:00:17. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Matt Baker...
:00:19. > :00:22.On tonight's show, it's the Christmas collaboration that
:00:23. > :00:27.Three swoonsome gents - their words, not ours!
:00:28. > :00:31.And an international singing sensation.
:00:32. > :00:53.Now let's remind ourselves what they saw in her.
:00:54. > :01:04.# The minute you walked in the joint...
:01:05. > :01:29.Please welcome Dame Shirley Bassey and Blake, also known as Ollie,
:01:30. > :01:47.There is a lot of Albert tonight. Lovely to see you. It was a special
:01:48. > :01:54.night, a big celebration the first night you met Dame Shirley Bassey.
:01:55. > :02:00.It was a significant milestone birthday to you. I don't know if we
:02:01. > :02:10.are allowed to say. How did this come about? It was my 70th birthday.
:02:11. > :02:18.Somebody said, we have a surprise for you. There was a lake singing
:02:19. > :02:26.happy birthday to me. We jumped out of a cake. Things progressed from
:02:27. > :02:29.there and we look forward to the Christmas Song you will be doing.
:02:30. > :02:33.Christmas hits are probably the last things on the mind of anybody
:02:34. > :02:37.Back in 2009 we reported from Cockermouth on floods so severe
:02:38. > :02:41.We would have liked to have returned for different reasons
:02:42. > :02:43.but to paraphrase one of Dame Shirley's songs,
:02:44. > :02:55.In Cumbria, the police declare a major incident. The Army has been
:02:56. > :03:00.called in to evacuate people in Cumbria. More rain overnight and the
:03:01. > :03:06.worst is yet to come. The second time in the last six years the
:03:07. > :03:10.people here have suffered the effects of devastating floods. It is
:03:11. > :03:14.amazing to think just a week ago, this high street was a river. How
:03:15. > :03:20.have the people bounced back? Well, with a food festival. The original
:03:21. > :03:25.taste of Cumbria food festival occurs every summer and was born out
:03:26. > :03:30.of the 2009 floods to help the local community and surrounding villages
:03:31. > :03:36.get back to normal. This time it has been specially organised a Christmas
:03:37. > :03:39.to help them once again. For the retailers here just before
:03:40. > :03:44.Christmas, it is the most important time of the year? Absolutely, if
:03:45. > :03:48.your business is flooded three weeks before Christmas, lots of wouldn't
:03:49. > :03:55.have had the critical, critical Christmas trade. What do you think?
:03:56. > :04:07.It is brilliant. Has anybody thought I have had it with Cockermouth, I am
:04:08. > :04:16.heading the higher land? No, we are still here. The farm has affected
:04:17. > :04:24.been as well. Even the sheep don't like it. One thing I love about
:04:25. > :04:28.Cumbrians is it is an old-fashioned community spirit. It is lovely. It
:04:29. > :04:34.has been a difficult week, but everyone has come together. A lot of
:04:35. > :04:39.people have come and it is amazing how fast they have turned the street
:04:40. > :04:46.around. People can appeal to have stuff sent to the flood victims. We
:04:47. > :04:51.have stuff in the back going to them later today. Despite the massive
:04:52. > :04:57.show of support, there are areas of the region where the worst effects
:04:58. > :05:05.of the Flood still being felt. This lady runs the flood volunteer Centre
:05:06. > :05:09.in Penrith, where donated food and clothes are sent to the most
:05:10. > :05:14.vulnerable. They are all volunteers, taking time from their own jobs to
:05:15. > :05:19.help out? Yes, we're all volunteers, no one gets paid. Some of them have
:05:20. > :05:27.been here from last week for 12 hours a day. How can I help? You can
:05:28. > :05:34.get the van loaded it is going to Appleby. Let's do it. Just over 40
:05:35. > :05:39.miles away, Appleby has only just become fully accessible after the
:05:40. > :05:43.main bridge was reopened. The supplies coming from Penrith should
:05:44. > :05:47.go some way to make Christmas with the people who live and work here, a
:05:48. > :05:56.touch more variable. What happened with your business and property? My
:05:57. > :06:02.business was flooded up to four foot and I have lost probably 90% of my
:06:03. > :06:10.products. What is that? Babywear. I understand you have had a few
:06:11. > :06:15.problems? Yes, lost my business. It is a cafe. I have seen my ladies
