Per Rup A Pum Pum, Per Rup A Pum Pum

[Gromit]

What is it ?

Just heard it used on an advert/promo on tv.
I remember it from junior school, and like it.

Choir, young male voices. Something in English (I think) and then the earworm (per rup a pum pum) comes in.

[Cloverjo]

Andy-Hughes, how dare you! ;) You hate this song and Fairytale of New York. What are the others in your list? Don't say Last Christmas. ;)

[Gromit]

jourdain2,
No problem.
Just been on iTunes to find the version I like but not there. It was on SKY footy, so I will try and Shazam it.

Not often you get a town with two mass murder claim to fame. We are twinned with Columbine and Las Vegas :-/

[murraymints]

[jourdain2]

I lived for a while at Mytholmroyd on the other side of the moor. Taught 'supply' for a good while at Tod. and had that area as my 'beat' when I was working part-time for A.L.B.S.U. Know the area well.

[Gromit]

// Andy-Hughes, how dare you! ;) You hate this song and Fairytale of New York. //

I really do not like the David Bowie/Bing Crosby version.

I was a big Pogues fan in the 1980s discovering them soon after the release of their first album ‘Red Roses for me’. I had seen them perform many times and wore the T-Shirts. I remember when Fairytale was release and people kept stopping me asking if I had heard it (I hadn’t). The Pogues doing a Christmas song seemed very wrong and unpunk, and I was determined not to like it. But it is just utterly brilliant, I soon loved it.
Can’t remember what kept it off No.1, (Number 2 I think).

[Jackdaw33]

How sad that a nice little children's Xmas song should evoke such bitter memories because of the actions of two evil people.

[Cloverjo]

I think it was Joe Dolce or something equally hideous that kept Fairytale from No 1.

[jourdain2]

Yes, it is, Jack.

[Gromit]

Cloverjo,
Think that was Vienna by Ultravox.
X

[andy-hughes]

Cloverjo - Those two are indeed on my list - the other three are, High Hopes by Frank Sinatra (along with everything else he has done, but that is the clincher!), I Will Always love You (only the Witless Useless version, Dolly's and Linda's are of course, wonderful) - and the top of the proverbial tree is Lucky Star by Dean Friedman

[Arksided]

No much later in 1987...Pet Shop Boys' cover version of "Always on My Mind"

[Gromit]

Cloverjo,
Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Always on my Mind’.


Chrissie Hynde was originally booked to sing Kirsty’s part, but couldn’t make it.
A bullet missed methinks.

[Jackdaw33]

As a kid I used to love listening to High Hopes. The other Xmas song I used to teach the kids was Little Donkey. With me on the piano and the kids doing the percussion it was generally very well-received.

[murraymints]

[albaqwerty]

Joe Dolce 'wotsa matta you?'
awful

Never knew that about little drummer boy - won't be searching either.
shame that a nice tune was besmirched by evil, evil people.

[Gromit]

// Frank Sinatra (along with everything else he has done) //

Wow! Double wow!

I gather you are/were a music journalist, so that lapse of taste surprises me.
We have heard your bottom 5, what is your top 5.

[Cloverjo]

Andy, I don't know Friedman, but I agree with your two others :)

[melv16]

Andy loves ELP... That says it all :-)

[andy-hughes]

Grommit - //I gather you are/were a music journalist, so that lapse of taste surprises me. //

I think taste is another term for personal opinion, so of course I have mine like everyone else, and one of my opinions is that Frank Sinatra is a vastly over-rated singer, Tony Bennett leaves him for dust in that style on a bad da

// We have heard your bottom 5, what is your top 5. //

In ascending order -

Anything That's Rock And Roll - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
Walk On By - Dione Warwick

[Gromit]

// Anything That's Rock And Roll - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
Walk On By - Dione Warwick //

I can’t fault that, but non of those are in mine.