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.

Sue Briccay :verifiedace:

I remember it.
Unfortunately.

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

Em-squared

@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".

Em-squared

@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.

Sue Briccay :verifiedace:

@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

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

Sue Briccay :verifiedace:

@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

Em-squared

@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.

Em-squared

@Black_Flag @essjayjay Number one that record.

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@essjayjay @emsquared 1971 originally.

Grandma we love you, Grandma we do. 1980.

Em-squared

@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.