Oh this is just brilliant. What a terrific song, delivered with Chris's ace deadpan vocals and huge backing sound . And nearly half a century later it still hits the mark.
This song never fails to crack me up...'I knew that she'd seen me, cos she dropped her bikini' and the tear jerking 'the one that I brought her in Rome'! 'Her escape was urgent, she forgot her detergent'! ' 'when she saw my reflection in the Chrome'! Every line is a classic!
Cracking tune & brilliant lyrics. I remember it was a hit at Christmastime 1976 & i always think of it as Christmas record! It still sounds as unique today as it did back then.
So tongue in cheek but what a great track....Brilliant production giving this such a BIG sound and such original lyrics ... Will always be on my Favourites list.... Just love it
Just listened to the vinyl single~ what a production! What other comedy song has a symphonic outro which includes the 1812 overture cannons played on drums combined with the Hallelujah chorus.?
Absolute classic!!! where else would you hear a line like "She was sharing her spin dry, with a Guy in a tie dye?. not only that but listen to the orchestration. my absolute favourite 70s track
Always loved this. When Mike Batt asked what they wanted included in the production, they drew a kitchen sink, which earned them the opera aira and the shotgun blasts at the end. Fantastic song. I also recall tour poster describing themselves as "A tour de force, forced to tour". They clearly didn't take themselves too seriously, even if they made great music.
Why Did You Do It by Stretch springs to mind too, although they have some awesome songs on their albums. Jigsaw, The Motors... There were quite a few acts in that era that didn't seem to last long
What a song!!................What a singer..................................!!...............What a Year.........................................!!...xx
“Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent and dropped all her clean underwear!” SUPERB LYRICS.......ONLY in England👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇬🇧 Shame about the creep at the end that i would liked to have dropped an industrial washing machine on!😡🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻DOOF DOOF
I saw the Kursaal Flyers at the Nottingham Polytechnic in the late 70’s my Dad worked at the college and got us in free! They were Brilliant, it was a good evening. 🙏🙏🙏
I love a slice of cheese, me!!!! This 70's classic never, ever, fails to make me smile and wish I was back there again as a carefree teenager. Great track.
brilliant song, I found it on interweb after years of trying to remember them and now i found them Im finding out more of their songs and Ilove their music.
@@koln74 He knows she's cheating; she knows that he knows (because she saw his reflection: but, she doesn't know that he knows. Although, to be fair, I don't think he can he sure that she doesn't know that he knows, which might be the point of the song.
You just know that someone in production yelled "get me that kitchen sink, I'm sure I can squeeze it in here somewhere!" while recording this. Fantastic tune, love it every time I hear it (thanks Ken Bruce...)
My analysis of this song... She thinks that although she's been caught out as a two timer, she can carry on doing it, just as long as she can believe her partner isn't aware of her knowing her deception has been uncovered. Unfortunately for her though he is, so their future is in his hands. As long as the man in this instance chooses not to let her know that he's aware she knows she's been caught out, it's possible for him to allow their situation to continue, if he so chooses. To let her know of his awareness, would be such as to render her guilty of both deception and indifference were the situation to continue, which would probably be more than the relationship could sustain. The decision is therefore his to take. She probably would try to make herself believe that he would think she isn't clever enough to have realised that he would know she's two timing, and therefore make herself believe it's safe to continue the affair. Were she to realise that he was aware that she knew she'd been caught out, then she could not continue two timing unless she was wholly indifferent to their relationship. One more thing. Even though she knows she's been caught out two timing, she probably believes she can carry on making him think that she thinks she's truly getting away with it. Except she can't, as unbeknownst to her, he's already found out that she knows he knows..
Perhaps one other way of getting it is to understand that she's not cheating even after knowing that she's been caught out knowing that she's been caught cheating. Instead, she's just cheating after knowing she's been caught cheating.
"just as long as she can believe her partner isn't aware of her knowing her deception has been uncovered" The only thing he needs to know is the cheating, not her awareness that she's been rumbled.
I love this. The singer looks like he is out of the 1950s, the guy in the floral shirt looks like he is from the 60s, the guy in the glasses is from the 80s, the guy on the right making a bad attempt to look like his is actually playing the guitar is from the 40s lol.
