three cheers for gilbert

for me a legacy of growing up in the sixties and seventies is a fondness for music and artists who went out of fashion years ago and are probably remembered with a degree of embarrassment

this has been the fate of a singer/songwriter i still really like - a handful of songs of his from the early seventies remain favourites of mine to this day and bring back memories of early evening saturday night variety shows hosted by the likes of cilla black (when she was still a singer) and rolf harris, where dance ensembles like 'the young generation' would gyrate around a gaudily decorated stage set singing like 'fifth dimension' a la 'up up and away in my beautiful balloon...' and perform 'hair'-inspired dance routines

anyway, here in my opinion is gilbert o'sullivan's finest three and a half minutes...



Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan: Single (1970)