Too Many Golden Oldies - The First Class

Too Many Golden Oldies - The First Class, 1977. Their 12th single. Words & Music by John Carter and Gill Shakespeare. John Carter and Tony Burrows is main member of this group. You can see 29 Japanese 45s picture sleeves on this video. The title of a song quoted at the end of "Too Many Golden Oldies" are Peggy Sue / Buddy Holly('57), Mighty Quinn / Manfred Mann('68), Green Tambourine / Lemon Pipers('68), California Dreamin' / Mamas & The Papas('66), Yellow Submarine / Beatles('66), Maybellene / Chuck Berry('55), Rip It Up / Bill Haley & his Comets('65), Knock On Wood / Eddie Floyd('66), Take Good Care Of My Baby / Bobby Vee('61), Johnny B. Goode / Chuck Berry('58), Going Back / Dusty Springfield('66), Happy Jack / Who('66), Matthew and Son / Cat Stevens('67), I Want To Hold Your Hand / Beatles('63), Fun, Fun, Fun / Beach Boys('64), Satisfaction / Rolling Stones('65), At The Hop / Danny & The Juniors('58), American Pie / Don McLean('72), Tell Me When / Applejacks('64), Be My Baby / Ronettes('63), Lucy In The Sky / Elton John('74), Mony Mony / Tommy James & The Shondells('68), Sugar Sugar / Archies('69), Runaround Sue / Dion('61), Wooly Bully / Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs('65), Lonely Boy / Paul Anka('59), Stuck On You / Elvis Presley('60), Georgy Girl / Seekers('67), Penny Lane / Beatles('67), Dock Of The Bay / Otis Redding('68), You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' / Righteous Brothers('65), That'll Be The Day / Crickets('57), Monday, Monday / Mamas & The Papas('66), Candy Man / Brian Poole & The Tremeloes('64), Quarter to Three / Gary U.S. Bonds('61) and Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree / Dawn('73)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tony
• Burrows
• John
• Carter
• First
• Class
• 1970s
• Edison
• Lighthouse
• White
• Plains
• Pipkins
• Brotherhood
• of
• Man

[eydie57]

i feel that way today- whatever happened to rock and roll. what are we gonna do about today? however, we can't have too many golden oldies. we just need some decent new music.

[regentv980]

can not beat the 60s or 70s for music

[MrLawman10]

tony burrows was a class act but this is shit.

[regentv980]

@TomTresh3 True

[deloufu]

I like it.

[leonaofficial]

@AgainWithThis all the namechecked songs in the song were hit singles - The Beatles original of Lucy was an album track - they never released it as a single - so they could only have been namechecking the Elton recording

[TomTresh3]

@at90percent Not really, Beach Baby is a "golden oldie". Burrows never mentions any song he recorded with the first class, or any other group, so having the opening of one of his classics is excellent!

[TomTresh3]

@regentv980 I agree, although the 80s and 90s were still far superior to what they call music now.

[arthurvasey]

@FabFM

Also Chicory Tip, Edison Lighthouse, The Pipkins (with Roger Greenaway of Blue Mink) and White Plains - in fact, he made 3 appearances on a 1970 edition of Top Of The Pops, fronting Brotherhood Of Man, White Plains and Edison Lighthouse.

@Inkvis

Sunny had a solo hit with Doctor's Orders.

[davemusicfactory]

awsome

[81zed]

Yeah, your right. It does kinda start off like Beach Baby.