How I wish I'd never heard..........

[Chris Newman]

B. Bumble and the Stingers

Nut Rocker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2U-qGUDkg

And I confess why!! I find I mentally do the same thing to bits I like of Beethoven Mozart and Sibelius etc. when they become ear worms.

[jayne lee wilson]

Good grief... I think you've got it!

Luckily, I happened to decide what the worst piece of music ever made was, and i decided this just the other day.

It wasn't by Supertramp.
it wasn't something by the 2 year old Mozart.
It wasn't even by The thompson Twins.

its " Anyone can fall in love", the Eastenders theme.

Not classical. But quite ,quite awful, in a "no redeeming features at all " way.

So by deciding this, i feel I have saved everybody else a bit of work. No need to thank me.

[Norfolk Born]

As we seem to have migrated to the popular end of the market:
Bruce Forsyth's 'We're Backing Britain'; Terry Scott's 'My Brother' (currently being parodied in the Littlewoods.com TV adverts); and the one I REALLY am ashamed to have ever heard: the Ipswich Town squad's 1978 FA Cup Final Song.

[ahinton]

As we seem to have migrated to the popular end of the market:
Bruce Forsyth's 'We're Backing Britain'; Terry Scott's 'My Brother' (currently being parodied in the Littlewoods.com TV adverts); and the one I REALLY am ashamed to have ever heard: the Ipswich Town squad's 1978 FA Cup Final Song.

The former (which I've admittedly not heard) sounds as though that particular veteran is encouraging the application of adhesive tape to Britain's failing economy. I haven't heard either of the other two that you mention, either. That said, without wishing to split hairs, being "ashamed" of having heard something is not necessarily quite the same thing as wishing that one had never heard it...

[Norfolk Born]

I can assure you that I REALLY wish I'd never heard them. The shame comes from still remembering the tunes and some of the words.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Newsroom South East theme by Guy Michelmore

[salymap]

One I am glad to remember. I doubt you young things have heard of Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne but in 'Much Binding in the Marsh' a programme about the RAF in wartime, Murdoch sang very funny words to Luigini's 'Egyptian Ballet'. Every week there was a different piece of music and as a kid I loved them all.
Sam Costa was the third member of the team. Radio of course.

[PatrickOD]

B. Bumble and the Stingers

Nut Rocker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2U-qGUDkg

And I confess why!! I find I mentally do the same thing to bits I like of Beethoven Mozart and Sibelius etc. when they become ear worms.

Chris, I suspect you quite like that little number! I know do! It's fun. But you've reminded me of a jolly one, inspired by Nut Rocker, we did around that time, when I played in a group. Our pianist 'composed' it - Thunderbird. It was two Wagner bits - the Ride of the Valkyries, and the guitar solo in the middle eight was the Pilgrim's chorus from Tannhauser! It was recorded for a rag day at QUB and I still have a scratchy copy on tape. So, can I say 'great minds........'?

We're back to Enjoyment versus Quality. Sorry!

[barber olly]

Just noticed, having heard R3 trailer for Berlioz Enfance de Christ, the first two notes start me singing Zorba's Dance.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just noticed, having heard R3 trailer for Berlioz Enfance de Christ, the first two notes start me singing Zorba's Dance.

[Ventilhorn]

One I am glad to remember. I doubt you young things have heard of Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne but in 'Much Binding in the Marsh' a programme about the RAF in wartime, Murdoch sang very funny words to Luigini's 'Egyptian Ballet'. Every week there was a different piece of music and as a kid I loved them all.
Sam Costa was the third member of the team. Radio of course.

Yes indeed! And what about their rendering of The Radio Times, sung to the music of Dvorak's Humoresque?

I can only remember a couple of the verses:
(Main tune)

"Eleven o'clock, a programme's heard
about a most repulsive bird
Recorded in a bog by Ludwig Koch (poor Ludwig!)

After that, A song's the thing
In which a singer comes to sing
such famous songs as Rock around the Clock"

(Middle section)

"One hour later
Li-i-isten with Mater
Fo-ollowed on at o-o-once by Woman's Hour

Then there's one hour of music
Lashings of music
Blasted double forte by the Black Dyke Mills band...

That's all I remember, but it must have been at least 60 years ago.

Can anyone add the last part (Main tune, again)?

[Don Petter]

One I am glad to remember. I doubt you young things have heard of Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne but in 'Much Binding in the Marsh' a programme about the RAF in wartime, Murdoch sang very funny words to Luigini's 'Egyptian Ballet'. Every week there was a different piece of music and as a kid I loved them all.
Sam Costa was the third member of the team. Radio of course.

A few lines are still indelibly remembered:

When Aunt Jane goes shopping on a bicycle
She always gets her handlebars bent!

..........................

Plastic pyjamas - are never really what they ought to be!

..........................

Aberdeen - For lovely houses
Gabardine - For lovely trouses

[Lateralthinking1]

I have always associated Hotel California by the Eagles with feelings of cataclysmic doom.

(This one has happier memories - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhLq4rjCndo)

[salymap]

As happens, I was not allowed to send a link, but:

Ventilhorn. Afraid I don't remember your 'song' from Much Binding

Don Petter. I remember the first two lines as:

My aunt's name is Emma Wheeler Waterbutt and she lives down in Burton on Trent,
When she goes out shopping on her bicycle she always gets her handlebars bent.

Then the rhythm, and Murdoch, went haywire.

[Chris Newman]

Yes indeed! And what about their rendering of The Radio Times, sung to the music of Dvorak's Humoresque?

I can only remember a couple of the verses:
(Main tune)

(Middle section)

That's all I remember, but it must have been at least 60 years ago.

Can anyone add the last part (Main tune, again)?

I cannot supply anymore, Ventilhorn. I was too young and Much Binding was lost on me. I have to say I would not dare print the words we sang to it after rugby matches when I started playing as a teenager. Needless to say they concerned the gradual moral decline of an upper-class young man. It was not until many years later when Ida Haendel played it as an encore that I realised it was a work by Dvorak. My friends were puzzled why I was quaking with stifled laughter at such beautiful music.