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Post by thehitparade on Jul 20, 2017 11:06:53 GMT 1
Yeah, but he still does all that stuff now and with non-football subjects added in.
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 20, 2017 18:06:36 GMT 1
In tribute to a well known 1980s & 1990s music producer, who was also a huge Dr Who fan. Except he has had a monumental strop at the 13th incarnation becoming the first female:
Then it seems only appropriate to post the video for this protest single which he wrote & produced in 1988, which unlike the excellent Doctorin' The Tardis failed to trouble the charts for rather obvious reasons:
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Post by Milliways on Jul 21, 2017 0:41:50 GMT 1
I'd completely forgotten about 'Ladies Bras'! Indeed, if you hadn't said the year it was a hit, my guess would have been about 3 decades out.
From the following year: a top 40 hit about, of all things, reclaiming bank charges...
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 27, 2017 23:34:02 GMT 1
Can't find a video for this one, but the pic tells the story better. Is this the only flexi disc to make the charts? As part of a sale campaign, National petrol stations (brand is long gone now) gave away toy smurfs with every 6 gallons. The slight problem was that the blue paint was suffused with lead. Hence their withdrawal from sale. And also the explanation for the Jonathan King cash-in single. Not exactly subtle. On the basis that licking a smurf might make you fall down. And putting it out on the Petrol label, under the registration GAS 1, was even less so. After snaffling a number 73 spot (the chart, not the television programme), King switched this to a more regular 45, with b-side and everything, on Magnet. So Petrol Records came fairly close to joining the 75 Club. As for what it sounds like, well, it's a parody of the Smurf Song, so you can just make it up as you go along.
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Post by Laurence on Aug 1, 2017 2:31:44 GMT 1
I mentioned it earlier with Technohead but worth posting in its own right. Tricky Disco Came out in August 1990 at the same time as the ultra cool bass heavy LFO on the same label Warp. It made no.14 in the charts and I bought it. Don't ever recall hearing it on radio outtde the charts. Bleeping, cutesy high pitched alien and weird chanting and the video is the weirdest thing ever. You'd never get anything as bizarre as this in the charts nowadays sadly.
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Post by Laurence on Aug 1, 2017 2:40:50 GMT 1
And also 1990 Warp dance record to make the top 40. 3 minutes of weird and almost random noises (maybe the 12" made more sense)but most noticeable for a video which did freak me out when it was once played on the Chart Show (I was young mind) featuring naff but sinister facial holograms and a creepy man with an oversized plasticine head doing some dusting, Nightmares on Wax went on to produce the chill out classic Les Nuits and several albums.
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 4, 2017 20:34:10 GMT 1
While we're on the subject of acts on Warp, I'm surprised no one's mentioned AFX himself. He's made quite a number of unusual and at times good tracks. This one has got to be, for me one of the weirdest singles to ever make the top 20, or isn't the video more weirder? Went with the basic broadcast video, as the constant swearing at the start of the full version of the vid gets a bit monotonous after a while.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 4, 2017 23:04:45 GMT 1
Well, someone cashed in on Watergate. The Campaign To Re-Elect the President - CRP to the Republicans, CREEP to everyone else - basically broke all sorts of laws under Nixon's order to screw over George McGovern. It was blown open by a bungled burglary and the dogged investigation of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean were all key figures in the crisis. The first two - known as the German Shepherds - were key advisers (Haldeman was chief of staff, and, given VP Spiro Agnew had his own legal problems, was de facto no. 2 in the US); Mitchell was the attorney general and Dean was Nixon's personal lawyer. Dean ended up ratting on the others, but they all served time inside. Nixon of course did not; Gerald Ford pardoned him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 16:08:34 GMT 1
Can't find a video for this one, but the pic tells the story better. Is this the only flexi disc to make the charts? As part of a sale campaign, National petrol stations (brand is long gone now) gave away toy smurfs with every 6 gallons. The slight problem was that the blue paint was suffused with lead. Hence their withdrawal from sale. And also the explanation for the Jonathan King cash-in single. Not exactly subtle. On the basis that licking a smurf might make you fall down. And putting it out on the Petrol label, under the registration GAS 1, was even less so. After snaffling a number 73 spot (the chart, not the television programme), King switched this to a more regular 45, with b-side and everything, on Magnet. So Petrol Records came fairly close to joining the 75 Club. As for what it sounds like, well, it's a parody of the Smurf Song, so you can just make it up as you go along.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 12, 2017 21:27:47 GMT 1
Yes, this actually is a single. I mentioned above that there are very few spoken word hits, and this is another one; without checking I'd guess the first. A charity release, in honour of the Variety Artists' Benevolent Fund, and split over two sides of a 45. The OCC erroneously lists it under Wilfred Brambell and Harry H Corbett - but the Irish actor's Equity name, as expressed on the single, was Wilfrid. (Which was his middle name; he was born Henry.)
Of course Brambell's musical heritage is better expressed via his scene-stealing in A Hard Day's Night. In which he played Paul's grandfather - a clean old man. But he also had a couple of other singles, one in 1963 inspired by his Old Man Steptoe persona, and a belated follow-up in 1971, which was blatantly cashing in (pun intended - you'll see) on Clive Dunn's Grandad persona...
...and on both singles he was credited as Wilfred. "Second Hand" is not really a bizarre single, it's quite a tender and melancholic ballad that could be counted as a serious song, but the second is a somewhat inspired exegesis of the decimal system.
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Post by thehitparade on Aug 13, 2017 0:17:49 GMT 1
One notable fact about the Steptoe & Son hit is that Harry H Corbett had to overdub one line onto the single to explain a visual joke.
Never heard the Decimal Song before. It's... something.
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Post by Winged_Robi on Aug 14, 2017 12:23:27 GMT 1
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Post by thehitparade on Aug 14, 2017 18:00:38 GMT 1
Can't find a YouTube of the exact recording, but it seems topical to mention that this peaked at 53 in the singles chart in 1999
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 14, 2017 22:29:06 GMT 1
Will never forget when this charted
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 14, 2017 22:33:39 GMT 1
And this one too..
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Post by thehitparade on Aug 14, 2017 22:35:30 GMT 1
Not to boast, but I know all the lyrics to those.
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Post by thehitparade on Aug 14, 2017 23:26:23 GMT 1
I'm not sure whether this single is itself all that bizarre, but the fact that somebody I associated with reading out clues on game shows and pro-celebrity golf tournaments had an underground club hit with a funky disco track in 1983 is a little odd.
(I know now that he co-wrote Small Faces songs, was the first person to cover a Beatles song etc)
It's also a bit weird that he co-wrote one of the other tracks on the album with an ex-tennis player who was later thrown out of UKIP for being too racist, but that's another story.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 3, 2017 22:13:25 GMT 1
You know I've said that the industry is never looking for the next big thing, as it doesn't know what it would be? And instead just lumps on the last big thing?
I would have thought that the absolute last trend anyone would have wanted to copy though was that of JJ Barrie...
Apparently Mr Topping had a TV series in the early eighties. That one passed me by.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 18:28:36 GMT 1
Page 5 and nobody didn't post this top 10 hit.
Liam Lynch : United States of Whatever
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Post by andrew07 on Sept 5, 2017 20:21:55 GMT 1
Loved that Liam Lynch track, and it was the shortest song to reach the top 40 until 2007 back then too. This track just cracks me up too. There is a ruder, and sweary titled version too, but this version is better and funny:
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