Naughty Naughty Naughty / Letters Of Love

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And that was about it…until Songs in the Key of Life was released and (here’s the inexplicable bit) he managed to get the rights from Motown to release a version of the song. I’d really like to meet those people, see what they look like, find out what makes them tick, ask them to articulate what it was that motivated them to commit such an act of wanton cultural vandalism and then berate them publicly for their appalling lack of taste and intelligence (Yes, I mean you Queen fans). Neil Diamond, Tony Christie and Perry Como all figured prominently but also in the top 30 were top class artists such as Free ( My Brother Jake), The Temptations ( Just My Imagination), Smoky Robinson, R. Stevie Wonder’s song is a hugely personal one, celebrating the birth of his daughter and, again, you have to ask why he’d let some bozo in the UK have it, that’s if he was ever consulted, though his status at Motown suggested he must have had a say.

Anyone who has read this section of my little blog space will know that some of the titles featured are records which should have been strangled before birth. In a previous edition of TOTP he was asked to award some prizes to the most glamorous girls in the audience that particular week. A follow-up single, "Angling for a Kiss", was released in November 1977, but failed to make the charts, and Sarney remains a one-hit wonder. The song "Naughty Naughty Naughty", was a novelty love song between the singer and Mr Punch, and reached Number 26 on the UK Singles Chart in May 1977. Sarney was born in Liverpool and started out as a folk/comedy performer in the Liverpool trio The Crabtrees in the mid-1960s, with her brother Hal and Derek Marsden.Middle of the Road went on have four more top 20 hits over the next year, Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee (No.

It’s strange how a straightforward exploration of an awful hit can mutate into something even more hellish. As well as being the leader of the Top Of The Pops Orchestra for 15 years, he helped launch the career of Cilla Black (well, nobody’s perfect) and was musical director for a number of Dusty Springfield shows in the 60s (much more like it). In fact, one track from his album, the wonderfully titled, The Transformed Man, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, was voted the worst Beatles‘ cover ever by a Music Choice 2003 poll. For example, Dave and Ansel Collins had just made Number 1 with the first reggae song ever to do so, the brilliant Double Barrel, replacing T Rex‘s seminal Hot Love.

Someone in his management company obviously thought he needed an image and the bowler hat and cane was introduced. And Georgy Girl (1966), from the very interesting 60s film of the same name, was a great tune which got to No.

Mind you, they still are) came up with the gossamer-thin idea of creating a comedy record through the use of clips from other records. A bit like the thing in Quatermass that just kept growing and growing into some unspeakable ghastliness…. C. run out to at Boundary Park, it is banger racing’s theme tune, it was even used in New Zealand to advertise their national lottery and Charlie Watts named a racehorse after it.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Their follow-up Desperate Dan still made the top 20 but it was just too similar, however, Stavely Makepeace endured and released some very interesting music over the next few years.

Their appearance on TOTP was particularly excruciating, all the players looking suitably embarrassed to be there. A follow-up single, "Angling for a Kiss" was released in November 1977, but failed to make the chart, and Sarney remains a one-hit wonder. The Arsenal squad which won the double in 1971 released ‘ Good Old Arsenal‘ with words by a certain Jimmy Hill to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania. They even came up with a punning anti-establishment name for the group, on The Band/ Banned, as well as pretending to publicise their anarchistic credentials. In desperation he was asked to deliver the lines in a suitably faux Shakespearian style, which he, of course, was only too happy to do and the rest is camp history.

To be fair, most of their songs were written by ace tunesmith Tom Springfield, brother of the amazing Dusty and ex-member of The Springfields. At a stretch I can understand why some misguided people, though not many, will have parted with some cash to have a copy of numbers 1 and 2 in this list of Hit Parade ignominy. While listening to Stuart Maconie’s wonderful ‘ Freakzone‘ on Radio 6 Music recently, he played a track by a band from the 70s I remembered vaguely, Stavely Makepeace. Everyone of a certain age remembers Just Good Friends although, like me, they may not have watched it.