Make sure you stick around for the credits at the end.

70s dolly bird overload!

BeBop Deluxe! Legs & Co! Jimmy Saville?

If you like these wonderful dancing dolly videos — is the Pope Catholic? Does Judith Chalmers have a passport? — allow me to point you in the direction of the blog One For The Dads. You can thank me later, if you ever return from there that is.

Apologies for my absence this week, I left my blogging mojo in my other pants and I think those pants were at the cleaners.

Watching this I keep thinking that surely at some point the Top of The Pops cameraman will move way and focus on someone else. But no, he stays right where he is for the whole song with the camera ending up almost inside her top. The screen goes black for a second at one point which may have been caused by the cameraman fighting off the floor manager who was desperately trying to get him to zoom out. This might be the real reason “Sugar Sugar” got to Number One.

A classic TOTP moment, the first time a lot of people had seen body-popping and the moonwalk. Everyone was talking about it in the pub that Friday night, and nearly everyone I knew bought a copy of the Friends album too — and you should if you haven’t.

Lots to enjoy in the audience too, especially the bloke in the blue trousers.

Barking, bonkers, brilliance.