“I wanna tell you a story”

— Max Bygraves

Catchphrase, e.g. Daily Mail 24th May 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1390231/Max-Bygraves-agony-wife-Blossom-dies.html

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Singer, comedian, actor 1922–2012

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