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Friday, September 05, 2008

Friday Five: Remember These Cheesey Poptastic Rock Toons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUHecG5wAFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2IkLGFiKx0

But it was this one, that came on the radio as we flew down the motorway and provoked a laughing fit from the rear seat. When the tears and snot subsided and the laughing stopped long enough for the words to become audible, out came the story behind this song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1LkJNmWzg

"Oh s***, we were drinking in the Honk bar at the back end of the airport and Gerard Rikkard put this on the juke box, and we all joined in until it got to the chorus, when he just took off in this falsetto he could only do when he was plastered. He must have sung it three or four times before they threw us out. Said we were upsetting the farmers at the other end of the bar."

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