Eurowaffle
I had no idea Eurovision was still going on until that bearded guy in the frock won it; I’d assumed it had died around the time Eric Morley stopped staging Miss World (maybe he hasn’t, I don’t know), but I love it that someone noticed this year’s ghastly Eurovision Song Contest entry from Britain is a note-for-note copy of a 1980s Bird’s Eye Waffle advert, AND that they could then be bothered to create a mash-up of the song and the jingle.
I do have an explanation for this strange homage. Many years ago I worked with a very nice chap, the song’s writer, David Mindel, who used to be in advertising in the 1980s, so it’s a pretty safe bet that he recycled the tune – and why not? Shallow-friend corn starch and pop hits seem to go together perfectly.
In the late sixties there was a craze for this Through-A-Loudhailer type of bouncy ragtime. It turned up on Beatles albums and in Harry Nilsson and Viv Stanshall songs. And now it’s back in what sounds like a song cut from ‘Bugsy Malone’. The vide is equally give-up-the-ghost. They’ve thought, ‘Ooh, what’s left in London that’s 1920s and quite cheap to shoot in?’ Yes, it’s the Cafe De Paris again.
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…which is kind of fitting, really, because potato waffles were pretty awful too.
I heard about 20 seconds of this and thought : aha! they’re going the Father Ted route of submitting something so terrible it will never win as we don’t have any money for next year’s….
Eric Morley died I believe but his widow (Julia?) is still involved. I am ashamed – and puzzled – as to how I know this
Wasn’t it Cab Calloway who used the megaphone thing? No, someone else —. Blast, I’ll have to go looking. If I’d been a judge on this contest my reaction would have been “Whaaa? It doesn’t make sense.
BTW, would potato waffles have been gluten free? Just asking.
Admin are you saying you missed the winners of a few years ago Lordi? Eurovision has been a surreal madness, what other show would feature a singing act complete with trampolines.
It was odd to see Russia being booed because what was happening Ukraine.
Wayne.
Helen: you might be thinking of Rudy Vallée.
Yes, of course, George. Thank you.