but she was extremely placid and easy going and loved to have her tummy stroked!
This song reminds me of the film, that afternoon, the cat and singing a song from the movie at the Fortune Theatre in a showcase for our drama school when I left in 1992….
Hope you like it…..
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