He's a real tasty geezer
I'm not sure who or what this Johnny Reggae bloke was supposed to be, with the lines about how he's "grown his hair a bit but it's smooth, not too long" and his "two-tone tonic strides" I've always pictured him as a Suedehead, but they didn't wear "big white basketball boots" far as know, so maybe this is some other offshoot of Mod that I'm unaware of. But English youth cults can be hard to pin down sometimes, especially the whole Mod-Skinhead-Suedehead continuum where the differences between them can be measured in the width of a Ben Sherman shirt collar.
Download: Johnny Reggae - The Piglets (mp3)
For those that don't know this was a famous one-hit wonder from 1971 and "he's a real tasty geezer" became a popular phrase for years, at least round my way.
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I think you'll find it's one of the one-hit wonders we can thank Jonathan King for - along with "It only takes a minute" by One Hundred Ton and A Feather, "It's good news week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous and, a personal favourite: "Loop di Love" by Shag (!)
...and did you know he gave 10cc their first break?
Phil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King
Check out his photo. Ideal for the dartboard.
Almost as bad as his 'sexual offences' was in 1990 - at the end of the Thatcher government - when King released "We Can't Let Maggie Go". It did not enter the charts.
Yeah, Jonathan King (pauses to be colourfully and violently sick)! I once had a compilation of all those pseudonym hits, complete with Mr. Paedo's flexi-disc telling you how to have a number one hit record. Now you know why I purged all my vinyl and made way for CDs. I still like 'Everyone's Gone To The Moon', though.
Great track! Always felt this was a big influence on Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance single.
The Shag single mentioned in the first comment was the first single I remember buying with my own money.
Johnny Reggae was a soldier boy on leave. In some parts of the country Army blokes were called Reggaes. A change derivative of the word regimental.
Song is ok I s'pose, but that book must be a great read!!! Leastways judging by the battered and abused condition it's in. Must've been someones 'bible' perhaps?????
Great Blog by the way......
Obey_Gravity
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