Press & Media Pack
Debbie Curtis
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Over 30 Stars & Celebrities from Music, Stage & Screen team up with Debbie Curtis to record this 2 track Single
Now on Pre-Release Order at iTunes : Release Date 8th December 2013
Also at Amazon MP3 from 8/12 : (Video Releases 15th December)
In Aid of VIVA! Registered Charity Number 1037486
‘An International Voice For Animals’
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/talk-to-the-animals-single/id730566929
Track 1: Talk To The Animals
From the Original Doctor Dolittle Film Starring Rex Harrison
With ‘The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band’ isrc GBWCA1300026 PPL id 639075498
Track 2: All The Same
Original & Contemporary, Written By Debbie Curtis & Chris Baker
isrc GBWCA1300027 PPL id 639092055
Video Trailers Now Live At YouTube : User DCRBB
The Voices
In No Particular Order!
Jerome Flynn
Actor & Singer : Robson & Jerome, Unchained Melody, Ripper Street, Game Of Thrones, Soldier Soldier, Aint Misbehavin, Badger, Best, Tommy Cooper in Jus’ Like That, Rude Tales, …………..
Hazel O’Connor
Singer, Songwriter, Actress : Breaking Glass, Eighth Day, D-Days, Will You, Jangles, Fighting Back………..
Dave Spikey
Comedian, Actor, Writer, Film Producer : Phoenix Nights, Dead Man Weds, 8 out of 10 Cats…………
Hayley Mills
Actress Bafta & Golden Globe : Tiger Bay, The Parent Trap, Wild at Heart……………….
Carol Royle
Actress : Life Without George, Heartbeat, Blake’s 7, Casualty, The Professionals……………..
Sophie Shaw (Daughter of Actor Martin Shaw : Judge John Deed, The Professionals…
Actress & Singer : Blue Harlem, Ronnie Scott’s, Doctors, Holby City, Piccadilly Cowboy, West End………...
Josef Brown
Actor & Dancer : Currently In Neighbours. An Officer & A Gentleman, Dirty Dancing………..
Cindy Jackson
Best Selling Author & TV Personality, Cosmetic Surgery Addict, Guinness Book Of Records Holder
Jenny Seagrove
Actress : Jo Mills In Judge John Deed, A Woman Of Substance, Local Hero……………..
Jilly Johnson
Singer, Model, Novelist : Blonde On Blonde, Daily Mirror’s 1st Topless Model, Double Exposure……
Anneka Svenska
TV Presenter, Actress, Animal Expert : Eden in Out There, Brainiac, Eastenders…………….
Uri Geller
Mystical Spoon Bending Psychic, Magician & TV Personality
Dale Vince OBE
The New Age Traveller, now Green Energy Tycoon, who founded & runs Ecotricity!
Simon O’Brien
Actor, Radio Presenter : Damon Grant In Brookside, Fraggle Rock, Do I Know That, Grange Hill
David Hamilton
Radio & TV Presenter : Radio 1 (Diddy David Hamilton) …… 12,000 + Radio Shows, 1000+ TV
Janey Lee Grace
Radio/TV Presenter, Singer : Co Host BBC Radio 2 ‘ Steve Wright In The Afternoon’ Cola Boy, George Michael, Boy George, Kim Wilde……………….
Sonya Fitzpatrick
TV/Radio Personality, Pet Psychic : Animal Planet’s The Pet Psychic, Animal Intuition…………….
Macka B
Reggae Artist : Roots Ragga, Here Comes Trouble, Squeeze Me… The Wailers, Lee Perry, Burning Spear…
Jared Paul
USA Slam Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Legendary On & Off Stage
Virginia McKenna
Olivia Award, BAFTA & Golden Globe Actress : A Town Like Alice, Carve Her Name With Pride, Born Free, The King and I ……………………
CJ de Mooi
Actor, Quizzer, Model : BBC TV ‘Eggheads’ panellist and renowned knowledge challenger! First Movie Forthcoming…………………
David Van Day
Singer & Media Personality : Guys N Dolls, Dollar, Bucks Fizz, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here ……
Sue Moxley
TV Presenter, Model, Beauty Editor, Singer. Sun Columnist, Sue Moxley Brand Makeup, So Would You Dump Me Now …………………
Alan Ford
Actor. Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Bill, Exorcist’ The Beginning, The Long Good Friday, Law & Order, Knowing Me Knowing You………………….
Owen Paul
Singer ‘My Favourite Waste Of Time’ Mike & The Mechanics, Ex Simple Minds
Vince Hill
Legendary Crooner, Song Writer, Drama Writer, Edelweiss, Tolpuddle, Parade Of The Pops, The Rivers Run Dry, Take Me To Your Heart Again, Roses Of Picardy…………..
Harry Stone
Musical Theatre, Actor. The Tempest, Cole Porter in ‘You’re the Top’ West Side Story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, (Jeremy) Oklahoma, Eastenders………………..
