The UK Connection-Weird S*
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Join Pete Pardo, Simon Bray, and Steven Reid as they discuss some albums that happen to be in their album collections that are just plain weird and surprising.
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Every week it is Pete thinking to himself, 'WTF are they talking about?'
Fun Fact: Air Supply & AC/DC were a double headliner at Singleton, NSW, Australia in 1975.
George Formby.... His sound is on night at the opera and day at the races by Queen 😊
George, with his little stick of Blackpool Rock, was Britain's highest paid entertainer at one time. Legend.
No offence to Pete, but for most Americans British tv culture is like another planet. While most West-europeans (of a certain age) know almost every UK comedyshow. This was a hilarious video!
I'm American and some of my favorite shows are British. Growing up, I watched a lot of PBS. And that's what started my love affair with British comedy and of course "Doctor Who".
I'll never get over Pete's face during the Clive Dunn Grandad portion of the show, that was hilarious!!!!
Superwombling playing while typing this - Simon made it a must hear! Great fun, gents. All over the place but just some great examples of how we all - except perhaps George Lamie - accumulates albums in their collections that just haven't made their way out the door for one reason or another. Two in mine quickly come to mind. The first - and this is specifically for Pete and his love of a certain musical instrument is the album The Harmonicats [a reissue of the original album]. The gents on separate harmonicas with other musicians involved but include their special harmonica laced interpretations of 13 classics, starting with I'm Confessin' That I Love You. Why it's still in the house? Dad loved this album for some reason and played it often during my childhood. When clearing out his extensive classical, jazz and miscellaneous collection of LPs and CDs, this was one of the CDs I had to save. The other is one of the few LPs still on the house. Titled "The Many Sounds Of Singing" by the Howard Bishop Junior High Choruses, 1967-68 with Jane S. Hall as chorus director - in stereo no less. Nowhere on the album cover or reverse of the album sleeve are the song titles provided - they can only be found on the label. Why saved? Well, the oft-mentioned older brother was in the 9th grade concert chorus and the writer was in the 7th grade boys chorus. Not only the only known recording of each of us singing in a group, but the only recording known that includes me playing the piano [uncredited. of course] for our youthfully enthusiastic rendition of The Green Berets. Why is it still in the house even though there is no way to play and LP here, emotional attachment, of course, and the ongoing intent to convert it to CD for posterity! In may be the only known remaining copy of a album issues in the tens of perhaps even over 100. In any event, thanks for an entertaining episode and the usual laughs. Cheers, lads!
PS Loving the Wil ‘o’ The Wisp cartoon Moog reference. Voiced by Kenneth Williams, listen also to his British folk music pastiche songs by his character Rambling Sid Rumpo for more sly double entendres.
Also, Pete, domestically does the “I bought this for us” line still work? 😂
Greetings from Wales chaps. As far as I can see, Simon's beer says Cwrw Eryri. So pronounce Coup ( silent p) Roo Errror e.
Means Snowdonian Beer or Beer of Snowdonia. Hope that helps
When Stephen mentioned Rolf Harris it brought back memories of buying the "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" record back in the 60's. Have heard about him in years till I checked out Wikipedia. Well that was a good album but he can burn in Hell.
Great fun, thoroughly enjoyed… 😂
Still got an old cd boxset 25 years of Great Original Hits - The Motown Story. Bought from Readers Digest when my dad used to subscribe to that magazine thing back in the day. Just realised how old I am thinking about that!
Oh just now?😂
Dread Zeppelin - "5,000,000". A band doing Zeppelin covers in reggae style with an Elvis impersonator singer. And the thing is... it`s really good.
Lets hear it for Tortelvis🤣🤣🤣
@@andrewcarr5923 He`s the Man !
Heartbreaker Hotel.
Their Black Dog cover is my fave from them.
@@daicullinane7746 Love the title mash-ups.
Just so you know Pete,
George Formby single-handedly won the Second World War with his good morale music.
I still have the Muppet Movie original soundtrack in my collection and love it. It’s just so darn catchy!
A mouse and his Motorcycle 🤣😂🤣. Great entertaining show as always guys!!! Thank you for the information and the laughs!!!!
For a 5 minute stop-motion animation aimed at kids (usually in the 'end of BBC kids, post-school', slot), The Wombles were certainly a UK chart phenomenon for a short while in the '70s. Mainly down to the songwriting genius of Mike Batt who was, obviously, having great fun parodying all kinds of musical styles with a Wombles twist.
It's shocking that the Beatles, the Stones, Zeppelin & Floyd made it to the top of the musical ladder when faced with such UK musical luminaries as George Formby & Clive Dunn.
