tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post2015990467643068744..comments2024-03-18T23:41:33.320+00:00Comments on Left and to the Back: Second Hand Record Dip Part 56 - The Grumbleweeds - Goodbye (Adieu Mein Kleiner Gardeoffizier)23 Daveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341570374606412042noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-20607960634391238632010-06-26T07:40:07.859+01:002010-06-26T07:40:07.859+01:00Fabulous we need more of this, I would love to see...Fabulous we need more of this, I would love to seem them live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-81827476538480090372010-06-24T02:43:45.173+01:002010-06-24T02:43:45.173+01:00I keenly enjoyed The Grumbleweeds at the time as w...I keenly enjoyed The Grumbleweeds at the time as well, although for some reason the only thing I can remember now (besides the theme tune) was one of them constantly interrupting another act's performance by inflating some balloons whilst wearing a gas mask. Hilarity and corpsing all round. <br /><br />Actually, if my memory and yours are anything to go by, perhaps they were a bit bleaker and odder than they've been given credit for...23 Daveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341570374606412042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-79630297096437122492010-06-23T21:21:18.542+01:002010-06-23T21:21:18.542+01:00Hmmm... reminiscent of some odd singles by The Bar...Hmmm... reminiscent of some odd singles by The Barron Knights where they dispensed with the humour in the vain hope people might accept them as a more "serious" band... which of course didn't work.<br /><br />Last heard of The Grumbleweeds doing some residency in Blackpool in 2008... might had been at the Pleasure Beach. Think they're down to just two of the "originals" one being the little one. <br /><br />I did actually find some of their material on the TV show amusing... well... I WAS a kid at the time. Bob Monkhouse had his famous joke books whereas The Grumbleweeds had... The Beano!<br /><br />I do remember rolling about with laughter at some Christmas skit with the little one doing some monologue that involved Santa going down the chimney of the Crematorium... strange what one tends to remember. And no I've never been able to dislodge their theme song from my brain either!The Confusednoreply@blogger.com