All of these come under the heading of comedy song or novelty hit. (Well, one of them wasn’t a hit as such).
Please add some more!
1. Eighty men tried and eighty men died
Now they’re buried together in the countryside
2. You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding a ling
3. Is your breath fresh?
Do your have spinach on your teeth?
Is your deodorant strong enough?
4. Me Tonto Kimosabi
Me go and catchee baddy
5. Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits?
That’s not our music, it’s out of date
6. He’s always makin’ the news
Wearin’ just his tennis shoes
Guess you could call him unique
7. I wouldn’t mind if it was Nobel
Even Eric would serve me well
8. As I rounded the corner I got one heck of a shock
18 wheelers were for lined up for three city blocks
9. The geezer with the bunny in the trilby hat
Reckons he’s legit but he ain’t all that
10. Then in walked skippy the bush kangaroo
And Rolf singing Sun Arise and playing the didgeridoo
11. I was on patrol in my grass skirt
When on the radio I heard a red alert
12. So I grabbed a blonde and a case of beer
Said “The Russians are coming, let’s get out of here”
13. She said she’d like to bathe in milk
He said “alright sweetheart”
And when he finished work one night
He loaded up the cart
14. I often pretend that my sadness will end
But it won’t
15. They were chopping them up
They were chopping them down
It’s an ancient Chinese art
And everybody knew their part
16. Is there life on Mars?
Is there life in Peckham?
hubert rawlinson says
No 2 Meri Wison Telephone Man
May possibly have sexual connotations.
Deviant808 says
1) Snoopy Vs The Red Baron
2) “Telephone Man”? (recognise it but can’t think of the title!)
3) “Kissing With Confidence” – Will Powers (?)
5) “I’d Rather Jack” – The Reynolds Girls
8) “Teddy Bear” – Red Sovine
13) “Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West” – Benny Hill
16) “Ullo John, Got A New Motor?” – Alexei Sayle
I recognise 10 but haven’t a clue, that’s going to bug me now…
Sewer Robot says
Blimey @deviant808 – It seems you’re as deviant as me!
10 is the one that wasn’t a hit, if that helps..
Sewer Robot says
… By which I mean all answers thus far spot on
Deviant808 says
I have literally no idea where I dredged “Red Sovine” up from!
Deviant808 says
I had to Google that as it was going to ruin my night otherwise, and it’s something that I’ve actually got the 12″ of 🙂
Vulpes Vulpes says
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Vulpes Vulpes says
Gatz says
9) It’s something to do with Arthur Daley, isn’t? I remember seeing it at the time of the late George Cole’s demise.
Gatz says
And number 15 is Kung Fu Fighting. It was on one of Tony Blackburn’s old chart run downs at the weekend.
Rigid Digit says
The Firm – Arthur Daley (‘Es Alright)
The Good Doctor says
Number Seven. Brown Sauce,I wanna be a winner,
featuring messers Edmonds, Chegwin and Philbin. I always misheard heard that as Noel, as in The Noel Edmonds Peace Prize (TMFTL).
The Good Doctor says
paging @beany
Beany says
Some of us have serious jobs to go to *
* spending all day in charity shops, buying LOADS of silly records.
** I don’t know number 11
Rigid Digit says
6. Ray Stevens – The Streak
Rigid Digit says
12. Mel Brooks – The Hitler Rap
Sewer Robot says
Excellent work! Just 10,11 and (surprisingly) 14 left
duco01 says
14 must be that song with Orville the Duck, surely?
Sewer Robot says
I wish I could give you both points for that answer
But I can’t.*
(*the full title is that f**king song with Orville The Duck)
Tiggerlion says
I Wish I Could Fly
Sewer Robot says
a.k.a.
Kaisfatdad says
Great fun and rather tricky. Hats off to Deviant!
Black Celebration says
Is number 10 Splodgenessabounds? Possibly a song called “Rolf’s a Wanker -OK!”
Sewer Robot says
Do you really think Deviant808 would admit to owning that 12″?
Deviant808 says
Quite.
I do have *some* standards you know…
Jackthebiscuit says
Number 4 – Quantum Jump – Lone Ranger / 9 – The Firm – Arthur Daley (E’s alright)
Nik says
10 is Kylie Said to Jason, by the KLF. I had the urge to listen to that a couple of months ago, and had forgotten the (retrospectively unfortunate) Rolf reference.
badartdog says
11 – there was a novelty song where an impressionist did skits of all the tv detectives – ah here it is:
King of the Cops by Billy Howard:
Sewer Robot says
Awesome! Never seen that performed as “live”.
So, I don’t know about anybody else but I’ve learned two things from this
(1) If you want to quiz The Massive you need tough, tough questions.
(2) That f**king song with Orville The Duck works really well sung with Morrissey’s voice
(*spreads arms wide, furrows brow*)
“I often pretend that my sadness will end..”
(*looks into camera with a pout of wounded optimism*)
“..but it won’t”
The answers in full:
1. Snoopy v The Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen
2. Telephone Man – Meri Wilson
3. Kissing With Confidence – Will Powers
4. The Lone Ranger – Quantum Jump
5. I’d Rather Jack – The Reynolds Girls
6. The Streak – Ray Stevens
7. I Wanna Be A Winner – Brown Sauce
8. Teddy Bear – Red Sovine
9. Arthur Daley, ‘E’s Alright – The Firm
10. Kylie Said To Jason – The K.L.F.
11. King Of The Cops – Billy Howard
12. To Be Or Not To Be a.k.a. The Hitler Rap – Mel Brooks
13. Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) – Benny Hill
14. I Wish I Could Fly – Keith Harris & Orville
15. Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
16. Ullo John, Got A New Motor? – Alexei Sayle