You know what to do -- just click on the play button below and enjoy.
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I actually had this -- one of the very first singles on the then fledgling Brit label Beggars Banquet -- when it first came out, and I used to play it constantly to taunt some of my friends who weren't quite getting with the late 70s punk/New Wave program. Sadly, I lost it, along with most of the rest of my seven inch vinyl collection, during the Great Girlfriend Crisis of 1980, and I've been looking for a replacement mp3 for ages. To my delight, I just found this one over the weekend at the wonderful Always Searching for Music website, which has all sorts of cool stuff from the period; make sure you go over there and give its proprietor, the estimable Gary Ching, some love.
As for Johnny G., he was an ex-pub rocker who, like Nick Lowe (although obviously on a less exalted level) had some brief rock biz success in the early 70s and then managed to find himself a niche in the briefly eclectic wake of the Sex Pistols.
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Anyway, it's way catchy and pretty funny still, I think; certainly, it's one of the more unjustly forgotten artifacts of its era. As always, if you can't get the download thingie to work over at the divShare link, just e-mail me and I'll shoot you the mp3.
Now if I could just find a link to Johnny's equally hilarious 1977 single "Call Me Bwana"...
3 comments:
Sadly, I lost it, along with most of the rest of my seven inch vinyl collection, during the Great Girlfriend Crisis of 1980, and I've been looking for a replacement mp3 for ages.Taking somebody's records is just mean.
But she left his amplifier.
Great tune, thanks Steve.
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