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Jimmy Webb, performing his classic song 'The Highwayman' with Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon (and a thirty-piece orchestra), live on 'An Eye To The Music' in 1991. This was sent in by Jim Williams, and has been brought to you by www.prefabsprout.net
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The first part of an interview with Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon, on Swedish Television in 2003, to promote his solo album 'I Trawl The Megahertz.' This was sent in by Jessmols, and has been brought to you by www.prefabsprout.net
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Paddy the Pelican began in 1950 as a local TV puppet show on Chicago's WENR-TV. Paddy's adventures were presented in comic strip drawings done by Sam Singer.
In 1954 Paddy appeared in six animated films done by Singer. The films, while nicely crafted, were essentially pencil tests.
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This song chronicles the Easter Uprising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than of England, as so many young men were doing in World War I.