I was 10 when i first saw this forgotton classic tune on t o t p, at the time i thought the lyrics were so deep and meaningful, but now they sound so cringeworthy, but i still adore the song.
The one with the Hawaiian shirt is an old school friend of mine, I was at his house way back in 1960 when he got his first guitar, how my old friend has come since that time, good on you vic Collins, only saw him again at another old friends send off just a few months ago
Great live performance which makes a change for Top of the Pops where artists mainly mimed.Must be an existing backing track they are singing to to get anywhere near the production of the single. Another great Mike Batt arrangement which made No.14 in the UK singles charts.
LOL. Same here. My dad drove a Merc truck delivering copper wire to different factories around London. Never forget picking up the empty drums with loads of wire still on them. Took them home, unrolled the wire and dad took t down the scrap yard for my pocket money. And for his beer money! Happy days.
I m doing some music and love music-history . Am I right never ever seen a cover-song to this track ? I got the single 1976 when 6 yrs old.. today hearing loud my 20 yrs old daughter cried " stop this crap" ..when dancing to it.. ;-) .This makes classics.
I love the Kursaal Flyers Little does she know and I asked Alexa to play it but it doesn`t play as Alexa doesn`t recognize the group`s name - Ask for the song and a 5 minute version plays. Absolutely wonderful bringing back the best memories ever. 46 years later and I love singing it to this day. In 1976 I tried to write the words of the song and got it so wrong. Now I sing it correctly and my grandchildren haven`t a clue what I am on about. You Tube can be fantastic for memories.
Absolutely brilliant band and track, saw them 2 weeks ago at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool and as soon as he opened his mouth it wasn't the song I recognized it was those unmistakable teeth. I still have nightmares from my children about those teeth.. how is it possible for teeth to be so many different lengths and pointing in so many different directions. Fair play though as he still looks amazing.. Top band ❤
Saw them live at Manchester Uni a few months before this single. Great band. Mind you ..the support that night were even better ... they were called Burlesque.
Saw this great band at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse in the 70's when P Shuttleworth.singer, went off mid gig to return having shaved his moustache off. Audience probably didn't notice being on a different planet but i did...
The lyrics of this song are beyond belief. But lets give them some credit for penning the following 2 lines, "Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent And dropped all her clean underwear". A masterpiece of song writing. Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's two-timin' me Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's cheatin' on me I was outside the one stop When I saw her in the corner And I didn't like what I see Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's two-timin' me She was sharing her spin dryer with a guy in a tie-dye When she saw my reflection in the chrome I knew that she'd seen me 'cause she dropped her bikini The one that I got her, in Rome Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's two-timin' me Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's cheatin' on me When she finished her laundry she was all in a quandary And made it for the street like a hare Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent And dropped all her clean underwear Little does she know that I know that she knows That I know she's cheatin' on me
Produced and orchestrated by Mike Batt who gave it the whole 9 yards. I remember the follow up Radio romance which was a great song but didn’t chart. Southend gave us lots of great bands in the 70’s.
As a South Essex bloke I loved the music scene there in the mid-1970's. Funnily enough I was at school with the bass guitarist of this band, Richie Bull - the big bearded guy wearing the straw hat. He was actually a brilliant banjo player too.
My German teacher made us listen to this song and do some packet for some reason😂 like we listened to it in English and everything it was the most random thing but I love this song now
The only song to ever rhyme "laundry" with "quandary".
Superb!
Urgent and detergent. Lol
@@damoshort76
Brill 😂📝👍
The seventies were so diverse - songs like this could only belong to that era. What a classic!
Clairelouise1975 And also the word Diverse was not thrown around like confetti
at a wedding . Have to give ya credit ya didn`t use the word Clearly
The 70s were just brilliant
As was the High Street
Oh this is just brilliant. What a terrific song, delivered with Chris's ace deadpan vocals and huge backing sound . And nearly half a century later it still hits the mark.
This song never fails to crack me up...'I knew that she'd seen me, cos she dropped her bikini' and the tear jerking 'the one that I brought her in Rome'!
'Her escape was urgent, she forgot her detergent'! ' 'when she saw my reflection in the Chrome'! Every line is a classic!
It's like a soap opera in a song ! Always loved this !
@@christopherjames5895 Yes the Hallelujah's at the end are hysterical! Soap opera, love it!
