Strange one off oddities.

Strange one off oddities.

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dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Hoofy said:
Since some of you haven't posted titles, I've read the replies but not clicked nameless videos.
Noted and sorted!

mp3manager

4,254 posts

195 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Looking under the Novelty genre in iTunes brings up these weird songs.

Alan Sherman - Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - reached No.14 in 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjbbyi7Kwqc

Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoLFkT-SKQ

Mad Jocks - No Lager (2 Unlimited parody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mST4PIWV7Y

And of course the daddy of them all....

Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Haa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWATQ4Jd80A

Although this is a very close second...
Wubble U - Petal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTPf4BaHNs


Edited by mp3manager on Saturday 22 November 19:35

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,110 posts

228 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Space - Magic Fly. (Early Stig group)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ukfGAd8T4

Hyde

514 posts

147 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Brown Sauce (the folks from Swap Shop) - I wanna be a winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDzsa9EP-a4

gazza285

9,780 posts

207 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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technodup

7,576 posts

129 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Bis - Kandy Pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-klHp-nk4

First unsigned band on TOTP. I went to primary school with two of them.

Piersman2

6,596 posts

198 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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The Chaps - Rawhide.

I had the picture disc version of this for some reason! smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBkJToM78c

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,110 posts

228 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Sex Pistols - Friggin in the Riggin. Amazingly got to No. 3 in 1979. I bet they did not play this on TOTP. I can remember this at school being played all the time in the youth club.

Lyrics are really NSFW! You have been warned!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV6R0I2oHKY

mp3manager

4,254 posts

195 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Quantum Jump - Lone Ranger

The last verse is very odd!

http://youtu.be/8lJWA2ttxW0?t=10s

Fugazi

564 posts

120 months

Friday 28th November 2014
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I don't know whether this counts as an oddity, but a singer from a metal band, doing Wuthering Heights, in the original key as sung by Kate Bush.. Amazing..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnG5iLR9g9k


Edited by Fugazi on Friday 28th November 18:49

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 28th November 2014
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Anyone remember the Barron Knights?
They used to do dreadful parodies of current hit records in the late '70s and early '80s.

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 28th November 2014
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Another one:
Chalk Dust - The Umpire Strikes Back. Peaked at No 19 in 1982.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goqXf4gp9sQ

technodup

7,576 posts

129 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Number 1 in 30 countries. 2 billion views on Youtube. For a pop dance tune sung in Korean. Don't get much odder than that.

Psy- Gangnam Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,110 posts

228 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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The Singing Postman - 'Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy?' 1964. Not charted but was a well known "underground" hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmXLkJ8Bwk

The Wurzels - Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) No 1 1976.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9rQmyAxS3U

suthol

2,154 posts

233 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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Morningside said:
Anyone remember the Barron Knights?
They used to do dreadful parodies of current hit records in the late '70s and early '80s.
Their first hit was "Call Up The Groups" back in 64, pretty sure I've still got the single somewhere


Edited by suthol on Monday 8th December 02:13

S7Paul

2,103 posts

233 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJHoZBJYxI

NSFW, and banned by all radio stations, but still got to no. 22 in the charts.

Meteor Madness

403 posts

201 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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Another one NSFW, even though it would have been Ireland's Xmas no.1 in 2010 if it wasn't for the X Factor.

The Rubberbandits ~ Horse Outside

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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entropy said:
Paul Hardcastle is married to Nell McAndrew.
Yes, that Nell McAndrew

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Piersman2 said:
The Chaps - Rawhide.

I had the picture disc version of this for some reason! smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBkJToM78c
I've got that. I've always wondered who was behind it.

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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'Murphy And The Bricks' rofl

http://youtu.be/np8iLIt7G0A