:06:16. > :06:19.this morning in here. It is important, there are strong people
:06:20. > :06:23.and weak people. Everyone has pulled together because of the strong
:06:24. > :06:27.people and I am really grateful. You are quite a bit stronger than you
:06:28. > :06:34.think you are. I am not sure about that. Two word spring to mind,
:06:35. > :06:39.positivity and resilience. I have got my Christmas purchases and this
:06:40. > :06:41.is going toward getting the people of Cumbria back on their feet for
:06:42. > :06:49.the festive season. Merry Christmas. That is a fine
:06:50. > :06:53.example about what is great about Great Britain. People pull together
:06:54. > :07:08.when they need to. You had a near miss in North Wales? We were doing a
:07:09. > :07:14.gig in Llandudno. A roof was ripped off a garage. You could barely walk
:07:15. > :07:17.in the wind and then it went north. We were in Snowdonia the next day,
:07:18. > :07:23.driving through the park. There was water coming over the bonnet. So to
:07:24. > :07:30.be up there in the eye of the storm must have been terrifying. Matt was
:07:31. > :07:37.in a nativity play this morning? I was watching one. I was watching my
:07:38. > :07:42.daughter. Lots of singing in schools this year and Christmas concerts,
:07:43. > :07:46.but Dame Shirley you weren't particularly encouraged to sing in
:07:47. > :07:54.school? You told us this brilliant story. That is hard to believe! I
:07:55. > :07:59.was in the school choir and on the first day, I was at the front. The
:08:00. > :08:05.teacher said, you are a bit loud, go in the second row. I did and I was
:08:06. > :08:13.still allowed. Third row, fourth and fifth. I couldn't go anywhere else
:08:14. > :08:17.except to go out into the corridor. Which I did! I went out in the
:08:18. > :08:24.corridor and I was singing from the corridor. Unbelievable. At what
:08:25. > :08:29.point did it turn around and you realise that this is what you are
:08:30. > :08:37.meant to do? I was singing in a working man's club on a Saturday and
:08:38. > :08:43.because I was 15, it was the only time I could sing at this club
:08:44. > :08:50.because they allowed wives to go. Otherwise it was just the men.
:08:51. > :08:55.Sitting and having a drink was a Welshman and he was putting on a
:08:56. > :09:02.show in London. He was a talent scout. He came after the show and he
:09:03. > :09:10.said, I would love you to come to London to audition for this part in
:09:11. > :09:16.this show that they are putting on. I said, I don't know, you will have
:09:17. > :09:23.to go and talk to my mother. Of course, you are only 15. The next
:09:24. > :09:27.day he turned up. My mother said yes, she can go to London but she
:09:28. > :09:34.has to have a chaperone. I took another 15-year-old friend of mine.
:09:35. > :09:42.215-year-olds in London! Not exactly a chaperone? No, she was hopeless. I
:09:43. > :09:50.was behind the piano when these two gentleman came in and I had to sing
:09:51. > :09:55.for them. They wouldn't come from behind the piano. Now I am nervous,
:09:56. > :10:03.afraid because being told I was too loud, go back, go back when I was in
:10:04. > :10:06.the school choir. I just signed. They could only see my head from
:10:07. > :10:12.behind the piano. But that was enough. The performances you have
:10:13. > :10:16.done all over the world. This is your first time here on the One
:10:17. > :10:25.Show. You have been on the BBC since the 1960s. This is a show similar to
:10:26. > :10:44.The One Show in 1966 with A Lot Of Living To Do.
:10:45. > :10:54.When you see that, right after the back of the conversation we just
:10:55. > :10:59.had, about a little girl frightened to come from behind the piano, what
:11:00. > :11:08.are you see when you put the two together like that? Another woman.
:11:09. > :11:13.It is not me. Really, you feel that? Yes, when I am performing to when I
:11:14. > :11:20.am sat at home in my tracksuit like a couch potato. Those dance moves
:11:21. > :11:30.you just saw, come out one in a while. Surely that tracksuit has got
:11:31. > :11:45.sequins on it? No. This next film contains bottles of Oh Be Joyful.
:11:46. > :11:52.Christmas is a time for enjoying some nice food. For me, Nigel
:11:53. > :11:55.Slater, it is about juicy satsumas, the crunch of a knowing it is bad
:11:56. > :12:03.for you cheese football. A huge turkey dinner with more disasters.
