If anyone remembers the singing postman and "'ave you got a light boy?" then I feel like repurposing it to say "Have you got *any* light boy?" It's like living in eternal twilight here of late.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared Rod Hull was the smart one (well, until he tried to fix his aerial anyway). Emu didn;t talk.My brother got an emu for Christmas one year. It was then I realised Emu wasn;t real.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Let alone the cocktail of E-numbers in Sunny D. Addictive stuff. That we gave it to children is beyond horrifying.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Aaaw. Was taken to see Rod Hull and Emu live at a "cabaret venue" circa early 70s. It was a daft act really and yes, clever to have a mute bird (though Sooty probably was the pioneer for that, "what's that Sooty? You don't accept the current patrichal hegemony within society?").
Yeah sad way to go for Rod. Jesus what passed for entertainment.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared My brother had a Sooty and Sweep as well. I never thought they were real. I wish they had done Hartley Hares. I would have wanted one. If only as a premonition of what I would become.

[bobthomson70@mastodon.social]

@emsquared @Black_Flag

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@bobthomson70 @Black_Flag Help me.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag You *wanted* a Hartley Hare? The single most scarey kids TV character ever?

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared But the only one I identified with (excepting George from Rainbow).

But thats enough about my lifetime of trauma.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@emsquared

I remember it.
Unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure it was the 1960s rather than 1970s.

@Black_Flag

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@essjayjay @Black_Flag Yes 65, 66. There's even a promo film that survives online. Of its time. He wasn't even from East Anglia. Now it'd probably be "av yew got a vape ,boy".

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Aaaw. Hartley, in retrospect did seem very troubled. It's interesting as we get older. I was mad into Peanuts and Charlie Brown when young. Bought the books of comic strips & I can see Charlie Brown now as crippled by low self esteem & pessimism. A fundamentally good kid that didn't fit into the world around him. Trying but constantly failing. Quite poignant really.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@emsquared

I grew up with pirate radio (Radio 270 off the coast of Scarborough) and Radio Luxembourg in the 1960s.

Whilst there was some excellent music in the 1960s therewas also a * lot * of utter drivel and pap.

Novelty records like the 'Singing Postman' one were ubiquitous and utterly dreadful.

@Black_Flag

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@essjayjay @emsquared

Ernie.....he drove the fastest milk cart in the West.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@Black_Flag

That one might have been on the cusp of 60s / 70s.

I really try not to remember them at all TBH.

Frigging one-man bands, someone whistling a tune, Peter Sellers doing musical brownface ...

@emsquared

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@essjayjay @Black_Flag The 70s refined the novelty hit. I try to black out The Barron Knights from my memory let alone things like The Streak and various top 20 hits that were just vehicles for impressionists (even Rory Bremner had a hit in the 80s with The Umpire strikes back. Cringe city). All part of pop history.
I often think the last "novelty" hits of later years were probably Crazy Frog (a bloody ringtone ffs) & Because i got high by Afroman.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag @essjayjay Number one that record.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@essjayjay @emsquared 1971 originally.

Grandma we love you, Grandma we do. 1980.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag @essjayjay Lordy. I started singing that one the other day c/w lisp. That poor girl hid from the limelight after that was a hit and to this day I believe.