I had a 'best of' tape of The Barron Knights in the early 80s and this was one of the tracks. Haven't heard it in almost 40 years, but remembered (most of) the words!
This really takes me back. I was beginning to think I had imagined this band and this song. No one I talked to seemed to remember them . To hear it again is just delightful. Thank you so much for uploading this.
I haven’t heard this since it came out, but I have always remembered their version of Boney M when I’ve been to the dentist - once heard, never forgotten! Thanks for posting this - it’s as good as ever!
I saw them live yesterday (1st December 2018) at The Stables in Milton Keynes... they played this one! :-) Only three of the original members now, but still rocking like they always did.
There first hit was called "Call up the Groups" which in 1963-4 did very well in the charts. In that they imitated the singing style of the Groups as well as singing different lyrics. Performed on Thank Your Lucky Stars quite often. They manage to somehow fit in the new lyrics to the original melody and make it humourous. Talented chaps.
I'd totally forgotten about the Barron Knights until a clip appeared on my TH-cam feed tonight Check out Barron Knights on Top of the Pops 1964. It looked to be a Christmas episode
Cheers hugely for uploading this, it really takes me back to a time when things were just more fun, less commercial and people who could entertain a live audience.
These guys are from before my time (only by about 10 years, mind you) but because I know all the songs (especially in this track) and with the way their lyrics just roll out like pure poetry, I'm having some of the best laughs since finding Stan Freberg's parodies 15-ish years ago! First I heard of them was only a week ago. Talk about missing out!
Had this on a BBC childrens compilation album (cassette) when I was a kid, lost the tape and have been singing it from memory ever since. Thank god I found it now I can get an MP3 :) TY for posting. :)
I think I still have the LP. Where's the fun in the so-called music of today.??? Actually, I don't listen to any, and I don't know any singers, unless indirectly heard in conversation by others.!!
I remeber this song well, always remember the scene on Top of the Pops (or was it Crackerjack?) in the dentists chairs where they spat in the dentists face!
@@jamesmillar3548 If you call Leighton Buzzard Northern. But, yes, they were very clever and very funny. I remember seeing them supporting someone - it might even have been The Beatles. They wore a uniform of Norfolk Jackets.
As a teenager living in Northampton, England, I was one of the audience extras as the Baron Knights recorded a TV special at Cinderella’s Rockerfella’s nightclub. I have the show recorded on VHS tape as a keepsake. Need to get it converted to digital. Funny guys.
I remember the Barron Knights at the time were something of an embarrassment, but listening to these now, they really captured the times, and it is s reminder of the culture of the late 70s.
Lukeypup95 Productions Did You Know That The Lead Singer Of Bonny M, Said If You Didn't Get The Mikky Taken Out Of Your Song,!! By The Barron Knights, You Hadn't Made It,!!!!!!!! In The Chart's,!!!!!
Unah Tut Tut 🙄🙄, I Want So Badly To Go Back To The 1970's I So Hate The 21'st Century,!!!!! Go To To Ourprice Record, Shop Or Woolworths And Buy Singles For.079. Pence,(£), And I Had A Job At British Rail, And Yes I Actually Had To Work, !!!!!! If You Said You Wanted To Work From Home, You'd Be Sacked, "!! Oh Yes You Can Work From Home, If You Want To, But Don't Expect Your Job To Be Waiting For You When You Get " Back,!!!"'!!!! My Union Was The NUR,,!!!!! ASLEFT Were On Strike,,!!! ALL The Time,!!!!!!.
Why is there no trace of "Rock n' roll Nursery Rhyme" to be found anywhere? I used to have it on a single. It features Cliff Richard (?), Little Miss Muffet (Judy Teen, Cockney Rebel), Ring-a-ring-a-Roses (G Glitter + band), Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen (Streetlife, Roxy Music), Humpty Dumpty (Rubettes, Sugar Baby Love) and some others which I can't remember. All were brilliant and the last one mentioned above featured a brilliant impersonation of the Great Alan Freeman. I hope it's not being withheld or blocked solely because of the Glitter-related content. Can anyone post it, or shed any light, please? There is a Barron Knights Topic channel, but comments are switched off.
In 1997 I was on holiday with my parents in Devon and saw these guys performing. They did a spoof of queen's 'Killer Queen' about Camilla Parker Bowles called 'Will Camilla be Queen' ('face just like a runner bean'). The lyrics were all about her relationship with Charles and how things had gone wrong with Diana. A couple of days later of course, Diana was dead, and I thought back to that and found it really spooky.
