Fox S-S-S-Single Bed Noosha Fox Film Clip Countdown Australia

[TheButtKick]

I liked this little ditty when it first came out only cause of the clip. I thought Noosha was a real loon.

[pspurling]

What are the chances of someone like her getting a record deal today? Less than zero. Pity.

[regaltip8A]

I used to play in a band for many years with the guitarist in Fox (great player) who told me that he was very bitter about Noosha "throwing it all away" when things were on a roll to pursue a solo career. We all know where that got her.

[cmpa1970]

what a nice old classic.... i like... :)

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

Noosha wasn't Australian was she? It was a hit in OZ but someone here said she is Australia? U serious? Really???

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

Go Nooosha, Goldfrapp are so Noosha!

[duncan4reid]

C L A S S I C

[IamTheDeviInDisguise]

Countdown often replayed clips from the 70s in the 80s... the song S-S-S Single Bed was a good 1976 hit - Noosha Fox is actually an Aussie! go figure. I also was around when this song was on our singles chart in 1976 ;p

[myfeeling4you]

Single bed and a Name like Noosha Fox says it all, but in 76 these songs were all the rage and you'd hear them on stations like 2uw here in Sydney at the time, the good ol days.

[mryorky100]

loved this song, was my first single.

[musique1975]

This is a good song . Noosha Fox has a sweet voice, sort of like a innocent child.

These songs will never disappear, because these songs come from a time when music sounded like real music . Unfortunately times have changed.

[sammytwhirlwind]

Bloody brilliant! She could be goldfrapps mam!

[Shambolic67]

i had no idea Noosha was Australian.She's like a glam rock Betty Boop.Very cool. Great memories.Thanks for posting.

[66feebee]

Wow! memories. thanks for the post.

[Aussielegendbaz]

Noosha Fox.

Madder than a clowns cock...crazier than a bum full of smarties.

Good song though.

[J77147]

I'M SO OLD, 5******

[ZeapermaN69]

have been trying to get this song for a long time.

now i can get it, it is bright and joyful yet sorrowful but heartwarming.

wow do i like this song by noosha fox.

great youtube good on you.

as for the extractor wow what a brilliant choice to use.

[snowball1988]

one of the (many) things i love about noosha is that she is a bit wooden and in a sense awkward when she performs (in a charming way) ..... like its not something you see anymore (its all very glossy/staged these days ie: coreographers/stylists), it just gives it a nice quality, like its more real and gives noosha's performances a quirky feel which i like, can't stop watching her, she is facinating to watch and listen to :)

[ozdonnsy]

another brilliant classic from a unique time !

[Feisty1967]

1982? This came out in England in 1976!!

[verysparkly]

Hi @Feisty1967, thanks for your comment. My description of the clips says: 'Fox S-S-S-Single Bed Film Clip 1976 as shown on Countdown Australia 1982'.... So the date popping up in the film clip is the date it was shown on 'Countdown' Australia' when it was replayed years later. Bit confusing I know! ;o) Hope you enjoyed! Have a great day!

[kjgoya777]

@Feisty1967 ...i remember this in mid 70's and i am an Aussie....

[lake40]

@Feisty1967 this was a countdown holiday special from 1982

[brianofoz]

I was surprised to learn recently that Noosha was australian.

[snowball1988]

@brianofoz me too, i thought she was English, she sounds it on record....

[mrpoolesenior]

Noosha played Hull university, England around 1976 - she was amazing. Mad as a box of balloons and clad in what amounted to gold netting with a wide belt. Made quite an impression as you can imagine...

[mrpoolesenior]

Noosha played Hull university, England around 1976 - she was amazing. Mad as a box of balloons and clad in what amounted to gold netting with a wide belt. Made quite an impression as you can imagine...

[SMALLCODNCHIPS]

She had a mad but great voice.

[fulcrum100]

Absolutely friiking brilliant. Best post I've seen all month. Year, probably. Ej

[TheSexynBlack]

Love it .....Memories :)

[bluegate74]

FABULOUS|!

