Don Alphonso by Mike Oldfield.

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You really should hear this! Basically, released somewhere alongside Hergest Ridge, basically a drunken singalong (care of David Beford, not the athlete or anyone connected with 118118 got yr number etc) and various pals on bottles and backing vocals.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember it well; it was on that Virgin sampler album which briefly did the rounds in early '75 and also featured Wyatt doing "Yesterday Man."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link

You know what? I just bought that very album!

The "Don" is longer than the original single. Poor ol RobWyatt!

Virgin: "Well done with "I'm a Believer" now do this one next!"
RobWy: "oh all right! Give it here!"

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

But "Yesterday Man" is great! I used to have access to this album but I never bothered playing the Mike Oldfield track

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It is great.

Just not the greatest of ideas.

Mind you "Robert Wyatt sings the hits of the sixties" can go be a freebie on the Daily Express and we'll all celebrate.

Mind you, "Robert Wyatt sings the Telephone Directory" can go be a freebie on the Independant on Sunday and we'll all celebrate.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"On Horseback" is the best Mike Oldfield single since:
(a) his voice on it sounds like Tommy Cooper;
(b) he answers the chorus line "I'd rather be with you than flying through space" with an upward slide of his guitar indicating rockets taking off, and things.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Mike Oldfield Sings? Maybe it was Tommy Cooper, he was fond of using guest vocalists...

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

He talks it really, but sings the chorus, after a fashion.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Similar to "Froggy went a courting". He could have been the next Telly Savalas.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Poor old Telly - he had the ladies in the palm of his hand, and then he decided to "sing" the follow-up ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - #49 with a comedy 100 TONS weight around its neck).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Not as much as he sang "Who loves yer, baby" in a voice that strained for the top notes that Barry White could do.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Even that wasn't as bad as the "WHO LOVES YA BABY AR-HAR-HAR" interjection two-thirds through the Wurzels' "comedy classic" number one hit "Combine Harvester Open Brackets Brand New Key Close Brackets Ten Points Dignified Don."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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