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Wish I kept the programme 1987 but I didn't anyway there allways ebay .I've got my vinyls this is in my collection my mum had the record 😥 she's not with us anymore she liked this record it was amazing so funny
Comedy at one of it's BEST!!! along with the likes of BENNY HILL & Some mother's do av m & On the buses etc, etc unlike the 💩 that's put on our tv now.
@Bizarronumber4 . . . "and now 'C' block as well" (block 'C' in the Prison, I think !) I hadn't heard this for years and I can still sing almost every word - love it !
@TheKenfig - If you know the originals which they parody in each case, they are quite cleverly done, but I admint it may sound weird if you are not familiar with the original works, e.g. Boney M, Brian and Michael and the Smurfs (or else you just might not understand . . .).
Where are you all coming from? We're from Dartmoor on the run, How did you work out your route? We followed the arrows on our suits, What were you in Dartmoor for? We borrowed a safe from the bank next door, Why do you all talk this way? Cause we're from Catford, aren't we? Eh? Lalalala.........
Love this old stuff. Sadly my vinyl copy of Night Gallery got lost years ago and while some songs from the album appear on TH-cam I'm hoping one day someone will upload Boozy Nights, Lazy Fitter, Awful Seance (Floral Dance) and My Will (I Will).
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we need to recreate this and put it in eurovision, I LOVED this group. thank you for bringing back such happy memories
Now that would be worth watching Eurovision for!!
I haven't heard this in years!
Thank you for the nostalgia.
OMG I haven't heard this in almost 40 years!!! I had tears in my eyes from laughing!
@James Hodson Because I saw you commented on it, I had to listen to the song a few times today. It still makes me laugh!😃
I had a 'best of' tape of The Barron Knights in the early 80s and this was one of the tracks. Haven't heard it in almost 40 years, but remembered (most of) the words!
Christmas TOTP 😊😊😊😊🤣🤣🤣
This really takes me back. I was beginning to think I had imagined this band and this song. No one I talked to seemed to remember them . To hear it again is just delightful. Thank you so much for uploading this.
Imagined them?
When Get Down Shep was on Blue Peter?
OMG never heard this since I was a kid. How those wonderful memories just came flooding back.
Thank you for posting.
I haven’t heard this since it came out, but I have always remembered their version of Boney M when I’ve been to the dentist - once heard, never forgotten! Thanks for posting this - it’s as good as ever!
I have looked for this for years, today i stumbled on it, so happy
I grew up with the barren knights loved them then love them now ❤
I saw them live yesterday (1st December 2018) at The Stables in Milton Keynes... they played this one! :-) Only three of the original members now, but still rocking like they always did.
There first hit was called "Call up the Groups" which in 1963-4 did very well in the charts. In that they imitated the singing style of the Groups as well as singing different lyrics. Performed on Thank Your Lucky Stars quite often. They manage to somehow fit in the new lyrics to the original melody and make it humourous. Talented chaps.
They were fun, they were professional entertainers with bloody good voices
I'd totally forgotten about the Barron Knights until a clip appeared on my TH-cam feed tonight
Check out Barron Knights on Top of the Pops 1964. It looked to be a Christmas episode
Omg.... I had this on vinyl when I was toddler....
And still own it and remember every word!
(I was born in 82)
Good for you 😄👍😁😁😉
Wow happy memories I remember this and in particular the Barron Knights just so funny 🤣
OMG this is amazing, still has me laughing my head off, the best music ever, thank you guys, wow wow and more wows
Cheers hugely for uploading this, it really takes me back to a time when things were just more fun, less commercial and people who could entertain a live audience.
Good God This Brings Back Many Memories .....
OH Boy the Memories LMAO Thank You for posting this.
Great talented guys loved these as a kid
Love them!
First saw them at the Plaza,Rookery Road.Birmingham. Everyone stopped dancing to listen.
Val Kinch of
myself and my friends were obsessed with this song, when we were ten....
These guys are from before my time (only by about 10 years, mind you) but because I know all the songs (especially in this track) and with the way their lyrics just roll out like pure poetry, I'm having some of the best laughs since finding Stan Freberg's parodies 15-ish years ago! First I heard of them was only a week ago. Talk about missing out!
Never really made it, but so bloody funny, thank you Barron Knights. Remember from the 60's.
I saw them at Bailies (?) Leicester in the late70'S and they were superb.
Somewhere my parents still have a 7" vinyl of this, I used to love listening to it as a kid.
