Stewart & Gouldman Fan Page's video: Why there is no Barbara Eden in video of 10cc s I m Mandy Fly Me

Barbara Eden: Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, August 23, 1931)[1] is an American film, stage, and television actress, and singer, best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc Eric Stewart recalled the origins of the song “I’m Mandy Fly Me”: National Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. […] “I’m Cindy, fly me” which was a quite sexual connotation as well … and I thought God, do you know, there’s a song there. So I brought it back…and put it to the guys: “Anybody interested in this ‘I’m Mandy Fly Me’?”.I’d switched it to Mandy. And Graham said “yeah, that sounds like a good idea. … We wrote it, and we didn’t like it. We, we scrapped it. It just wasn’t going anywhere. But, enter from stage left, ha ha, the “wicked villain” Kevin Godley, twiddling his moustache, says “I know what’s wrong with it. Let’s sit down again.” He said “I think it just gets too bland, it just goes on, on one plane, your verses and your middles and your der-der-der, they’re all going on the one plane. What it needs is someone to go ‘Bash’ on the side of your head”. So we changed the rhythm completely, and we put two whacking great guitar solos in there, in the middle of this quiet, soft, floaty song. Once we’d got that idea in, it, it just gelled into something else.