Okay, I'm going to put up a correction/disclaimer here: Tony claims to have sung on the "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke" commercial but I'm having a lot of trouble verifying that. He might be lying! I feel that full disclosure requires me to admit that.
Gimme Dat Ding, racist? WTF! It’s from a children’s show called Little Big Time where the pianist is lamenting that he can’t play along because his metronome has a broken bell.
I'm going through the process of ripping the CD collection of my girlfriend's parents and I've been listening to these to pass the time. I made it to B and they have two "bubblegum classics" compilations CDs one is all songs I don't really recognize by name and the other is "Bubblegum Classics The Voice Of Tony Burrows" Burrows is famous and well known enough to fill a record of his work (or at least sell a CD based on Love Grows, Beach Baby, and a couple others) but not nearly big or remembered enough that they can advertise it plainly as "best of Tony Burrows"
I spent my 19th birthday doing lights for brotherhood of man gig in 94, I accidentaly called one of them a fat sweaty twat in fron of their backing band….they did't care
70s am radio was so weird. You'd have these catchy pop songs that were obviously manufactured but you'd also hear Steely Dan, Elton John, Sly & the Family Stone sometimes even David Bowie. I found FM radio in the 7th grade but unfortunately my parents car only had AM radio & transister radios were all AM. But I still think radio was better then than it is now, at least you got a variety of genres.
I think what Todd has a hard time describing are songs that work in AABA song form like this one. This form was how songs used to be written until around the early 70s (which is why almost all Christmas songs are written in AABA form). It basically was like blasting a chorus three times while singing one variation in between.
Im really sad i missed this episode coming out cause i adore this song! I didnt know the history it held but my parents would always crank the radio up as soon as it came on. Id hear it all the time on classic radio growing up, miss that station.
The Flowerpot men were a children's puppet series from the 1960s: Bill and Ben being the titular flowerpot men, made of flowerpots. Fittingly, the third character was a flower by the name of Little Weed.
My mom had an album of 70s one hit wonders that she played all the time in the car when I was a kid that had “Beach Baby” and Blue Swede’s “Hooked On a Feeling” on it. “Beach Baby” was probably my second or third favorite song on that CD.
Once you connected the dots together, I can’t believe I couldn’t figure out they were written and sung by the same guy.
Bubblegum pop is what i think pop music should be lmao. Fun, cheery stuff to distract me from my sorrows. No harm in stuff like grunge or punk or metal, but i cant imagine not enjoying some frivolity
Despite my young age (born just before Y2K) I’ve always been more into music from between the 50’s to the late 80’s. Today’s music just doesn’t feel right somehow. For me, it’s likely the perceived lack of original ideas and the coarse profanity, slurs and crass subject matter.
I always assumed that bubble gum music was named as such because it's bright and colorful, it gets really big, and then goes *pop*.
My partents had "Love Grows" on a hits CD when I was a kid in the 90s, so it's a nostalgic favorite that I don't think will ever really leave me. Really cool to hear all about its background!
Todd you're always great. I prefer you're deep dives. C urrent non hip hop music is very good.
Please mote:
1. In1969, Rock-n-Roll was only a little more than a decade old. Artirsts from pre-Rock were making hits. 😢And did so untl the mid 70s comprising around 20% of the year end top 100. Artists like Paul Anka, Bobny.Vinton, and Ray Stevens. What do this tupe of music?
2.Brotherhood of Man predated Abba by three years, 1969 vs 1972.
As a random extra note, somebody out there might be interested to know that Jon Lord (of Deep Purple fame) was in the gigging version of The Flowerpot Men for two or three months in late 1967/early 1968. The more you know… the less interesting it gets!
@ToddintheShadows
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Okay, I'm going to put up a correction/disclaimer here: Tony claims to have sung on the "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke" commercial but I'm having a lot of trouble verifying that. He might be lying! I feel that full disclosure requires me to admit that.
@hellbound2012
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Because love f*cks round and grows where my rosemary goes
@jackdoyle7453
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
weren't the flowerpot men a childrens television show in the UK in the 50s and 60s?
@collectmybrains
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Never liked this song.
@MrDefzilla
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Photograph by Def Leppard its not
@slackershrub8923
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I love the TikTok sound "she ain't got no money" as he shows dozens of TikToks from very obviously wealthy women.
@MCastleberry1980
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
There's something admirable about "instead of having 5 singers sound the same, what if we just have ONE singer do all the pop songs in 5 fake bands?"
@cathylindeboo.9598
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I think this is my favorite shows of yours!;!
@nanardeurlambda
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
7:40 are you sure it's not claude francois?
@ramiror2132
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
13:07 FBI, OPEN UP!
@alanmelb
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Gimme Dat Ding, racist? WTF! It’s from a children’s show called Little Big Time where the pianist is lamenting that he can’t play along because his metronome has a broken bell.
