Well the Wang Dang – er Anyway……..

As an added note, with Britney Spears, and Whitney Huston miming songs at their new concert, (sorry, more correctly, Whitney SHOULD have mimed)  it gives our band hope for the future that lip syncing songs is about to take off!

Well, she can do badly mimed, we do really good badly mimed!

This weeks pearler song  was inspired by a question posed by Mike Perso from VEGA FM in Melbourne relating to nonsense titles or more to the point  “lack of articulate expression in songs lyrics”! The usual suspects popped up, Sussidio by Phil Collins, Do do, do, do, dah, dah, dah by the Police (I even suggested the old “Red red ready red rooster” jingle from the 80s),  but one got me thinking what song made no sense but was catchy (like a disease caught after too much green ginger wine at the Bombay Rock) and craptactular all at once.  One of my Fav’s from 1982 and on 1983 “The hot ones!”

thanks to http://80s-tapes.blogspot.com for this image (see this site for more)

Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang  By Monty Video & the Cassettes!

Thanks to www.sergent.com.au and Club Bizzare for this info!

Yes, another Kiwi classic and a one hit wonder.  The lead (well the only one in the song really) Murray Grindley was a 60′s rocker having been in the popular NZ band “underdogs” from 1966 to 1972.

Wrong Underdog!  Can you pick Monty in the line up?

So the film clip seemed to have all the right 80s bits:

• girls, scantily clad miming (a bit like our band)

• Girls singing that have no real part in the song or band ( (Human league style)

• Monty walking around with a drink and a smoke  (how NPC! now)
  

• The overfilling of champagne glasses (like in every “Racey” the band film clip on Countdown)

• some of the girls pole dancing (only for a brief second though)

• The crowd in the night club seem to be stolen from “Total Eclipse of the heart” or “Vienna” filmclips (or was it Kenny Everetts Hot Gossip?)
  

But to me, he just looked like Arthur Daley from Minder

Well Arthur Daley with a bow tie and “San Fran Prahran” Mo!

So what became of our Monty.  Did He retire to Monty Video like his name suggested?  Apparently not.  Stayed in the land of the big white cloud, & released a few more songs, including “Give em a taste of Kiwi “  (Wisely released under a different name) and Sheba (She Sha Shoo)  Which was not much she, but for our New Zealand friends had a bit of Baa!

thanks to NZ travel Centre website

While I could spend hours making fun of our neighbors over the Tasman Sea I wont ….

Hang on , one more gag!  Beached as bro!

Monty did apparently do this Crunchie ad

But enough of the You Tube stuff!

So, what of the later years?

Montys follow up hit, of “Shoop Shoop; Im not Sher”, “Fush & Chups makes me want a Chuppa Chup”.  and the failed copyright dramas of “Bing Bang Gooley Gooley wash wash” all failed to chart, and Monty video faded like a Betamax recording, in the $1.99 coles variety special bin, or CLEAVAGEDOWNUNDER rock and roll!

Even the Captain worked at Coles

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So, YOU be the judge, who is your fav Band member NOW!

• Rhino tripod (& Papa George); our hot door bitches!
• Where was Pete Vicious & Chryssie De-Vinyl?
• Lady Go Go; Hold us close tiny dancer - How good is she!
• Mike Stand & Michaelson & Jumping Jack ; What a great (stage)
• Terry Toweling; Thank YOU for your hot narration
• Roger Roger; What a little Spunk!
• Foxy Faberge; She really does it for me (and others)
• Betty Boobalicious; She still is the most titilating member!
• Freddy Uranus; he seems to "stand out"!
• Captain fancypants; He is just so fancy!

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