Was Dog a Doughnut? - Cat Stevens

Can we trace the birth of electropop back to Cat Stevens and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section? I don't know, but this does sound like the title theme to an 80s TV maths programme.

Calculate the mass of the moral vacuity at the heart of any kind of TV nostalgia.

In 1984 a book of marked bamboo strips dating from 180 B.C.E were discovered near Jiangling in Hubei province. They are some of the earliest writings on Mathematics. In the UK in 1984, Mathematics was taught on TV using train timetables and light comedy sketches set in hardware stores and starring Roger Sloman.

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There Is A Mountain - Donovan

Sit down on the mat and clap. It's one of those musical education shows. Make up a song about mountains. The next verse is about caterpillars. Sing a song of sixpence. Shake this. Rattle that. Knock on wood... with a stick. You can make music with anything.

Donovan Leich dropped out of art school at 18 and embarked on a life as a travelling troubadour with his mentor Gypsy Dave. He needn't have bothered with the nickname; I've never met anyone called Dave who wasn't a bit of a gypo.

Any kind of TV nostalgia is an illness. Like cancer or jokes about golf.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

11/05 Had bad dream about being attacked by Stitch from film Lilo and Stitch



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