I'm loathe to criticise this phenomenon as I haven't seen any of the movies - and they are not aimed at me.

I find the music generic and awful - typical near perfect US photocopy sounds with no originality or true quality at all - but haven't watched the fillums and can't bring myself to do so.

But my overall feeling is - anything that boosts music and entertainment must be good. And if the children enjoying them can now be informed and educated in the joys of really good music - fine.

I've always believed that even ghastly popular music (many feel my own fits into that category) is worth championing if it appeals to consumers. Never put our own value judgments on the sounds others enjoy.

I hated Leap Up And Down Wave Your Knickers In The Air but I produced it because I felt millions would love it.

They did.

Errm, my Mum would not let me have St Cecilia records, I loved them , I thought they were brilliant at the time.

What we all have to understand as we stay in this addictive job of music for our entire lives, is that just because we are fed up with a chord sequence, that has been fantastic forever, there will always be somebody that it hearing it for the first time. The St Cecilia record demonstrated this perfectly as do the High School Musical songs, and slightly off tangent, Black lace pretty much also used the St Cecilia chord sequence and feel for Agadoo.

So many people in the industry seem to forget that the buying public are not all musicians or music critics.

The HSM franchise which is now losing steam, is a product of Disney Channel saturation marketing via television first.

I've found that the kids love great music if they are exposed to it, and will almost always pick it over ghastly pap everytime, IF they have the chance.

HSM may be the last time this can be done to those numbers. Does anyone realize the cost to get to those numbers. Much more so than in the past......Many on this board do.

With every generation there will be new listeners GG, the main thing that has kept me going in music is new audiences being in a "Wow!" state at the simplest things that us older musos can do as guitar players/drummers etc.
I personally hate the High School Musical thing, but for a lot of people , it is the soundtrack of their lives.

I have never seen High School Musical, and couldn't name one song from either of the movies.

I still have not seen Grease, the movie, although I did see it on stage. In the 1970s Grease was hyped to saturation point to the effect that I grew to hate it even without seeing it - same thing happened with Titanic, which I still haven't seen.

Also, I have still have not heard "Leap up and down and wave your nickers in the air".

ere you go Al

Well well Mart; I never knew that even existed.

Made the record for

Thanks for the link, Mart. I gave it a listen, but when it finished I found myself humming Paul Evans' "Seven Little Girls". I'm sure they are not that much alike, but must have the same hook. The nickers song has been completely erased from my memory already.

Wow, that was two minutes of pure... Well, it was two minutes long. Of that I'm sure.

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep was written by Harold Stott, who had a hit with it in Italy. But his label (Philips) didn't release the record anywhere else, so an italian producer, Giacomo Tosti, made a cover version ... the rest is history.

Sott died in 1977 after he had an accident with a Harley Davidson (bought with the money he had earned from the song).

Holy H Corbett that is mince!