Moon River

Correcting errors in knowledge

Credit where it’s due. I’ve learned I was wrong, thanks to subtitles.

I thought the actress, Audrey Hepburn, couldn’t sing and had all her ‘songs’ dubbed by a voice artist. I’d shared that knowledge with Sue and when an advert for Galaxy chocolate started with the subtitled information that Audrey Hepburn was singing Moon River, I had a grumble.

Over time that grumble grew to a level where I had to reveal the wilful misinformation in this blog. From experience, I check facts before printing and discovered that Moon River was specially written for Audrey H’s limited singing range; her musical performance in My Fair Lady was in fact dubbed.

Even though I learnt I was wrong and will enjoy that song all the more, I still wonder how many people that can’t hear want to know who’s performing a song they might never have heard?

I’m not being a smartarse. Sue finds subtitled lyrics to songs a serious hindrance to a programme, she’d rather have better description of the dialogue. Yet I found her watching an unsubbed, so ‘silent’, performance of Brian Ferry at Glastonbury because she used to love listening to his music – or perhaps it’s him, not sure which – either way, she can recall some tunes.

We’ve gained a local Waitrose, marvellous, I can now buy Gentleman’s Relish and Assam tea without going on a road trip. I like the company’s charity support whereby customers receive a green token to drop in one of three collecting boxes. The boxes are for different local charities which change each month and are clear so it’s easy to see which are best supported.

Last month Hearing Dogs benefitted most with £510, perhaps more people are aware of the difference a dog can make for a deaf person than I thought. Sue’s lipreading tutor was once collecting for Hearing Dogs and had someone take back their donation after learning it wasn’t to help dogs that were deaf.

So I’ve learned I was misinformed, that many people want to support Hearing Dogs and that Sue still likes a sharp dressed man – and here’s me, still, looking like a slob.