Love this song! I had this record as a kid and played it all of the time. I also LOVE the version of BeatBox on the B-side of this same record. I don't suppose you have a video of that too, do you? I can't find that particular version anywhere!
Bought this album hot off the Canadian press' in 85 after coming back from s Dead tour with vials of liquid LSD 25 and tripped balls for 2 days on this album!!! I too am just a 20th century man!!!
Issued in 1967 on CBS Records in the UK. The US didn't get to hear this one until 1976 with the release of the Janus album "Al Stewart-The Early Years."
This is by far the most bizarre song by Megadeth! I had this on a demo/cassette tape thing. I hardly remember having it or how it got into my hands but the other song was "No more Mr Nice guy". I remember thinking this was horrible but now I LOVE it!
Didn't get to number one, true about the discos though. I was the D.J. at Butlins that summer of '75 and It did get that response, and so many people went out to buy it after people came to the stage to ask me what it was.
I haven't seen or heard anything of Jasper Carrott for years and for me just as funny now as it was back in the 70s (can't remember the exact year). Always found his shows funny and especially "The Detectives", a series about a pair of particularly inept detectives, his partner in crime fighting being played by tne very serious actor and heart throb Robert Powell. This was a parody of the harder hitting detective series popular at the time.
Loved Carrott aka Bob Hughes. I'm not quite a Brummie, living just outside the boundary, but it was so good to hear a Birmingham accent on the telly. Jasper played charity matches at my local football ground, alongside Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Nick Owen (now chairman of Luton FC) and various other celebs. Especially loved to hear him talking about Birmingham City matches "eh, Carrott, they've got no cowin' Bovril". I was in bits, I've been in a similar situation, we went to the wrong end at Villa Park....don't ask....
Jasper Carrott....proof you do not need swear words to have great comedy.....well ok almost no swear words but to be fair said in context, and, not as part of a normal sentence.