Hoots Mon There's A Moose Loose Aboot This Hoose - Lord Rockingham's XI
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2021
- Lord Rockingham's XI were professional musicians brought together by Jack Good as the house band for the rock and roll British TV show 'Oh Boy' made by the 1960s regional ITV contractor ABC Television.
The band never toured, but their claim to fame was that they recorded the very first number one instrumental, Hoots Mon, which hit the top spot in 1958 hit parade and stayed there for three weeks.
The band leader Harry Robinson (who wrote Hoots Mon) was joined by Benny Green on saxophone, the famously enthusiastic Cherry Wainer on the Hammond organ and her husband Don Storer on drums.
Hoots Mon roughly translates as Hey Man.
'There's a moose loose aboot this hoose' refers to a mouse rather than a moose.
My dad played and sang this song with the saxophone can still hear him sing it now
Those key changes! That organ! That intro! That bari sax! Completely joy bringing. And it's genuinely never occurred to me in decades of knowing and loving this that it's a mouse, not a moose! D'oh!
I have to confess that I had always assumed it was a moose, but someone finally enlightened me recently!
Moose is Scottish for mouse
I think the horn section was two baris and two tenors. Makes for a big, grunty sound. Sounds Incorporated had a two bari/two tenor horn section when they backed Little Richard on a 1964 UK TV special. That's video's on RUclips, and both Little Richard and the band sound great.
Edit - I just checked that vid, and it was two baritones and one tenor. Still sounds great!
@@mariaconway405 And goose is Scottish for gouse.
I’m having this song played at my funeral.
Literally dancing on your grave.
Come on Scotland, make this a national anthem to be played before major sporting events, in for example Rugby and Football.
We already have a great National Anthem written and sung by 2 Scots, so don't insult us!
@@maggieblyth2077 Is that by chance 'Flower of Scotland' Maggie?
'Hoots Mon' is far more upbeat with not an ounce of bitterness like the current anthem.
@@Bazooka183 Shows how much you know!
@@maggieblyth2077 I know this much....
Hoots Mon by Lord Rockingham's 11 is the best Scottish themed tune of all time, and should be embraced forever more in the High and Lowlands
Hoots Mon would bring out the darling spirit in most Scots.
They are not as bitter and jealous as Flower of Scotland implies.
Scotland is a wonderful place and Lord Rockinghams 11's Hoots Mon would be as popular as whiskey all over the world
quintessentially Brit Rock n roll show,but great,fast and exciting to watch!...Cherry was my Doris Day of the Hammond!
Amen!!
Why it never charted in America is a mystery to me...Just Great!!! I'm in the Detroit area...this is just good stuff!
It's perfect for a college band..😂
Brilliant
What I like about this song is that you can play it when there is a mouse or a moose running amuck around your home. Pop songs today do not have such versatility
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Yes. Most amooseing !!!
Cherry was a super organist.
Those first few bars with the saxophones reminds me of Madness
Yes the similarity is really uncanny isn't it?
Madness ripped it off for the intro to Baggy Trousers.
British television's first pop programme for teens was The 6.5 Special on Saturday evenings. The BBC lost the show's hotshot producer Jack Good- the Dick Clark of the UK- to its new commercial rival ITV. He started Oh Boy! with the XI as the house band and Cliff Richard imitating Elvis.
Fun fact: After many ups and downs, Jack Good became a Greek Orthodox monk and icon painter.
Thanks for that pics. I knowed and love the song.
You're very welcome. It's a great song, isn't it?
Cherry is my fav.
She's brilliant, isn't she?
@@greatestinstrumentals7880Yes, amazing!
Classic British Rock and Roll. Lord Rockingham's XI were the house band on 'Oh Boy' late 1950's TV music show. Clips on RUclips.
Good stills.
We don't even say it like that!
The original "Wall of Sound:".
Hoots Mon wasn't the first instrumental no1as stated above,it came out in 58 - Eddie Calvert had two {in 1954 and 1955) and Winifred Atwell (in 1954 and 1956) and Russ Conway had two (both 58}.
We don't even say it like that
"There's a moose loose aboot the hoose! *laughing at him*"
I'm waiting for a bossa nova version
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*Trevor Phillips disliked this*
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Baggy Troosehs.
Yes this certainly sounds like Madness! Suggs wasn't born when this record came out, but surely he must have been a fan.
@@greatestinstrumentals7880 I'm sure they mention it in "When we was We", but I haven't got it to hand to confirm or deny it!
it's a faint accent, you could hardly tell
... hoots ... two sleeps till Santa
Trevor Phillips hates this song.