The best of Jake Thackray .....imagine Nick Drake singing Alan Bennett.....and tbf its really really good....and funny.
Sister Josephine!!
On again on again.....as one example. I've got a CD of that stuff....the guy was a genius
A legend
This is more like a "What the f@ck these brits are talking about" episode 😅
Exactly. And I am one.
Yeah the UK connection.
Party Singalong featuring Nice One Cyril by Cockerel Chorus. Being a Tottenham Hotspur fan had to get this. The song Nice One Cyril was a hit in the 70’s about Spurs legendary player Cyril Knowles. Great football song but the rest of the album was full of sing a long versions of pop hits like Tie A Yellow Ribbon
COYS
Andy Gibb had 9 top 40 hits, 8 of which went top 15 and 6 of which went top 10
Including his hat trick of number ones. Pete mentioned the two great ones, the credentials of Love Is Thicker Than Water being a little more dubious.
Biker Mice from Mars was an American animated series that ran throughout 1993-'96. I still own a couple of episodes on vhs. Rob Paulsen (original voice of Raphael on TMNT) was the voice of Throttle and Ian Ziering (of Beverly Hills 90210 fame) was the voice of Vinnie.
The Wombles were massive in Germany and in our house at the time 😊
What an enjoyable episode, but I can outdo these amateurs in my sleep. I own eight albums by Bananarama, four by Kelly Clarkson, six by Roxette, also six albums by German 1980s pop singer Sandra, seven albums by Modern Talking, and so on and so forth. The shocking indecency on display on my CD shelves would take the most hardened music cynic´s breath away, even with Boney M being thankfully absent in my collection.
Looking very much forward to the celebration of Mr.Mister´s momentous sophomore album in the next episode. It´s one I have played hundreds of times over the years. I love every note on it, mullets, stabby synths and glorious shoulder pads included. A melodic pop/rock masterpiece from the Reagan era it is, lovingly crafted by seasoned American studio vets. One of the absolute biggest albums of my life, a towering achievement cruelly forgotten by time, it seems. They shone briefly but ever so brightly for us true fans.
A bonkers UK Connection. Pete is (not) all out of love, Simon is wombling free and Steven got me listening to Santana on the moog. I loved the moment the swing drums kicked in on Strangers.
Turned out nice again 😂😂😂😂
During the mid-80s I left the heavy rock band I was drumming in and was replaced by the drummer from the Wombles. Ah, the ignominity!
Great show guys, we need more of these type of shows.
Here are some 45's that i still have and play
Popcorn - Hot Butter
Pepper Box - The Peppers
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
Space invaders - Player one
I could do several shows on 45s from the past. Thanks for watching.
I wonder why Simon's "Teach Yourself Rock Guitar" album was a pastiche of the "Clockwork Orange" artwork??
Anything with Jeff Scott Soto is top notch! BTW, I saw Jeff in the L.A. Forum parking lot a few days ago at the Sammy Hagar/Loverboy show.
Who doesn't love a bit of George Formby "Auntie Maggie's Home Made Remedy" "The Emperor of Lancashire" two classics from the man who kept the country going during the blitz, a huge celebrity in much simpler times.
I actually watched "Good Neighbors" (aka "The Good LIfe") on PBS in the eighties and remember Felicity Kendall.
Magnificent entertainment, thanks guys. I haven't laughed so much in ages. Pete, how can you not know of some of the UK's finest heavy metal and prog rock performers Clive Dunn, George Formby and The Wombles. Glad that Simon and Stephen have been able to bring these delights to SOT. Bobby Vinton was a great choice too Pete. Once more, thank you so much for an hours wonderful entertainment.
I still wonder what I was thinking with some of the things I picked up during the late 90's and early 2000's that just stuck around. Some of the nu-metal, and post grunge, and some other things that I used to like have aged like fresh fruit for me. But the weirdest stuff in my collection that I still claim:
I have two Japanese Dragonball/Dragonball Z anime soundtrack sets. One is a three disc set, and the other is a 2 disc set. For anyone who doesn't know, the music of the DBZ anime was originally replaced with generic action cartoon music for the original U.S. release of the anime. The music of the original Japanese release was much more cinematic, almost Hollywood quality. So, back in the early 2000's, I ordered these sets off of eBay.
I still have an old, beat up copy of Jerry Clower's debut stand up comedy album From Yazoo City - Mississippi Talkin'. My dad had it when I was a kid, and it's lingered around in my vinyl collection since I was a teenager. I even got to see Clower perform live when I was a little kid. The cover of this vinyl album has been long lost since I was young, and I have no idea how well the record would even play.
