jones@inuxe.UUCP (Mike Jones) (11/01/84)
Back in the seventies there was a BBC comedy shown in America called Goodies. In one episode there was a song they recorded called "Do the Funky Gibbon." Has anyone else besides me ever heard of the song? And what were the lyrics? I can't remember any of the lyrics.
wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (11/04/84)
My God, I remember that! Can't remember the lyrics, but it was a great song (and a great show - starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, and Graeme Garden). I would bet that Bill Oddie wrote the song. These three guys had previously worked with John Clees, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Joe Kendall on a radio show called *I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again*, which Bill and Joe frequently wrote songs for (including the infamous "Persecuting Pigeons in Trafalgar Square," which I've inflicted on readers of this notesfile before... and I won't even go into that great serial, "The Curse of the Flying Wombats"). I can't remember the episode where the Funky Gibbon appeared, but the one where Bill was the crazed master of the Welsh martial art Ekke-Thump (consisting mainly of bashing people over the head with a black pudding) will live in my mind for some time. And then there was the one where the world was taken over by Rolf Harrises ... Wombat "I am not, nor have I ever been, Jan Howard Finder" ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat