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- Lieutenant Pigeon are an English novelty musical group popular in the early 1970s, originating from Coventry.
A spin-off from an experimental music band Stavely Makepeace, the group was fronted by Rob Woodward and managed by him and drummer Nigel Fletcher. Other members included bassist Stephen Johnson. The group's sound was dominated by a heavy honky-tonk-style piano played by Woodward's mother, Hilda.
Lieutenant Pigeon achieved two UK hits: "Mouldy Old Dough", written by Woodward with bandmate Fletcher, which reached number one in 1972, followed by "Desperate Dan" (number 17 in 1973). Both tracks were largely instrumental, with the titles providing virtually the only lyrics. "Mouldy Old Dough" (the title being an adaptation of the 1920s jazz phrase, "vo-de-o-do") became the second biggest selling UK single of the year, behind The Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace".
Hilda Woodward died, aged 85, on 22 February 1999. She was aged 58 at the time of "Mouldy Old Dough" topping the charts, which made her one of the oldest female artists to feature on a UK number one single.
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Broadcast date: 1972/9/16
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As a retired baker I have always found this song to be profoundly melancholic.
Brilliant sir! May your loaves rise to meet you 🍞
bakerholics
@ianhowell6829 I always felt the tune to be a joyous celebration of the discovery of penicillin.
Damnable optimist. You insult my pain!
The 70’s . They really were a great time to be growing up. A different time sadly missed
Jimmy savilles favorite decade!
I love this tune. And Hilda.
Hilda Woodward died, aged 85, on 22 February 1999. She was aged 60 at the time of "Mouldy Old Dough" topping the charts, which made her one of the oldest female artists to feature on a UK number one single.
Natnekker nice piece of additional information.
And deservedly so! God Bless her
respect to Hilda
We pray for her🙏🙏🙏💜💜
Only 60?!
Lost my Mother at that age. Horrible shock.
I adore this record. My Mum bought it in the early 70’s and never stopped playing it. It’s great and it’s fun. I’m now the same age as the lovely lady on the piano.
Yeah odd init but captures something me too ????
Look how lovely her posture is. God bless Hilda Woodward. 😢
Hilda Woodward, Rob's mother was my Piano tutor in 1965, on that fantastic piano in her front room in Coventry, happy days !!
👍
God bless her. 😢
@@rw8733 All the best rob, I remember you well.
2025 still listening to this brilliant track. Love it
Never get sick of hearing it
WE HAVE GOOD TASTE IN MUSIC
God you need help!
@@HarvestHome2000 If he/she (I presume he, being Roland) does, then so do I. Nostalgic love is a great thing.
It's genius, everything ties in ❤
It's not gone. It's here forever. Great to see so many LP fans
Always loved this, what makes it even better is that his mum is on stage with her son rocking out this now iconic piece of music loved by banger racers everywhere
we got a young lad at work and we were talking about music and he shocked me that he knew this song....he said its always played at banger racing......who knew...
What's even more lovable about this one clip is guitar guy wearing the obligatory "platform" heels, in multicolor, even more !!
This has to be the most British 'pop' song ever! Mad, eccentric, effective and much-loved.
@Stephen Spark. This is why I loved this song; for it's typical British pub sound.
I’d say Safety Dance is a close-runner.
@@stevenlangley8646 Got that on my playlist too!
Amazing remember it when it was a hit , just a piece of music that stays with you. People listening to it for the first time must be thinking what were they doing back in the 70’s
We were living.
I was growing up during that era - born in 1970 and so just two and in the pushchair here. Playing with my toys and not old enough to understand or remember that period first time round!
Ahh the 70s...would give pretty much anything to be back in that decade
Give us a life back
I spent my formative years in the 70s, a childhood spent in a less complicated era. Aged 53 next week!
@@angelacooper2661I hear that. Was 53 in Dec 🥺
Bought this record in London 73 Where i was an aupair girl. Wish i had lever left . Best time in my life! Maria in sweden.
Sounds even greater than ever. Wonderful memories of a sadly bygone age.
Great years they were
I'll never tire of this.
Shame that I was just two and in the pushchair at the time!
Some many people don't even know this song - it was the 42 best selling single of the whole of the 1970s in the UK. And I still love it.
