There were World Cup songs hogging the airwaves at the drop of a Mexican sombrero in 1970, a German tirolerhut in 1974 and an Argentinian gaucho hat in 1978. Not least because Vic Reeves would become one of the most popular television stars of the decade: ‘Shooting Stars’, ‘Big Night Out’, and ‘The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer’ were all big comedy shows: surreal, anarchic, all capturing the spirit of the time. It was re-released in the UK and, with the backing BBC Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds, it became a hit, spending four weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in October 1972.

People would shed their clothes in crowded places and run as fast as possible to avoid being caught. Before we go any further, I must stress that this is a truly heinous piece of music, one that I have no interest in ever hearing again once I’ve finished writing this post. his hotted up fj holden[aussie make of car] with it's chrome overhead grease nipples is also mentioned! Follow-up single "I Am a Cider Drinker" was no exception – and nor was it immune from a bit of nudge-wink innuendo, with the verse "Now dear old Mabel when she's able, we takes a stroll down Lovers Lane / And we sinks a pint o' Scrumpy, then we'll play old nature's game. If so, the song’s success is quite remarkable, as I’m not sure it holds much enjoyment for someone who’s never seen the show.When we were filming the video – we've just played a little gig for the farmer whose land we used to film it, actually – we more or less made the set by having the farmer's workers set up a big wall of hay bales. For me, the moment that sums it all up comes towards the end of the video, when there’s footage of Blobby storming out from a helicopter and into the arms of a child, who looks like he’s seen the face of God. We had Good Old Arsenal (1971 double team), Blue Is The Colour (Chelsea’s 1972 League Cup final team), I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles (West Ham’s 1975 FA Cup final team) and We Can Do It (Liverpool’s 1977 side).

They even managed a second Top 10 single, another hip-hop track (and actually much better than this) ‘Deep, Deep Trouble’. There are songs like the Chipmunk hits that are by their very nature Novelty songs, but considered to be more Xmas songs than anything else.Ultimately, absurdly, there is too much intense accessibility for it to be a commercial success, even if it had the backing of a major label. Grandad was written by Herbie Flowers and Kenny Pickett, and released in November 1970, by Clive Dunn. In 1997, the Teletubbies who reached number one the previous week failed to gain it with their single " Say Eh-oh! Following the January 1994 attack on US figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, a parody of “Brand New Key” circulated on US radio stations.

Mix the two together, and you've got the prime conditions for something like "Combine Harvester" – both knowing in its dumb humour and weirdly loving – to take off.

Lots of name-dropping within the tremendously-upbeat lyrics, the song also used Archie MacPherson’s TV commentary from the game Scotland qualified for the tournament.

And let’s be honest, giving your debut single the same name as your band (or vice-versa) suggests that you’re quite happy in aiming for one-hit wonder status.At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, " Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" (set to the tune of British Army bandmaster F. Cheesy lyric: “We had to get a man who could make all Scotland proud, he’s our Muhammad Ali, he’s Alistair MacLeod. Credit where credit’s due, the whole concept was kicked off by England’s 1970 squad singing Back Home.