The Bargee [SEP] cast member
The Bargee
The Bargee is a 1964 British comedy film shot in Techniscope directed by Duncan Wood, and starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker. The screenplay was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Plot.
Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett) and his cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Barker) are two boatmen operating a canal-boat and its butty for British Waterways on the Grand Union Canal. Though the canals are struggling due to declining traffic, Hemel refuses to give up his
lives of, the working-class urban population of Guyana.
In 1934, he sailed to the United States. In Camden, New Jersey, Rogers recorded 34 songs for the Bluebird label owned by RCA, backed by "Felix's Krazy Kats", a group led by Puerto Rican musician Gregory Felix who had been a member of James Reese Europe's band. The songs included "B. G. Bargee" ("bargee" or "bhagee" being a type of dance rhythm); "The West Indian Weed