Pure Pop For Now Children
After that appalling Little Marcy clip, I feel I should make amends with this utterly charming and extremely ear-wormy clip of the theme song from Here Come the Double-Deckers!, a children's show from the early 70s, featuring a Little Rascals-ish gang of British kids whose clubhouse was located in an old double-decker London bus. As the show was a co-production between the BBC and 20th Century Fox, it aired in the US, but I have only the vaguest memories of watching it. Being 12 at the time, I probably considered it far too childish for my advanced tastes.
I've also tossed in another clip from the Double Deckers called, The Robby Dance, which takes you back to that mysterious time when the sound of a Hammond organ and a snappy brass section could made everyone stop what they were doing and frug wildly with a guy in a bad robot costume.
Thanks to World of Kane for this shot of pure bubblegum bliss.
[Link: Here Come the Double Deckers]
[Link: The Robby Dance]
[Link: Tribute Site]
Comments
I understand now. Completely. It's no surprise that the Americans and British feel obliged to invade a poor country to escape their own childhood memories ...
Posted by: orangeguru | April 29, 2007 3:31 PM
If that's true, then I shudder to think what Germany will be capable of after a lifetime of Heino exposure.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 29, 2007 3:46 PM
I am writing 'Mein Kampf Part II' as we speak - and I have not forgotten Poland either ...
Posted by: orangeguru | April 29, 2007 5:46 PM
Mein Kampf II: Volksmusik Boogaloo!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 29, 2007 5:51 PM
I'm not watching that clip because I STILL remember that earwiggy theme without any assistance over the decades.
"Get on board
Get on board
Get on board with the double deckers
Get a ticket for a journey
On a London double decker bus"
Posted by: M.Ace | April 30, 2007 12:38 PM
Dingdingding...You have just won a set of bad teeth and a lifetime supply of Spotted Dick!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 30, 2007 2:30 PM
I had never heard of the Double Deckers before, and I watched that clip a few times yesterday... and paid the price. I couldn't get to sleep last night, because that infernally catchy theme song had taken up residency in my brain. Curse you!
It's really cool, though.
Posted by: Humuhumu | April 30, 2007 3:26 PM
Curse you!
Consider it payback for reminding me of "Monkeys, Go Home"...:-)
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 30, 2007 4:57 PM
Ms.H - You will be plagued by it forevermore. Believe me.
Mr.B - Somehow that win feels more like a loss.
It's a shame the Ramones never covered that theme song. It would be perfect.
Okay, I broke down and watched it. Nice to see that Brains got another role after Thunderbirds. And clearly, the show was subliminal programming to recruit children into the anarcho-squat movement.
Posted by: M.Ace | May 2, 2007 2:20 PM
I think the Dickies would've been the logical choice to cover this. After all, they did a kick-ass version of the Banana Splits theme, as well as Gigantor.
"Anarcho-squat"? Sounds painful.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | May 2, 2007 2:35 PM