YouTube played this on my playlist. I don't even remember Shabby Tiger or hearing this song on the airwaves. I wonder if either of you remembers them? I bet they were another casualty of the punk moment.

Then again, in 1976, I was probably playing Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering by Genesis, Octoberon by BJH, 2121 by Rush and Rose of Cimarron by Poco.

They were a one-album wonder, but released numerous singles, like Bilbo (Baggins), who didn't release an LP, but they recorded enough songs for a singles compilation album.

I'm afraid i don't recall them. I don't think they had any hit singles (top 20).There music doesn't appear in any 70s compilation albums, as far as i'm aware.

Your comment is the first time I have ever heard of the name Shabby Tiger. 1976 would be far too soon for me to be noticing music in any meaningful sense. That came two or three years later.

You mention the airwaves of that time, it reminds me of watching the BBC4 repeats of TOTP in sequence a few years ago. Quite often the show seemed to begin with a song not even in the charts, or feature one at some point in the show, so very far from top of anything, obviously to give unknown groups with a perceived decent song to the production team a boost and bit of profile to a mass audience. But I was surprised how many of these acts I'd never heard even the name of and who sunk immediately without trace despite that kind of exposure back in time.

Thanks, guys. I think it has a decent melody; it's amazing what it's on YouTube and the algorithms it uses.

Robbiex wrote:
I'm afraid i don't recall them. I don't think they had any hit singles (top 20).There music doesn't appear in any 70s compilation albums, as far as i'm aware.

The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums does not list Shabby Tiger, thus confirming they never had a UK Top 75 single or a UK Top 100 album.

That Poco track I did know, it has had a couple of plays on Sounds of the 70's in the last year or two. Never a UK hit though.

Bilbo did slightly better. They appeared on TOTP this week in 1978, the week their only very minor hit, She's Gonna Win chart debuted at No53, stalling outside the forty at No42 in September. The vast 1978 TOTP audience and it only propelled it 53 to 51 the next week. Another one that busts the TOTP selling myth.

Bilbo, She's Gonna Win - youtu.be/mA1oKJAb7pw?si=bLgegwAxPJrvqom6

One of my sisters loved Bilbo Baggins, then they changed their name to just Bilbo. I am still shocked, though they never released an album or a compilation.