Oddball songs that did well in the charts..

[derrick]

I think even for 1978 this was a bit strange, but hit number 1 all the same.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

First time i heard this i said to the wife that will be number one.

 

[roadrash]

spitting image ....chicken song


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NemkBVSnUt0

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Serge Gainsbourg just existed in a space somewhere beyond that inhabited by other more ordinary human beings. I absolutely love his version of the French national anthem done in a reggae style, 'Aux armes et cetera', calculated to piss off the nationalist right in France:



And this is just awesome:

 

[accountantpete]

Mullet Alert

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What about those little blue smurf bastards and that weird beard bloke, what a dreadful nonsense that was.

 

[Over The Hill]

Surprised no-one of my generation has come up this:


View:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjvffx-h2KM

But the original it took the tune from was just as odd-

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk-73dWHZAc


I was playing this a few day ago on youtube and for anyone who rather fancied Melanie
here she is then and now..


Still rockin' though!

 

[smutchin]

I love Melanie Safka, especially her version of Ruby Tuesday, which was a top ten hit in 1970 (two years before I was born):

View: http://youtu.be/9alAuYr2g_8


I also love Serge Gainsbourg. I don't believe Aux Armes Et Cetera ever troubled the UK charts, so is slightly outside the remit of this thread but always worth an excuse to hear it anyway, so thanks, FM.

Same goes for my favourite Gainsbourg track but I'll post it anyway because it is very odd - I mean, how often do you hear songs about the existential angst of a ticket inspector on the Paris Metro? Quite brilliant though...

View: http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/x5zude_serge-gainsbourg-le-poinconneur-des_music

 

[Minotier]

Number 6 in 1973

Yes I remember it . My girlfriend at the time thought it was hilarious to buy it for me as a surprise. being into Bowie at the time.
Not as good as when she scored a pair of tickets to see him at Doncaster Top Rank in June '73. Unforgettable, in a different way to this Anthony Newley inspiration!!

 

[rich p]

talking of Anthony Newley...
number 3 in 1960

 

[Fnaar]

And this is just awesome:

That guy in the background has obviously seen me dancing

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Have we had this yet, loony stuff!

 

[Fnaar]

Jake Thackeray... dunno if he had any chart hits, but he was on the telly a lot.
Just wikipedia'd him... he died skint and with a drink problem

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Marvellous stuff, Fnaar, bloke was a genius!

 

[Maz]

Anyone remember this song by Monsoon?

 

[Fnaar]

Anyone remember this song by Monsoon?

I've already pledged my undying lust for Sheila Chandra earlier in the thread