So do i!
Yet in the U.S., it didn't even make any of the charts there (Billboard, Cash Box, Record World). One of the songs at #1 in Billboard while this was atop the UK charts was "Ben" by Michael Jackson; "MOD's" last week at #1 in Britain was the first of four weeks for the top in the States for Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now." (The middle two weeks, future UK #1 "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry topped the US charts.)
If this is of consolation, one of the US #1's in 1972 - "The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr. - never made the UK charts.
@@wmbrown6 I always said you Yanks had no taste!!!
@@PBYM79 - Funny, a lot of what topped the UK charts in the '70's could be inferred of Etons' taste - or, some would say, lack thereof. ("D-I-V-O-R-C-E" by Billy Connolly, anyone?)
From my old city of Coventry. I am now living in NZ and guess what , I heard the instrumental used in a new advert on the tv . Brought back many memories.
me too 🙂
Priceless! I adore the juxtaposition all the super 70s glitter of self, especially those amazing rainbow pants and then the older woman filled with such elegance of a different kind, happily banging away on that piano with them!
Hilda Woodward that's his mother 👍🇬🇧
"Mum, do you wanna be in my pop group?"
Absolutely love this! 😊💖
I love this so much. My Mom was in my act too.....I couldn't do it anymore when she died. I love the fact Rob Woodward's Mother was in this band.
God bless Hilda. 🙌
Nach über 40 Jahren wieder gefunden. Das war richtig geile Musik. Und ich zudem Zeitpunkt gerade mal 8 Jahre. Und bei dem Song bin ich es wieder.
such memories listening to this track, my nan would play this on an old record player in her kitchen and as did her washing in the twintub! her head would bob side to side as she listened to this, her favourite song.
That was when i was 8 years old, im now 52!... i'd do anything to see that image, in that kitchen just one more time.. i miss you nan x
I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could 😢
Good thing the old lady is there, really brings the band together.
It's worth watching just to see the beautiful pigeon. Great group and lovely pigeon.
Don't laugh but this is actually a beautiful piece of music.
Not laughing it was and when you hear it never get it out of your head for the rest of the day !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its feckin brill xx
I love it xxxbang it out at home xx
Love.hilda playing opposite her son xx
@@Sunshine123x God bless her.
This song was #1 in the UK music charts in the early 70s... Love it.
It took around 8 months in the UK charts to reach no 1 !! - but stayed 2 weeks I believe !!
I remember this song playing and all the banger racer driving around the track best feeling ever
Ditto, Arlington and Wimbledon
Yes I remember it at banger meetings
I remember as a young lad seeing this on Top of the Pops when it was number one. The lady playing the piano was the oldest person I think that I had ever seen in my life. Fast forward a few years and I'm thinking "actually - she's a bit of a looker!"
🤣🤣
Brilliant comment. 👏
Mouldy old dough what a classic song in millions of ways.
How cool is that, having your mum in the band!
Dam song almost brought me to tears when I heard it yesterday, because I just knew I would never hear it again, let alone see the videos......great job you guys, a rare treat for as a Brit born to Jamaican parents...lol.
I loved lieutenant pigeon when i was young.they were actually brilliant musicians.the lady was so clever.lovely group.
I loved them too. I was 13 and getting into rock music like The Faces, but couldn't resist a good group that had a piano player.
Remember this well. 👏👏
To this day still played just before the teams come out at Boundary Park. Oldham Athletic .Every time I hear it, takes be back to being a12 year old kid at the match.
I was born in Oldham and had it played at my 50th birthday party when I was cutting the cake, because it was always played at Boundary Park.
Going to Latics tomorrow. Bank holiday Monday 26 8 24 .
Used to be played at HT at Edgar Street, Hereford Utd in the 70s. Whether it's still played these days any more, I really don't know.
this was playing when i met my future wife , it became our song , RIP Beryl
brings back happy memories of the early 70s
That brought back a few happy memories. Thanks for posting it.
And was the only number 1 in the UK to feature a mother and son! Had shoes like that (not Hilda's)! Back in the day...halcyon memories!!!
50 years ago this week! Superb!