:12:04. > :12:07.The Christmas episode of EastEnders. But following the big turkey dinner,
:12:08. > :12:11.one thing that makes it complete is a traditional Christmas pudding. I
:12:12. > :12:16.have come down to the County of Devon, home to Mock the week's Andy
:12:17. > :12:21.Parsons to meet two wonderful ladies with their own winning Christmas
:12:22. > :12:30.pudding recipe and they will show me how to make it. Break the nutmeg in
:12:31. > :12:37.there. It is a different to when mother used to make them. April and
:12:38. > :12:41.June grew up in rural Dartmoor. They were the last 15 children and having
:12:42. > :12:44.run out of names, their parents named them after the month in which
:12:45. > :12:51.they were born. That smells delicious. We have raisins,
:12:52. > :12:58.sultanas, cherries, nutmeg included. Lemon rind. In a minute I will put
:12:59. > :13:04.in a little drop of Oh Be Joyful, which is brandy. I like putting it
:13:05. > :13:17.in my pudding, I don't like setting fire to it on Christmas Day. I
:13:18. > :13:24.thought you said, when you said Woosh, I thought you meant mixing it
:13:25. > :13:33.up. Just like mother used to make, beautiful. Where does it go now? In
:13:34. > :13:37.the basin. As well as being proud of their Christmas pudding, they are
:13:38. > :13:42.proud of their Devonian dialect, which they acknowledge is in
:13:43. > :13:50.decline. In our areas, many of what we call, newcomers, have arrived and
:13:51. > :13:54.they talk differently. So you try to use your telephone voice and talk
:13:55. > :13:58.correctly. Amongst your family, you were one of 15, so amongst that
:13:59. > :14:03.family you must have used words because you knew they would be
:14:04. > :14:07.understood. They came naturally, you don't stop and think about them, it
:14:08. > :14:10.is what he grew up saying and everyone else in the area was the
:14:11. > :14:16.same. Happily, there are many people trying to keep the traditional way
:14:17. > :14:20.of speaking alive. A local competition was run to find the
:14:21. > :14:35.person with the best Devon dialect and the current champion is April's
:14:36. > :14:42.son. It is drawing out some Yit. It is drawing out now. I am going to
:14:43. > :14:50.ask you what you needed to do to win? I just spoke with natural, like
:14:51. > :14:55.what I do when I am at home and with my farming friends and stuff. I
:14:56. > :14:59.didn't try to put on anything, I just spoke like I naturally did. The
:15:00. > :15:06.broad dialect is the way you would normally speak? I would say so. It
:15:07. > :15:10.is still alive and well. More importantly, how is the Christmas
:15:11. > :15:21.pudding? Proof of the pudding is in the eating. April, June, may I steal
:15:22. > :15:27.a march on new! What you're August pudding should be served with?
:15:28. > :15:33.Clotted cream, with home-made butter and cream. No problem with
:15:34. > :15:42.cholesterol back in our day. It hasn't done you any harm? Time for
:15:43. > :15:48.the judging. I think you have got a very good bake. Your flavours work
:15:49. > :15:57.really well. Your nutmeg, just the right amount. I have got to say,
:15:58. > :16:06.very good bake. Well done. I don't know what Mary with link. Not bad.
:16:07. > :16:13.Great to see them keeping the old Devonshire dialect alive.
:16:14. > :16:16.And we've got some other people here who are just as dedicated
:16:17. > :16:18.to keeping the flames of their own dialects burning bright.
:16:19. > :16:21.So, Dame Shirley, what we've done is we've asked them to translate
:16:22. > :16:27.some of your lyrics into their own regional dialect.
:16:28. > :16:35.See if you can work out which songs they are from.
:16:36. > :16:55.From Lancashire. A new run time... -- in your own time.
:16:56. > :17:03.Heaw mun ever I start to tell thi heaw gradely courtin' can be?
:17:04. > :17:14.Heaw mun ever I start to tell thi heaw gradely courtin' can be?
