Messing About On The River by Max Bygraves from the Lard's Classic Cuts section of Mark and Lard's awesome afternoon show on Radio 1. Difficult to find? In this condition, Yes!
I still can't believe they got away with this in the middle of the afternoon! Absolutely messing superb. It's finally time for me to say; "They don't make 'em like that any more." It's winkin' at me...
If memory serves there's kind of a "secondary watershed" where you can be a little more risqué because the kids are meant to be in school. Probably why they were always off during the school holidays.
Plus they were massively popular, if you’ve got a huge loyal audience the station is more willing to pay the fine and the sort of people who might have been offended and complain didn’t ever tend to listen to Radio 1.
SAVE TO FAVOURITES a load of these clips..including - LARDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY, OH LUCKY YOU,...BEAT THE CLOCK,.. FROGGING ETC ETC................... then PRESS AUTOPLAY and SHUFFLE... and you can have MARK AND LARD EVERY DAY for 1hr... 2hrs or whatever you want
The bbc is just too sensitive and politically correct to allow this sort of thing to happen now. (How they got away with it as late as 2003 is a mystery). And besides. young people these days don't really have the same warped sense of humour as M&L devotees like us - largely because they're spoonfed unimaginative crap from an early age.
Thanks for posting this. I had the wonderful privelege to meet Max and his lovely wife yesterday, whilst I was doing a show. I asked Max to join me for a song and it was such an honor to sing with him! Can you please tell me what were Max's biggest hits as I will be seeing him again soon and would like to be prepared with a few of his songs and surprise him! Thanks for your help.