Sue Cook
TV & Radio Presenter. Capital Radio, BBC Nationwide, Breakfast Time, Children In Need, Out Of Court, Crimewatch, Pebble Mill At One………………………
Ziggie Sky Ward
Musical Theatre, Actress & Singer : Backing Vocalist for DCRBB, Touring Shows, TV Commercials, London Palladium, Her Majesty’s, ………………………
Bob Kingsley
Voiceover Artist : The recognizable voice of countless Radio & TV Commercials for over 30 years………..
Liza Goddard
Actress, TV Personality : Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, Take Three Girls, Take Three Women, Ooh..You Are Awful, The Brothers, Minder, Yes Honestly, Pig In The Middle, Doctor Who, Wild West…………….
Kerry Ellis
The First Lady Of West End Musicals! Musical Theatre Actress & Singer : My Fair Lady, We Will Rock You, Les Miserables, Wicked, Oliver, Miss Saigon, Chess, The War Of The Worlds, Rent, Wicked In Rock, The Born Free Tour…………………….
Polly Browne
Singer : Pickettywitch, That Same Old Feeling, Sweet Dreams………….
Anthony Haighway
Director of Wolf Watch UK. Famous for his home estate with rescued wolves.
Trevor Weeks MBE
Wildlife Wefare & Rescue Specialist, ITV1 British Animal Honours Local Charity of the Year 2013…..
Ellie Harrison
Artist & Campaigner
Susan Jameson
Actress : Coronation Street, Take Three Girls, New Tricks, Grandpa In My Pocket, Close and True, Doctor Who, All In Good Faith, To Serve Them All My Days ………………….
Alexandra Bastedo
Actress : Eastenders, The Champions, Batman Begins, Beyond Reasonable Doubt…………..
Victoria Eisermann
Model & TV Personality : Magazines & TV commercials etc. Perhaps now best known as the first person ever to be kicked off of Big Brother!
Pola Pospieszalska
Polish Pop Singer & Songwriter now based in London!
Sarah-Jane Honeywell
TV Presenter, Actress, Dancer, Acrobat/Aerialist, Singer : Cbeebies, Love & Magic, Believe In Magic…….
Terry Ackland-Snow
Film Set & Production Designer : Batman, Harry Potter, Aliens, Rocky Horror Picture Show……………..
Juliet Gellatley
Founder & Director of VIVA! The beneficiary charity of this production!
The Musicians
Glenn Tilbrook (Guitar On Talk To The Animals)
Singer, Songwriter, Musician : Squeeze – Up The Junction, Black Coffee In Bed, Cool For Cats……………
Mark White (Trumpet Solo’s on Talk To The Animals & All The Same)
BBC Big Band, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, Jamie Cullum……
The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band (Talk To The Animals)
The UK’s Top Big Band Orchestra :-
Trumpets: Martin Shaw, Bob Cutting, Mark White, Richard Freeman
Saxes: Loren Hignell, Mark Allaway, Ronnie Mackie, Horace Cardew, Eddie Mordue
Trombones : Andy Flaxman, Cliff Hardie, David Pearce, Robin Turner
Piano : Andy Rumble. Bass: Paul Morgan. Drums : Bob Howard : Percussion Colin Watson
All The Same : Debbie Curtis, Chris Baker, John Clements, Barry Everitt, Mark White
Debbie Curtis
Organiser : www.debbiecurtis.co.uk
Debbie and her staff at DCRBB Music have spent 10 months putting ‘Big Band Aid’ together, contacting the celebs, organising recording dates and travelling a zillion miles up and down and across the UK with a portable studio to record each of the contributors individually, in dressing rooms, hotels, offices and homes. Debbie wore out a set of car tyres, burned out an alternator and blew up her air conditioning in the process!
Debbie did her first gig with her father Eddie’s big band aged just 7, by 18 she had turned professional and was working with the legendry Ten Years After guitarist Alvin lee on her first solo album with her then band Platinum Blonde! Debbie went on to release a jazz funk album with backing band the Gangsters Of The Groove and had success with a number of singles released from the album. She has studied Fine Art and Music, specializing in music from 1938 – 1950 and Cuban Rhythm’s, she later went on to study The Psychology of Criminal Profiling, which she says gave her some great food for thought when it came to writing lyrics.
Debbie is a Big Band MD, arranger, conductor and composer for film, theatre and television. She is a talented pianist, guitarist, arranger and score writer for Big Bands and small ensembles.
Debbie took over her father’s Big Band, now The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band, when he passed away and performs and records in venues including The London Palladium, Pinewood Studios, Shepperton, BBC TV and Radio and also at international events.
Debbie has worked with many artists including Joan Rivers, Jools Holland, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, Glen Tilbrook, Corey Conradi to name but a few and has recently composed, produced and edited the TV Music and Theme for the television series History of The World starring Warren Clarke.
Her other interests include the spiritual side of life, which she says is all about leading a good ethical and moral life. Debbie is an avid supporter of animal charities and animal welfare, often speaking out against the unethical treatment of animals – she has a small menagerie and is a vegetarian, she has also written for The National History Press on Big Band and Dance Band history, and at present has just begun to study for a Private Pilot’s License.
