Strange one off oddities.

Strange one off oddities.

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Morningside

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Monday 10th November 2014
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Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

Whispering Grass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY

Laurel & Hardy - Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia (got to No2 in 1975!!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgRJVlPJKQs

Lee Marvin - Wandering Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbiRDNaDeo

Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmopSVOMSsU

Clive Dunn - Grandad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJGJRd8pGE

The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4

The Firm - Star Trekkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS2-4-iUJ4

Doctorin' the Tardis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adk1ujjmguo

Joe Dolce - Shaddap you face (Knocked Ultravox's single Vienna off the top spot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLEXgkddPQ

St Winifreds School Choir - Theres No-One Quite Like Grandma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXJcIODLtQ

Keith Harris and Orville the Duck - I wish I could fly (no 4 in 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGnuMxFnc1k

Terry Wogan - the floral dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElnCI1fkfFM

Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4


Any more you can think of?



Edited by Morningside on Monday 10th November 20:55

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Monday 10th November 2014
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Max Headroom - Paranoimia by Art Of Noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPq0FvFm3g

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Tuesday 11th November 2014
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^^^ Oh, I forget the chicken song.

Alexei Sayle-Ullo! John Gotta A New Motor? (No 15. 1984).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHJ4zEKDZY

Neil - Hole In My Shoe (The Young Ones).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0UZN83N-w


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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Wednesday 10th December 2014
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A Tribe of Toffs - John Kettley is a Weatherman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3eo63spaA

Landscape - Einstein A Go Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZqUNEHYZgQ

And not forgetting the classic:
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA

This one that was odd due to having the human "windmill" Magnus Pyke shouting "science" now and again.
THOMAS DOLBY - She blinded me with science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p6fTDGLHGQ

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Wednesday 10th December 2014
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Who the hell purchased this st? Even more scary is that it got to No.1 in 1993. Shocking.

Mr Blobby song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XutaTTNihe0

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Thursday 11th December 2014
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Hoofy said:
Chalky White said:
Marillion cover Money Money Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIe_UTQ1vmk
That's different!

And from that video I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOc2x28HyPY

*goes off to purge his ears with Misplaced Childhood*
Bring back Fish!

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Friday 13th February 2015
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Listening to an old BBC TOTPs a couple of days back.

Captain Beaky - Number 5 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r2mPdsPqrw

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Tuesday 28th April 2015
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In honour of Keith Harris who died today.

Keith Harris and Orville the Duck - I wish I could fly (1982).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGnuMxFnc1k

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Monday 15th June 2015
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Remember You're a Womble - No 18 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4

Father Abraham Smurf song - No 2 1978?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbMikrZ91U


Edited by Morningside on Monday 15th June 21:18

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Tuesday 16th June 2015
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Grange Hill Cast just say no - No 5 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2nq8DzYToE

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Saturday 4th July 2015
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Brown Source. I wanna be a winner - 1981 No.15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbK7ncKJanM
Yes that is Keith Chegwin, Maggie Philbin and Noel Edmonds


Getting seriously weird now.
Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker. The one that I want - 1978 No.22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_MSi0MhM_c


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Monday 13th July 2015
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Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant. No.4 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=9m7tPikH0...

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Tuesday 11th August 2015
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Little bit late but: The Firm - 'Arthur Daley...'E's Alright' - ( No. 14) 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExAjQUXuVCI&fe...
Also responsible for "Star Trekkin"