tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post6537981966709562833..comments2023-10-21T05:34:10.060-07:00Comments on Peake Of The Pops!: 1977: I need me some sugarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-50102756464774159242011-07-26T01:45:29.610-07:002011-07-26T01:45:29.610-07:00Definitely an East Yorkshire connection it seems. ...Definitely an East Yorkshire connection it seems. Matt Rudd has just tracked down the original members of the Brendon Memorial Hoofers over on Facebook.<br /><br />Ah, wedges! Denim! Cheesecloth! And that was just the boys.Jon Peakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04471926651090670258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-42081162280643938732011-07-26T01:41:32.678-07:002011-07-26T01:41:32.678-07:00Wow , I'd forgotten Brendon and his overbite. ...Wow , I'd forgotten Brendon and his overbite. Very much a fairground staple, you're quite right. Wanstead Flats and Valentine's Park (which reputedly inspired 'Itchycoo Park') were the top ones in my youth. <br /><br />Memories of cheesecloth shirts and A-line denim skirts, and my friend Diane shrieking as one of her hessian wedges fell from her left foot as she got to the top of the Big Wheel. <br /><br />There was also the annual Dagenham Town Show (violent), where my chief memory is being bought a racist black balloon which had hoop earrings and a feathered headdress glued on. Obviously I took my parents to task about it, though I was only four.Kolley Kibberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07055145770836351738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-86493494512245781472011-07-25T19:29:39.905-07:002011-07-25T19:29:39.905-07:00I first heard the song and discovered the dance mo...I first heard the song and discovered the dance moves at a Haven holiday camp in Bridlington. Yorkshire connection maybe?Tiddsmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09098651001984534188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-38820815380634364672011-07-25T05:53:36.365-07:002011-07-25T05:53:36.365-07:00Yes, Mondo, scary older kids you did your best to ...Yes, Mondo, scary older kids you did your best to avoid. Always a pitfall, but didn't really put me off. <br /><br />It was hard to win prizes, especially with that claw thing that never managed to pick up the pack of cards with a £1 note wrapped around it.Jon Peakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04471926651090670258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-46519713404835499362011-07-25T05:48:59.178-07:002011-07-25T05:48:59.178-07:00I loved our local fair - the bottles of spirits wi...I loved our local fair - the bottles of spirits with cash strapped to them or goldfish prizes, and a mixture of teddy boys, soul boys and skinheads scowling at each other. And those crazy rides: a single metal bar to hold you in place on the big wheel *shudders*<br /><br />Today when it pitches up, the kids love it, but I try to make sure we're away.Mondohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199468951602465556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-10676199064290329742011-07-25T05:00:14.302-07:002011-07-25T05:00:14.302-07:00I wonder who on earth came up with it then? A York...I wonder who on earth came up with it then? A Yorkshire dance to a song that was probably at least five years old by the time it caught on. How weird.Matthew Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05842392964784000029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-58598736329613787452011-07-25T04:47:41.945-07:002011-07-25T04:47:41.945-07:00I don't remember a dance at the time, and was ...I don't remember a dance at the time, and was first made aware of it at a wedding in Huddersfield in 1997. <br /><br />I raced to the dancefloor, thinking what a brilliant leftfield choice that was by the DJ, only to discover everyone around me doing this dance. They all knew it - except the southerners. I had to make a hasty exit. <br /><br />A local phenom, clearly.Jon Peakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04471926651090670258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-84624504948159889702011-07-25T04:42:38.456-07:002011-07-25T04:42:38.456-07:00I associate this song with some expressed choreogr...I associate this song with some expressed choreography, and it's odd that it only seemed to emerge at discos round my way in the mid-80s, long after this was a hit, and performed dominantly by kids too young to remember 1977 at all.<br /><br />It involved jumping around at 90 degrees per line, while also doing some kind of sub-Superman action with one's hands - behind the head, "combing hair", on the hips etc. I know masses of kids born in the early to mid 70s round East Yorkshire will remember it, but I genuinely wonder whether anyone else used this specific choreography at all.<br /><br />It's like Contact by Edwin Starr - that brought out some kind of frenetic foot-only kicking movement that was a strain on the ankle ligaments. And again, my generation of kids performed it during a song that pre-dated their disco-attending, record-buying era. Most odd.<br /><br />Of course, we Hullensians have long laid claim to the largest travelling fair in Europe. It pops up on Walton Street for a week every October.Matthew Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05842392964784000029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232389689701494095.post-28000815801442942572011-07-25T03:33:41.383-07:002011-07-25T03:33:41.383-07:00Do they still make mirrors with pictures of pop st...Do they still make mirrors with pictures of pop stars on them? Gone the same way as the big pound note with pop stars on them, probably.<br /><br />We had a little permanent seaside funfair where I grew up. They demolished it to make way for a motorway (this is turning into a song, now). I loved it, especially the ghost train.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08449084108586525683noreply@blogger.com