VIVA!
The Beneficiary www.viva.org.uk
Viva! campaigns for a vegetarian/vegan world because most farmed animals spend their short and miserable lives in the filth of factory farms and are killed with sickening barbarity – see here
We expose this abuse by secretly going inside these shameful places and filming the suffering – publicising it with nationwide campaigns that bring about change.
· Viva! monitors the latest research from all over the world on the environment and development issues and argues for change with hard science.
· Viva! organises demonstrations and imaginative local campaigns to ensure the public know what’s happening in their area.
· Viva! provides all the information and support necessary to help people change their diet because the best way to protect animals is to stop eating them.
· Viva! needs your support to end the shame of animal suffering, to protect the planet and stop the killing.
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The Lyrics
Talk to The Animals
Original Lyrics & Music : Leslie Bricusse. Arrangement : Eddie Curtis & Debbie Curtis. Lyrics Adapted By Debbie Curtis
Produced By Nigel Ward & Debbie Curtis
If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it,
Jerome Flynn
Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee,
Susan Jameson
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting with a cheetah,
Owen Paul Carol Royle
What a neat achievement it would be,
Hazel O’Connor
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages,
Hayley Mills Sue Cook & Debbie Curtis
Maybe Take an animal degree,
Harry Stone
I'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle,
Liza Goddard David Van Day
Alligator, guinea pig, and flea,
Dave Spikey & CJ de Mooi
I would converse in polar bear and python,
Jerome Flynn Alan Ford
And I would curse in fluent kangaroo,
Hazel O’Connor
If people ask me "can you speak rhinoceros?"
Sophie Shaw
I'd say "of courserous, Why can't you?"
Trevor Weeks Bob Kingsley
If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal,
Jerome Flynn Jerome Flynn & Debbie Curtis
Think of the amazing repartee
Ziggie Sky Ward
If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,
Uri Geller David Van Day
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,
Jerome Flynn, Carol Royle, Sophie Shaw & Debbie Curtis
And they could sing and speak to me
Kerry Ellis
If I consult with the quadrupeds
Bob Kingsley
Think what fun we’d have, Asking for the crocodiles for tea!
Simon O’Brien David Hamilton
Or maybe lunch with three lions, walrus and sea lions
Virginia McKenna Dave Spikey & Debbie Curtis
What a lovely place the world would be!
Hayley Mills Sue Moxley
If I spoke slang to orang-utans, the advantages
Macka B
Any fool on earth could plainly see!
Janey Lee Grace & Debbie Curtis
Discussing Eastern art and dramas
Uri Geller
With intellectual llamas
Susan Jameson
That’s a big step forward you’ll agree!
Virginia McKenna
I’d learn to speak, in antelope and turtle
Hazel O’Connor
And Pekinese would be extremely good
Juliet Gellatley
If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus
Owen Paul
I’d say “whynotamous?” and I would!
Vince Hill
If I could parlay with pachyderms
CJ de Mooi
It’s a fairy tale worthy of Hans Anderson and Grimm
Jerome Flynn & Hazel O’Connor & Debbie Curtis
And one who walks with the animals, talks with the animals
Kerry Ellis
Grunts and squeaks and squawks with the animals, Ha Ha
Jerome Flynn, Liza Goddard, Dale Vince, Terry Ackland-Snow & Debbie Curtis Vince Hill
And they would sing with me
Owen Paul & Ziggie Sky Ward & Debbie Curtis
And if you just stop to think of it, there's no doubt of it
Bob Kingsley Alexandra Bastedo
Our attitudes are so last century
David Hamilton
If I could walk with the animals
Sophie Shaw
Talk with the animals
Janey Lee Grace
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals
Jerome Flynn, Hazel O’Connor, Harry Stone, Liza Goddard, CJ de Mooi, Anthony Haighway & Debbie Curtis
And they would say ‘Set me Free’
Jerome Flynn, Hazel O’Connor, Ellie Harrison & Debbie Curtis
All The Same
Words & Music By Debbie Curtis & Chris Baker : Slam Poetry By Jared Paul
Produced By Chris Baker & Debbie Curtis
It’s all the same birds
Harry Stone
All the same bees
Paulina Pospieszalska
It’s all the same fruit
Cindy Jackson
From the same tree
Sue Moxley
It’s all the same heart, beating within
Harry Stone
It’s all the same skin
Sarah-Jane Honeywell
It’s all the same footprint, Left in the sand
Josef Brown
It’s all the same mammal, All the same man
Juliet Gellatley Jilly Johnson
It’s all the same pathway, All the same bends
Jenny Seagrove Annika Svenska
All the same ends
Victoria Eisermann & Ziggie Sky Ward
So what’s the difference between us all
All
It’s nothing much and it’s very small
Polly Browne
They have a right to be, as much as we
All
It’s all the same life
David Van Day & Debbie Curtis
It’s all the same eyes, all the same glow
Polly Browne & Ziggie Sky Ward