The Wombles destroy Master Tapes, so no 50th Anniversary Dolby Atmos Remix of The Wombling Song then … apparently Chris Spedding was lined up to re-record Wellington’s guitar solo
The Giles Martin or Steven Wilson Remix That Won’t Be Happening
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Mike Batt’s smartest move was instead of just taking a £200 fee for writing & performing the “Wombling Song” theme, he negotiated the musical rights for the characters.
A proper Thatcherite.
He’s a weird looking dude. Sort of a semi balding bottoxed orphan Annie via a sausage machine.
With a bit of Mick Hucknall in the mixing bowl
The stuffing of nightmares. Turkey arses singing wombling’s too tight to mention.
There was a kid in my school in 1970s Coventry who apparently lacked – or, equally unfortunate, was rumoured to be lacking. – a bollock.
I’m sure you can imagine what his life must have been like after “Remember” was released
I’m guessing the Colonel Bogey March did well…
Wombling Songs was one of my first records. I was looking forward to next year’s 30th anniversary Abbey Road Half-Speed Master.
I hate to tell you this, but the Wombles were a bloody sight longer ago than thirty years.
But, I’m still 23, shirely?
I bought 20 Wombling Greats in around 1977 and I reckon I could sing along with any track from it now. Great stuff and musically. Here’s their tribute to Space Oddity…
Yup, we had Wombling Songs. Some of those tunes are actually really good. Wombling Merry Christmas is a cracking tune too. Mike Batt knew how to bang out a melody.
Looking him up on my computer I see he’s done loads of stuff. Wrote Bright Eyes and produced Lilac Wine to name just two of his feats that have made it onto my iPod. (They might be the only two, I stopped reading and just skimmed the blue bits, but they were mostly just people’s names, famous folk he’s worked with.)
Is your iPod a Katie Melua free zone?
I’m afraid my whole life is. Or rather, has been until now. I’ve just looked her up on my computer and found in 2006 she was the United Kingdom’s best-selling female artist[7] as well as Europe’s highest selling European female artist.[8] and in 2008 was the seventh-richest British musician under the age of 30.[12]. Gosh! Again I stopped reading after the first bit (didn’t even skim through the blue bits this time), but I can say my life is no longer a Katie I’veforgottenhernamealready free zone. My iPod still is though.
Mike Batt? Of Hawkwind fame?