:17:15. > :17:21.May be how sweet something can be? May be? Love story? Let us here
:17:22. > :17:25.at... # Where do I begin to tell the story
:17:26. > :17:29.of how sweet a love can be? I am from Norfolk. This is the
:17:30. > :17:39.clue... This is from one of your famous Bond
:17:40. > :17:43.songs, Dame Shirley. Bootiful wads, he'll
:17:44. > :18:05.mardle down yer lug. Now... Lugs... That could mean
:18:06. > :18:08.years. I have done three Bond films. Lugs?
:18:09. > :18:14.Bootiful wads, he'll mardle down yer lug.
:18:15. > :18:27.What is gold? Goldfinger! Golden words he will pour in your ear. And
:18:28. > :18:35.we finally have Brendan. I am from the Black Country. This is from
:18:36. > :18:45.track on the album, The Performance. Muthas blarted, thowd mon went ahrt
:18:46. > :18:55.fossickin fer thowd wench. Oh, no! Here it comes! Mothers wept, fathers
:18:56. > :18:58.went out searching for a wife. Nice medley! Thank you, Brendan. There is
:18:59. > :19:02.a brand-new album in that one! On Friday you're releasing your
:19:03. > :19:04.version of The Christmas Song. By coincidence, even before
:19:05. > :19:07.we knew you were coming in, we'd asked Carrie to tell us
:19:08. > :19:22.the story behind it. We might complain about Christmas,
:19:23. > :19:26.that it comes to soon ridges to commercial but I would defy you to
:19:27. > :19:36.hear this and not feel warm and fuzzy... Chestnuts Roasting on an
:19:37. > :19:44.Open Fire. Jack Frost nipping on your nose. This is a song that my
:19:45. > :19:49.father, Mel Torme, wrote in 1955. It is really called The Christmas Song,
:19:50. > :19:55.the song is timeless, it is not religious. It is wonderfully
:19:56. > :20:02.secular. And like a lot of great Christmas popular songs. James is a
:20:03. > :20:08.jazz singer and broadcaster. Welcome to another jam-packed edition... As
:20:09. > :20:11.the son of American musician Mel Torme and the British actress
:20:12. > :20:16.Janette Scott, he grew up singing The Christmas Song with his father
:20:17. > :20:20.at home in Los Angeles every year. Surprisingly, the song started life
:20:21. > :20:24.on a boiling hot summers day. My dad went over to the house of his
:20:25. > :20:31.writing partner, Bob Wells. There was no sign of him. Nowhere to be
:20:32. > :20:38.seen. I father walked into his parlour with the piano and on the
:20:39. > :20:43.piano was a spiral pad. With four lines scribbled down. In pencil. And
:20:44. > :20:52.when Bob Wells finally appeared, he said, what is this? And he said, you
:20:53. > :20:58.know, I am so hot today, and I thought that if I could just write
:20:59. > :21:03.some kind of poetry about the wintertime, it would help me cool
:21:04. > :21:09.down. And my dad looked at it and he said, I think there is something
:21:10. > :21:15.here. And about 40 minutes later, that song was born. They were so
:21:16. > :21:20.excited about the song they rushed to play at to a good friend of
:21:21. > :21:24.theirs, Nat King Cole. When they were done with the first time they
:21:25. > :21:27.said play it again and they played it one more time and before they
:21:28. > :21:42.could get through, he said, that is my song! That is my song! And the
:21:43. > :21:48.rest is history. It was written in 45 and released in 46 and that was
:21:49. > :21:51.the year that the lot of the soldiers were coming home for the
:21:52. > :21:57.first peacetime crispness so they would hear that song and it became
:21:58. > :22:04.for the rest of their lives this anthem, this symbol of peacetime
:22:05. > :22:08.crispness and the war being over. Every year ever since, new versions
:22:09. > :22:12.are recorded. It is estimated to have earned over $90 million in
:22:13. > :22:17.royalties. How many people have covered it? We used to make fun of
:22:18. > :22:24.my dad because it would ask and he would say, I think there have been
:22:25. > :22:32.1734 and we would say, that is our address! James himself is taking on
:22:33. > :22:46.his father 's song. Many times, many ways... Merry Christmas... To you...
:22:47. > :22:50.It is tipping the hat to Mel Torme. It fills me with pride and I think
:22:51. > :22:58.my father would be smiling if he could hear this version. And so to
:22:59. > :23:06.the version of Dame Shirley Bassey and Blake. Chestnuts Roasting on an
:23:07. > :23:11.Open Fire.... Jack Frost nipping on your nose.... Yuletide carols being
:23:12. > :23:30.sung by a choir... And folks dressed APPLAUSE.