My Dad's got this on 7" vinyl somewhere. I knew the words by the time I was 7! Happy days. Remember my Dad hooting with laughter!
Had this on a BBC childrens compilation album (cassette) when I was a kid, lost the tape and have been singing it from memory ever since. Thank god I found it now I can get an MP3 :)
TY for posting. :)
It was probably on Crackerjack.
Still a wonderful Christmas collection of great songs. Where are they now
Still touring, after 50+ years!
I used to have this on 7" never understood it as i was only a kid, but now i get it. Brilliant memories
As an eleven year old I thought this was hysterical, I still do. Great stuff nostalgia. Thanks for posting..
Thanks for posting this good old musical humour …. It has been years since I last listen to them
Now that was awesome .Bring back the Barron Knights I say.
Thanks for playing at the Queens in Cleveleys back in the day when fun was fun!
laughed all the way through - thanks for uploading this :) brings back memories of being a kid. happy days. nothing like it these days.
Oh how it all comes flooding back! Thank you for the upload, so many memories!
I think I still have the LP. Where's the fun in the so-called music of today.??? Actually, I don't listen to any, and I don't know any singers, unless indirectly heard in conversation by others.!!
first time I've heard this particular song...absolutely brilliant, but nothing will ever beat their "Little White Bum" song!!!!!
micheala marshall "Heaving on a jet plane" just has to be the best.
This takes me back to simpler times. Much simpler. For the simple.
Great group. I have this and more on CD
Absolutely brilliant
This was actually the first 7" record I ever bought although it's much cooler to say it was Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie (first 12")
My 1st was Terry Wogan floral dance :D
i remember this and seen them on Top of Pops I wish the lads were altogether and sing in Manchester
I got this for Christmas as stocking filler aged 8 and my brother got Marys Boy Child. What a christmas
I saw them live about twenty years ago after listening to them for years on the radio on a friday night.
I remeber this song well, always remember the scene on Top of the Pops (or was it Crackerjack?) in the dentists chairs where they spat in the dentists face!
Loved the Barron Knights. Their parodies were hilarious and quite often better than the originals.
The Barron Knights and the Grumbleweeds were great Northern humour!
@@jamesmillar3548 If you call Leighton Buzzard Northern. But, yes, they were very clever and very funny. I remember seeing them supporting someone - it might even have been The Beatles. They wore a uniform of Norfolk Jackets.
Indeed. In addition to the examples in this song, Boy Scouts Out Camping is miles better than Uptown Top Ranking!
@@arthurpewtey There's a rumour that Jonathan Ross's version of 'Uptown Top Ranking., was banned by the BBC.
They were class, used to have a good laff listening to them 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂
They're absolutely great, I always like'd the one they did om II can't sleep at night tossing and turning
Just saw them on a documentary on BBC4. Never heard of them before but glad I have found them, also found my new ringtone :)
Remember seeing them at The Sheffield Show donkeys years back.
The Barron knights .I Like "And He Kicked Me, He kicked me In A Place I've Never been kicked Before.
Amazing to hear this again so many years later.
Still makes me laugh after all these years, thank you so much.
I saw the Barron Knights live, quite a few years ago, and I'm still laughing!
They were one of the best acts Live you would ever see. After Tarbuck said they wouldn't make it,then signed on the QE-2.
have always loved the barron knights - so funny
I'm off to see them in October... i cant wait.....Be my second time...they are so funny!!
Wow now I know i wasn't dreaming about this lol they were gr8
I used to see Butch (the tall one) and the singer in Leighton Buzzard when I lived there.
i remember this song very well love the oldies
Boney M loved being parodied by the Knights. Leo Sayer who returned from America to hear a song about his trousers not so keen.
As a teenager living in Northampton, England, I was one of the audience extras as the Baron Knights recorded a TV special at Cinderella’s Rockerfella’s nightclub. I have the show recorded on VHS tape as a keepsake. Need to get it converted to digital. Funny guys.
Had to listen a couple of times as was laughing so much I missed some of the lyrics!
I got a cassette from someone of lots of songs and parodies from these guys. Absolutley brilliant
I too just saw this on BBC4 documentary - it's brilliant.
Got lots of these aboslutely awesome
We went to see them live 1984 sorry great yarmouth
Great stuff, lol Remembering the day.
Thanks for the upload ;)
I remember the Barron Knights at the time were something of an embarrassment, but listening to these now, they really captured the times, and it is s reminder of the culture of the late 70s.