Znalazłam, ten, utwór przypadkiem miałam 11lat słuchaliśmy radia z, siostra, jak, dobrze że można teraz słuchać, tych, melodii, i, piosenek, z cudownych, tamtych lat😂😂pozdrawiam wszystkich którzy słuchają, nasze kochane tamte, czasy, które już nie wroca😢😢😢
I have absolutely no idea why, but today - travelling about - doing my work - I suddenly found myself thinking of this band and this song. No prompts, no stimulus. Weird. Great wacky little song. Nothing like this would ever cut through nowadays. The 1970's were great for eccentric bands and songs..
Can imagine this playing in some 80s pub while a bar-room brawl of incredible violence kicks off.
Complete with a few windows being put through.
Marvellous stuff. 🍻
Was in the 70s, pal,, was a kid back then,,,
Yep! It's got that chucking-out time slapstick violence vibe!
And pool sticks being broken on some poor blokes back
Your comment had me in stitches
I'd bet the bank you're from the heart of Ireland.
Number 1 when my wife was born. She still loves it to this day but has never seen the actual group, which is nothing like she imagined! Glam rock n roll with a cowboy/western tune and a little, older lady playing the piano??!! Now that’s unique!
Great bit of music !! Reminds me when my kids were small and I used to dance around the floor with them 🥰🥰🥰
My grandad showed me this song a year ago, it just reminds me of a carnival we always listen to it and dance along
Love those emotional lyrics, makes me cry...…………………..with laughter every time I hear it.
It's legendary isn't it? 😂
Play it again !
Ah!! 1972 brings back great memories
avsoultely WONDERFULL ! ! ! ! ! ! I'm playing this piece in the church on a great pipe-organ, cause there will be a lot of youngsters there...
This is such a great track of much happier innocent days
Agreed! The days before the world and life became all serious! 👏
I would have been just two and in the pushchair at the time of this footage. Not old enough to understand or remember that period - had to rely on second hand observations of other people!
2020 and still enjoying this!
YES. 👍🎹. I remember this one years ago
2021 and just discovered this ! Love it
2022 signing in! Hi Bob!
Music through the ages..Music for every one. 1970s was an amazing era for the music scene. Not maby words Lyricly..but how many bands have their Mum playing on the piano alongside their son..Pure GOLD! 70s Rock n Rule the WORLD!
Utterly wonderful 👍😃
I remember when this first came out & thinking what a load of old tosh....now however it's a walk down memory lane...brill
Absolute Classic!!! Long Live The Early Seventies!!!!🎶🙌🙌🎵
Love this still listen to this
Classic ! 70's style rules ! Beautiful !
Love this song especially with hilda playing piano wonderful memories from the Best era for music the best time of my life
Just hearing this band for the first time can't stop bopping from it awesome instrumental 😊
Cóż byłby wart świat bez tych pięknych piosenek ❤miałam 11lat słuchaliśmy radia, Luksemburg 😢❤❤❤
I'm four years older than Hilda and still rocking in a group with a 22 year old guitarist.
Me too remember dancing to this great times great fun id run back to the 70❤
My earliest memory of watching TOTPS back in '72. Just moved house and swapped infants school. Take away glam rock and this track typifies the early 1970's and along with Nilssons " With out you" my favourite tracks of this period. Like many have already commented the lead singer's Mother the eldest female to ever reach number one.
I would have been just two then and in the pushchair. Not old enough to understand or remember that period. Have to rely on second hand observations of other people!
Brilliant,,many memories
. . . and if it also was beauty memories you here get likes from me.
loved this his old mother on the piano happy happy days,, cracking tune
Tivvy Oliver Gran was the real deal could knock out a tune, magic stuff,,
I’m 50 in September and l remember this song fondly. My parents played it a lot. I agree with a few comments here it really is a beautiful piece of music and a classic.
I was actually able to get one up on my husband. Who is six years older then myself. Never heard of the song, and was surprised l knew of it...
Like ya style
Love it sooo much
I know all the words.
Play it again !
You must be fifteen months my junior, as I turned 50 in June 2020 (53 next week!)
I have always loved this record , when you listen to it you feel transported back to that time.