Brilliant song 🎵 😅
Such a lavish production for a novelty song. Still sounds great after 43 years.
Produced by the great Mike Batt!
Cracking tune & brilliant lyrics. I remember it was a hit at Christmastime 1976 & i always think of it as Christmas record! It still sounds as unique today as it did back then.
Still listening to this in 2024
Me too
Lyrics to die for,,her escape was so urgent,she forgot her detergent,and dropped all of her clean underwear pure magic xxxx
Truly fulfilling lyrics such are those are what is missing from music today. Did we truly know in the 1970's that we were listening to such gems?
Ken Bruce played it today 19/10/2021 on Radio 2, happy if he played it everyday.
Yes that’s why I was looking for it on here , heard it twice in a month now on radio 2 😁
He plays it quite often .
Just played it now after pop master grand final😊😊
Played it today,23/12/22,after pop master,
They won't be playing it on Radio 2 anymore :(
A beautifully crafted pop song with incredible lyrics
I listened to this song for the first time in 1977 years and listening to it today brings me back❤️❤️
So tongue in cheek but what a great track....Brilliant production giving this such a BIG sound and such original lyrics ... Will always be on my Favourites list.... Just love it
Just listened to the vinyl single~ what a production! What other comedy song has a symphonic outro which includes the 1812 overture cannons played on drums combined with the Hallelujah chorus.?
Produced by Mike Batt of The Wombles fame.
Absolute classic!!! where else would you hear a line like "She was sharing her spin dry, with a Guy in a tie dye?. not only that but listen to the orchestration. my absolute favourite 70s track
Played on BBC Radio 2 this morning. I stopped want I was doing. Masterpiece
over the top typical legendary mike batt production but absolutely fab .never tire of this song just magic.
Beautiful beyond words. A true classic record
So cool, what a classic song from my youth! Happy memories! Thanks guys, love you all.
Always loved this. When Mike Batt asked what they wanted included in the production, they drew a kitchen sink, which earned them the opera aira and the shotgun blasts at the end. Fantastic song. I also recall tour poster describing themselves as "A tour de force, forced to tour". They clearly didn't take themselves too seriously, even if they made great music.
This and "Driver's Seat" by Sniff must be 2 of the best 1 hit wonders of the 70's
Why Did You Do It by Stretch springs to mind too, although they have some awesome songs on their albums. Jigsaw, The Motors... There were quite a few acts in that era that didn't seem to last long
How about Car 67? Another poignant and witty classic.
@@progmeup loved the motors
@@andrewkendall7814 One of the late queen mum's favourites
I cant believe I was 15 when I 1st heard this
And it still sounds amazing :)
I was 11. Please can I go back?
I was 15 too and this appeared on Top of the Pops the evening before my mum died aged 49 on Friday 26th November 1976……
Love this song ... never tire of it
Absolute belter of a track!
What a song!!................What a singer..................................!!...............What a Year.........................................!!...xx
Essex boys. Great mushy lyrics. Brilliant. Key change at end WONDERFUL
“Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent and dropped all her clean underwear!” SUPERB LYRICS.......ONLY in England👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇬🇧
Shame about the creep at the end that i would liked to have dropped an industrial washing machine on!😡🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻DOOF DOOF
That lyric is genius on a par with "I got a job with Stanley, he said I'd come in handy". God there was some good music about in the seventies.
I saw the Kursaal Flyers at the Nottingham Polytechnic in the late 70’s my Dad worked at the college and got us in free! They were Brilliant, it was a good evening. 🙏🙏🙏
Furkn hillairious classic seen the kusles at middlsbrough town hall fifty years ago love mm
I love a slice of cheese, me!!!! This 70's classic never, ever, fails to make me smile and wish I was back there again as a carefree teenager. Great track.
brilliant song, I found it on interweb after years of trying to remember them and now i found them Im finding out more of their songs and Ilove their music.
Compared to modern music, stuff that I thought rubbish back in the day, now sounds pretty damned good, and this track is fun for sure.
2024, laughing, and loving it 😂 the 70's, how fecking good was that!!
Love this, along with January by Pilot. Excellent 70s classics.
One of the catchiest songs ever.
Still brings out a smaile at tha age of 70.
Genius of mike batt! Again. Great song.
Little does she know that I know that she knows that I know...
