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Topic History of: Is "Mouldy Old Dough" a good song? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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PaulB
When it first came out I asked my grandmother to give me a copy for my birthday. I loved it then and I still have, and still play, my 7inch as well as occasionally listening to it on youtube etc.
I like it because it sounds good and still makes me smile so, in my opinion it is a good song.
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Kevin
JK2006 wrote: Never forget Winifred Atwell!
I was almost typing her name out in my original comment and then didn't!
Infact I heard Gambo play Poor People Of Paris by her on his show just a few days ago, another chart topper of the kind from 1956. For some reason this song reminds me of something that could have been a theme tune to some programme back in the 1970s as the credits roll.
Kevin wrote: I'm not quite sure how Mouldy Old Dough tapped into the nation's collective consciousness to the extent it did. Popcorn by Hot Butter was far superior and incredibly catchy. Mouldy Old Dough just sounds like a pub record to me, the kind of thing knocked out by someone for a quick plonk on the keyboard on an ancient old piano inn the corner of a smoke filled room. Much the same as Roulette and Side Saddle by Russ Conway, both those singles hit the top spot too back in 1959, so there is something about this type of piano playing that used to appeal.
I can't define the music genre Mouldy Old Dough would belong to but it's an interesting track with surprising endurance.
Other better ones that slightly compare are On The Rebound by Floyd Cramer and Nut Rocker by B.Bumble and The Stingers, also both chart toppers from 1961 and 1962 respectively.
From the autumn winter of 1972/3 era of Mouldy Old Dough I'd go more for something like Sylvia or Hocus Pocus by Focus.
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