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I was contacted recently by a band called cLuMsY who are putting together a rather interesting sounding project which they are calling the TV Theme Mega Medley. It’s a non stop collection of no less than 46 (that’s right, 46!) of their favourite TV show themes, all merged together to form around 30 minutes of nostalgic sing-along fun. Themes set to feature include Bod, Button Moon, Dogtanian, Jamie and the Magic Torch and loads more. Personally I can’t wait to hear it!
The band will be launching the mix in September as a FREE download from their website, and will also be featured at a special TV themed night taking place during October in Bristol. More on this when available, but in the meantime head over to the TV Theme Medley page on cLuMsY’s website for a preview of their pretty darn good rendition of the Thundercats theme. By the way lads, hope you don’t mind me pinching your excellent image of Scnarf Schnarf to illustrate this post!
Sitting awkwardly somewhere between a novelty record and a true pop song, Toni Basil’s Mickey is one of those songs that immediately goes hand in hand with memories of the 1980′s. If you buy one of those compilation CD sets of the decade chances are Mickey will feature on there, granted probably towards the end of the last disc along with 
Released in 1986, The Chicken Song spent three weeks in the UK number one slot, despite it being one of the most irritating novelty songs ever written. To be fair though, being irritating was always the point of the song as it was intended to be a parody of songs such as Agadoo and Superman, and any of the rest of cringe worthy group 
Billy Joel stormed the charts in 1983 with his classic song Uptown Girl, reaching number three in the US and claiming the top spot in the UK for five weeks, knocking 
June 1987, and the UK goes barmy for Star Trekkin’, a single celebrating all that was great (and stereotypical) about the classic Star Trek series – i.e. the series with Captain Kirk and Spock. No Trek cliche was left unused, except perhaps the one about Kirk always kissing the pretty female guest character. The song knocked Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody off the top of the charts (thank God) although it was only at number one for two weeks (also thank God!).
Junior Senior are a Dutch band formed in 1998 comprising of Jesper Mortensen and Jeppe Laursen, who were both previously members of the band Ludo-X. So what are they doing being featured in a sight about the 1980′s, I hear you cry? Well, the reason is for the amazing pixellated video that accompanies one of their best known songs, Move Your Feet.
It may be looked back on with distaste now, but at the time Joe Dolce’s hit Shaddup You Face stormed the charts around the world. The song was first released in Australia in 1980, where it went to number one and was the most successful Australian produced single in Australian music history for 26 years, selling over 350,000 copies. Total sales worldwide of the song including the 35 different foreign language versions (including the aboriginal dialect Indjubundji) are set at 4 million copies!
The adventures of the little white bear called Rupert have been popular for many many years. Paul McCartney was a fan as a child, and when he realised that his own children loved Rupert just as much as he had done, it gave him the idea of creating an animated Rupert film.
