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27 minutes ago, Toast said:

Yes indeed, tis Hounds Of Love  It samples Night Of The Demon which was loosely based on M.R. James Casting The Runes (a TV dramatisation of which scared the shit out of me and my mum many years ago - sadly only a fragment survives of this memorable adaptation).

 

Lucky! That's one of the great holy grails of missing cult TV. The same strand did a version of Lost Hearts before the oft repeated 1970s version, and it is completely missing too.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2OpMxYklQ

 

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8 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Lucky! That's one of the great holy grails of missing cult TV. The same strand did a version of Lost Hearts before the oft repeated 1970s version, and it is completely missing too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2OpMxYklQ

 

 

That's the one!  Nothing has come to close to that.  I particularly remember the picture with the Coleridge quote being especially spine-chilling.

 

“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”

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Oner to follow on from the Pointer sisters/Springsteen song I got the other day.

Top 10 hit for a late 60s/early 70s songstress, this one contains the name of a Bond girl in the title. (Clue. NOT Xenia Onatopp)

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On 19/02/2020 at 19:40, Great Uncle Bulgaria said:

Oner to follow on from the Pointer sisters/Springsteen song I got the other day.

Top 10 hit for a late 60s/early 70s songstress, this one contains the name of a Bond girl in the title. (Clue. NOT Xenia Onatopp)

Ruby Tuesday by Melanie.

Ruby Bartlett played by Angela Scholar in On her majestys secret service.

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On 19/02/2020 at 12:59, Bibliogryphon said:

OK here so here goes

 

1995 UK top thirty hit for a Canadian group this is a cover version of a song by a UK group (whose version failed to reach the Top 40 in 1991) featured on the soundtrack of one of the major comedy films of the year.

 

 

Closest I can get for this is The  Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, which satisfies most, but not all of the clue.

 

Any chance of another clue?

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12 hours ago, time said:

Closest I can get for this is The  Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, which satisfies most, but not all of the clue.

 

Any chance of another clue?

Absolutely right.

 

It probably was misleading to describe Dumb & Dumber as a comedy

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2 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Absolutely right.

 

It probably was misleading to describe Dumb & Dumber as a comedy

Well, there's a surprise.

 

I never got as far as the checking out the comedy soundtrack, but the reason the XTC original failed to reach the top 40 in 1991 was that it wasn't released until 1992 :lol:

 

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The original version of this song was released in the late 60s and failed to chart in the UK or Ireland, though made number 1 elsewhere in Europe.

It was covered by one half of a musical duo in the early 90s and reached the top 5 in the UK and top 10 in Ireland.

The cover version benefited from an additional verse written by the cover artiste (and an additional definite article in the title).

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18 hours ago, time said:

Well, there's a surprise.

 

I never got as far as the checking out the comedy soundtrack, but the reason the XTC original failed to reach the top 40 in 1991 was that it wasn't released until 1992 :lol:

 

My bad it was recorded in 1991. Released in 92. Good spot.

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On 20/02/2020 at 20:41, redrumours said:

Ruby Tuesday by Melanie.

Ruby Bartlett played by Angela Scholar in On her majestys secret service.

 

Nope, singer is from UK.

(sorry been away in the sticks without wi-fi for 3 days, hence no earlier reply)

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1 hour ago, Great Uncle Bulgaria said:

 

Nope, singer is from UK.

(sorry been away in the sticks without wi-fi for 3 days, hence no earlier reply)

How about. Goodnight Midnight by Clodagh Rodgers and Mary Goodnight played by Britt Ekland in  The man with the golden gun?

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10 hours ago, redrumours said:

How about. Goodnight Midnight by Clodagh Rodgers and Mary Goodnight played by Britt Ekland in  The man with the golden gun?

bingo! well done....

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4 hours ago, Great Uncle Bulgaria said:

bingo! well done....

I'll chuck in an easy one  3219?

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1 hour ago, redrumours said:

I'll chuck in an easy one  3219?

Numbers, soft cell?

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On 21/02/2020 at 12:46, time said:

The original version of this song was released in the late 60s and failed to chart in the UK or Ireland, though made number 1 elsewhere in Europe.

It was covered by one half of a musical duo in the early 90s and reached the top 5 in the UK and top 10 in Ireland.

The cover version benefited from an additional verse written by the cover artiste (and an additional definite article in the title).

^^^Don't forget this is still going ^^^

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1 hour ago, time said:
On 21/02/2020 at 12:46, time said:

The original version of this song was released in the late 60s and failed to chart in the UK or Ireland, though made number 1 elsewhere in Europe.

It was covered by one half of a musical duo in the early 90s and reached the top 5 in the UK and top 10 in Ireland.

The cover version benefited from an additional verse written by the cover artiste (and an additional definite article in the title).

^^^Don't forget this is still going ^^^

 

Marc Almond, The Days Of Pearly Spencer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlGAVdkqKA

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2 hours ago, Great Uncle Bulgaria said:

Numbers, soft cell?

No I'll throw in a K.

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10 minutes ago, redrumours said:

No I'll throw in a K.

And a, m.

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3 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Marc Almond, The Days Of Pearly Spencer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlGAVdkqKA

Close Enough!

 

David McWilliams' Days of Pearly Spencer was the original (and best).

 

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21 hours ago, redrumours said:

How about. Goodnight Midnight by Clodagh Rodgers and Mary Goodnight played by Britt Ekland in  The man with the golden gun?

 

 

And she's still alive and obitable, thanks for reminding us!

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Indeed she is. Back in the early 1970s she was battling Sally Carr for pride of place on the burrow bedroom wall though..

Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers 25th February 1971

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7 minutes ago, redrumours said:

3219Km.

2000 miles The Pretenders?

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3 minutes ago, time said:

2000 miles The Pretenders?

That's correct.

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