131 Songs - Number 25

Number 25 - Jollity Farm by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

If I had to revisit any concert from the last forty five years it would be Bonzo Dog at the University of Sussex in 1967. They were just about to hit the big time and played to a packed hall with a drunken and hilarious set of magical sounds. Headed by the legendary Vivian Stanshall (who narrated "Tubular Bells" and died in a fire at home in 1995), they were enthusiastically received by the cheering students. We stood on chairs around the walls of the hall to see over the throng, and we were treated to something really special.

Jollity Farm was probably one of the best on that night, although I could have picked "Intro And The Outro". Their best and most successful song, "I'm The Urban Spaceman", came out the following year. As it says on their website "It may be rubbish - but by golly it's British rubbish".