:23:31. > :23:38.We heard earlier how you met. He sent a letter with three choices.
:23:39. > :23:42.And what happened? We knew that we had to pick an iconic song for this
:23:43. > :23:45.iconic voice and this is our first chance and one chance to record a
:23:46. > :23:52.Christmas song with Dame Shirley so it had to be right and that is why
:23:53. > :23:57.it was three. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas was one, oh holy
:23:58. > :24:07.night, and The Christmas Song. She picked that one. It was quite
:24:08. > :24:19.important for you? Yes, I live in Monte Carlo. I sent you the CD. And
:24:20. > :24:24.I chose chestnuts! You always wanted to record a Christmas song. Up until
:24:25. > :24:31.now, the record label was not keen but sadly this was the year? --
:24:32. > :24:36.suddenly. I have been with if you record companies and each one of
:24:37. > :24:45.them never wanted me to do an album, they never brought it up. You were
:24:46. > :24:54.made for Christmas! It never came to be, how does it feel, having the
:24:55. > :24:59.opportunity? I jumped at the chance. Because, taking of something on my
:25:00. > :25:02.bucket list... We have heard the story of all of those words coming
:25:03. > :25:06.about and words are incredibly important for you, the way that you
:25:07. > :25:11.look at a song and managed to tell that story. When you see the lyrics,
:25:12. > :25:18.what do you see and how do you tell the story? I don't know. I just look
:25:19. > :25:25.at it and I open my mouth. Outcomes this sound! Aid is not very
:25:26. > :25:32.considered? I do not say, I am going to do it this way or that. I'd just
:25:33. > :25:38.try it with the piano. And... Whatever... And I never do it the
:25:39. > :25:46.same way twice. That is why I hate doing playback because I never sing
:25:47. > :25:53.at the same tempo. It is always faster or slower. It was fascinating
:25:54. > :25:58.for us to sing with Dame Shirley and singing live, but salute mentality
:25:59. > :26:03.that every time it is different. -- that solo. That always keeps you on
:26:04. > :26:10.your toes. And recording in your flat! Having Dame Shirley having a
:26:11. > :26:18.cup of tea? Yes, I did a lot of cleaning up! Champagne and caviar!
:26:19. > :26:23.Everything is in the cupboards! It must have been a dream for all of
:26:24. > :26:32.you, to have a Christmas number one. That'll be a first for you. The key
:26:33. > :26:34.is to go out and buy this on Friday! It would be an amazing finish to an
:26:35. > :26:35.incredible year. And if you can't wait that
:26:36. > :26:38.long, Blake's album, Well, you're hoping for a number one
:26:39. > :27:03.this year but there's going to be I don't know, but? We will show you!
:27:04. > :27:05.There is the NHS quire... -- Choir. And there is The four Sopranos,
:27:06. > :27:14.featuring the Queen. Apparently the Queen has a beautiful
:27:15. > :27:35.voice! Carrie is with us. How many singles
:27:36. > :27:38.must you sell to get the number one? It is normally about 100,000...
:27:39. > :27:40.Well, last year's number one was Something I Need
:27:41. > :27:45.But compare that to the Military Wives just three years earlier,
:27:46. > :27:49.and they sold more than double that amount - 556,000 copies.
:27:50. > :28:00.There is a huge difference! It would be great to see a Christmas song
:28:01. > :28:04.going to the number one spot because it has been ages since we have had a
:28:05. > :28:12.Christmas themed song as the Christmas number one! I agree! In a
:28:13. > :28:17.1950s, 63 number ones and only 13 are about Christmas. The last one on
:28:18. > :28:34.the Christmas theme was 25 years ago. Cliff Richard. Goodness, the!
:28:35. > :28:41.-- goodness me! And even something like East 17! There have been some
:28:42. > :28:45.very near misses! We suggested that one to Dame Shirley!
:28:46. > :28:48.Thanks so much to Dame Shirley Bassey and Blake.
:28:49. > :28:50.We'll be back tomorrow with Kylie Minogue,
:28:51. > :29:04.Your favourite professor is back, and this time there's trouble.
:29:05. > :29:08.If only there were some way I could get rid of him once and for all.