Young at Heart Page #2

- Give me the "oww!"

Oww!

- You know what? This is gonna be excellent!

- [ Laughing]

- But it may not be till the year 2009!

- [ Laughing Continues ]

This is-

[ Laughing ]

[ Stephen ]

What do you think of the song?

It's all right. It's got-

It's got some, uh, juice to it.

Did you put some earplugs

in your ears?

Yeah, well, only bits of tissue is what.

[ Laughs ]

- Whoo!

- Oh, see? She's-

It's in her bones already.

She's getting it.

[ Stephen Narrating] The next morning

I start my rounds of the chorus...

beginning with the oldest member,

Eileen Hall.

She joined Young A t Heart at the age of70

when one of her star turns was a striptease...

an act she performed with great success

for the next 20 years.

[ Stephen ]

How old are you, Eileen?

Now? 9 2.

Its funny, isn't it?

[ Laughing ]

U m, n-no, Ive had a good life though.

Very good life.

Can you believe you're 92?

Ye- No!

No, I tell people Im 29.

That'll do.

- You just switch the numbers round?

-Just switch the numbers round.

Let's go into your bedroom, shall we?

Can we do that?

- Oh, shall we cut there?

- Sure!

[ Laughing ]

- What an invitation!

- Oh, gosh! What have I done?

Here Ive got, what, three or four men?

[ Laughing ]

- Oh, my goodness.

- Shall I ask you that again?

Yes.

Shall we go into your bedroom?

All of us?

Yes, all of us. Come on, boys.

[ Laughs ]

- I could come as close to you-

- No, no, it's fine.

[ Laughing ]

You're getting a bit close here, Eileen.

Yes. I've gotta shut up, haven't I?

[ Laughs ]

- Getting a little intimate here.

- Gotta be careful.

All of these men around.

- Don't get nervous till I-

- You're a bit of a flirt, aren't you?

Don't get nervous till I start taking

something off. You're all right until then.

- You're a bit of a flirt, Eileen.

- Am I?

Were you always, or is that something

that's happened since you got to 90?

No, I was rather shy.

- Really?

- Yes. Very shy.

You dont strike me

as being shy at all.

No, I don't strike anybody that way.

But I was a very shy child.

Miserable kid, really.

[ Stephen Narrating ]

For the past three years, Eileen has lived...

at the Arbors Nursing Home,

about 20 miles from Northampton.

As well as being

one of the oldest residents...

shes also the only one to possess

her own key to the front door...

since she often gets back from

late-night gigs with the chorus...

well after all the staff

have gone to bed.

- I ' I l see you, kid.

- Take care.

See- Our show.

Bye-bye.

- [ Rock ]

- Thank you!

Enjoy your afternoon.

[ Continues ]

Twenty, twenty

twenty-four hours to go

I wanna be sedated

Nothing to do

and nowhere to go

I wanna be sedated

So put me in a wheelchair

Put me on a plane

Hurry, hurry, hurry

before I go insane

I can't control my fingers

I can't control my brain

No

Bam-bam, bam-bam

B-Bam-bam, bam-bam

I wanna be sedated

Bam-bam, bam-bam

B-Bam-bam, bam-bam

I wanna be sedated

[ Guitar Solo ]

Twenty, twenty

Twenty-four hours to go

I wanna be sedated

Nothing to do

and nowhere to go

I wanna be sedated

So put me in a wheelchair

Take me to the show

Hurry, hurry, hurry

before I go loco

I can't control my fingers

I can't control my toes

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh

Bam-bam, bam-bam

B-Bam-bam, bam-bam

I wanna be sedated

Bam-bam, bam-bam

B-Bam-bam, bam-bam

I wanna be sedated

[ Funk]

Now is the time for all good men

To get together with one another

[ Stephen Narrating ]

With just six weeks to go before the show...

the choruss director, Bob Cilman,

has stepped up rehearsals...

from one to three times a week.

Despite lots of grumbling in the ranks,

everybody s till turns up.

[ Man ]

How do you feel, Stan?

[ Man Laughing ]

- [ Continues ]

- This afternoon they get their

firs t s tab at the next new song...

an R&B track by Allen Toussaint

called "Yes, We Can Can. "

Gosh almighty, yes, we can

I know we can can

Home again.

One, two, three, four, one.

I know we can make it

I know that we can

I know darn well

we can work it out

Oh, yes, we can

I know we can can

Yes, we can can, why can't we

if we wanna, yes, we can

[ Stephen Narrating] It rapidly becomes clear

that this is one of those songs...

that's going to drive everybody insane

over the next few weeks.

- For one thing, the word "can "

crops up no less than 7 1 times.

- I know we can can

I want you guys to sing-

Oh, yes, we can, I know we can can

Yes, we can can, why can't we if we wanna

Yes, we can can

And you're gonna respond-

Oh, yes, we can, I know we can

- Yes, we can, great gosh almighty

yes, we can, I know -

The thing that you do

by yourselves earlier.

So on the third one

it's call and response. Okay?

I will write this all down.

- - I know we can make it -

- - I know that we can -

- I know we can make it if we try -

- I know we can

I know we can can -

[ Stephen Narrating ] To cope with a song which

sounds like an extended tongue twister...

Bob picks three of his most

reliable singers for the solos...

including Joe, whos famous for memorizing

entire songs in an afternoon.

- Why cant we if we wanna

Yes, we can can -

- Oh, yes, we can, I know we can can

Yes, we can can -

- Great gosh al mighty

Yes, we can, I know we can can --

- Whoo!

- [ Chattering ]

I love this rehearsing.

No, I think, uh, singing

does a lot for your whole body.

Your lungs and everything.

I love it.

Everybody take out "Schizophrenia."

Where'd Eileen go?

[ Stephen ] Up next is the song which seems

to me by far the craziest of Bob's ideas.

How he's going to get the chorus to make

sense of such a weird track, I've no idea.

But one thing's for sure- they all hated

"Schizophrenia " from the word "go "...

and still do.

- My future is static -

[ Bob ] Okay, I dont need you

to make fun of the song, so if-

- I don't know where it goes!

- It's just said.

We used to sing things like

"Yes, We Have No Bananas"...

and, uh, " Honey Bun."

Even with Bob-

He would pick those and-

- Yabba-yabba-yabba

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Da-da-dat dat-dat-dat-dah -

I doubt you remember that. It was

too far back for you. [ Chuckling ]

I want you to talk to each other here.

Just say these lines to each other.

Okay, so it's- My- Don't worry about the-

Just talk to each other.

My future is static.

- It's already had it.

- Okay, talk to each other.

So you say, "My future is static. "

- I had a dream -

- - And it split the scene -

- -- [ Bob Singing Along ]

- But I got a hunch -

- - Its coming back to me -

- -- [ Continues ]

You can do that with her.

- Its coming back to -

- Me -

- I'm gonna let you have that, actually.

- Oh, a note!

- A note!

- Okay, shh! Yeah.

- Um, Joe and Lenny.

- Yeah?

I want you to work on

" Life During Wartime."

Its going to be a conversation

between the two of you.

[ Narrator]

As a big Talking Heads fan...

Bob has decided to try out the song

"Life During Wartime " for the show...

which hes giving to Joe

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