The thing is though, I usually play it in the key of B rather than the original B-flat – it’s only a semitone difference – but who’ll notice? Who cares? I do generally tend to avoid those messy (between the dots on the guitar neck) keys with flats in them – I leave all that for the jazzers – oh, those trumpet and saxophone players with their B-flat and E-flat twiddling… It’s a good job that the Stones’ original wasn’t in B though – that would have made a nonsense of the whole film – you couldn’t have a secret password, a vital log-in code, of just one letter, could you? Really I suppose it’s pushing it a bit having a password as simple as ‘B-flat’… But who cares? It’s still a good film…Īt the end of the film, as the credits roll they play a version of the song performed by Aretha Franklin, which I see is produced by Keith Richards himself, (it seems to be in the key of F-sharp by the way, but that is of no consequence). Jumpin’ Jack Flash – I do like that song! I even twang through it occasionally on my guitar. A jolly good very daft film, I recommend it… The title of the film refers to the ‘secret log-in key word’ – the key being the musical key the song Jumpin’ Jack Flash is in – B-flat, which she desperately needs to discover. It is a comedy spy movie involving a stranded British agent’s attempt to be rescued by contacting Whoopi via her office computer (mostly nicely voiced-over 1980s green text on a dark screen). Whoopi was great in it, she did plenty of running, dancing, and jumping about and she also regularly came out with some very colourful and snappy expletives.
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(I particularly liked the scene with a couple high-ranking staff in the back room (the secret code room) of the British Embassy chuckling away whilst watching old Benny Hill shows on their TV – perhaps the director of this film was inspired in her work by Benny Hill?…) I enjoyed it, it made me smile, there was plenty to like in it – some bits were outrageously over-the-top and crazy-crazy though. Dulltown, UK: Today’s colours are: boiling black, fizzy fawn, magnificent mauve, gob-smack green, peppermint pink and brackish blue.Ī couple of evenings ago I watched on TV the 1986 film Jumpin’ Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg.