Mouldy old dough - Lieutenant pigeon

Mouldy old dough - Lieutenant pigeon on top of the pops

[@makeupvixen5115]

Hey guys , this is my dad (the one on piano and playing the flute) Rob Woodward. And my nan the older lady on piano Hilda Woodward. She is no longer with us ATM , the last words out of her mouth before she died was mouldy old dough. It reminds me of her and I miss her dearly it's so nice to see the lovely comments on here. It would have made my nan so proud xxx

[@tashamarshall5960]

Lovely leah xx

[@ianscott3762]

Truly gifted family you have 😎

[@wightangel]

I have actually asked for this piece of music to be played at my funeral as it basically represents what I felt life was. Respect to you and your family. God bless.

[@patrickv.5644]

fantasticcccccccc greats on your dad

[@jethrocruden1925]

At the moment? she coming back?

[@andrewtaylor5843]

That’s my uncle Steve on bass guitar, I still have the original single. He’s no longer with us, but I love watching this from time to time to remember him.

[@davidbrookbank2510]

I'm so very sorry for your loss Andrew, we knew Steve & Wendy, we were neighbours in Blackburn. Steve introduced me to the Rovers and we went to games together! A nicer man you would never meet, his passing way too soon so very sad.

[@sharonsettle9079]

I remember listening to this in the 70s my dad's album.

[@andrewtaylor5843]

@@davidbrookbank2510 thank you for your kind words, David! I only just saw your comment but it means a lot, especially as it was Steve’s birthday yesterday. Wishing you well.

[@peterherrington3300]

Every banger race fan is grinning when this classic comes on 👍

[@soupdragonuk]

I used to hear this on Sunday's when I'd walk up to Foxhall Stadium with my brother & mum for Stock Car and banger racing. I miss those days of a much more peaceful time.

[@loudenison7256]

Yep even when I used to race at arena essex ❤

[@martini1071]

Destruction Derby!

[@autumnmatthews3179]

However bad your day has been you can’t stop smiling when you listen to this great song

[@dw69ful]

Their 1976 offering "Goodbye" a similar sounding record to this is imo just as good.

[@redcalx9568]

unlesssssssssss.......... you were locked in a .......... with this playing over and .........

[@mrnexus8seven949]

Oh yes! I remember it when it hit the charts ... great old days those ...

[@ndhan72]

It's an instrumental, NOT a song.

[@thomasandersen6719]

That drummer just gives me bad vibes.....about young girls in the 70s...creepy as F

[@colinstewart173]

You can’t help but smile at the lady playing the piano having the time of her life. Brilliant

[@topologyrob]

Isn't that the famous Mrs Mills, who had a piano named after her in Abbey Road?

[@colinstewart173]

@@topologyrob No this lady was called Hilda Woodward I believe

[@topologyrob]

@@colinstewart173 ah right - thanks

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

She was the mother of the whistle player.

[@stephengould4343]

@@bimbobaggypants4820 Only mother and son combo to have a TOTP no 1

[@bjornem4687]

Absolutely one of the greatest novelty songs of all time. The early 70s were awesome.

[@johnjohn-du7mk]

On the contrary, it was an era of peadophiles, drunken husbands and subservience.

[@angelacooper2661]

Sorry, I wouldn't know as I was born at the start of that decade and so too young to understand or remember!

[@petersumerfield2098]

The seventies were the best

[@mikeandhev]

\Trust me, the 80's were much better!

[@venderstrat]

@@mikeandhev If only that were true.

[@davidwilliams8603]

One of the daftest records ever made but do u know what? It knocks spots off miserable Sam Smith and Adele and also Lewis capaldi!

[@terrymurphy276]

Always Reminds of the school youth club back in early 70 with all the girls in my class dancing and shouting moldy old dough happy days and memories from a better time very sadly gone 👍❤️

[@TheTmny876able]

Wonderful days the 1970's so many great songs like Mouldy !

[@paulgarbutt8113]

@@TheTmny876able absolutely 👍

[@acaunce8213]

One of Mum's Favourite records. She's been gone for 24yrs now. But listening to this classic means alot and always gives me a smile.Dads with her now. Sorry got carried away. Thank You for this clip from all of us.

[@bobbyfoster7827]

God bless you all🙏🏼

[@janetgreen4642]

We’re all here to share our memories and, yours mean a great deal to you! Happy days!

[@makeupvixen5115]

Hi my dad wrote the song and is the guy dressed as robin hood and my nan the witch on the piano rob and Hilda Woodward, I'm Leah Woodward. Tour comment is very nice and if my nan were here today she was be so happy 🥰 xx

[@15-Peter-20]

@@makeupvixen5115 wow 👏 and you're beautiful

[@makeupvixen5115]

@@15-Peter-20 awww thankyou so much 😊

[@terrencekelly5109]

I’m now 65 & have loved this tune for years since I first heard it played ❤️🎼🎹

[@B1UK]

My grandad has just gone through the curtain at the crematorium to this. His last lap. what a legend of a man made everyone smile as the coffin went through. Not a week he missed at bangers.

[@nigeljones2658]

“May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.”

[@lexden1]

What a lovely thing to post, I'm sure he thought the world of you too....

[@SimonRose-wz8he]

I was thinking about going out to this.

[@peterleadley]

I drove at Arlington, Wimbledon, Aldershot. (595 with the Arlington Angels). I'm 73 now; I think I might ask for the same at my funeral!

[@sadieallison4217]

Respect for your granda ❤

[@benefitsbritainanyone248]

Nothing beats lining up on that start line with 40 plus bangers with this playing in the back ground 🚗🚗

[@djv1726]

Never ever be able to beat it no matter how hard it is

[@thosetwoweirdos3543]

Couldn’t agree more

[@gutz323]

Yep! If ya know ya know. Did it for 8 years at foxhall and Mildenhall never had the balls to race Arena though. Lol!

[@stevewilson8467]

This plus the sound of 40+ V6 Granada's, superb

[@davidsadler7047]

P5 Rovers and Ford Consuls

[@santorini8423]

This brings back memories of my mum and dad, and my middle sister, watching top of the pops back in the day. Sadly all gone, I’m next, got the dreaded C, hope to see them

[@patriciabailey1937]

Are you still with us, this side of Heaven? Perhaps you missed the bus? Well not to worry - there will be another before long, but don’t forget to press the bell - who knows where you will finish up! It is a bit late as I have only seen your message, but if you have taken the bus I hope you have arrived safely, without, any detours, and met up with people from the old gang. This great song will be one that I will take with me., as a memento of great times spent in BAOR Germany. Camp 7 Dortmund.🌈 x

[@georgemacdonald6932]

All the 50/60/and 70s music will live with us forever bless them all 🍷

[@davidhayes4814]

We played this at my “Nan’s” funeral. It was her favourite song. Love you Daisy.

[@TheCaptain64]

Ditto David my Nan loved this , played it at her wake she was 93 when she slipped of up stairs .

[@petesmoth6320]

Love you Daisy....❤️ Love this song Xx

[@alexkelly941]

David Hayes honest m8 ty

[@alexkelly941]

David Hayes love it to me m8mmvm here's to ya gran pal

[@alexkelly941]

David Hayes hope gran liked it pal

[@michellemarsh2572]

I still have this record. Mum and dad bought it for me when I was a baby although money was really tight. I had a rocking horse and used to rock like crazy to this song apparently. Miss you mum and dad...hope to see you soon after this virus has gone.

[@cquilty1]

@michellemarsh2572
Any chance ur postcna be more me me me more sad fihsing... ??? slef absobrebd twatttta

[@stephenrichards3964]

I wish we could go back to those days it be great

[@oughtonoughton2634]

Stephen can i come back with you? i wont be any trouble ,,,the 60s era was splendid in every sense lol x

[@stephenrichards3964]

@@oughtonoughton2634 oughton you can come with me

[@oughtonoughton2634]

@@stephenrichards3964 i will meet you at the end of your street at 6.30 pm lol x

[@oughtonoughton2634]

Stephen my name is Jane xx

[@royferguson3909]

I go there ( in my mind) , often

[@djv1726]

Whenever I listen to this, I always smell the rubber burning and engines roaring as the bangers start the race!!! Always has been one of the best tunes around and always will be

[@waldspitzegamingsociety7411]

Arlington raceway?
Up near Hastings?

[@djv1726]

Any banger track

[@waldspitzegamingsociety7411]

@@djv1726 i see

[@peterherrington3300]

Exactly that .
Been regular for decades

[@djv1726]

I’ve never been to Arlington. I’m hoping to soon

[@legsian]

still play this at Oldham athletic every home game just before kick off, superb

[@tommajorsradio]

Always played at Wolves too.

[@grizcuz]

I came on here wondering whether it was still played. Bradford City fan, but with relatives in Royton, heard it played at Boundary Park [the coldest ground in the entire 4 divisions] many a time.

[@Salzburgerstiegl]

@@tommajorsradio Is this true? I listen to every Wolves game at Wolves TV live, never heard it in the background.

[@stanstan7426]

So to be played at Old Trafford to describe the team

[@wobblybobengland]

So many memories, and some still to be made. 'Mouldy Oldham'

[@judgekeeping9583]

17 years old and doing bangers next year. Can't wait to be sat in the car on the rolling lap and hearing this. Dream come true x

[@peterherrington3300]

How did you get on ?

[@samteague28]

Update please

[@xxtwanneihofxx9853]

I was at the bangers today with this song😃😃

[@Rick11N]

Merveilleuse mélodie au piano électronique. Encore un superbe souvenir des années 1970 ! Claude Adam.

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Now this is real music. Played with fun and from the heart.

[@martinedemoustier908]

😄😄😄quelle joie de réécouter cette musique j adore toujours j avais 18 ans je travaillais et le samedi soir nous allions danser c était chouette où sont passées toutes années c était hier

[@jamiesutherland5108]

My dad’s favourite song after a party it was played full blast! Great to bring back memories of a truly great man! ❤️❤️❤️

[@howlermonkey781]

My mum loved this song when it came out , even bought the 45, me and my brothers were listening to Slade and alike early seventies fantastic times as a teen ,still it brings back great memories .
Miss my mum ,

[@deborahflanagan3796]

Loved this tune... Brings back so many memories.

[@williamheywood9115]

Xmas 1972 got a cassette tape recorder for Christmas. Happy times. Bless my late Mom and Dad missed and loved so much.

[@bobbyfoster7827]

God bless you all🙏🏼

[@johnrooney1860]

My mate pemo loved this tune.he served in ni/Ireland 1970s fuslier 3bt.5tours was not easy he began at 18yrs was a brave man as we're the other soldiers regiment.

[@richlorriman8031]

Such a great track, don't make them like this anymore. Simply brilliant and brings back so many great memories of being a kid growing up. 👍❤️

[@antonystringfellow5152]

Doesn't it just!? 😁👍

[@vanessamarlow7663]

i love having a beer and listening to old school favourites you just cant beat it wish there was more today

[@jostainer9259]

I was the DJ on Radio Sky Blue at Coventry City FC in the Seventies, and had these guys on with their No:1 Hit in the warm-up. What a lovely bunch, and they had the whole ground rocking as the teams came on the pitch. We scored a few that day, and the chant was Mouldy Old Dough to celebrate every goal! Great Days!

[@JohnAnderson-ms2cn]

“We scored a few”....was really that long ago, sadly
PUSB!!

[@johnjohn-du7mk]

Knew there'd be a dodgy DJ prowling the comments somewhere.

[@foxytube562]

My dad died yesterday, I am sure this was his favourite song, thanks for the good times and memories.

[@gerdsiebern9648]

A very, very good morning, i'm a german and if not every word i write will be right, then excuse me. Today, after breakfast, my wife asked me, if I know what means: cats kneading dough. And so I remembered this song and searched on UA-cam. I loved this song in 1971 when I was 13 years by age. And I love this song now, 49 years later. It would be so great, when there where such musicians today. And not only mainstream. Have a nice day and lieutenant pigeon in your ears.😉😉😉

[@kimleitch544]

Love this ,God Bless this wee woman , brings me many memories of my childhood

[@benthedo3309]

Reminds me of being kids at home with mum and dad...fred the pigeon...love this song always makes me smile...😍

[@philiplimerick2794]

Wimbledon stadium Banger racing this was played at the start of every race. What happy happy times. now all gone. RIP London

[@kierenferguson2003]

It was every banger meeting I remember it at cowdenbeth

[@lazer5582]

Loved Wimbledon,was my favourite track,they play this at many other banger meetings too,a friend of mine who races has this as a ringtone.

[@trevw8086]

Yeah! Plough Lane! Loved the figure of eight racing! For a hoot ...Reliant Robins at Hednesford! Also played this at Arlington stadium, Hailsam, E Sussex! Im celebrating. Great Uncle since 3am!

[@trevw8086]

Can you go banger racing anywhere in London. Barring covid lockdowns obvs?

[@philiplimerick2794]

@@trevw8086 Hi Trev W. There are no tracks left in London as far as I know. I just wish I could have one more Sunday night at Wimbledon.

[@TIGERBOOTS1]

What a brilliant song and the great tune played on the piano, they do not make catchy tunes like this today. Love it, keep the memories flooding.

[@arminschopper2917]

Schön, dass ich diesen Song gefunden habe! Ich habe dieses Werk geliebt! Hab irgendwo auch noch die Vinylscheibe.

[@neilpinkett]

Love the melancholy sound of the piano on this.. a great tune..

[@Rob-fc9wg]

All those cute young Sheilas are grandmas now!

[@alleyg8602]

Great grandmas probably 😊

[@sallysmith1623]

I absolutely love this song❤ my uncle played it on his record player when I was a kid and I can still remember it to this day. Brings back so many wonderful memories. Thanks for the memories

[@samzerafa3185]

I just can't stop my foot tapping along worth the beat , amazing song even after all these years

[@2opler]

They went to my old school, Caludon Castle in Coventry, They were invited to give a talk at morning assembly. Couldn`t believe that someone who`d been on Top of the Pops...with a NUMBER ONE HIT no less, was just standing in front of me at school. I was eleven years old ....and impressed.

[@glennpowell3444]

Its amazing that such a simple collection of chords and keys can make such a great sound.My dad had this single way back and I loved it and still do.Brilliance through simplicity musically.

[@philrob1978]

It surely is brilliant. I just can't work out how this tune just simply *works* (and believe me, I've tried) It just does!

[@hellosexyboy]

this has been played at banger racing meetings for many years.good tune..

[@patriciathomas9749]

Love this 😀 ❤ song bring back the old days when we were all happy back then .

[@Battlady57]

Makeupvixen.thanks for.sharing.i love them so much.they were great musicians.your nan was so ace.you have such a great legacy of memories of these great people who made people happy.❤

[@chrisarcher6972]

For me, the best thing about this perfect example of people having fun is the smile on Hilda Woodward's face. Being on TOTP playing the joanna in her son's band... fucking brilliant!

[@laszlokaestner5766]

The "studio" version was recorded in her front room!

[@johnd8892]

I heard an interview where the band said on European tours the kids in the audience, and the others treated her like a superstar.

[@chriskriek5859]

Beautiful song that brings back beautiful memories of my childhood.

[@PaulHoughtonCV]

Loved this from years ago. Seen Hilda's piano the costumes and pigeon at Coventry Music Museum today bought back some lovely memories.

[@janetjones5087]

I'm seeing in my 60th birthday and reminiscing, just under an hour to go!

[@christinefox317]

My 69th yesterday and I do a lot of reminiscing on UA-cam too .Happy birthday 🎂.

[@janetjones5087]

@@christinefox317 Belated birthday wishes to you too.

[@philipfreyaborn8288]

70's when people could write tunes... play instruments... and sing without tedious auto-tune...and were better looking too

[@janetjones5087]

@@philipfreyaborn8288 Totally agree with you, better times for me music wise.

[@glynnevans1851]

@@janetjones5087 Hi Janet, Belated Happy Birthday to you 🎂..I luv this track and reminds me of the time n Fab to be young and luvly memories of my parents too. I actually bought the record cost 50p then .I was born July 1960 n would luv to turn time back. Did u like T.Rex and The Sweet n Slade n Wizard too.Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🕊🕊🕊

[@deniselefeuvre1956]

Classic tune never ages oh and the best memories 😁😁😁👌

[@ianmilgate9292]

This song just makes me smile and feel happy. It reminds me of the Disco days of the 60,s and 70's. I just Love it

[@simposayerman]

A very inaccurate comment there; unfortunately Disco emerged in the late 70’s . Not heard off in the 1960’s ; only the Mersey beat - Beatlemania !!!, soul music of the early seventies gave rise to the Disco Beat -1976 -

[@paullee5573]

Paul wilson si pson: Littlt boy you don't know what the hell you are talking about. I started my mobile disco in 1969 and by 1973 was earning more from that than from my main job .If you don't know your subject, and you obviously know nothong wnhatsoever about it, then just keep that gash inyour face shut.

[@peterherrington3300]

@@simposayerman agreed .
No disco in the 60s.
Glam early 70s , disco came later in that wonderful decade

[@RichardBowman-uf8ym]

It certainly does we had the priviledge of growing up with such amazing sounds

[@scopex2749]

When I heard this I wanted to play piano! I can play by ear and read music but NOT TOGETHER! I hear a tune and can play it perfectly - so my parents bought me an old upright piano and I had lessons for a while. I remember playing this after hearing it ONCE and mum was amazed!!! Such happy memories of an era that was non violent, so little crime and we could play in the street SAFELY with so few cars around or 'bad people' Thank you Hilda and the band for this song!

[@picdriver]

I don't remember much about my grandad as I was only little when he died...(R.I.P).however I do remember sitting on his knee at the piano while he taught me how to play the basic notes to this classic...memories aside....never get sick of listening to this.

[@beerbandit291]

All the beautiful girls dancing and not a tattoo or tracksuit in sight. Please take me back to then.

[@jrussell5243]

They all had massive, untamed furry minges back then. Be careful what you wish for.

[@williamtennent6882]

AH memories.Luved the tune but could never remember the words.Classic.Lve from Australia keep safe everyone

[@matthewpaton5623]

I'd never heard of this song until I realised it was no.1 on the day I was born (16/10/72). It's a great song!

[@andysalter4473]

Lived this tune all my life, had it played at my Wedding evening do when the food came out. It will also be played at my Funeral as my carcass is brought in!

[@gregmiller3323]

I love this song its great absolutely brilliant mouldy old dough

[@robhamilton638]

Herd this tune when i was a nipper 53 now put me back to when and wear i herd it fantastic 😄🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵

[@elaineslater6647]

This is a fantastic record love it so much bring back records like this

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

this was playing when i met my future wife, it became our song, RIP Beryl

[@joannefalkinder8593]

Sweetheart love😊😊😊

[@bobbyfoster7827]

God bless x

[@geoffjoffy]

Sorry to hear of your loss. :(

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

@@geoffjoffy i keep playing mouldy old dough it makes me feel close to beryl again

[@geoffjoffy]

@@johnsmith-bx4rn I thought it might. Comforting. Music has a wonderful effect.

[@carolcullen3396]

I used to dance around with my big sister to this in our nighties think I was around 9 I'm 49 now we used to pretend to play flute we didn't have much growing up but this song brings back lovely memories xxx

[@andyh4029]

Mein Vater hat den Song so oft gehört er erinnert mich an die alte Zeit als er noch lebte ! In love

[@joehynes2533]

Brilliant I've always loved that song.

[@sct353]

I guess we are lucky that this performance still survives and thanks for posting. It would have been great to see LP's debut on Top Of the Pops again which must have been wiped by the BBC. I can still remember when watching the original transmission my utter bemusement at the record, but it's gone on to become a legend and I love it!

[@MEMOFROMPENNA18469]

I remember the Mum on piano was dressed as a school teacher in a black mortar board and gown.

[@goodlife6145]

Well, I really love Lieutenant Pigeon. They make me cry. The other day I was listening to Mouldy Old Dough when my son came in, and I was crying. He said, 'Dad, why are you crying?' I said, it's the song I'm listening to that's making me cry. So he replied, 'Stop LISTENING to the song, then!'. I said, just because I'm crying, it's not a bad thing. You can still cry and be happy.

[@adrianstabbinsartistinresi9875]

I know exactly what you mean.

[@marilynsealy-bell2279]

Yep..gets me every time too especially the bit at the end..

[@TheChooch1964]

Good Life . I am exactly the same . don't know why but it must evoke some kind super happy time within our brains ? . Superb

[@marilynsealy-bell2279]

@@TheChooch1964 😁

[@scent_of_the_seventies7205]

Maybe because back then we lived amongst real people not robotic millennial wokes wrapped up in their cotton wool world

[@marcozrx1100]

i have been searching for this for years !! never knew the name , but grew up on the tune !!! wooooooop so happy !!

[@6A8G]

Then first 45 I bought in 1972.Great song/great memories. Thank you for posting.

[@marclazarus7011]

I've always loved this brilliant piece of music.
Thanks to everyone concerned.

[@rtk3543]

I was 12 in 1970, what a fantastic decade, the worlds longest party.

[@leanatale7251]

I was 10. Remember power cuts,3 day week, winter of discontent, television always break-in down. Great party!

[@hafstrat]

RTK me too 👍🏼

[@isladurrant2015]

I can't remember it

[@xzysyndrome]

Depends on who you ask. I heard the 20's were roaring. The 90's were nothing to shake a stick at either.

[@xzysyndrome]

@bofursgun anyone who types the sentence "only coz you wuz young...truth" is a farce. You were not alive in the 70's...and if you were, shame on you for adopting such illiterate and utterly tasteless ways of communicating your thoughts.

[@spooktasticaparanormal]

This brings back some memories from my childhood. Now I feel really old 🤣🤣

[@johnnyM809]

What a decade the 1970's was for novelty records. This was one of the best.

[@juliedutton2584]

Brings back good memories from the early seventies, we Morris danced to this tune.good days

[@hulverfarm5132]

I love it that the leAD HAD HIS MOTHER PLAYING IN THE BAND

[@dw69ful]

Not only that, apparently this was recorded in the front room of Rob Woodwards house in Coventry

[@rw8733]

R.I.P Hilda.

[@mrsuperger5429]

As a kid, I loved this song. Superb !

[@stephendallison1465]

Brill tune loved it first time I heard it aged 13 and still play it now as do desperate Dan 50 years on

[@davebetch9918]

Just bless her. She's a game old bird. Total repect for his mum. She's ace!!

[@makeupvixen5115]

Hey Hilda is my nan and rob my dad, she's no longer with us but I know she'd love this comment. All the best x

[@davebetch9918]

@@makeupvixen5115 I love them both x

[@davebetch9918]

@@makeupvixen5115 How cool was your gran being in a pop group with your dad? She is a legend x

[@makeupvixen5115]

@@davebetch9918 aww she really was a legend, always laughing and smiling she had such a good sense of humour , I've never met anybody who knew her to say a bad word about her. And yes it is pretty cool to have a mum and son in the same band 🥰❤️

[@davebetch9918]

@@makeupvixen5115 well tell your dad I love their tune, if you can. And if you can't I love it more and more I hear it. My fry can play the part your dad played on the tin whistle. I do have a small tear. God bless both of them.

[@MikeTorbay]

I am of an age to well remember this being in the charts. Despite its somewhat novelty image, I enjoyed it in those days and I still do! Thank you for uploading this video.

[@makeupvixen5115]

Hi Mike my dad Rob Woodward the guy on piano and flute and the older lady my nan Hilda Woodward, had great fun writing and performing this song, unfortunately my nan Hilda died in the nineties and the last words she said as she past away were mouldy old dough. So I know it meant alot to her. Thankyou so much for your kind words and I know my nan would be so pleased you enjoyed it. My dad Rob is 75 now and still making music to this day. Thankyou again for your comment , all the best, Leah Woodward x

[@angelacooper2661]

I'm not. Born in 1970, I was just a toddler in the pushchair at the time and the first time I heard of it was on Midlands Today talking about a blue plaque outside the house where the song was recorded. The programme Guru Larry (Apaches film PIF) played an excerpt of the song, which I didn't know at that point!

[@elsbells1978]

This was one of my father in laws all time favourite songs, he used to get me to put it on you tube for him all the time before he died. I always smile when I hear this and think of him x

[@stevenandrews3623]

Was 12 years old at the time and always remember this being played at the Silver Blades Ice Rink at Sheffield, my school Don Valley High from Doncaster used to arrange coach trips on a Friday night. Great days, great music

[@jeffallinson8089]

45 years old and still sounding fab! Holy shit where have all those years gone?

[@TheQ-Continuum]

I remember seeing this on Top of the Pops way back in 1972 ! I also remember that plastic pigeon, the tin whistle intro and the use of two pianos. A UK #1 in September that year. They had follow up later that same year with Desperate Dan which peaked at # 17 and then Lt Pigeon flew off into obscurity never to be heard again:

[@terrypussypower]

They're still going!

[@frederickirish645]

They ended up doing night club gigs. I saw them at Salford rugby club during late eighties and they brought the house down absolutely brilliant. Don't know what happened after that.

[@samanthafoster6172]

October 1972 actually

[@013doogie]

Wish to god I could go back to those days, life seemed so much easier to deal with compared to present times !

[@HRHooChicken]

I think that's your nostalgia speaking. 70s Britain looked sh*te. So bleak and depressing, everyone seemed poor and on strike. Weren't there power cuts too? Britain was on its arse back then and on the brink of ruin

[@TonyWeaving]

I was only a child back then. Yes Britain was on its backside but everybody was more friendlier and there was not so much rubbish around like we have today. You had to live it to appreciate it. By the way I am now 60 and was born in 1963. I wish we could go back to those times as well.

[@HRHooChicken]

@@TonyWeaving again I can’t help but think you miss your youth rather than the 70s in general. Hardships bring people together but you also get crime and misery. And I suppose you appreciated things more because you had less. But would you really want to go back to a time of having crap food, having to save up for a chocolate bar, no car or a crappy British car that didn’t work, unsafe jobs, no foreign holidays, cold house, brown and avocado colours everywhere! Ugh

[@carolannrobinson9044]

Absolutely love this song always makes me smile

[@AJames-mh2dp]

This is such a cool & wacky little tune. It's the kind of song you hear once and it sticks in your head the whole day. It's sad that this song failed to even chart here in the U.S. after achieving such great success elsewhere. Just goes to show how out of step we can be here in the U.S. at times. And it's not as if novelty songs weren't charting in the U.S. in 1972 either. Both Chuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling" and Hot Butter's "Popcorn" were both huge hits here that year. If we could sing along with a man playing with his ding-a-ling, we certainly could've enjoyed some mouldy old dough.

[@ianmclean5812]

It's "Bloody Brilliant" Colonel Bogey, eat "ya" heat out!!!

[@davidmeffen1358]

Interesting Lieutenant Pigeon are from Coventry and Chuck Berry recorded his live version of My Ding-A -ling at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry when he played there.

[@nunuloki]

Surely one of the best one-hit wonders ever

[@Mrcrazychris12]

Not a one-hit wonder as Desperate Dan reached No.14

[@janeough45]

vince maloney this was a 60s classic it was lots of fun to dance to xx rather unusual x

[@MrLesliegreen]

In two words almost certainly!

[@Raiderdream]

One of my fav pop songs ever, i’ve done it live many times, great fun.

[@marclazarus7219]

Fantastic piece of music, I really love it, one of the best EVER.

[@hungryherbie]

Love this classic I never get fed up listening to it Litutenant or Field Marshall Pigeon or whatever I love it

[@aaronsaintjude4088]

Field Marshall..funny

[@kathrynjudy]

Childhood memories....the school disco....those were the days.

[@marilynsealy-bell2279]

I feel.instantly lifted when i hear this and start dancing arouns

[@lfc4ever02]

My 6 month old baby girl loves this song we play it at football oafc never gets old one off the old class songs

[@EstherMHeart]

😃

[@glynnevans1851]

@@EstherMHeart Hi Esther I luv this track n fab time to grow up do u like T.Rex n The Sweet..Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤗🤗

[@EstherMHeart]

@@glynnevans1851hi, T.Rex knows pretty much everyone ...;) I especially like Children of the Revolution !!!
many greetings from Vienna

[@stephengreen6653]

Brilliant I was 17 would fill a dance floor oh to go back to then did not no it was the time of my life she made me smile on the piano innocent times gone for ever god bless her

[@ianp0pe71]

Lovely to hear this again when life was simple

[@alanstrom2221]

This will always be one of the funniest Hit songs of all time.
Always makes me laugh and smile.
Their other monster Hit in Australia was " Take Me Home Again Kathleen "

[@stephenharrington528]

As a family we play this at Xmas great times fantastic memories

[@adrianrosenlund-hudson8789]

Takes me back to when I was little. It was a good time

[@copee2960]

Calling Danny Boy, Do you Hear me,...calling Danny Boy ....Christmas just wouldn't be the same without my dad God Rest Him, playing this on the record player.....Go On Jim......MN...till the end....don't worry pops we got it and we will play it...LOUD