Bill Bailey is a British musical comedian who mixes up famous works of music so that they are recognizable, but sometimes unsettlingly different. In the past, we've seen his video switching minor and major keys. This video, recorded 3 years ago, features Bailey playing with the iconic Doctor Who theme.
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire created the original version in 1963. It's electric, synthetic, and futuristic. Grainer suggests, though, that the music works well as a jazz composition. He knows enough about jazz to identify it as, specifically, Belgian.
I remember just enough high school French to get a gist of the lyrics, which glorify the heroism of the Doctor and the menace of the Daleks.
-via Thompson
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