The world only needs one Blah Blah Blah. My lot were from Manchester. They're on Absurd Records who and wore Tudor clothing.
Adam
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I don¡¯t know if this is owt or nowt. There was a late 70s NZ band called Blah Blah Blah. They are mostly known for the i singles ¡°Don¡¯t Fight It Marsha, It¡¯s Bigger That Both of Us¡± and ¡°There is no Depression in New Zealand¡±.
??Intriguingly, ?their drummer DonMcaGlashan, amidst many other?
Achievements, had a big hit with Wayne Masons 60s song (with his band The Fourmuyla) called ?Nature with his Muttonbirds band. ?
¡°The ah-Nature Story-ah¡±
stve
On 13/11/2020, at 8:16 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall@...> wrote:
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It¡¯s a bloody marvel is the internet!
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adam
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Speaking of songs stuck in one's head for years and years...
I often have had this tune stuck in my head, a tune that has some added kiddie lyrics about a little goat... Basically, some "real" song with some added joke/jingle lyrics that we thought were funny when we were kids (all this in Greek).
It goes like this: aba-ni-bi-ah-ba-ni-beh---to katsikaki kanei behhh (translation:"aba-ni-bi-ah-ba-ni-beh---the little goat goes "beeeh").?
So I googled it, in Greek characters, about a month ago (after decades of singing it at random moments, without having a clue as to the origin)
?"¦Á ¦Ì¦Ð¦Á ¦Í¦É ¦Ì¦Ð¦É ¦Á ¦Ì¦Ð¦Á ¦Í¦É ¦Ì¦Ð¦Å"
And what do I find????!!!!
it is the 1978 Eurovision entry of Israel (and winner of the contest):
I don't know what amazed me more: how old the origins of that melody embedded in my brain is, or the fact that I put the query?in Google (which makes zero sense in Greek, it's just meaningless syllables) and it found it immediately...
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM Toby Blake <tobyblake@...> wrote:
Good stuff Adam, I'll listen to these when I'm not surrounded by other
tasteless judgemental humans.
Speaking of "awful, but strangely alluring", I regularly get a song stuck
in my head - I'm pretty sure that Pete introduced me to the band.? I
know the song's called Nature, but that's all I've got.? There's some
high-pitched caterwauling, some fairly shambolic vocals and a really
really catchy section of tune.? It goes like this bom bom bom,
bom-ba-bom-ba-bom, da-da-doo-doo da-da-doo-doo.? Anyway, I love it, but
I can't remember for the life of me.
Pete?? PETE!?
Oh, why won't he answer?
Toby
> On 12 Nov 2020, at 17:44, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall@...> wrote:
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> No not the Iggy Pop song but this:
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> I saw this band once at the same event where erstwhile list member Guy Jackson got bottled off stage. (Poor old Guy.)
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> Guess what?
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> The band were utterly dreadful, nothing as good as the above single.
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> I did a Marc Riley and nipped out for some chips. The class of act that I missed wasn¡¯t in the same league as Dr Riley¡¯s though.
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> Speaking of utterly dreadful records, anybody know this:
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> Peel played it a couple of times and I thought it was awful, but strangely alluring.
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> I had a mate who was in a teenage covers band called The Seedy Gees who released a record
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> He had a box of his singles which I was leafing through one day. Imagine my surprise when I came across a copy of the Balloons single that ended up in his box. As you can see, the labels are almost identical!
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> Lucky old me!
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> I actually quite like The Balloons single now. It is ruddy queer to use a Partridgism and also is the only single that I haven¡¯t found on you tube.
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> That¡¯s my daily story, now it¡¯s time for you lot to amuse me.
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> Adam
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> PS Anybody invited Guy Jackson back? Last I heard he was in Barcelona.
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