The seventies were a shit time. This was on Top of The Pops
Urgh
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 10:14,
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I think that has more artistic merit than Dave Lee Travis's record
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 13:16,
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I'm struggling to think of anything that plumbs lower depths than DLT
doing a rip off of convoy. I mean. Fuck. I'd rather listen to Joe Dolce.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 15:57,
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Still better than DLT
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 3 Sep 2024, 8:46,
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As a novelty record of its time (70s were full of them)
It was great, especially for us school kids, as it gave us all new handles to use on our CB radios - a whole new batch of "plastic chickens" showed up on air overnight causing much merriment. I didn't remember the Jimmy Saville cameo at the end though - strange times
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TBL I posted this on, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 16:51,
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Clive Dunn's Grandad was pretty bad
though written by Herbie Flowers who played session bass on Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed so. Well. I don't know.
There's No One Quite Like Grandma just edged into 1980, staining that decade with its piss-stinking crotchet-knitted shit.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 3 Sep 2024, 8:49,
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Nauseating schmaltz, I'm not going there.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 3 Sep 2024, 13:45,
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