Pickettywitch - Is this what the gays listened to in 1970?

Never heard of this group.

Must've been popular only in Merry Olde England.

Kind of lame-o for American tastes, don't you know?

This is like a French & Saunders parody of Burt Bacharach.

Her voice kinda sounds like Miss Ross.

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I like her consistency; being off-key for every note.

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

lol, r5.

This wasn't their hit.

You might like Arrival if you like British pop of this era.

actually, this is better - give it a chance - it takes off after about one minute.

Didn't she end up allergic to the world and have to live in a plastic bubble?

Really, r10?

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yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

and?

Never heard of them but they seem sweet. I'm off to YouTube to search for me. Agree about the bass player.

Their name sounds familiar. I like her voice, the song does sound very Burt Bachrach. I've always enjoyed UK pop and rock.

My older brother was into all things British, especially British pop, rock and folk music, he'd buy the weekly UK music papers, the Melody Maker and the NME, religiously every week. He went to high school in Manhattan, he tracked down these music papers while in the city.

This music papers really opened up a whole different world for me, especially as so much US pop music was garbage. As a kid I was more into US R'n'B and jazz than pop music. UK pop always seemed so much better and sophisticated. The musicians also looked better than US bands. Hendrix had to go to England to get famous, do you think his wild outfits would have been accepted had he attempted his unique style in the US before the UK? It took the UK to to discover him.

I was thinking Burt Bachrach too.

I think they're tremendous!

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You ancient fossils. You call that music. Our music today is so much better.

They're sweet.

Lil Pump, more like Micro Penis!

I bought their biggest hit single, That Same Old Feeling. Cute song from a more innocent time.

yum-ooooooooooooo

I listened to Anne Murray and Roger Whittaker. I had only an AM radio.

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That one I remember, R23. But I’m not sure it was them. Did someone else cover it?

Lead singer Polly Brown left for a solo career. Her replacement was the one who had to live in a bubble. Then she died.

Polly is still alive. She had a Top 20 hit in the USA called "Up In a Puff of Smoke."

Behold:

I want to know what fabulous queens did the lead singers heavy smoky eye and complex hair. Amazing! And don’t even get me started on her frock.

This female singer looks like she would have been perfect for "Rock Follies"!

Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll, indeed!

R27 An English group, The Fortunes, also covered it, but Pickettywitch had the bigger hit with it.

The Fortunes.

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The bass player has something going on. A wonderful smile.

love them.

She sounds like Diana Ross in the Up in a Puff of Smoke song! wtf?

R37 that wasn’t Diana Ross, it was Polly Brown, the lead singer of Pickettwitch as a solo act.

how fabulous!

It's *always* the bass player.

I remember seeing the Cardigans and the bass player was so hot, so tall, and had the biggest hands and a big bulge. I was so transfixed, I almost came in my pants.

Sounds delish r40.

Polly entered Eurovision with this song.

Miss Warwick covered the hussy.

A spot of blackface for a UK hit cover of ABBA

Covering a song Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote for Lulu's Eurovision stint.

It's kind of hard for me to understand her.......I like this group from Australia more.....JR

[quote] It's *always* the bass player. I remember seeing the Cardigans and the bass player was so hot, so tall, and had the biggest hands and a big bulge.

R40 Cheeeeeeeeeers, love.

Only true of English bands, though, mind.

Whaaaaa?

r48, that is scary!

R47 ah yes, Alex of Blur.

All the dirty boys of Blur and Jarvis Cocker were very much my type back in the day

R20 is an aural abortion.

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