There's a Dentist in Birmingham parodies Rivers of Babylon by Boney M
Lukeypup95 Productions
Did You Know That The Lead Singer Of Bonny M, Said If You Didn't Get The Mikky Taken Out Of Your Song,!! By The Barron Knights, You Hadn't Made It,!!!!!!!! In The Chart's,!!!!!
@@susanhughs1031 I never knew that. Thanks.
Unah Tut Tut 🙄🙄, I Want So Badly To Go Back To The 1970's I So Hate The 21'st Century,!!!!! Go To To Ourprice Record, Shop Or Woolworths And Buy Singles For.079. Pence,(£), And I Had A Job At British Rail, And Yes I Actually Had To Work, !!!!!! If You Said You Wanted To Work From Home, You'd Be Sacked, "!! Oh Yes You Can Work From Home, If You Want To, But Don't Expect Your Job To Be Waiting For You When You Get " Back,!!!"'!!!! My Union Was The NUR,,!!!!! ASLEFT Were On Strike,,!!! ALL The Time,!!!!!!.
The first single I ever bought.
Me too!!
love this a 70's great
+paul guest same ,,, bring back the 70s,,!!!
Blimey, remember so well I brought the LP , I was eleven, I even still know the words, good harmless fun.
Well done for uploading.
Still got this LP so funny..
BRILLIANT i Love it from my Childhood.
Yes Update it & it will be a Million seller.
People like innocent fun in Bad times & good times. 7/3/22.
bought this album in the seventies. absolutely fantastic
I think more people were happy and less stressed in those days.
Why is there no trace of "Rock n' roll Nursery Rhyme" to be found anywhere? I used to have it on a single. It features Cliff Richard (?), Little Miss Muffet (Judy Teen, Cockney Rebel), Ring-a-ring-a-Roses (G Glitter + band), Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen (Streetlife, Roxy Music), Humpty Dumpty (Rubettes, Sugar Baby Love) and some others which I can't remember. All were brilliant and the last one mentioned above featured a brilliant impersonation of the Great Alan Freeman. I hope it's not being withheld or blocked solely because of the Glitter-related content. Can anyone post it, or shed any light, please? There is a Barron Knights Topic channel, but comments are switched off.
The have been going since the 60's and were very talented.
In 1997 I was on holiday with my parents in Devon and saw these guys performing. They did a spoof of queen's 'Killer Queen' about Camilla Parker Bowles called 'Will Camilla be Queen' ('face just like a runner bean'). The lyrics were all about her relationship with Charles and how things had gone wrong with Diana. A couple of days later of course, Diana was dead, and I thought back to that and found it really spooky.
I can't believe I remember all the words!!
First heard this over 30 years ago and it's still good today
My hubby knew the Barron Knights he and they came from Leighton Buzzard Beds.
Awesome barron knights
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Wish I kept the programme 1987 but I didn't anyway there allways ebay .I've got my vinyls this is in my collection my mum had the record 😥 she's not with us anymore she liked this record it was amazing so funny
Comedy at one of it's BEST!!! along with the likes of BENNY HILL & Some mother's do av m & On the buses etc, etc unlike the 💩 that's put on our tv now.
@Bizarronumber4
. . . "and now 'C' block as well" (block 'C' in the Prison, I think !)
I hadn't heard this for years and I can still sing almost every word - love it !
I always play this song after I have been to the dentist
this is gold
They were well funny and still are
@TheKenfig - If you know the originals which they parody in each case, they are quite cleverly done, but I admint it may sound weird if you are not familiar with the original works, e.g. Boney M, Brian and Michael and the Smurfs (or else you just might not understand . . .).
Where are you all coming from?
We're from Dartmoor on the run,
How did you work out your route?
We followed the arrows on our suits,
What were you in Dartmoor for?
We borrowed a safe from the bank next door,
Why do you all talk this way?
Cause we're from Catford, aren't we? Eh?
Lalalala.........
Can you imagine what fun the Knights could have had with todays So -called Music . LOL
Seen them live during spec ops tour - they did tours for hm forces
Great band!
Good one...
I bought this from Wollies, 😂👌
I was just ten when this came out.
My favourite Barrpn Knights song is The Chappel Lead.
Love this old stuff. Sadly my vinyl copy of Night Gallery got lost years ago and while some songs from the album appear on TH-cam I'm hoping one day someone will upload Boozy Nights, Lazy Fitter, Awful Seance (Floral Dance) and My Will (I Will).