Silly Songs

[George 1978]

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Thank goodness that it wasn't play as much on radio as its namesake was shown on BBC Three.

[Clare]

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Now was that title the inspiration for that BBC Three sitcom Two Pints of Lager... ?

I think it must have been.

[George 1978]

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Ha the spitting image one is funny.

They did plenty of other songs too.

Yeah star trekkin is an odd one
prob based around star trek.

As they will be reviving Spitting Image, it made me think whether The Chicken Song was indeed a song that was first used on a Spitting Image episode, and the powers that be decided to turn it into a hit? I don't remember any episode that used it myself.

[George 1978]

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Then there was Splodgenessabounds:

Now was that title the inspiration for that BBC Three sitcom Two Pints of Lager... ?

[George 1978]

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I prefer the Travolta and Newton-John version any day of the week - Hylda Baker dressed in Lycra? The mind boggles...

[ZipperCat]

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"When killing a song softly is not an option."

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[Clare]

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Then there was Splodgenessabounds:

[George 1978]

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Yes. I posted it just above the Denis Waterman and George Cole song!

Indeed. Sometimes I need a bit of a re-Minder, so to speak.

[Clare]

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Speaking of Arthur Daley, does anyone remember that song also by the Firm (of Star Trekkin' fame, but a few years before that) called - "Arthur Daley - (E's Alright)"?

Yes. I posted it just above the Denis Waterman and George Cole song!

[George 1978]

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That Waterman and Cole song was on a cassette album of Christmas songs that I got from WHSmith (when they sold music!) back in the mid 1990s.

[George 1978]

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Speaking of Arthur Daley, does anyone remember that song also by the Firm (of Star Trekkin' fame, but a few years before that) called - "Arthur Daley - (E's Alright)"?

[Clare]

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Which reminds me of this:

[Clare]

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About five years before "Star Trekkin'", The Firm did this:

[darren]

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Ha the spitting image one is funny.

They did plenty of other songs too.

Yeah star trekkin is an odd one
prob based around star trek.

two of them had programmes on 10.00 pm on sunday evening itv:

Spitting image - the chicken song
hale and pace - the stonk

also there were:

The firm - star trekkin'
mr blobby - mr blobby
black lace - agadoo

the birdie song cannot count as it has no lyrics of course...