I have a few different random bluegrass CD's that a friend gave me many years ago. I don't even think I have listened to any of these CD's in a long time, but I do genuinely enjoy good bluegrass music.
I have the Best of Lieutenant Pigeon. Bought it as a joke but actually love it 😂
I had a fun back and forth with Steven and Simon on Twitter/X when I threw out an album I came across at a record show, although I didn't buy it. The album was called My Brother Thinks He's a Banana by Barry Louis Polisar. I went home and listened to the song and thought, wow, what did I just listen to? So, of course, I had to share it with both Steven and Simon. And their answers were perfect!
Clive Dunn in Dad's Army are almost all on RUclips. They're not bad.
Comic gold, gentlemen! Many thanks for this episode.
Wasn't George Harrison a member of the George Formby appreciation society?
Clive Dunn singing Grandad was (not by choice) very much part of the soundtrack of my tenth year. Which is as good an explanation as any of why cutting into guys of my age from this side of the pond, reveals a deep vein of weird.
Steven Reid ranking Steven Wilson albums with Pete !
This episode was comedy gold! Thank you!!
My 5 could be, Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks), Mary Had a Little Amp, Perry Como's Greatest Hits, Andy Williams Greatest Hits, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Greatest Hits. Top 50 T.V. Themes get honorable mention.
When i think of Air Supply i think of Spaceballs steeling air from planets
😂😂 is Air Supply 😂 street Slang for breathing machines? Stupid name for a Metal band
WTF is Space balls?? Some old porn film
That Gershon Kinglsey guy from the "Moog" album arguably wrote the first electronic hit song, "Popcorn" in the late 60s, which was then made popular by the project "Hot Butter" in the early 70s.
I think I can outdo both Steven and Simon with 1978's The Smurfs - Father Abraham in Smurfland, featuring the classics Smurfing Beer and Do Smurfs Cry, I'll get my coat!
My god, you reminded me I had that album when I was a wee boy, Smurfing Tango I can definitely remember😊
George Formby was a genius. George Harrison was a big fan of Formby. Harrison Used to go to Blackpool for the Formby conventions. Harrison gave ukes to all his friends. Clive Dunn kept T.Rex of the top spot. Ride a white Swan. Grandad came out in 1970. I was 12 now the lyrics mean more to me now. It's weird.
I'm surprised Pete never heard of Biker mice from Mars.
I have a friend who wears his Showwaddywaddy t shirt on the last day of Wacken every year 😂😂😂😂
In Scotland for a few days and trying everything I possibly can that’s brewed here.
I'm sure it's making for a fun trip!
Hey rock 'n' roll! Stomp stomp stomp!
Hilarious show guys great picks especially by Simon and Steven Clive Dunn classic and I grew up with the Wombles Pete.
Genius, absolutely genius 😂 I always love the UK cultural references that flummox Pete, I bet he wishes he grew up in the UK in the 70s, Sabbath, Purple and Benny Hill (that tickled old Ernie). Some wonderful dross in there but I was slightly surprised/disappointed that reference wasn't made to any of the following: Brian & Michael, Roland Rat, Shakin Stevens or the Dooleys (Simon must have a Dooleys record, albeit unalphbetised). The UK was a truly weird place in the 70s and early 80s but it's fantastic to look back. In celebration of Brian Cant I will now listen to the theme tune for Chigley. I related news I've seen Cher in concert, we all sleep alone was actually pretty good.
The Dooleys were awesome (kinda). A copy of Brian and Michael's hit resides upstairs. Unalphabetised.
I don’t understand Pete. The band we shall not mention is basically just soft yacht rock
And he recently did an album ranking of Bread and America bands that are very similar to Air Supply.
@@damiankarras totally agree
Wildly entertaining. Don't think I can top you guys.
Fancy Pete not knowing the Wombles and Clive Dunn 🤣. Great fun episode.
Darts were my fave band before a mate played me Dark Side Of The Moon. I've seen them a couple of times in recent years. They still rock. And Roll. Showaddywaddy were the first band I saw live (Went with my parents.) My second gig was the first Monsters Of Rock festival. Showaddywaddy are the English Sha-Na-Na, more or less, Pete.
I think that the Wombles or a band like them were on Captain Kangaroo
in the 70's performing songs that is where I discovered them.🇺🇲🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🇬🇧
Superb, one of the funniest ever guys!
The most obscure record I ever had was "Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists.' I also found a strange album in a cutout bin called "Chick, Donald, Walter and Woody." It featured Chick Corea, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and Woody Herman and his band performing songs of Steely Dan.
