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Friday, 14 April 2023

Product Placement Friday #9: Cadbury's Creme Egg

I know, I should have done this one last Friday. Give me a break. You're lucky I still know what year it is. (1997, right?) Anyway, the Cadbury's Creme Egg... too sweet for me these days, but I was a fan in my younger years. Sam has become rather obsessed with Creme Eggs recently due to a promotional gimmick where if you find one that's half white chocolate and don't eat it, you can win ten billion pounds. Or something. Onto the tunes...

Let's start with a band that played our local venue a couple of weekends back. Sadly I wasn't free, but I'd happily have paid a pound for a ticket...

Ten double-A batteries? (Just a pound!)
Some rubbish CDs? (Just a pound!)
Fifty wooden pegs? (Just a pound!)
Three Cadbury's Creme Eggs? (Just a pound!)
A slotted spoon? (Just a pound!)
A big pack of balloons? (Just a pound!)
A cleaning mitt? (Just a pound!)
A nasal hair removal kit!

The Lancashire Hotpots - I'm Going To Poundland

From Lancashire to Canada... where I was surprised to learn they also have Creme Eggs...

A&W Root Beer

Cadbury Creme Eggs

I can't get enough

Are my teeth on their last legs? (They are.)

B.A. Johnston - All My Teeth Gonna Fall out My Head

Similarly, they sell them in the US too (made by Hershey's though, so I doubt they taste the same). These guys are from Virginia...

Easter time is here again

And it’s the day we celebrate

The morning that the Easter Bunny rises from the grave

And if he sees his shadow then it’s six more weeks of winter

If he doesn’t see it, everyone gets Cadbury Crème Eggs

And he never sees his shadow, thank the Lord

Paul And Storm - The Easter Song

New Zealand pop sensation Lorde is also a big fan of Creme Eggs. She even rewrote one of her own hits as an ode to the best-selling confectionery item between New Year's Day and Easter...

Lorde - Green Light (Creme Egg Remix)

A few years back, Cadbury's changed Creme Eggs, allegedly making them smaller or nastier to rob us of our childhood. When that kind of thing happens (as it frequently does), only a protest song will do...

Boo Detch - Cadbury Creme Egg Song

I know. I know. All this week's offerings are comedy songs or parodies. And I know that some of you musos feel there's no place for humour in serious pop songs. All I can really offer you in the way of serious music is this. Lou Reed has got the name a bit mixed up... but I'm pretty sure he's singing about Creme Eggs here. No, he definitely is...

Monday, 27 February 2023

Celebrity Jukebox #73: Angela Lansbury

Last week, we lost Raquel Welch. It's only a few months since she featured here... so maybe I am going to stick with dead celebs for the time being. Plenty of them to go around, and as Alyson reminds us, there will be more and more over the next few years.

All of which brings us to Angela Lansbury, who died last year, aged 96. Most famous for her role as crime-busting author Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote, Lansbury had been acting for over 40 years before she took on that part, including major roles in The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs & Broomsticks and The Company of Wolves. Not forgetting that she was Elvis's mum in Blue Hawaii. And she could sing too...

Angela Lansbury - It's Today

Would you expect to find her in a Wu Tang Clan song though?

Wu Tang Clan feat. Ras Kass - The End

Hereditary trait, seeking salvation like the Cranberries

Wrote Murder with Angela Lansbury often

Til my biological clock stops and my casket falls

Quite.

Once that's out of the way, we can turn to music (and lyrics) more suited to these aging eardrums...

Laura's Invention - Enter I Said

Sinatra died and Grandma cried and we all sat around until

I asked if you'd ever seen the Manchurian Candidate

It's a John Frankenheimer film