Goodies - The Funky Gibbon (HQ) |TOTP 20-3-1975|

[MrJuide]

This is Racist,going to the zoo means going to Africa,meeting a gibbon means meeting a black man.

[fudgefase]

Did they ever get their knighthoods from Prince Charles? They kept hinting....

[C0braTHCmc]

O O O THE FUNKY GIBON!!!

[gmaccruyff55]

They should make this the English national anthem.!

[C0braTHCmc]

@gmaccruyff55

YEAH!

[bubs101able]

lol and Bill Oddie is a Bird twitcher now . . look like three Prospectors thank god times moved on .

[SuperPanda1971]

Lol! This brings back some fun memories. I loved The Goodies when I was a kid, and this still makes makes me laugh.

[michael196782]

The Goodies their second single was relased on 6th MARCH 1975 The Funky Gibbon, following after Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me were first relased on 28th NOVEMBER 1974.

[michael196782]

TOTP THURSDAY 20th MARCH 1975 Tony Blackburn The Goodies The Funky Gibbon also the Christmas 1975 TOTP Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975.

[baggytroosers1]

Now i remember why i was going to kill myself in the 70s

[Garrywith2rs]

The song has been Re-released for Xmas 2010 for the Save The Gibbon charity as part of The International Primate Protection League.

[sambda]

Oddie well into it. Brooke-Taylor is "well...OK". Garden is well embarrassed.

[Ragnemalm]

@sambda I don't think Graeme is embarassed at all, He is doing his part as always. They had all been comedians for many years, too many to be embarassed by making a satiric dance.

[MyCouplesRockHard]

@Ragnemalm He did say in the book I have that he was a bit embarrassed, but not by the song itself, but by being a popstar & performing on TOTP & that he felt guilty for being a popstar over younger people trying to make it in the industry. He was incredibly self-conscious.

[Ragnemalm]

@MyCouplesRockHard Ah, OK, that's another kind of embarassment. Graeme is a smart guy, of course they took a place in the list with a parody, and it does speak in his favor if he feld bad about the hard-working musicians that landed outside the list because of them.

[Feisty1967]

A seminal moment in British Pop History, I don't know why the Beatles even bothered, lol.

[Oldiesmann]

Fun song!

Thanks to Youtube, we get to see all the stuff that the US missed out on in the 70s (before my time unfortunately). It's amazing how many groups hit it big in the UK and yet are all but unknown in the US.

[rubinoos1]

@Oldiesmann Too true. It's pretty sad, actually.

[Ragnemalm]

Wonderful! And with Tony Blackburn! RobinCarmody's claim about Scatty Safari is most likely true. Tony was often mocked by The Goodies, but there he appeared in person. His comment is very logical if you consider how that scene ended. Highly recommended!

[MyCouplesRockHard]

@Ragnemalm Yeah. Tony took it in his stride & even appeared in Goodies Rule OK as himself, being rejected by The Goodies when they were recruiting entertainers to run the country. I think he saw the funny side of it. Heck even the British Royal family were fans & they were mocked all the time, especially in Royal Command! It was probably considered an honour to be mocked by them for most people at the time.

[Ragnemalm]

@MyCouplesRockHard Ah, so Tony appears in person in GROK too? He certainly did get the point. Pity that they never invited Rolf Harris to the show.

[gusgorilla76]

Goodies!!!!! Goody-goody-yum-yum. Brilliant. My version ends with "and for me some scarlet gibbons, scarlet gibbons for my hair".

[weenielongus]

I still have this 45 rpm that I bought way back in the 70s, but this is the first time I ever saw who actually did it!! Thanx, nyrainbow4!!

[RobinCarmody]

Incidentally, what Blackburn's referring to at the start is the great 'Scatty Safari' episode of The Goodies - also known as 'The Existence of Rolf Harris' - where he appears as a star exhibited in a safari park, running for freedom to the theme from The Adventures of Black Beauty.

Bill Oddie has quite varied tastes, incidentally, and came up with some brilliant pastiches in the 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' days.

[BraveHelios]

WTF??!!

[RobinCarmody]

Well, you had to be there. It's still better than quite a few other songs on this show, though.