Sucu Sucu by The Polka Dots on Fidelity HF 42.

[TimLIVID]

The first time I heard this track was when it was sampled by 'Cuban Boys' in the song 'Summer Song'. Great channel and record.

[pyestudiocolour]

@TimLIVID Thank you! I'm pleased you like it.

[GarrardAT6]

Neil...You have a great channel!

I have two of these HF42's...But both in red!

Both given to me and both had the same fault...The speakers had gone!

They sound and run much better than they look...haha!!!

[pyestudiocolour]

@GarrardAT6 HI! Thanks for the nice comments! The little Fidelitys are rather nice and as you say, sound better than they ought to! The speaker on mine was OK, but the arm "bearing" had collapsed after being in storage in the loft for years - it was a fun repair but it works alright! It needs a little work now as the amp has intermittent distortion, which I think is down to a dodgy electrolytic cap - I'll get it sorted soon!

Cheers, Neil.

[brssgirl]

It was theme for Top Secret starring gorgeous William Franklyn aka the Schweppes man. set in Argentina in 1960ish. opening sequence had a rear view of a car speeding down a dusty road with this played.

Laurie Holloway Orchestra covered it.

Nini and Frederik had a vocal that is played at close to 40rpm.

[brssgirl]

It was theme for Top Secret starring gorgeous William Franklyn aka the Schweppes man. set in Argentina in 1960ish. opening sequence had a rear view of a car speeding down a dusty road with this played.

[jonnybottle]

This was the theme to an ITV series called "Top Secret" starring william Franklin. That's about all I can remember wexcept we enjoyed it at our house. There was an instrumental version by Laurie Somebody and his Orchestra.

[mikelsok]

At long last, I have found it!!!.

This song used to be on the radio or rather gramaphone or whatever it was called then, I was about 6 at the time and this song has remained in my head ever since. The only trouble is every time I used to try and describe it to anyone I used to sing, 'Aye, Aye the Beach man's crazy', not Beat man.

In my head, I'm sure there are other versions of this with a solo male artist at the time other than the Polka Dots, anyway at least I am not going mad it did exist

[romanyman]

I seem to remember seeing this group play on tv way back in the 60's when I was little kid. I remember the girls wearing polka dot dress's . Is it the same crowd ? great nostalgic post !

[fyphfoko]

i had their EP on which this was the first track. it had the black phillips lable and a picture sleave sod knows what happened ot it ^^

[mondomark]

What horrible carpet - record is GREAT though!

[pyestudiocolour]

Watch it! That's a finest quality Axminster wool carpet. The pattern was high fashion in the 1970s - or the 1960s - or maybe the 1950s. . .

Glad you enjoyed the record!

[looneywoman]

So the 45 came with that built-in disc?

[pyestudiocolour]

We didn't have record players in Britain that played the large holed 45rpm records, so the discs came with centres for standard small spindles. These centre "discs" could usually be removed so the records could be used in jukeboxes which did use the larger centre holes. Most record players were supplied with a plastic adaptor ring so that they could play imported "large hole" 45s, but autochangers needed any large hole 45s to be fitted with springy plastic centres in order to work.

[mrrk]

fun record