They both possess a light, slightly nasal voice, but whereas Siffre has his excellent guitar work to back up his vocals, O'Sullivan only has that same old plonky piano and his arranger.
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Plonky
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Clement Ishmael's plodding arrangements for lone, plonky piano, and the unlovely voices of two-thirds of the cast, do not help: even a sublimely sexy song like You Can Leave Your Hat On is rendered flat and toneless.
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