Naughty Naughty Naughty / Letters Of Love

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Secondly, the artist’s management will see it as a good way of getting the artist ‘out there’ and cementing his/her popularity and thirdly, if the record is successful there could be a whole series of lucrative hits and maybe even an album!

They may be rubbish and inexplicably successful but still hold their place in the pantheon of strange but memorable hits. Stavely Makepeace‘s manager was not impressed with this waxing and SM, therefore, became Lieutenant Pigeon for the purposes of performing MOD. To be honest I could have chosen pretty much either of their 8 top twenty hits between 1965 and 1967 but I picked this one mainly because it’s so DULL and it’s got a NICE melody, it sounds exactly like all their other hits and it’s a complete DIRGE!They were the sort of band that stopped more interesting acts breaking through in the mid-sixties by releasing anodyne, unthreatening, harmonic fare, like this utter tosh. Oh You Pretty Thing‘ by Peter No One, sorry Peter Noone, recently having gone solo after splitting from the bafflingly hugely successful Herman’s Hermits. It was a particularly middle of the road (lower case) chart to be fair, but then again, the charts mostly were in those days. As a musical actor this probably wasn’t a bad idea but such performance props often result in a certain type of music.

I know I’m being very critical about the cynicism of this record but I’ve not even mentioned the worst aspect of it yet. of Alaska’s releases this record also did not chart but it’s an interesting reminder of one of the ubiquitous personalities of the 70s. There are few throwaway songs from that period 50 years ago which have had the staying power of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. What added an extra frisson of excitement to the record was that it was the theme to an ‘X’ rated film that was currently in the cinemas.

I collect non chart singles from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and have many 1000’s, this being one of them.

The song "Naughty Naughty Naughty", was a novelty love song between the singer and Mr Punch, and reached Number 26 on the UK Singles Chart in May 1977. The most intriguing interpretation of the lyrics was one from an ‘anonymous’ contributor to an internet message board discussing the song. It was released by the legendary Stevie Wonder on his classic 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life and was probably the most played track from the album on the radio at the time.Naughty Naughty Naughty" was engineered by Chris Tsangarides at Morgan Studios in Willesden, North London. Stevie Wonder’s song is a hugely personal one, celebrating the birth of his daughter and, again, you have to ask why he’d let some bozo in the UK have it, that’s if he was ever consulted, though his status at Motown suggested he must have had a say.

The first thing to say about this record is that it’s far from being a rubbish song and its success is not inexplicable.And his penchants for lollipops, which apparently were, in real life, a way of trying to get him to curb his smoking. The Best of The Seekers LP knocked The Beatles (white album) off the top of the album charts and stopped the Rolling Stones getting to No. The three-TV channel decades of the 60s and 70s meant that if an artist became popular thanks to the show they were in, they became VERY big indeed and such was the case with Telly Savalas and his hit show, Kojak.