When it comes to POP music artists sometimes adopted a funny name, for themselves or their group, create funny album covers. There appearances might be funny or strange( clothes or hairstyles).Their lyrics might have a fun element with hidden meanings.
Glam rock, remember the 70's.Artists often had a camp ironic element to their on stage personas and in their songs.
Remember :- Mud's 'Tiger Feet' dressed with their drapes on stage.
Sweet's 'Ballroom Blitz'
Slade's songs delivered with a wry smile and a wink 'Merry Christmas Everybody'
Ian Dury and the Blockheads suggestive lyrics in their major hit 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'
Back in the 30's Cab Calloway sang 'Minnie The Moocher'. The song was famous for it's audience participation
going faster and faster until the audience could not repeat the chorus . He also sang this decades later in 'The Blues Brother's ' movie which had lots of fun and music'
In the 80's Madness were on the stage, representing all that was fun on the music scene with 'House of Fun' and
'Baggy Trousers'.
Scottish born Lonnie Donegan (brought up in Essex) had 'My Old Man's a Dustman
Chas and Dave had their own pub sing-song humour 'Rabbit'
Funny folk song by Scaffold 'Lily The Pink'
Village People wore gay fantasy costumes, 'In The Navy' and 'Y.M.C.A '
Winifred Atwell played ragtime fast in a humorous way'
And so you see ,there has been fun and humour across the memories of time.
Please share your memories of Artists, their antics, colourful clothes, painted faces and humorous songs
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I am 65 now, but when I was at College when I was 17, a Pal and I skived off and went to the nearest café with a juke box. The new song out was a girl group ( cannot remember name ) singing about Terry crashing his motor bike. I remember as if it were yesterday, we cried buckets. lol
'Amarillo' with Peter Kay, Elton John 'pinball wizard' with his giant platform shoes, Bernard Cribbins 'cup of tea', Sparks 'this town ain't big enough' strange guy on key board, Pop music has given us some laugh's eh' King.
long john baldry,the yard byrds,the animals,mike sarne,hermans hermits,the searchers,gerry and the pacemakers.brian poole and the tremeloes,billy fury,adam faith,marty wilde.oh my gosh Ive gone back 50 years to my teens,do you think we had it all.
You have delved back through time there fishtail. What memories of their funny songs, dress sense, antics on stage do you have of any of them They were all great artists. I remember Freddie and the Dreamers with Freddie's dancing antics. What good days they were.
Wish I had seen Herman King. Yes it looks like a lot of us are stuck in that era, by the look of all these replies. Also about emigrating, I was a Lancashire Lass until I was 15 years old, then my Parents came up here to live, and Righteous Bros. were the best at that song ever.
The Teddy Bears, To know him is to love him. So many memories of my first love. The Poni Tails Born to Late. My sister had this gorgeous boyfriend who I adored. She ditched him but as she is 9 years older than me I was too young for him.
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