Interestingly, a full year before "Ooh I Could Crush a Grape", Stu Francis released the clunkily titled "I Could Have Crushed a Grape".
https://img.discogs.com/LY5GUf5sZ-vl3ydMzAl3y-v39B4=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5020058-1451128749-1406.jpeg.jpg
Can't find any trace of this on YouTube though :(
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Written and produced by Brian Chatton (Francis at least had a co-write on "Ooh.."), a session guy with a fairly credible track record who, nonetheless, also played on this 'Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do' perennial:
https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/alb.118624068/500x500.jpg
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 24 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 25 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Classic poll.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
BALLOON
― nashwan, Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
missed this and therefore "jump off a doll's house" missed a deserved vote
I misremembered "Wrestle an Action Man" as "arm-wrestle an action man"
I occasionally over the years have found myself repeating some of these phrases out loud to the bemusement of my kids.
― オニモ (onimo), Friday, 7 August 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
"Prize open a mince pie" has been slept on imo
― Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
I somehow missed that Chas & Dave did a theme tune for Crackerjack.
https://youtube/b7WVgZ6dbsw
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link