I was 9yrs old when this came out it evokes such good childhood memories, funny how all you Senses come flooding back,Magical
I've always loved this song! Since first hearing it back in the day and being given it on 7" vinyl, which I still have but only listen to it on here or mp3 these days... But still a favourite ❤️♥️❤️
Great catchy song. No.1 in 1972
Schöne Erinnerungen an meine Jugend!
Summer of ‘72 an older brother bought this 45 (I was 9 at the time; 59 now) … loved it ever since
Happy memories of my youth. No worries just having a great time.
This is golden...
Wie schreef dat toch ooit ook weer?: "Geluk: iets dat pas zichtbaar wordt als het voorbij is...." :-).What a happy time those early seventies were.... En kicke' hè; die heerlijke mode uit die tijd.... Niet te geloven dat we er toen allemaal zo bij liepen, woeha... :-).
We just played it as exit song from our dad's funeral 💔 he would have loved it 🎉
Fantastic
Don’t ever see two pianos in a band set up .
Wizzard often had 2 drum kits
This song came on (With March of the Mods) before every race at Arlington for the Banger Races this Bank Holiday Monday. Literally woke up humming it.
Yes!! I was just about to comment the same thing but I’m a few years too late 😂
Why does it make me cry? It's so back too the ground I think
Not laughing bro, I’ve loved this song since I was a kid!
I had forgotten this one until yesterday 18 01 25, first time for years😅 TY..
my very first vinyl single I bought when I was about 13 / 14 years old. 😂😂😂🎉🎉 I'm 64 now, where does time go?
All logic would suggest stuff like this would get lost/forgotten with the passage of time, yet the opposite has happened and it seems even more special.
vordman they play this at banger racing tracks all over England before a race starts keeping it alive
@@paulbackhard6315 Yes the short ovals defo kept this alive, every time I hear it I can smell exhaust fumes mixed with burning rubber, funny thing is makes me want a pint of warm flat beer & a hot-dog too.
@@paulbackhard6315 shame banger racing is dying off tho.
Nobody mentions the banger racing and the sheer utter mayhem that goes with this delightful track. . . .whenever this plays the good times roll
ABSOLUTELY! YOU ARE SPOT ON. AS A BOY, I USED TO THINK THAT THIS HIT WAS MADE FOR BANGER RACING, AS THE FLOODLIGHTS DIMMED WHILST MARSHALL TED WEAVER WOULD IN THE BACK OF THE CONTROL CAR START THE PROCESSION FOR ANOTHER DEMOLISHION DERBY AT ALDERSHOT ! ;)
Через полвека услышал это шикарное произведение!!! Меня эта вещи прямо- таки возрадовало!!! Раньше никогда не слышал, обидно, понимаешь ли!?
I love that no one was even blinking an eye at them playing with mum. How cool are they and how cool was mum?
Loved I remembered watching it on top of the pops....seemed like yesterday and I always remembered it even when I left England to this day.
Classic. Loved it's simplicity.
Oh wow this takes me back to the days of stock cars and Banger racing. My father was a stock car racer back in the day....
Just brilliant and so unusual,with Hilda tickling the ivories R.I P
Play it again !
Fun Fact played 5-a-side with Nigel (The drummer) He was our neighbour. He lived opposite to Rob & Hilda where there is quite rightly a blue heritage plaque on the wall. Coventry's 1st No.1 🎉🎉😊😊❤❤
Banger racing, demolition derby. Totp when I was a wee lad. Very emotional for me
A blast from the past if ever there was
Aside the sheer brilliance of the hit, there is a truly wonderful YT Fletcher Woodward reunion clip dated 2022. About half an hour of fascinating conversation including with the ginger man who growled out the song title. A warm trip down memory lane.
Was there ever such a weird and wonderful song? Love from a Coventry kid.
I thought that woman was amazing on the piano she seemed old back then, but she was only 58 but she just gave the group that extra something that made the group memorable.
hearing this song again brings back good memories of me being 15 years old
I am still listing to these old records
what memories !!!!!
Bought this when it came out better times 😊😊😊
1st class I love it cheers dennis
Great song every pigeon out there dance's to this.👌
2023 and I’m still enjoying this.
love this. end of my depression
Verbreitet definitiv gute Laune
Quirky, off the wall, a bit weird, loved every minute of it.