The Birdie Song - classic or dud

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And should I play it at a friend's wedding tomorrow?

― DV, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently it had lyrics in France.

― DV, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha this will sort the faux populists from the ironic hipsters!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rather that than "Superman" by Black Lace, put it that way.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once care-worked in a day centre for the elderly in Leeds. Part of the daily routine involved ‘passive exercises’ for the residents, a light stretching routine they could do from out of their armchairs or wheelchairs. The care workers were required to stand in front and lead as enthusiastically as possible to the sounds of the ‘The Birdie Song’.

I would do anything I could think of, anything at all, to avoid this humiliation. Around the scheduled time I’d offer to take someone with chronic incontinence or diarrhoea for a long trip to the WC….. or volunteer to give Stan the paranoid schizophrenic everyone was a bit wary of a bath and shave……. it would seldom would work . Great Steve now you’re back we can stick the birdie song on and you can lead.

― stevo, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

clap-clap-clap-clap

― Queen G of the lamenting anal labias, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently it had lyrics in France
It did at my school as well, "With a little bit of this and a little bit of that, then shake your arse".

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mozart, Yes, "The Birdie Song"... i heart nu-ILM! TS: Tweet vs. The Tweets

Dud, by the way.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

EVERY COPY OF THIS DISGRACE SHOULD BE BURNT.

― Chris, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know one of the guys who played on the session for The Birdie Song. The band were given the choice of a flat fee (around 50 quid if memory serves) or coming up with a B side. No matter how much of a piece of crap it was, they'd have shared half the songwriting royalties. Needless to say the band insisted on the flat fee and headed off for beer and curry. He reckons this smart move cost him around £650,000.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes it did have lyrics in French which I used to know but am now limited to:

C'est la dance des canards/Schmiddybiddybiddy mar/lalalala

You know...

― dog latin, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Classic!

― man, Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

As ILM's ultimate non-dancer, I will of course claim it heavily dud :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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