A noble tradition whose earliest exponent I can think of was 77 Sunset Strip’s Ed “Kookie” Burns.
In the interests of my getting a hamper or two in time to “save Christmas” with a few tins of Corsair Chicken (“It’s Clucking Delicious!”) I suggest we throw the contest open to ALL law-enforcement officers – be they in or out of uniform, and, of course, PIs.
I’ll get the ball rolling with Jasper Carrott and funky moped. All together now ‘Roid, roid, roid…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb4fpW4LyI
Half a dozen or so here..
If I fall six short of my festive hamper, there’ll be no Corsair chicken sardines for you come Boxing Day, BB…
“Who are you calling slaphead?”
I can’t find this ‘if you want to know the time ask a policeman’ to post.
So have some George
I confess to being baffled why Jasper Carrott belongs in there (and I had to look up 77 Sunset Strip too).
You’re obviously not long out of Hendon, PC Gatz or you’d have worked out that deduction was the name of the game, …
Jesus of Nazareth, Mary, Joseph and the little donkey….you don’t know that, fella?
Mother o’ Gawwwwd……
I’m going to retreat from the thread in confidence that I’ve missed an important all-users email, but everyone else seems to be getting on fine without me.
Oh hang on, I’ve just remembered The Detectives. No wonder I had forgotten it. It was shit.
Was it possibly Mr Carrrot’s pretake on a certain VBL song only missing out a visit from the boys in blue “Come down Red Molly, ” called Sergent McRae.”
An obligatory Thompson song but not the one mentioned above.
The great Joan as Police Woman with a Sonic Youth cover…
https://youtu.be/zjgweO5fP38
Let’s Spender little time with this ‘un, y’knaa?
Howay you bugger, man.
Beating @hubert-rawlinson to it….
With a geranium behind each ear and his face painted with gay cabalistic symbols, 6-foot-8, 17-stone Police Sergeant Geoff Bull looked jolly convincing as he sweated and grunted through a vigorous twist routine at the Frug-A-Go-Go Bierkeller.
His hot serge trousers flapped wildly over his enormous plastic sandals as he jumped and jumped and gyrated towards a long-haired man.
“Er, excuse me, man, I have reason to believe you can turn me on”, he leered suggestively.
As if by magic dozens of truncheons appeared and mercilessly thrashed him.
Poor Geoff, what a turn-up for the books….
Ah Moose.
“Baby, you’re so far ahead it’s beautiful”
Hullo there!
@Moose-the-Mooche
Surely that should read “hullo, hullo, hullo there…”
That would ruin the quotation from Eamonn Andrews. Is that what you want? ‘Cos that’s what’ll happen.
Eh? That were Val Doonican, Shirley?
So it is!
I have brought shame on my forefathers.
I shall of course step into the library with me revolver and do the decent thing.
The mono version, obviously.
Not forgetting from SHARE.
P.C. Gibbon, the long arm of the law
Hands on heads, we know how to deal with you agein’ Teds….
I am embarrassed to admit that I have only just got that gag, and I was just listening to it the other day.
…here’s a proper tune from Barry A, who could fill this thread on his own.
It’s just some bloke talking over a drum machine!
Directed by Giblets – think I went to a retrospective of his work at the NFT….
Smiley Culture died during a police raid on his home. Suicide, apparently.
Isn’t it always.
Choooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon∞
I enjoyed that.
Never really listened to Family before. Will investigate further.
Hooray! Ooba jooba, one of us!
Anything by Stingo and his chums?
Here’s a twofer!
It’s “stout” and “mature” in these enlightened times, sunshine.
My two most used search terms! I’m into dark beer and…. er, cheese, yes, that’s it!
Chuck Heston didn’t like this. And he’s dead, so think on.
…for those who find “defund the police” rather too conciliatory and nampy-pamby….
Seargent says son you’d better come with me
Cause Jason’s in ward 3B and it’s over now
Best song about a gay Bonny and Clyde ever.
