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Subject:
TV/Movie song lyrics with Brit convicts singing "Self Regulatin' Society"
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Movies and Film Asked by: mickeysimple-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
14 Nov 2002 15:33 PST
Expires: 14 Dec 2002 15:33 PST Question ID: 107954 |
About 30 years ago, I was watching a TV movie or film where a bunch of British (or Irish) convicts kept singing the following phrase over and over again. "We are a self regulatin' society" I can't find this online. Any one know what movie this was in? | |
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Re: TV/Movie song lyrics with Brit convicts singing "Self Regulatin' Society"
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 14 Nov 2002 18:26 PST Rated: ![]() |
Here's a bit more info for you. I have located the lyrics to "The Self Preservation Society," complete with translations of the Cockney slang: Animinichicks.com http://www.animinichicks.com/thecars/ijcars.html This song was written by Quincy Jones. An alternate title is "Get a Bloomin' Move On." A VHS tape of "The Italian Job" is available from Amazon for less than ten bucks. This is a very, very funny movie, and is well worth the price. Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302491940/qid=1037326856/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6563336-1197417?v=glance&s=video&n=507846 My Google search strategy: "self preservation society" + "the italian job" ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22self+preservation+society%22+%22italian+job I'm glad we were able to identify your movie! Hope you enjoy re-viewing it after all these years. Best regards, pinkfreud | |
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mickeysimple-ga
rated this answer:![]() Amazingly quick answer. Very well done. Thanks for everything! |
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Re: TV/Movie song lyrics with Brit convicts singing "Self Regulatin' Society"
From: pinkfreud-ga on 14 Nov 2002 16:56 PST |
Here's a remote possibility. There is a song from the 1969 movie "The Italian Job" that goes like this: We are the Self Preservation Society The Self Preservation Society Put on your almond rocks and daisy roots Brush your Hampstead Heath, wear your whistle-and-flute Lots of la-de-dahs and Cockneys here Look alive and get out of here... Although the movie involves the criminal shenanigans of some convicts, I don't recall whether the convicts sang the song. |
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Re: TV/Movie song lyrics with Brit convicts singing "Self Regulatin' Society"
From: mickeysimple-ga on 14 Nov 2002 17:24 PST |
Bravo! I'd give you the $5 and the 5 stars if I could. You've done it. Guess 30 years later I mangled the words a bit. I'll rent that movie if I can find it now. |
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