I still can't get my head around that after 42 years!!
it is a total contradiction. if she knows what he knows about her, she knows everything - thereby making his claim nonsensical!
@@koln74 He knows she's cheating; she knows that he knows (because she saw his reflection: but, she doesn't know that he knows.
Although, to be fair, I don't think he can he sure that she doesn't know that he knows, which might be the point of the song.
It's a hard one to figure out still a good song
@@MrJDJ001 you're my hero!
Paul Shuttleworth recently had a heart attack, making good progress and back Turing with his currant group
Good luck to him. 😢
@@rw8733 is he ok
@@john111257 Yes. He's OK. Thank goodness. ☺
Superb ! Eternal Gem ! 🚀
This was the first single I bought. Great song and produced by Mike Batt.
Remember you're a womble!
Never ages - great song
Absolutely brilliant.
Just terrific an 80s wall of sound.
Jeff B
when music was music, thank you Kursalls
You just know that someone in production yelled "get me that kitchen sink, I'm sure I can squeeze it in here somewhere!" while recording this. Fantastic tune, love it every time I hear it (thanks Ken Bruce...)
Classic, play it over and over stil
Classic, play it over and over stil 👍
My analysis of this song...
She thinks that although she's been caught out as a two timer, she can carry on doing it, just as long as she can believe her partner isn't aware of her knowing her deception has been uncovered. Unfortunately for her though he is, so their future is in his hands.
As long as the man in this instance chooses not to let her know that he's aware she knows she's been caught out, it's possible for him to allow their situation to continue, if he so chooses. To let her know of his awareness, would be such as to render her guilty of both deception and indifference were the situation to continue, which would probably be more than the relationship could sustain. The decision is therefore his to take.
She probably would try to make herself believe that he would think she isn't clever enough to have realised that he would know she's two timing, and therefore make herself believe it's safe to continue the affair. Were she to realise that he was aware that she knew she'd been caught out, then she could not continue two timing unless she was wholly indifferent to their relationship.
One more thing. Even though she knows she's been caught out two timing, she probably believes she can carry on making him think that she thinks she's truly getting away with it. Except she can't, as unbeknownst to her, he's already found out that she knows he knows..
Perhaps one other way of getting it is to understand that she's not cheating even after knowing that she's been caught out knowing that she's been caught cheating. Instead, she's just cheating after knowing she's been caught cheating.
"just as long as she can believe her partner isn't aware of her knowing her deception has been uncovered"
The only thing he needs to know is the cheating, not her awareness that she's been rumbled.
Well said!
I love this. The singer looks like he is out of the 1950s, the guy in the floral shirt looks like he is from the 60s, the guy in the glasses is from the 80s, the guy on the right making a bad attempt to look like his is actually playing the guitar is from the 40s lol.
And the guy on drums ??
Widder23D not old enough to drink
Such a beautiful song
immer wieder faszinieren Super Song
what a voice - unforgettable sound !!
Classic - I knew that she'd seen me / cos she dropped her bikini / the one that I bought her in ROOOME :)
Still luv it was 12 wen this was out remember the teen angst so well
I was 10 when i first saw this forgotton classic tune on t o t p, at the time i thought the lyrics were so deep and meaningful, but now they sound so cringeworthy, but i still adore the song.
This warms my heart. Mike Batt does "Wall of Sound". A classic. ☺
The one with the Hawaiian shirt is an old school friend of mine, I was at his house way back in 1960 when he got his first guitar, how my old friend has come since that time, good on you vic Collins, only saw him again at another old friends send off just a few months ago
just brilliant !
Just love it. Proper singer 👏👏👏👏👍
Good record from the 70s, and cool hairstyles.
Absolutely love it. A true classic
The KF's live just lifted your spirit's.
Just a pity they never made a mint as they deserved to.
Great gig at Coventry Lanchester Polytecnic.
Her escape was so urgent she forgot her detergent.......... I swear I nearly peed ! Brilliant.
Brilliant track, and introduced by Mr. JAMES SAVILLE. What more could anyone want?
ermmmm Well ... introduced by just about anyone else, I would have thought.
Great live performance which makes a change for Top of the Pops where artists mainly mimed.Must be an existing backing track they are singing to to get anywhere near the production of the single. Another great Mike Batt arrangement which made No.14 in the UK singles charts.