[daveinprogress2]

mid '76 it came out in Australia

[qmacgeba]

The first single I ever bought - still got it in the attic - still brill!

[j355icadog]

saw fox at heavy steam machiene late 79 she was verry good on stage great sound for a live band??

[thesteveus]

Rage shows this as Countdown 1982, wasn't this song around 76 or 77?

[thesteveus]

Oops, didn't read the description:)

[declan3906]

dis a cover

[thesteveus]

no it aint

[declan3906]

The original is called D D D Double bed, banned in the 50's and never rereleased. It was too hot to handle.

[metastopheles]

yep, I was like 8 and got Ripper 77 only for this song. I think it came out in 76 though. This will be a clip done in 82 of the song on countdown.

[macintosser]

This is an original clip...

This was released in 1976 in Europe and Britain as well...

By 1982 Noosha Fox had been a solo artiste for a few years and, this band is FOX... her old band.

Also, this outfit is the one worn in 1976. In 1982 people didn't look like this anymore...

So, I can say this is genuine 1976... original FOX ... no remix... no Noosha solo...

[macintosser]

@metastopheles The 1980 stuff she did with FOX was contractual obligations... she had already gone sole.

Oh, and it's not a reverb on her vocals, but, some of the vocal parts have been pitched up and timestretched... probably recorded into Mellotron ribbons and played at a differend pitch. This technique was very popular in the 70's/80's...

(Mellotron: Embrionic analogue forerunner of the sampler...)

[metastopheles]

Sorry, your right, its not a reverb. Also, I was not referring to Noosha but Jim. Its called a flanger, run a tube from the foldback to the mic. Check out the live clips, when Jim does the hook, he puts a clear tube in is mouth.

[macintosser]

@metastopheles

I am sorry to disappoint you, but, that is NOT a flanger... a flanger is usually a guitar stomp effect (though often used in postproduction on other soundsources as well)

The culprit you are referring to is a TALK BOX... a bit like a vocoder.. but instead of a synthsound carrying, the guitar carries the voice here...

Talkboxes were very much 'en vogue' in the 70's, though they have made somewhat of a comeback and are widely available.

[metastopheles]

@macintosser ... kool .. whatever... where is it in this clip? All the live stuff, Jim uses it, but in this clip he doesn't, hence my confusion of which has not been satisfactory resolved in this clip ... and my memory of the clips as a kid, you see him using it. Can you Talkbox post production?

[macintosser]

The vid is a BBC Top Of The Pops taping that was, for a change, NOT recorded in front of a live audience, something that happened, when bands were charting, but, due to other obligations, could not attend the times when the BBC recorded the weekly TOP OF THE POPS show.

The TALK BOX is too organic to reproduce in the studio other than by means of playing a guitar and sing through the pipe. There is software that can sort of emulate singing, but the human voice is too complex to fully emulate.

[metastopheles]

Right ... so its mimed then.

Thanks for pointing out the difference between a talk box (speaker box with a hose coming out of it connected to the guitar output) and a type of ..albeit crude .. flange (speaker box with a hose coming out of it) that is not connected to the guitar output.

And if I do a search for "Fox Top of the pops" ... the clip is live ... not this one .... but hey ... I'm just an engineer ... Y'know the weirdest bit ... Noosha has the same flower in her hair in both clips ...

[macintosser]

@metastopheles

Accessories can be worn over and over again. Now, isn't that marvelous;-)?

[slk320k]

This song is a star performer in trivia quizzes asking for songs that have stuttering in the title or lyric.

Always loved Noosha and this song.

Gavinski68 - give an update on Noosha.

[macintosser]

Stutter titles:

- N-n-n-nineteen, Paul Hartcastle.

- C-c-c-can't you see, Vicious Pink Phenomena. (Soft Cell's backingsingers on NON STOP EROTIC CABARET.)

