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Wednesday 20 February 2013

TV favourites (1975)

TV Favourites- Happy House Records/Damont Records- UK - 1975

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I got this for 20p at a charity shop thinking it would be fun to have all these kid's show theme tunes. It turned out that it wasn't the actual tv versions of the songs, it's one of those shoddy cover singers albums that were everywhere in the 60s and 70s. And this is a particularly craptastic example.
 
The versions of the Rupert, Wombles and Magic Roundabout theme songs sound pretty much like the real thing, but the Dr Who and Pink Panther ones are just bizarre. The first time I listened to it, I fell on the floor in hysterical laughter. My housemate came in to see what the fuss was about and ended up in hysterics himself. Someone tried to play the Dr Who and Pink Panther music on a cheap synth (and in the case of Dr Who, on a slide whistle). 
The Pink Panther sounds like a duet between a frog and someone farting. I can't even explain the Dr Who. The B-side is some very cheery sounding American people singing things like Old MacDonald Had a Farm. I get the impression that the record company just had that lying around and stuck it on there to fill it up.

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(The Pink Panther seems to be doing a Quentin Crisp impression here)


 unspookiest version of the Dr Who music ever


Pink Panther farting

Track listing:
A:
Rupert the Bear
Remember You're a Womble
Playschool
Magic Roundabout
Dr Who
Pink Panther

B:
Old Macdonald
Cuckoo Clock
Oh! Susannah
Skip to my Lou
Home on the Range
I've Been Working on the Railroad

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