You did not get many acts performing live on TOTPS in the 70s but this was defoe live, great stuff.
Live? With an invisible string section.
No. Not live 🤣
Brings back great memories when I was 15 and mi dad let me bunk off school the odd time to go with him on a trip out in his truck.
LOL. Same here. My dad drove a Merc truck delivering copper wire to different factories around London. Never forget picking up the empty drums with loads of wire still on them. Took them home, unrolled the wire and dad took t down the scrap yard for my pocket money. And for his beer money! Happy days.
This song is brilliant it's so funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it's one for the time vaults some great lyrics jx
wow a blast from the past.
It's so taking the piss and I love the way they are all dressed
The Phil Spector sound meets the Estuary.
1 of the best band's to come out of Essex
I m doing some music and love music-history . Am I right never ever seen a cover-song to this track ? I got the single 1976 when 6 yrs old.. today hearing loud my 20 yrs old daughter cried " stop this crap" ..when dancing to it.. ;-) .This makes classics.
Mike Batt of wobbles plus loads more produced this,Phil Spector influence very strong on this 🎵🎵👍👍
I love the Kursaal Flyers Little does she know and I asked Alexa to play it but it doesn`t play as Alexa doesn`t recognize the group`s name - Ask for the song and a 5 minute version plays. Absolutely wonderful bringing back the best memories ever. 46 years later and I love singing it to this day. In 1976 I tried to write the words of the song and got it so wrong. Now I sing it correctly and my grandchildren haven`t a clue what I am on about. You Tube can be fantastic for memories.
My funeral song and no one will know why❤
They were inspired by Phil Spectres Wall of Sound. This is such a great song
Fab song and the best lyrics ever!
what a tune really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Radio 2 songs of the seventy’s plays the best 70s music ☀️
Great tune my dad used to luv this one hit wonder
Love this songxxxx
Brilliant! Loved it then, love it now
Absolutely brilliant band and track, saw them 2 weeks ago at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool and as soon as he opened his mouth it wasn't the song I recognized it was those unmistakable teeth. I still have nightmares from my children about those teeth.. how is it possible for teeth to be so many different lengths and pointing in so many different directions. Fair play though as he still looks amazing.. Top band ❤
Brilliant.
Saw them live at Manchester Uni a few months before this single. Great band. Mind you ..the support that night were even better ... they were called Burlesque.
What a year !!!
one of those songs you can't get out of your head. but I wouldn't buy a second hand motor from the singer
he became a dentist after his singing career dried up for him
Bought the album chocs away back in 1976 still got it .
Saw this great band at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse in the 70's when P Shuttleworth.singer, went off mid gig to return having shaved his moustache off. Audience probably didn't notice being on a different planet but i did...
The lyrics of this song are beyond belief.
But lets give them some credit for penning the following 2 lines,
"Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent
And dropped all her clean underwear". A masterpiece of song writing.
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's two-timin' me
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's cheatin' on me
I was outside the one stop
When I saw her in the corner
And I didn't like what I see
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's two-timin' me
She was sharing her spin dryer with a guy in a tie-dye
When she saw my reflection in the chrome
I knew that she'd seen me 'cause she dropped her bikini
The one that I got her, in Rome
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's two-timin' me
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's cheatin' on me
When she finished her laundry she was all in a quandary
And made it for the street like a hare
Her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent
And dropped all her clean underwear
Little does she know that I know that she knows
That I know she's cheatin' on me
Fantastic song, happy memories.
Rhyming urgent with detergent-brilliant.And laundry with quandary!
Produced and orchestrated by Mike Batt who gave it the whole 9 yards.
I remember the follow up Radio romance which was a great song but didn’t chart.
Southend gave us lots of great bands in the 70’s.
As a South Essex bloke I loved the music scene there in the mid-1970's. Funnily enough I was at school with the bass guitarist of this band, Richie Bull - the big bearded guy wearing the straw hat. He was actually a brilliant banjo player too.
After nearly 50 years I still can't work out who knows what.
Saw this on BBC4 last night , classic
great memories..i am just in southend for school girl reunion..:)
Fab :)
Good days
My German teacher made us listen to this song and do some packet for some reason😂 like we listened to it in English and everything it was the most random thing but I love this song now