[slk320k]

@macintosser

Yep, I remember those now.

[Gavinski68]

this song was No.1 on Countdown for a loooong time!!! I was sooo proud of my aunty !!! xx :)

[wolf1percenter]

your lucky to see her, i fell in love with her back then in the 70s, just wish i could of just met her to get her autograph.

[WestGreenNutJob]

She's brilliant......fell in love with her when I was a kid. What's Noosha up to these days??

[TGSMarshal]

I loved this song as a kid, very original and still cool as...

[stuotaku]

sounds like cruel and unusual punishment

[RICHLOOK]

I'm going to make a copy of her outfit and make my kid wear it.

[littletog]

I can vaguely remember Molly meldrum interviewing her and they discovering they were related somehow. Cousins, from memory

[time4sleeping]

Yes, I remember that too.

[Gavinski68]

ummm... no I don't think so. Otherwise I'd know about it as I'm her nephew... Unless Molly is related to her husband? but I don't know about it...

[littletog]

then ask her

[smilzeee1]

Thank's I thought she was so so so sexy in my very early teens

[fayedunawayfan]

And Molly Meldrum, the host of Countdown, where this clip is from, said Noosha was a lovely lady.

[Gavinski68]

and why wouldn't he? :)

[Diptwankynard]

oh my dear lord........ and i thought music today was of poor quality.... who would write a song about a bloody bed?

[verysparkly]

Hey Diptwankynard.. I think you need to get in touch with your sexuality.. or at the very least do a little googling or wikipedia-ing! Thanks though :)

[snowball1988]

it wasnt a song ABOUT a washing machine!!! it was about a widow who would put her cloths in the wash with her dead husband's to see the clothes 'caress-ing' each-other, like they used to before he died....it wasnt about the washing machine iteself, there was more to it than that...

[snowball1988]

i pity you and your bad attitude....... i bet you have got reaaally far in life with an attitude like that....

[benny926]

The song is erelivant, It`s all about being free to express whatever you want with out tools trying to figure out what your saying....It`s art...Does anyone question Dal`s works.....And why listen to the song if you want to critisise...

[RadioBazterd]

Very original band, their b-sides were better than their a-sides in many cases. Check out If I Point At The Moon & Out Of My Body.

[verysparkly]

Thanks RadioBazterd, will check them out!

[GerryMATW]

Mmmm...The coolest woman of all time!

Thanks for this. :)

[09spragg]

ive wanted to see foxxy for yonks

[bondbug73]

I'm mad about this song and the other output from this band. Noosha is quite special and I was or six when this came out in the UK. Still sounds fresh.

[bondbug73]

A new video has come up with Noosha which I came across last night. Type in 'Heat is on'. It's very good.

[verysparkly]

Thanks bondbug.. was great!

[thelordlucanexperien]

@bondbug73 I wonder what she's doing now. The songs I wasn't mad about the the woman I could watch all day without tiring out.

[tokaicarl]

i wish she was about now- need something exciting and funny and sexy- look at the boolocks about now, pathetic

[summercos]

brill. Just magic.

[verysparkly]

Thanks summercos.. sure is!

[wutangstan]

Can't stop watching this. Superb. She is so cOooOOoool.

[astapic]

Haven't seen this clip since '76,great to see it again.

[verysparkly]

Thanks astapic..  don't you love it when you discover a little snippet from the past?

[astapic]

especially when i have waited more than 30 years for it!

[wutangstan]

Heh heh :) I was saying that this is superb, I loves it I do :)!!

[verysparkly]

see.. now there is a man with taste!

[verysparkly]

ok.. I'm an idiot.. the last person to leave a comment on here.. I gave you a thumbs up, or so I thought.. I accidentally hit the thumbs down button.. then in my panic I removed you instead of replying to you to tell you of my mistake.. so please come back and put your comment in so I can give you the thumbs up that was intended.. please!!

[Carlybabeshere]

super ;o)