Today's disparate collection of birthdays may include Bing Crosby, Sandi Toksvig, Mary Astor, Frankie Valli, James Brown, Mary Hopkin, Dave Ball of Soft Cell, Dodie Smith, Betty Comden, Sir Henry Cooper, Christopher Cross, Ben Elton, and - erm - Napoleon XIV (of They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! fame)...
...but it's the lovely "Fizz-er" Jay Aston, who blows out 60 candles on her cake today* tomorrow, we're celebrating!
How very appropriate - for when such a milestone, a Bank Holiday Tacky Music Monday and the Eurovision Song Contest (less than three weeks away) collide, what else can we do but play this one...again?!
Have a good week, dear reader...
[* corrected thanks to the eagle-eyed Mr DeVice...]
Love it !
ReplyDeleteI just wish the Girls ripped of the boys trousers in return.
Having said that those tight white trousers do show off their talent rather well.
Shuttlecocks, apparently. Jx
DeleteMy word. I read that skirt business is what put them over the top that year. The song is dreadful, as is the 'choreography'. But, it was a simpler time? Certainly seems simple to me. ABBA, they are not. That said... this song went #1 in the UK. And they had two other #1's and 4 additional top tens. So, they had something going from them. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your holiday, dear. Same old, same old, here - state side. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteFor a manufactured "novelty act" created purely to sing this one song for the Eurovision Song Contest (which they won!), they had an remarkable career - and (in two separate incarnations following an acrimonious split) are still performing today! We in the UK have a great fondness for bands and performers who are pure pop and never take themselves entirely seriously [cf. Boney M, Imagination, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls and so on]. Jx
Delete"Making Your Mind Up" is annoyingly catchy, and it always takes ages to rid my mind of it. I'm hurriedly moving on to "The Land of Make Believe" in an attempt to dislodge it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Wikipedia says Ms Aston's birthday is tomorrow...
Oops - getting ahead of myself again! I have amended the post now...
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PS I think I would prefer this one as an earworm than find myself haunted by that child whispering "I've got a friend who comes to tea / That no one else can see but me / He came today but had to go / To visit you, you never know". It always freaked me.
They look like they're all related. So is this brothers ripping the skirts off their sisters or did everyone just look like that back then? I remember when my brother had hair like that. I almost always had a ponytail if not the whole "wild child" long stringy hair going on. I put an abrupt end to "Friday Flip-up day" at my elementary school. A boy flipped up my skirt so I grabbed him by the front of his pants and quickly brought them down to his ankles. Ha,ha,ha. I've always been for equal rights, I guess.
ReplyDeleteTheir whole image was carefully constructed - as I say, they were only brought together for Eurovision. Nobody in the industry would have had plans for them having a longer career, I'm sure. Jx
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