Bill Oddie

I used to like The Goodies and then enjoyed Bill's wildlife programmes.
The second of the Goodies to leave us, sadly.

RIP Bill Oddie 🕊

He seemed very gentle. I shared his passion for nature and was very sad to learn he suffered from depression which a lot of sensitive people do.

I've been listening to the repeats of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again on 4extra and was impressed at his musical skills. I never missed an episode back when it was first broadcast and I can sing along with all the songs. Tim Brooke-Taylor died during Covid; and now this news of Bill Oddie makes me very sad and nostalgic.

When he was on Who Do You Think You Are he explained how he at last discovered why his mother apparently "abandoned* him. Such a very sad story.

I didn't know about any Jimmy Saville connection to the Father Christmas song, so I may have been unfair upthread. Sorry, if that's the case, Bill. (It's still a horrible song, though.)

I would rather remember Bill Oddie and the Goodies singing "The Funky Gibbon" than the awful Father Christmas one.

There was a line in "The Funky Gibbon" that Bill Oddie put in during one live performance that made me laugh out loud it was. 'Tie a yellow gibbon round the ole oak tree."*

* There was popular song around at the time "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"