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Dave Dee

I remember hearing this on Jimmy Savile’s Old Record Club when I was a kid and thinking it was the most amazing thing ever. Finding it on the jukebox in the student union when I was at poly was a thrill. Me and mates took it on ourselves to torture the rest of the spotty herberts with it…

Bye Dave. ‘If Music Be the Food of Love… Prepare for Indigestion’ has to be one of the finest album titles of all time.


Posted on January 9th, 2009 at 7:54pm under Culture, media and sport

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  1. The Judge (15 comments.) on 09.01.2009 at 21:14 Permalink | Reply

    Agreed – one of the most remarkable hit singles of all time. I was around at the time, but don’t recall hearing it then – it would have been a few years later.

    (By the way, that clip reminds me why I hated TOTP2: the clever-clever captions all over the place, truncated clips and St*v* f*ck*ng Wr*ght).

    My own tribute (with a different version of the original TOTP clip and an excerpt from one of their ‘B’-sides) is at

  2. The Judge (15 comments.) on 09.01.2009 at 21:15 Permalink | Reply

    Bugger! I’ll try that again:

    http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Not_blog/Not_blog.htm#09_01_09

  3. Tim Footman (6 comments.) on 10.01.2009 at 03:12 Permalink | Reply

    Not bad, but did you ever hear The Fall’s version?

  4. Sue on 10.01.2009 at 14:02 Permalink | Reply

    “Bend it” by the same band, was the first single my mum bought for me. It was a birthday present with my first portable record player :)

  5. jameshigham (69 comments.) on 10.01.2009 at 15:54 Permalink | Reply

    Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch were one of the most innovative ever. Interesting that their accents were so pronounced when they sang.

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  7. Andrew Adams (22 comments.) on 12.01.2009 at 08:34 Permalink | Reply

    Another sad rock death here.

  8. SimonC (3 comments.) on 13.01.2009 at 14:28 Permalink | Reply

    If you have a taste for such things, there’s Joe Meek’s utterly bizarre “Message To Dave And Dee”, which consists of Meek reciting, over a soft and romantic piano backing, a list of reasons why Dave is such a lovely young chap but you’d need to keep an eye on certain other members of the band. It’s somewhere between hilarious and horribly creepy. There may be a copy here -

    http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/037/index.html

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