Comments on: ESTHER AND ABI OFARIM - “Cinderella Rockefeller”

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:24:58 +0000

…Jim.

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:47:27 +0000

It’s worse than that. It made #13. Sorry for earlier error.

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:59:39 +0000

Tonight I have had the misfortune to stumble upon a copy of the follow-up to this “Just One More Dance”. I had only a vague memory of it, and in an act of (stupid) bravado, decided to give it a listen. It is unremittingly awful.

In its defence, I think it’s meant to be bad; neither of the singers sound like they could hold a sandwich, far less a note, and the diction throughout is awful. How on earth it got to #19 is beyond me.

I must get rid of it as soon as possible.

If you’re feeling brave, it’s on youtube, complete with lyrics, at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkaicSJclE

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:17 +0000

Sorry, yes, I was taking “keeping afloat” to mean running the site! Obviously without the rest of you the good ship Popular would be a sad, Marie Celeste like affair, condemned to steer amidst the reefs of Louis Walsh boybands on a never ending ghost voyage.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:25:09 +0000

I think he just means the skipper!

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:05:15 +0000

Well, you’re posting pretty darn regularly about entries as arcane as this one, and I’m guessing that’s what Tom meant. If ‘keeping afloat’ involves computer knowledge or stumping up wedge, guess you can count me out too.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:50:42 +0000

I’m a parent! Twice over!

But am I keeping Popular afloat? Guess not.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:49:12 +0000

I’m not a parent either! Not yet, anyway…

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:02 +0000

Re 26: with such intensity, too! As a kid I used to think this had something to do with Laurel And Hardy. I suppose it has a touch of Lonesome Pine to it, but it really is bloody awful. Luckily for the yodelling fans who bought this, the Slim Whitman revival was just around the corner.

Re 30: not me mister, I’m young free and single. Well, free and single. Ok, single.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:29:26 +0000

#28: I can confirm that 100% of those keeping Popular afloat are parents!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:28:37 +0000

I think that the demographic of the singles charts widened again once download sales were introduced. Mums and Dads might not buy physical singles, but they’ll happily pay for single-track downloads - and the evidence has been all over the charts for the past three years or so.

By: rosie

rosie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:18:41 +0000

I should imagine that a fair proportion of those keeping Popular afloat are parents.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:07:19 +0000

Seems to me that parents are still buying or downloading singles; how else could the Script, Noah and the Whale etc. be having such big hits?

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:06:54 +0000

top moment: When Abi sings “razzamatazz” with the jazz hands inflection in his voice, to which Esther repeats the line like she has no idea what it means..

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:05:23 +0000

Try ebay then, there’s tons (literally) of it.

I was tortured as a child by my parents playing the “That’s my song” album by Abi Ofarim and Abraham (as they were)… At least this song was bearable.

By: The Intl

The Intl — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:29:28 +0000

Mason Williams, Smothers Brothers … makes sense somehow, in a “mainstream-edgy, cool-but-not-in-a-smoking-pot-way-except-maybe-with-Lou-Adler-at-a-key-swapping-party” way, if you get what I’m trying to say. Like, my mother would’ve hummed this while cleaning the house. Which means it’s pure shit. Anyone out there remember when the charts were peppered with “grown-up” hits, because moms & dads were occasionally buying singles? I mean, there was this, “Winchester Cathedral”, hell, ALL of Petula Clark, Matt Munro…Y’know what, tho? I’ll take that over today’s teen shit anyday. At least you knew where you stood.

By: dumont nicole

dumont nicole — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:36:23 +0000

j’adore cette chanson cela me rappelle mon jeune age

By: Oh No It's Dadaismus

Oh No It's Dadaismus — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:48:10 +0000

“Andrew Lauder, head of A&R at British UA, found himself in a meeting with Abi Ofarim, the latter clutching a copy of Can’s album - “… the first pressing of Monster Movie, which I thought was a tremendous record. We never heard from Abi again.”"

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:47:38 +0000

You’d have to frantically write it first!

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:47:31 +0000

*frantically rewrites chapter of book*

By: Oh No It's Dadaismus

Oh No It's Dadaismus — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:20:08 +0000

Abi Ofarim ended up as the manager of Can by the way!

By: anatol_merklich

anatol_merklich — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:36:02 +0000

I think they parlayed Eurovision semi-succcess (they came second!) into pan-European light entertainment stardom

That seems to have been quite a conscious aim — this entry reminded me that when I was v small, my uncle had an E&AO 7″ of “Ack Värmeland, du sköna”, ie the “regional anthem” of the Swedish county Värmland. Yes, sung in Swedish.

The B-side was Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” if I’m not misremembering.

By: Diego

Diego — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:27:32 +0000

Whenever the question about what’s the most irritating song of all time arises, I immediately think about this song. The videoclip is on VH1 sometimes and it’s even more infuriating…

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:00:09 +0000

there was a million-selling cylinder called “cohen on the phone” in the teens — tho it is entirely possible that the singer (name not to hand) was not himself actually jewish

By: Alan Connor

Alan Connor — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:23:02 +0000

What was the first Jewish #1, by the way?