They Don't Make Them Like They Used To #95 - Herreys - Diggi Loo Diggi Ley
It's Eurovison time again, and here's one of my favourites, the victorious Swedish entry from 1984
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It's Eurovison time again, and here's one of my favourites, the victorious Swedish entry from 1984
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These guys still make them like they used to but here's Camel Walk anyway
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You might remember Mental as Anything from their smash hit " Live It Up " which graced the charts back in 1985 as well as the end credits of Crocodile Dundee but before that they released this New Wave inspired drinking song.
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Here's a great clip of one of Ireland's first music superstars performing on European TV back in the early 70's while wearing one of the greatest ties (neckerchiefs?) ever made
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Today's TDMTLTUT is in honour of how a bizarrely large proportion of the electorate must feel towards Fianna Fáil #ge16
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Still can't decide which version of this classic I prefer, while Captain & Tennille's version was the smash hit and the version most people would know,but Neil (who wrote the song) bouncing away at the piano is also fun.
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Danish electronic pop duo, Laid Back, had a top ten hit in Germany with "High Society Girl" in 1983. The video itself is a bit weird and typical early 80's TV cheap.
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On this edition of "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To" I've gone for John Hegley who is a hard man to categorise. Hegley's a comedian, a poet, a writer (his last three books have potatoes in the title), a musician and a songwriter.
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While "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To", I know The Fall do in fairness but I'm mainly putting this up because Frank Sidebottom's version always makes me smile.
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Today's "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To" has Van playing my favourite song of his, live in 1980, the opener off Tupelo Honey "Wild Night"
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Today's They Don't Make Them Like They Used To "Classical Gas" is my go-to song at karaokes, ha just joshing, the instrumental won three Grammys: Best Instrumental Composition, Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental, and Best Instrumental Arrangement.
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R.L. Burnside was a blues musician from Mississippi who gained some fame in the early nineties touring with Jon Spencer of Blues Explosion fame and unfortunately has nothing to do with the character of the same name from The Bill (remember DCI Burnside?). "Let My Baby Ride" is taken from the 1998 album " Come On In "
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In this installment of " They Don't Make Them Like They Used To " I present David Bowie's "Modern Love" which is the main song to use if you want to soundtrack yourself running and dancing down the street (yeah I know he did Dancing in the Street before you start...) and given the weather at the moment, you just might.
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Glorious Liverpudlian pop from 1983
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Lesley Duncan was an English singer/songwriter from the sixties and seventies best known for her song "Love Song" which has been covered by Elton John and Daivd Bowie amongst others, and her album "Sing Children Sing". The song above is taken from the compilation album "The Girls Are At It Again: UK Beat Girls 1964-1969"
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Remember when the charts were fun, I always think you need acts like this and you just don't really see anything like this anymore, which is a shame. It's all Taylor Swift this, Ed Sheeran that, more's the pity... as a bonus here they are doing a Prince medley.. Video deleted
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"..but nobody would go to the prom with me....bay-bee..."
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