Dame Agnes Guano on Charlie Drake

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.
In this episode Paul welcomes internet purveyor of comedy and novelty record content extraordinaire, the pseudonymously enigmatic Dame Agnes Guano! Using Charlie Drake's records SPLISH SPLASH and MR CUSTER, they discuss the very nature of comedy vs novelty and get to chatting about the types of people who didn't make records in the 50s and 60s. This is an interesting chat with a dedicated collector of all things funny, silly and unusual.

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! This podcast is the place to come to hear guests discuss with me, Paul Abbott, their favourite novelty songs - the funny, the weird, the daft and the outright baffling tunes that have been skipping and dancing around in their heads for years. Everybody loves something that could be considered novel, so why not celebrate it?

Importantly, it also seeks to try and stretch the definition of novelty to encompass all manner of recordings. This could include TV Themes, songs about unusual subject matter, deliberately comic or comedy recordings, ‘outsider’ music and much more. There are only two criteria: that the song choice has been released as a single or E.P. (in any territory) and that they can justify their view of the choice as ‘novel’.

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