I ♥ Wicked & Sinful Rugby!

[glampunk]

I ♥ Wicked & Sinful Rugby!



Top badly posed rugby action!

Not my thing at all, but if rugby has one redeeming feature, it is this: the oval ball seems to inspire paperback and record cover designers to the most laudable creative depths as evidenced by this saucy selection!

Never say this board doesn't cater for a female audience. But enough of this frankly, distasteful naked men nonsense already! Moving swiftly on and ... this is more like it!

"No Foul! Play On!"

Music For Pleasure. Two fine specimens from the Hallmark 'buy it, keep the cover, chuck the record away' catalogue.


More to follow .....? Let's hope not!

[phantomrider]

I'm a late comer to the game but now hold a season ticket for the Tigers thanks to my son not being a bit like his father and actually playing the sport!

That said, I remember the book of Rugby songs and More rugby songs very well indeed as my uncle owned them. seem to remember one of them had the lyrics for friggin in the rigginin it....

[glampunk]

I just checked, phantom, and it isn't in Why Was He Born So Beautiful & Other Rugby Songs (the only one I have), so that narrows the search a little. It kind of makes complete sense that Steve Jones would have bought one of these, doesn't it?

s mentioned on another thread that it's mandatory for charity shops to stock at least one copy of Ivor Watkins' wolves on the rampage classic The Bloodsnarl (that certainly used to be the case in London but they seem to have migrated to the midlands now), and time was when the same applied to these Rugby songbooks. Not so long ago, when I wasn't the slightest interested in getting hold of 'em, I could probably have picked up the entire set in a morning but now, like Wheatley novels and the Confessions ... books, they've ... vanished. Even the albums!

Anyhow, not strictly rugby, in fact, not rugby at all, but somehow related:

Who bought this stuff? Can you imagine any situation in which you'd think "I know! I'll put that Bawdy Barrack Room Ballads LP on now!"

And that's me knackered on the subject for the time being.

[Craig Herbertson]

That last is a goodie. I fail to imagine any situation where I would rush to play it though - perhaps spectacularly pissed or stoned and mistaking it for Court of the Crimson King or a frisby or pizza box

[phantomrider]

I don't think my dad would need any excuse

I also think it is compulsory for any booksale anywhere to have a copy of The Devil Rides Out.....

[dem bones]

So where were we before I entered my gloompunk phase? it seems like ages, yesterday in fact, since last smut interlude. Lucky me, I've stockpiled a fair amount of this splendidly unsexy junk in the interim.

Another from Music For Pleasure's heyday.

From a time when the triumph that was Are You Being Served? The Movie was the last word in side-splitting hilarity.

[dem bones]

a football interlude ....

The Showbiz XI - The Showbiz Soccer Song (Showbiz Records, 1989/ 1990)

The great Steve I'm Going To Spain Bent in action.

David Easter - Sing for Me Suzanne
Denis Gilmore & Lee MacDonald - Why Did They Take Heaven
Jess Conrad - Jesus The Messiah
Jess Conrad and Tanya Tenola - Soccer Superstar
Tony Selby - Canada
Steve Bent - Country and Western Cowboy
Robert Scott - Indian Brave
Showbiz Soccer Team - John Wayne American
Lesley Vickerage - The Story of Dorothy Stratten
Jess Conrad - Black Stockings
Showbiz Soccer Team - Showbiz Soccer

"There's no business like the Showbiz soccer team/ We're the most sporting side you've ever seen/ We all have fun and laughter/ scoring goals for charity/ We're the showbiz soccer team."

"Hi soccer fans, I'm player-manager Jess Conrad/ I've been raising money for charity from 1959/ I'm the longest reigning goalkeeper of all time/ and did you know the Showbiz team have raise hundreds and thousands of pounds to help others/ so come on, sing along/ to the Showbiz Soccer team song/ Yeah!"

Jess Conrad, goalkeeping genius

All credit for this magical find belongs to the good people at WFMU's Beware Of The Blog who have compiled an 11 song 'greatest hits' sampler from the two (!) Showbiz XI The Showbiz Soccer Song LP's for your listening pleasure (just click on the album cover). In truth, only two of the tracks relate directly to football, but do not be too distressed about this as once you get past David Easter's maudlin opener, it is solid gold excruciating listening all the way. Jess Conrad, inevitably, steals the show. The justly acclaimed Soccer Superstar is up there with his very finest moments (This Pullover, Cherry Pie and the extraordinary Why Am I Living?, all three of which feature on Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record Show), while steamy jazz-funk workout Black Stockings is worthy of Madonna circa I'm Breathless. As for Denis Gilmore & Lee MacDonald's Why Did They Take Heaven?, it's ... it's .....