I can’t find his version but I recall the notes from The Albion’s Prospect Before Us and the song I Wish I was Single Again.
A real life singing policeman.
“The fast-growing recording industry of the 1930s had a considerable effect on the repertoires of many country singers and musicians. This version was first recorded on a Regal Zonophone 78 by the Irish singer and melodeon player, Frank Quinn, who emigrated to America to become Highway Patrolman Frank Quinn, and appears on several records with picture labels resplendent in his uniform astride a Harley Davidson. “
They put me in a spotlight
Tied me to the stage
The only thing I got right was to lie about my age
I was fitted up for size for Top Of The Pops
In a uniform supplied
by
The
GLAM
ROCK
COPS!
A clip from the show Cop Rock would be totally appropriate: it would also be totally bloody awful.
Pssst, don’t tell KFD….
No David Soul yet?
Here’s Horslips from their short-lived ‘new wave era’:
Not David Soul, but….
Somebody on here had a run-in with (this) James Taylor, but this is a fantastic version. Makes you want to climb out of a river wearing an unfortunate baggy cardigan.
That is ruddy fantanstic. It must be time I saw JTQ again.
Decent
Blues and twos in your gypsy caravan’s rear view mirror? It’s the Folk Police.
The worst thing about being a detective is how frequently you know they did but you just can’t prove it…
The Duchess in Leeds would have this band on as support.
Ket Kolomper, I was looking them up as the ‘bass guitar’ was a repurposed cricket bat with one string and played with a pulley system, the guitar was made from flattened tin cans, alas I canr remember what the drums were.
Anyway this is possibly their only recorded song.’Morning Occifer’
https://goneo.media/ket-kolomper/
“They sent the Heart Police to put you under cardiac arrest”
It’s a bloody awful video but I probably thought it was great at the time.
@black-celebration
That first Buggles album is actually one of my favourite albums still. Genuinely all killer, no filler.
Always loved the above lyric too.
Yes. The starting point of the six year Reign of Horn, the endpoint of which was Slave to the Rhythm.
Reign of Horn. You missed a Hurrr there…….
I can hurrdly har myself.
…er, hang on…
I know it well too. That was one I bought on cassette.
It felt really futuristic. It made us think, as we were entering the 80s, that a world of Jetsons-like coolness was imminent:
I love you, Miss Robot
Astroboy (and the proles on parade)
Johnny riding on the Monorail
🎵Touch the seam on your silver skin that feels so hard when you take me in🎵
Oh, I know the kind of future you were dreaming of, BC.
Dirty boy!!
So much filth being thrown us pop kids back then. Why did nobody think of us?
Not enough for my liking.
Well, we have agreed some do.
Sam McLoud on 45…
I wouldn’t have minded a record made by him as his character from Duel.
“Come ONNNN! Let’s GOOOOOO!!!”
Or how about “I’m the Night Man”, as his Touch of Evil character…
Yes. Ace film!
Larry Wallis.
Stop! Eric time!!!
Not now, MC
No-one daring to post ‘We are Detective’ by The Thompson Twins?
I think that’s because the people here are select.
They will never understand our culture
….well, what is all that stuff about two sevens? Is it to do with Watneys?
Blood is thicker margarine than grease
Something something oranges something.
More a plod than a shamus, but still…one for the olds.
Detective Sergeant Carter – by 1980 he’d left the police force, and was doing odd jobs for his old mate.
If only the world was like that. Only without the brown jacket, obvs.
From the 80s detective show Bulman, Bulman’s sidekick Lucy (Siobhan Redmond) sings, whilst undercover.
When I lived in Manchester in the late 70s, I used to drink in a bar called Toppers on Peter Street just down from the Free Trade Hall. While I never got to meet him, Don “Bullman” Henderson used to regularly get blathered in there after a hard day’s filming. On one occasion, he apparently lost not only the plot but also the string-backed gloves that were his character’s trademark – cue an invasion of large numbers of thirsty tabloid hacks in search of a story