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gc….yeah, knew he had sang on Electronics , "Disappointed" single, and the Cicero track, but yeah, a quiet year for PSB. That’s him ruled out then!
Mr P….I think you might be along the right lines with someone like Batt.
no costumes involved.
you’re all correct in looking for a Brit.
(though there was a less-prolific American doing the same kind of thing who had two efforts in the chart at that time).
in both cases, you’ll probably know the song titles better than the singer names.
This was a question at a quiz I attended some years ago. The chaps name was Tony Burrows I believe and the number one act was Edison Lighthouse. Don’t know the other two bands off the top of my head.
well played – over to you.
The answer is indeed Tony Burrows, in the February 5, 1970 edition of ToTP.
None of the following clips is from that actual edition but they’re all from around that time:
The three acts were:
– Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kyqdNh … ature=fvwp
-White Plains – My Baby Loves Love
(this clip is after the 3-in-1 show, their answer here to ToTP’s problem being to import the song’s writer Roger Greenaway (also a backing singer) now to mime Burrows’ vocal, with Burrows moved into backing position: his vocals would now increasingly be lip-synched by others for the camera):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSjPsSLcMy4
-Brotherhood of Man – United We Stand (with Greenaway backing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP8E3tf_Xpg
The fourth song shortly afterwards was the Pipkins’ Gimme Dat Ding (again with Greenaway):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQ6WTqik7w
(Macauley, Greenaway and Cook led where Stock Aitken Waterman would follow)
Burrows had also a fifth iteration a few years later, Beach Baby by The First Class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii4ON7XHGCA
His US contemporary was Ron Dante, the voice behind The Archies and The Cufflinks:
oddly enough peter marinello showed up on that 3-in-1 edition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6OF43Ah … re=related
but i don’t think he was ever an international.
so look to the other part of north london and 1982:
steve archibald appearing on the scotland world cup song, followed by the tottenham fa cup song ?
Would never have got Tony Burrows. Ayway, is the footballer Kevin Keegan who had a couple of minor solo hits and would maybe have also been on with England or Liverpool teams?
If not my other guess would be …Fog on the Tyne.. Gazza.
what was the name of the lookout on Columbus’ ship, credited by him with first sighting of the Americas ?
correct – over to you.
(can’t say re Weatherby’s, but with accuracy as the stock-in-trade of such an organisation, presumption for me would be they faithfully reproduced what someone else gave them on a form)
I’m standing there watching the parade/feeling combination of sleepy john estes. jayne mansfield. humphrey bogart/mortimer snurd. murph the surf and so forth/erotic hitchhiker wearing japanese blanket. gets my attention by asking didn’t he see me at this hootenanny down in puerto vallarta, mexico…
On the slow train time does not interfere & at the Arabian crossing waits White Heap, the man from the hilltop & behind him the hundred inevitables made of solid rock & stone – the Cream Judge & the Clown – the doll house where Savage Rose & Openly live simply in their wild animal luxury…
There were three kings and a jolly three too. The first one had a broken nose, the second, a broken arm and the third was broke. "Faith is the key!" Said the first king. "No, froth is the key!" Said the second, "You’re both wrong," said the third, "the key is Frank!"…
Where are these words of wisdom
to be found?(clue: not the collected works of Gamble)
They do sound like Gamble
, but they’re Dylan’s words from the sleeve on his John Wesley Harding album.
to be found?
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