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Dr Who is Who - Soundtrack

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Newest Review: ... had they decided to stand. While I've always regarded Dr Who reference books with some suspicion, it is certainly true ... more

... that an awful lot of Dalek related pap was released at the time. Dalek toys, sweets, comics, and this song. "I want to spend my Christmas with a Dalek/And hug him underneath the mistletoe/And if he's very nice/I'll feed him sugared spice/And hang a Christmas stocking from his big red toe" claims the lead singer of the Go Gos in her irritating little-girl voice. Those first lines of the song should pretty much tell you what to expect. Clearly this girl had absolutely no concept of what a Dalek act...more

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Dr Who is Who - Soundtrack: Who is Dr Who? (1897 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 09/08/01 (Very useful, 324 readings)
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In days gone by, when we lived in a happier, more innocent time, if something was popular on TV it would spawn any number of tacky spin-offs. Probably the king of spin-offs was the novelty single. Nowadays you instead get compilation albums of soundtracks, or even worse, albums "themed" around a specific show. I suppose this is a logical symptom of the decline in importance of the singles chart. The novelty single is almost completely dead now. Anyway, in the mid-sixties Dr Who was pretty darned popular, especially when it featured The Daleks. And there were, it turns out, rather a lot of novelty singles and other pieces of music cashing in on its ...

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