I have actually heard the term "Hinny" before when Bryan was being interviewed in 1982 by DJ Mike Sweeney on Piccadilly Radio, (Now he is a real Mancunian and I still have the audio tape somewhere)
Sweeney is trying to get BF to say some Geordie patter and Bryan is still giggling when he says "Hi Hinny" and something else I think, I can't remember now but the interview is quite a funny one. It was the first time that I had ever heard Bryan be so humoured by. I must dig that out sometime.

Spoons are polished....can you play the fiddle?

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That's interesting 'cos I can recall BF being interviewed on Kid Jensen's midweek radio 1 show in '82, and for some reason KJ read out a list of famous Geordies and BF wasn't on the list, when KJ realised what a faux pas it was BF laughed and said "Am choaked Kid a really am" in a broad Geordie accent. He later corrected KJ when he read out a request from someone from Houghton-le Spring (where BF was member of the cycling club) as KJ got it completely wrong, and the interview was similarly good humoured.

I am an ace fiddler......

I always thought Bryan could do a lovely version of Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas". He could do part in English as "If You Go Away" and then throw in a verse in the original French. It has a simple structure and melody line that are so like his songs. And the love lorn mood is right up his alley. I always thought the Bryan and Jacques shared the same temperament. Could be very beautiful.

He recorded the Serge Gainsbourg song 'Chanson De Slogan' but has never released it. This was sung entirely in French and BFs vocal was very convincingly French.

J.O'B.

I'll throw this into the mix. Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good." I can hear him talking himself through that one. Paul's thumping drum's, Ollie or (and) Phil, someone's horns, then the whole thing building up into a crescendo. Phew!
Well if he can do Woolly Bully.