@msoileau83
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
The Monkees thing is so unfair. They fucking played on Daydream Believer, you chode.
@audoodle9963
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I'm going through the process of ripping the CD collection of my girlfriend's parents and I've been listening to these to pass the time. I made it to B and they have two "bubblegum classics" compilations CDs one is all songs I don't really recognize by name and the other is "Bubblegum Classics The Voice Of Tony Burrows" Burrows is famous and well known enough to fill a record of his work (or at least sell a CD based on Love Grows, Beach Baby, and a couple others) but not nearly big or remembered enough that they can advertise it plainly as "best of Tony Burrows"
@marcraygun6290
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I spent my 19th birthday doing lights for brotherhood of man gig in 94, I accidentaly called one of them a fat sweaty twat in fron of their backing band….they did't care
@Brekner
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Your videos are so good…
@yensid4294
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
70s am radio was so weird. You'd have these catchy pop songs that were obviously manufactured but you'd also hear Steely Dan, Elton John, Sly & the Family Stone sometimes even David Bowie. I found FM radio in the 7th grade but unfortunately my parents car only had AM radio & transister radios were all AM. But I still think radio was better then than it is now, at least you got a variety of genres.
@ZMugg1
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
The Swedish word for plagiarism is "plagiat"
@TheZenomeProject
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I think what Todd has a hard time describing are songs that work in AABA song form like this one. This form was how songs used to be written until around the early 70s (which is why almost all Christmas songs are written in AABA form). It basically was like blasting a chorus three times while singing one variation in between.
@benamisai-kham5892
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Im really sad i missed this episode coming out cause i adore this song! I didnt know the history it held but my parents would always crank the radio up as soon as it came on. Id hear it all the time on classic radio growing up, miss that station.
@Fairyfink
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
The Flowerpot men were a children's puppet series from the 1960s: Bill and Ben being the titular flowerpot men, made of flowerpots. Fittingly, the third character was a flower by the name of Little Weed.
@bc-mv5se
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Please bring back this content. Start with Murder on the Dancefloor
@samuelmartin2992
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Tony Burrows did “Beach Baby????”
My mom had an album of 70s one hit wonders that she played all the time in the car when I was a kid that had “Beach Baby” and Blue Swede’s “Hooked On a Feeling” on it. “Beach Baby” was probably my second or third favorite song on that CD.
Once you connected the dots together, I can’t believe I couldn’t figure out they were written and sung by the same guy.
@thirdpowerful1
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
The song is mentioned in Reservoir Dogs.
@leaffinite3828
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Bubblegum pop is what i think pop music should be lmao. Fun, cheery stuff to distract me from my sorrows. No harm in stuff like grunge or punk or metal, but i cant imagine not enjoying some frivolity
@1cioda
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I really like these episodes, where we get a look into not only the artists, but the industry behind thme as well. Very interesting
@fleakletheotter
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
17:28 Swedish for "plagiarism" = "plagiat"
@deckarde4919
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
This song is name dropped in Reservoir Dogs, which is where I know it from. But it doesn't play in it!
@serendipity8350
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I love this song❤ Catchy tune.
@aarengabriel8106
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
And this song shall always be tied to Shallow Hal in my head.
My head is weird.
@123engis
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
4:23 …….is that band name ALSO a reference to the BBC kids show Flower Pot Men from the 1950s??
@warriorstar2517
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Despite my young age (born just before Y2K) I’ve always been more into music from between the 50’s to the late 80’s. Today’s music just doesn’t feel right somehow. For me, it’s likely the perceived lack of original ideas and the coarse profanity, slurs and crass subject matter.
@tomservodoctor42
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
I always assumed that bubble gum music was named as such because it's bright and colorful, it gets really big, and then goes *pop*.
My partents had "Love Grows" on a hits CD when I was a kid in the 90s, so it's a nostalgic favorite that I don't think will ever really leave me. Really cool to hear all about its background!
@raydunn8262
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Todd you're always great. I prefer you're deep dives. C urrent non hip hop music is very good.
Please mote:
1. In1969, Rock-n-Roll was only a little more than a decade old. Artirsts from pre-Rock were making hits. 😢And did so untl the mid 70s comprising around 20% of the year end top 100. Artists like Paul Anka, Bobny.Vinton, and Ray Stevens. What do this tupe of music?
2.Brotherhood of Man predated Abba by three years, 1969 vs 1972.
@platypuspracticus2
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
Should do Friday on my Mind by The Easybeats.
@thescrewfly
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
As a random extra note, somebody out there might be interested to know that Jon Lord (of Deep Purple fame) was in the gigging version of The Flowerpot Men for two or three months in late 1967/early 1968. The more you know… the less interesting it gets!
@yousefebrahim3473
April 25, 2024 at 10:41 am
are you sure Edison Lighthouse isn’t an alternate universe name for Jefferson Airplane