He went out on a bender, slugged the bartender, and stole all the strawberry gin

Continuing my trip back through the 1959 album charts.

20/09/59 : Strictly For Grownups - Paddy Roberts


I've no idea what this could be so I'm a bit afraid it's some "comedy" or, even worse "comedy songs".

Oh yes, we're in the land of "comedy songs" - they're all done in a cabaret piano player style and recount various amusing contemporary (for the time) tales. However, to my surprise, whilst it's obviously dated, it actually raised quite a few chuckles and some of it was quite clever and also surprisingly rude - I imagine it went down a storm in certain circles in 1959. There's no danger of me ever visiting it again, but it could have been a helluva lot worse - it's intriguing to see that this has dated reasonably well, unlike Peter Sellers.

We're at #8 in the charts this week with a new entry on the start of an impressive one week run. He did come back for five more runs though, all of which were one week except for the last run, which was two whole weeks - but he never got any higher than this. The top five this week were South Pacific, Gigi, Peter Sellers, My Fair Lady and Russ Conway and we have one more new entry in the chart for 101 Strings (#10) and, of course, no named women.

Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for the album, but does have an entry for the EP of the same name - although it might as well not have bothered given how little info there is on there. Paddy's entry tells us that he was originally the slightly unusual combination of a lawyer and a pilot before he decided singer/songwriter of slightly unusual songs was the way forward - quite a strange career path!

"Customers also listened to" Eileen Donaghy, Michael Marra, Alex Glasgow and Maurice Grumbleweed - all of whom I've never heard of and I'm absolutely fine with that. But I'd never heard of Paddy either and found this surprisingly amusing in places.

06/09/59 - Decent enough
27/09/59 - Your call is important to us...

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