I had a brilliant laugh, really enjoyed it.
Eclipse... Brilliant give them a go 👍 SOT ❤ love you show.
Mike Batt of Wombles fame wrote the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webers Phantom of The Opera and Bright Eyes for Art Garfunkel (Watership Down)
Great show again guys. I've got Chas 'n Dave's Greatest Hits. Absolutely brilliant!
Understand Air Supply! They did come into our McDonalds where II was working in 1980, served the lead singer and his sidekick some quarter pounders with cheese! The girls went ga ga when they came in though. Good times back then!!
It's funny when Pete has no clue what the UK guys are talking about. Also when he's so clearly embarrassed by owning his own pics.
I own little myself but i do own a Kid Creole & The Coconuts album, and.it's fantastic. The other odd one is an album 'made by' Lil Bub, an internet famous cat. Don't put that one on when other people are about.
This made me think of childhood as well. First record i had was a Pinky & Perky single, which i'd play on my primary coloured Fisher Price record player. Puff the Magic Dragon comes to mind, as does Welcome Home by Peters & Lee. And i can remember Clive Dunn on TOTP when Grandad was a hit. Great show guys, as always.
😂 brilliant show again gents 👏🏻 👌
Talking of Playaway, Peter Hamill was asked to write a song for it by the producer (an old friend). He did a song called Tintagel,and was filmed dressed up as King Arthur singing it at the ruins of Tintagel Castle. It's on RUclips - a hoot!!
Pete doing another guilty pleasures episode... You need to grow up and stop blaming your family members for the music in your collection. 😅
I like that Mr. Men vinyl you have, Simon Bray.
I have Neil's Heavy Concept album and some Bad News singles, but I got them purposely.
The one odd ones in my collection is Snoopy vs The Red Baron by "The Royal Guardsmen" and the debut Cher album. I love it when Pete gets that "what the hell are they talking about" look when they mention The Good Life. Back in the day Felicity Kendall, I would enjoy watching Felicity Kendall shape up.
so I just bought the Biker Mice from Mars :)
My work here is done. Isn't it awesome!!!
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé 'Barcelona' on CD. Only reason why I own this is because I visited Spain twice in 2022 and again in 2023 (then went to Lisbon, Portugal right after) fell in love with the country. The title track is my favorite because it was used during the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- Grease (1978) Soundtrack on LP
"How Can I Go On" is one of Freddie's most beautiful ballads. And I love "The Golden Boy". It's quite progressive. These two tunes would have made "The Miracle" a much better Queen album.
Beer is essential for Watching this show!
Wombles were HUGE in New Zealand in the 70's, at least they were for me as a 4 year old.
Have a couple Ivan Rebroff albums , Los Indios Tabajaras , Roger Whitaker , Nana Mouskouri , Heino , Steve Martin comedy records , Sesame Street in German ,
Fish & Tony Banks 12" single "Short cut to somewhere" is pretty weird!
But the 'worst' is a Roye Albrighton (Nektar) solo album The Follies of Rupert Treacle...which is basically a kids fairy tale set to music and it is unlistenable
Best of Louie Louie by rhino records it's that song done by different gender of music its a hoot 😅
Hey Pete... believe it or not... the song "Sweet Dreams" from Air Supply is one of my very favorite songs! You shouldn't feel uncomfortable.
@@Vaggelis68 Sweet Dreams reminds me of Alan Parsons Project
Romeo Challenger was in the band Black Widow. They released a song called Come To The Sabbat. They used satanic and occult imagery.
I was about to post the same thing! Showaddywaddy's Romeo Challenger was indeed in Black Widow. The Sacrifice album that Come To The Sabbat is on was before his time with them. I think he was on their 2nd album though.
Fun topic! No, I don't own anything as weird that I've willingly paid for, but there are some odd ones at least:
Lori Yates - Can't Stop The Girl: Country pop that I found in a bargain bin, one of my infamous "why not" picks. Only owned by 119 people on Discogs, so it seems super obscure. It's actually not bad!
Final Fantasy III - Original Sound Version: Yes, that is the NES soundtrack, brilliant despite the limitations. I also have FFIII - Legend Of The Eternal Wind which is an orchestral album with a terrible narrator, lol
Eläkeläiset - Humpan Kuninkaan Hovissa: Kinda like when Weird Al does polka, but in Finnish. Must be experienced!
I admit to having a Goodies 70’s vinyl album in my collection
OMFGG - you win!! 🤣
Their version of Wild Thing was brilliant! Up there with The Troggs and Jimi Hendrix imho : "Come on and hold me tight...... Not quite that tight!!"
