My Name Is Ottilie BBC Four - Could this be the worst music documentary of all time?
I have literally seen the worst documentary on music that I have ever seen. And I mostly only watch music related TV. “My name is Ottilie” Presented by a singer called Dana Masters whom I have to say I have never heard of. Now there has never been a Docco about Ottilie before, and there has only been a couple that have been made about Chris Barber. The best being a Radio 2 Docco a few years ago. The opening gabit of the whole thing was that that Ottilie was an unknown Blues singer. Firstly in her heyday she was more of a Jazz singer than a blues singer but I won’t split hairs about that. The point made that she was unknown couldn’t have been further from the truth. She was the singer in the biggest jazz band in the UK at the time. She sold a LOT of records both with the Barber band, and many solo releases. Though they were mostly Barber bands records where she took the title. Es the Paterson Girl Eps. She did make a couple solo records the album on Marmalade real...