Sort of fits here, people old enough might remember the English band Bucks Fizz that won the Eurovision competition around 1979 or 1980. I was reading from an English book of rock music artists that went up to the early 1980s that mentioned how Bucks Fizz had a routine of the two guys in the band removing the skirts of the two girls in the band, but that it was all PG level stuff.
Indeed the song they performed to win the Eurovision contest ‘Making Your Mind up’ while not specifically a children’s song, has a very simple melody.
Anyway, the book mentioned that Bucks Fizz was one of the first English bands (or maybe the first English band) whose first 3 singles went to #1 in the U.K.
More anyway, given the skirt removal thing, I decided to check them out on Youtube. Their third #1 U.K single, ‘My Camera Never Lies’ was critically acclaimed and, in contrast to ‘Making Your Mind Up,’ has a rather complex musical structure.
Sadly shortly after these three #1 songs, the bands’ tour bus got into an accident and one of the male band members had a injury though he subsequently fully recovered. However, not surprising, after that, the other band members had to move on and Bucks Fizz broke up. After that, the two male band members at different times had bands they both called Bucks Fizz and there were a number of law suits and acrimony.
It is their second #1 single English single that I want to turn people’s attention to though, ‘The Land of Make Believe.’ When listening to it, I immediately remembered the song from around 40 years ago, the introduction, the lines “not for all the tea in China or all the corn in Carolina’ and the spoken poem at the end. Being in Canada though, I don’t know if the song received similar airplay in the United States back then.
However, what is of interest here, is that one of the two female members of the band wore a one piece swimsuit in the music video for the song (as well as a short skirt, which obviously fits with the band) and, though the music video on youtube is only of standard quality, there is a very nice butt shot in the video.
For what it’s worth, I think it’s a good song, but for whatever reason, many especially early 1980s songs had the drumming far too loud in the mix, and that’s true with this song as well. There is a youtube video of them singing this song on Top of the Pops which I think is better because the drums aren’t as loud.
It’s even the case that highly intelligent musical minds like musician and producer Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) played to the current trends at that time and produced music that had very loud drumming.
Sort of fits here, people old enough might remember the English band Bucks Fizz that won the Eurovision competition around 1979 or 1980. I was reading from an English book of rock music artists that went up to the early 1980s that mentioned how Bucks Fizz had a routine of the two guys in the band removing the skirts of the two girls in the band, but that it was all PG level stuff.
Indeed the song they performed to win the Eurovision contest ‘Making Your Mind up’ while not specifically a children’s song, has a very simple melody.
Anyway, the book mentioned that Bucks Fizz was one of the first English bands (or maybe the first English band) whose first 3 singles went to #1 in the U.K.
More anyway, given the skirt removal thing, I decided to check them out on Youtube. Their third #1 U.K single, ‘My Camera Never Lies’ was critically acclaimed and, in contrast to ‘Making Your Mind Up,’ has a rather complex musical structure.
Sadly shortly after these three #1 songs, the bands’ tour bus got into an accident and one of the male band members had a injury though he subsequently fully recovered. However, not surprising, after that, the other band members had to move on and Bucks Fizz broke up. After that, the two male band members at different times had bands they both called Bucks Fizz and there were a number of law suits and acrimony.
It is their second #1 single English single that I want to turn people’s attention to though, ‘The Land of Make Believe.’ When listening to it, I immediately remembered the song from around 40 years ago, the introduction, the lines “not for all the tea in China or all the corn in Carolina’ and the spoken poem at the end. Being in Canada though, I don’t know if the song received similar airplay in the United States back then.
However, what is of interest here, is that one of the two female members of the band wore a one piece swimsuit in the music video for the song (as well as a short skirt, which obviously fits with the band) and, though the music video on youtube is only of standard quality, there is a very nice butt shot in the video.
For what it’s worth, I think it’s a good song, but for whatever reason, many especially early 1980s songs had the drumming far too loud in the mix, and that’s true with this song as well. There is a youtube video of them singing this song on Top of the Pops which I think is better because the drums aren’t as loud.
It’s even the case that highly intelligent musical minds like musician and producer Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) played to the current trends at that time and produced music that had very loud drumming.