The most famous record by The Biggest Australian Beat Group Of The 60s! True! And no, I didn't know that either until I Wiki'd them just now. But I love this record. It's on that 60s summer pop compilation CD I mentioned in comments. It has to be one of the best Friday songs ever doesn't it?
Gonna have fun in the city
Be with my girl she's so pretty...
Our two break up for the school summer holidays today - hugs for the teachers that are leaving, emotional moments in the playground, carrier bags full of a year's paintings, poems and plastic milk bottle elephants all coming home; six weeks of holiday ahead of them. Six weeks. *gulp*
I always wanted an American Graffiti/Big Wednesday type summer of hot rods and colas and days at the beach and I wish they all could be California girls but it never quite worked out like that.
It was more Why Don't You Turn Off Your Television Set And Do Something Less Boring Instead.
When's the Whizzer And Chips Summer Special out?
The Easybeats - 'Friday On My Mind' (1966)
My little ones don't finish til Tuesday but considering one of them has snapped the stylus on my turntable I've been threatening them with Holiday Club. Top tune - one from my childhood.
ReplyDelete..Has snapped the stylus?!! A case for adoption shurely?
ReplyDeleteI don't mind Bowie's version on 'Pin Ups' either.
ReplyDeleteCan't beat those Summer Specials (or Seaside Special)even though almost every story had the same ending - here's £5/ice creams/slap up feed (usu: sausage and mash)
Have you visited Fleetway Street yet?
It's the least they deserve! btw are you a Whizz kid or a Chipite? I wouldn't want to be talking to the enemy. And did you ever actually separate the comic in two? Be honest.
ReplyDeleteI was a rather promiscuous comic reader, tee hee; it depended on who had the best free gift on the cover.
ReplyDeleteAll stories should end like that PM.
Tart!
ReplyDeleteI used to like those big Astounding Stories comics that were old fashioned even in the 70s. They seemed to be reprints of old US comics with several stories (about 5 pages each). Can't think of those without thinking of Paignton.
I was a Chips rather than Whizzer, and no I never seperated either.
ReplyDeleteI only found out recently, about spotting the Whizzer star in Chips and vice versa - but my fave ever was Krazy (with those built in disguises on the back)
Couldn't get on with Buster or Cor (you can't make a monkey out of Gus)
Have you heard about DFC meant to be the new version of these things
Great Friday choice, davy. This is truly one of my all-time wake-up calls. I wore it out on a jukebox once when it was still on vinyl.
ReplyDeleteBTW, remember Jon Moss of 'Culture Club' infamy ? Before that he was drummer in a band called London. They released a cover of this. I still have it on 12".
Actually, I'm smarting that I didn't post it on S.O.B. before you!
It's a cracker isn't it ib. You walk into the bar, stroll confidently up to the jukebox and put this one on, the weekend begins.
ReplyDeleteI've just found this site there's a section on free gifts - it's literally got me all giddy.
ReplyDeleteYou can keep the double-sided glove puppet but a Funtastic Magic Booklet? Now you're talking.
ReplyDeleteDespite reading it regularly I honestly can't remember which side of the sectarian divide I fell on in the great Whizzer & Chips wars. I do remember joining the Dennis The Menace fan club and being sent a big hairy Gnasher badge for my troubles, though.
ReplyDeleteBut generally I suspect that, like Davy, I was a bit of a comics tart!
Can I have some cream with my comics tart,please?
ReplyDeleteDid I dream it or was there a 'Spunky and his Spider'?
ReplyDeleteBeing of a (slightly) younger generation, and a huge AC/DC fan in my youth, I remember reading somewhere that the Young brothers' older brother George was a member of the Easybeats who had a massive hit with Friday on My Mind... but I'd never heard it until now! Thanks for filling in a bit of my mental jigsaw puzzle!
ReplyDeleteWhizzer & Chips...? Time to Wiki...
ReplyDeleteYou might try Big Hairy Gnasher Badge and Spunky's Spider too, but I'd advise caution.
ReplyDeleteGlad to be of assistance Nick, if only unwittingly. Those are some fabulosa travel pics at your place.
it was italian vogue or nothing round ours darling
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You is A Style Icon babe x
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