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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 7h

To get you excited for Swap Shop's 50th anniversary tomorrow, here's an edition which ended with Noel covering the corpse of John Craven with a shroud.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dave Richmond - a man whose CV contains both Histoire De Melody Nelson AND the theme from Blankety Blank

Dave Richmond in the studio with his Burns Bison

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For context, this almost a fortnight after the Sex Pistols interview, so presumably Bill Grundy's suspension was about to come to an end. Bet he was sorry he missed this one.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First time I saw this, I was completely thrown by the theme tune to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue turning up as incidental music.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Front page of DWB: BATEY MUST GO!

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Saturday Mornings @saturdaymornings.co.uk · 17/09/2026

Noel usually asked one of the guests on Swap Shop to read through the Top Ten Swaps board each week, but here's what happened when he got Richard Stilgoe to sing the board instead. #saturdaymornings

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you were making a tv programme in the 90s and needed background music, you either used this or Guaglione by Perez Prado. There were NO other options.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Richard O'Sullivan's theme from Robin's Nest is a total banger. But the only contemporary cover version was by Noele Gordon's former organ twiddler Jerry Allen - full marks to him while his peers were asleep at the wheel youtu.be/4HZKv1vRBE4?...

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Jerry Allen ‎~ Robins Nest

YouTube video by Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There are so many classic songs I first heard as a kid on adverts with rewritten lyrics, and I find it very hard to shake them off. My brain always sings 'With the Petite 990' whenever I hear 9 To 5, even now.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the source of Tarby's version of I Should Be So Lucky featured by Chris Morris on the Our Tune spot on his Radio 1 shows - it's actually part of a 15 minute disco medley which also includes Never Gonna Give You Up and a comedy song about golf. Perfect for parties!

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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tony Benn DJing for BBC Radio London and about to drop some far out Clive Dunn album track.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Outstanding work from Dave, as always!

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tony Adams, king of filling time when Crossroads was under running.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 04/08/2026

Brand new on Dirty Feed: Mary Tyler Moore's long-misunderstood 1978 variety series, Mary. Part One: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/some... Part Two: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Three: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Four: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/some...

Newspaper advert for Mary, featuring a smiling Mary Tyler Moore.
MARY 7PM
A DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT MARY!
Mary Tyler Moore clowns, sings, dances and lets loose with an outrageous troupe of inspired comics. An irresistible hour of entertainment! Starring Mary Tyler Moore, Jim Hampton, Judy Kahan, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz, David Letterman, Dick Shawn.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Crossing off a list of former Taskmaster contestants one by one until they finally find one who says yes

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 21/07/2026

"90% of the artists, singers, musicians, composers, and industry professionals were murdered; studios, master recordings, equipment, contracts, and legal documents were lost or destroyed." Preserving Cambodian Album Art:

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Preserving Cambodian Cover Art

A look into the work of The Cambodian Vintage Music Archive

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Any late 90s advert hoarders got this one? (Have fixed the Marketing Week link here: www.marketingweek.com/lager-gets-i... )

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'd never heard of the Acker Bilk Riots of 1960 before, and here's audio of it - outstanding stuff

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I flippin' love Elusive Butterfly - nothing has ever sounded like it before or since. Radio 2 used to play Bob Lind's original a lot in the 90s. Val changes one line to 'Through the long-abandoned ruins of someone I used to be', which is possibly even stranger than Lind's original lyric.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I can only remember the names of all the signs of the zodiac by running the theme tune in my head, saxophone bits and all

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Not only has Mick outlived all the other members of DDBM&T, he's also outlived Mick II who replaced him in 1976

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Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

NICHT RECOMMENDIERT!

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Contains an absolutely bonkers version of the theme from The Archers, reframed as a high speed jazz waltz for reasons only known to arranger Frank Barber (I believe Barber was also the only British artist to have a record out on legendary hip hop label Sugar Hill Records)

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 19/06/2026

This is well worth 83 minutes of your life, but if you can't spare that, please at least watch the montages of car crashes (37:45) and sound effects (40:00)

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Remake, Remix, Rip Off: Copy Culture and Turkish Pop Cinema (2014)

YouTube video by NTB

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Jayson Lee was from round my way - did an Elvis act in the clubs around Hampshire, and was apparently pretty good. I have two copies of his album, including a rare unsigned one

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have long been fascinated by the products on sale in the Greendale post office. "Going to Gogginses, d'you want anything? "Yes, can I have some Big, a box of Day and a packet of 10, please?"

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This reminds me of what I believe is the most French advert ever made: youtu.be/oV_ZTZmrsmQ?...

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1988 - publicité Croky chips (alimentation)

YouTube video by Mémoire Pub

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There's too many people called Seth in the public eye. It's a recent phenomenon and it's confusing. Back when I was a lad there was only one Seth that mattered

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I bought the 12" from the Cancer Research shop, which was probably the first time the charity ever saw any money from it

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At least Herbert Ashworth-Hope lived long enough to see Anita West take over on Blue Peter. (He only missed Val by a couple of months.)

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is fantastic, especially the repro House Of Commons corridor - a pleasantly surprising number of these shows haven't been wiped too!

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Fast Tunes Ltd @fasttunesltd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Double LP. CD. Digital download. fasttunes.bandcamp.com

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

True fact about this sketch - the letter about sewing a pocket into the inside of your coat was a real letter to the Dear Miriam page of the TV Times in December 1989

A sensible suggestion from Mrs L M Argent of Surrey Heath

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The show was Strike A New Note, and there's a programme for it here - Eric is listed in the (huge) cast, I can't see Little Ern, but he was in it: www.silversirens.co.uk/productions/...

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Strike a New Note (1943 play)

Strike a New Note is a 1943 play starring Sid Field, Jerry Desmond, Evelyn Barr. George Black’s revue show at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

QTP a cartoon with an awesome theme song! All hail the genius that is Hoyt Curtin youtu.be/pOIW66DADH4?...

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Emergency +4 Theme (Intro & Outro)

YouTube video by 11db11

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What channel is it, bab?

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Cameron Yarde Jnr @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

With the Michael Jackson movie doing so well and getting people to listen to his music again. It's time to revisit arguably the greatest cover o one o his classics with The Jackson Five. Keith Harris singing, 'Can You Feel It?' #MichaelMovie

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

100 years ago isn't what it used to be. I remember when 100 years ago was all Tchaikovsky and bustles. 100 years ago now they had commercial air travel and Cadbury's Flakes

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This works really well, it sounds like it should have been sung in French all the time

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

At Much Binding In The Marsh This snooker match is going on forever At Much Binding In The Marsh Most of us aren't feeling all that clever We're sorry if you're tuning in to watch Top of the Pops It might be on if this damn snooker ever ever stops It's going to keep going till somebody bloody drops

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"He shoots - he scores!" - Sergio Leone on set, pointing out what Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone's jobs are.

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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

For all of you fans of library music, here's musician and composer Johnny Hawksworth teaching his dog to play piano.

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