"(I Wanna Love You Like A) Mad Dog" was actually released in 1969, the same year as The Stooges's debut.
One-man band vibes even though it's not a one-man band
Flipside - extraordinarily pithy, just 37 seconds long - "Greasy Haired Woman"
Like this title of the B-side of the follow up single - "Rampant on the Rage"
Staveley Makepeace and Lieutenant Pigeon - the Parliament-Funkadelic of Brit novelty-pop and sub-glam tat
Did they intend to out-oldtimey Mungo Jerry?
Actually appears they were on this tradjazz-skiffle-ragtime-oompah-whathaveyou meets music-hall-novelty-act vibe before "In the Summertime" annexed the number one spot for months.
Seems like something World of Twist and Denim would have made a talisman and totem out of.
Ah well, of course, this retrospective was compiled by Bob Stanley.
Getting quite... not experimental exactly, more studio-shenanigans-y
The missing link between United States of America and Darts.
Like if Hotlegs had never become 10cc but had tried to do the 10cc-ish studio-wizzardry within Hotlegs and recording in their front living room.
Lieutenant Pigeon was the side-project, but scored vastly in comparison - "Mouldy Old Dough" reached #1 in the UK, Belgium, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Not just a one-hit wonder either - this was a smaller chart success.
"Written by Nigel Fletcher and Rob Woodward and first produced by them under the name of their other band, Stavely Makepeace, "Mouldy Old Dough" was recorded in the front room of Woodward's semi-detached house in Coventry, and featured his mother Hilda Woodward on piano, in a boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, ragtime style. The only lyrics, 'sung' by Fletcher, are the growled title "Mouldy Old Dough" and "Dirty Old Man". When asked by Fletcher what those words meant, their author, Woodward, said he had no idea.
It is the only British number one single to feature a mother and son.
Originally released in early 1972, it flopped initially. But picked up in Belgium and used on a current affairs programme, it became a hit there, reaching number one in the Belgian singles chart. Decca Records, encouraged by this success, re-released it in the UK, and with the backing of then BBC Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds, it became a hit there, and spent four weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in October 1972, selling 790,000 copies.
"Mouldy Old Dough" (the title being an adaptation of the 1920s jazz phrase, "vo-de-o-do") became the second biggest selling UK single of the year, behind The Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace"."
Fascinating interview with Lieutenant Pigen (including the mum), conducted with quite cutting hardness - cruelty almost - by a young Chris Tarrant, and revealing the bathetic fruits of pop fame.
