22a. Lenny Williams – “Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh”
“American Bandstand, here I come / Soul Train, Rock Concert…”: ‘Rock Concert’ was the TV show run by Don Kirshner, so that would’ve been the one we’d’ve liked to be on. Oh, this is such a positive, uplifting song: he’s full of the joys of spring, the world is his oyster and, well, they’re coming, sure, but he’s not yet been crushed by the wheels of industry. Which is nice. “Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh” was especially pretty central to our “Teenage High”.
“American Bandstand, here I come / Soul Train, Rock Concert…”: ‘Rock Concert’ was the TV show run by Don Kirshner, so that would’ve been the one we’d’ve liked to be on. Oh, this is such a positive, uplifting song: he’s full of the joys of spring, the world is his oyster and, well, they’re coming, sure, but he’s not yet been crushed by the wheels of industry. Which is nice. “Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh” was especially pretty central to our “Teenage High”.
22b. William DeVaughn – “Be Thankful For What You Got”
Wait: it’s another flippy-over single of two halves! Even through all those phrases which we didn’t understand, it sounded so positive. Plus, it has that blaxploitation thing about it that we liked (the bass player on the cover of “The Great White Wonder” started off looking exactly like a character out of ‘Blacula’ until we toned it down a bit). We always kinda thought of this and the Lenny Williams song as a pair, like a buddy movie or something. We were so obsessed by “Be Thankful For What You Got” that, well, all that “sunroof / diamond in the back” gubbins, which directly shows up in “Tonight” on “Formula One Generation”... we were always trying to shoe-horn that in somewhere!
"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album. See 'About Me' for details.
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