Ran into this on another board from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (RIP). Never mind the song - it's probably a parody of 1960s psychedelia so meaningless that
it sounded profound anyway - when the fun and nuttery go out of music? Was it when Frank Zappa died or when Viv
Stanshall died (probably a young version of him singing)?
The introductory 'king' is 'Professor' Stanley Unwin, a comedian who specialised in a kind of backslang gobbledegook that was often saying something close enough to understand what was meant and adding flode or folde on the end. The accent made most of it. His catch phrase was Deep Joy but that was genuine: he explained once that before he took to comedy, as a research engineer he'd been working on something really tricky and the supervisor would ask "Any joy?". Eventually he got it working and replied "Deep joy".
If anybody likes this sort of lunacy,The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, The Wurzels and The Yetties (they met in Yetminster scouts) had similarities but over the years they all drifted in different directions.
The introductory 'king' is 'Professor' Stanley Unwin, a comedian who specialised in a kind of backslang gobbledegook that was often saying something close enough to understand what was meant and adding flode or folde on the end. The accent made most of it. His catch phrase was Deep Joy but that was genuine: he explained once that before he took to comedy, as a research engineer he'd been working on something really tricky and the supervisor would ask "Any joy?". Eventually he got it working and replied "Deep joy".
If anybody likes this sort of lunacy,The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, The Wurzels and The Yetties (they met in Yetminster scouts) had similarities but over the years they all drifted in different directions.