Hi UK friends, please help! After this show, I went to check the episodes of The Wombles online. Loved that to bits. Could someone please explain me what does Orinoco mean by "forty weeks"? It drives me crazy not grasping the meaning of it! I am not from an English speaking country so that some expressions are a bit hard for me to understand. Cheers.
What he is saying is 'forty winks', which is a slang phrase for a short nap in the UK.
@@TranquilityFireReid Cheers!
Ive got that darts LP! - my parents bought it for me at xmas when I was a kid (guessing around 77 or 78 ?) 🤣 My first gig around 78/79 was Showaddywaddy with a couple of school mates - mums dropped us off and picked us up.😆 it was great - they had a strobe light / we had never seen one of them before. Next gig was The Jam (both at Southampton Gaumont - now called Mayflower). My favourite album just before this, 77 ish, was K-Tel's Amazing 44 Superstars (which I still have) Double LP.
excellent episode - spurred me on to haul out some of the utter tosh I most certainly own.
Darts actually evolved out of the British Blues Boom outfit The John Dummer Blues Band of whom I have the full catalogue....
The Air Supply song "Goodbye" from 1993 "The Vanishing Race" was actually their last final swan song in the US peaking at # 48 (1 week) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart. I do have 1982 "Now And Forever", "Christmas" (1987) & "Ones That You Love: The Best Of" (1980 - 1986) all 3 on CD.
Felicity Kendal voted Rear of The Year once lol 😂😂😂😂
This episode needs some "Pink Lady" S/T on Electra 1979
Oh yes it does
Saw Air Supply in 1980...for free. ...a cloud of weed hung over the crowd.
A BIG cloud
The Mr Men exist as well in France ! I had plenty of little books covering the different characters when I was a kid.
Great fun. But please NO novelty albums if you do this again. Please. (Hiding a Jake Thackray LP behind my back). So here are 5 of my wieird sh*t albums.
1. Tonto's Expanding Head Band's first album, "Zero Time" (1971)
2. Bo Hansen's "Lord Of The Rings" (1970)
3. Kayak's "See, See The Sun (1973)
4. Alquin's "Mountain Queen" (1973)
5. Neutron's "Black Hole Star (1974)
BTW one piece of evidence that these albums are weird is that none of my mates had any of them!
Rummage through the vinyl/cassette collection of any self-respecting UK gentleman in his 50s or 60s and, amongst his copies of Ziggy Stardust, Abbey Road and Led Zep 4, you will find The Wombles and Showaddywaddy. I do however pour scorn on your Clive Dunn. PS - how do you get the sticky substance off the cover of your Felicity Kendal album? (Huh...huh...I said bum)
Oh, I pour scorn on my Clive Dunn album as well!!
Tunes from the Toons - check it out! Flintstones, Top Cat, Wacky Races etc. Not just the themes, but incidental music too. Awesome.
This sounds like my kind if thing!
Showaddywaddy's Romeo Challenger also drummed for Black Widow. 🙂
Air Supply are great. Fantastic albums and surprisingly rocking live. 👍
I seem to remember an album called Black Rose by Cher that was pretty cool
I'm certainly intrigued by the contents of Simon's attic.
I don't fault Pete for having an Air Supply album if his wife enjoys it. That music is made for couples night (which explains why I'm alone 😁😬)
I’m a sucker for Kraftwerk.
So it will be something like Sabbath/Snowblind,Purple:Highway Star/Zep:The Rover followed by Kraftwerk:The Robots (We are the robots🎼) followed by Yellow Magic Orchestra:Behind the Mask.
The stomach churns.
Brilliant episode. Probably the funniest one ever.
Pete, if you're going to check out Showaddywaddy, have a listen to their first single. An original song called Hey Rock N Roll from 1973. A cross between old school Rock N Roll and glam rock.
Probably the weirdest thing I have is something from 1966. An 8 track, 10" vinyl mini album by a French singer called Johnny Halliday. He was a superstar in France, but meant nothing anywhere else in the World. The lead track is a french language version of House Of The Rising Son called Le Penitencier. Even now, I have no idea how I got it. It just appeared in my collection, one day.
I’m sorry but Simon won this round… ‘Teach yourself rock guitar’ and ‘Showwaddywaddy’.. omg.. laughing my pants off.. the look on Pete’s face is priceless… to see this with a nice Belgian triple beer (come on guys! The best beer is from Belgium!) and an old genever makes it even better… Pete: get well soon, so you can enjoy a nice beer next time. Looking forward to the powermetal episode!
I know two Bobby Vinton songs and they're both pretty good.