For Cindy Hyde Smith - things in Mississippi never change.

[kimbutgar]

Saw this video on tv in London in 2015. After I picked up my mouth from my hotel floor I found the video on you tube. This would NEVER be shown in the US.

[ProudLib72]

1. Is that a young Cindy Hyde Smith singing?

I couldn't make it through the whole thing. Sorry, too much for me!

[kimbutgar]

3. No it was a singer who was popular in England at the time

Millicent Martin.

[ProudLib72]

8. I know, but I could imagine Cindy Hyde Smith singing the same song today

Just amazing what was considered within the scope of "appropriate" not that long ago. And CHS has not grown out of that time yet. In fact, it's doubtful she ever will get a clue.

[dalton99a]

2. Very powerful satire

[salin]

4. 50 yr anniv of the show was written up up in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9699468/That-Was-The-Week-That-Was-is-50.html

Despite running for just eight months before it was axed by the BBC, the show was an enormously influential force in the 'satire boom' of the 1960s.

Devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost, TW3 arrived at the end of the satire boom that laid the groundwork for the careers of influential writers including Alan Bennett and Christopher Booker.

The show opened with a satirical song by Millicent Martin about the week of news and then launched into an array of sketches, debates and monologues lampooning figures from around the world

The video is horrible and great at the same time. Worth watching.

[kimbutgar]

5. Thank you for the link to the guardian article

It is a horrible video but what a lot of white racists thought then and unfortunately now. When I heard Hyde Smith make the comment about hanging from a tree I immediately remembered this video I saw on tv in London.

[unc70]

6. The American version of TW3 was excellent

Tom Lehrer was chief songwriter for the American of That Was The Week That Was (TW3). While Lehrer got in some good satire, the censors would never have allowed anything close to this video.

[world wide wally]

7. Why are they even part of the United States?