{"id":34626,"date":"2025-08-29T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34626"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:50:32","slug":"ging-gang-goolie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34626","title":{"rendered":"Ging Gang Goolie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I&#8217;d known about Eric Idle&#8217;s pseudo-Rutles song, &#8220;Ging Gang Goolie,&#8221; for years, I&#8217;d never heard it until last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIRK &amp; STIG - &#039;Ging Gang Goolie&#039; (Rare Original Promo - 1978)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6SOaDKHoCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an old Boy Scouts nonsense song, performed by &#8220;Dick &amp; Stig&#8221; &#8212; ie., Eric Idle and Ricky Fataar, as Idle played Dirk McQuickly and Fataar played Stig O&#8217;Hara in Idle&#8217;s <i>The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash<\/i>.  But while Fataar performed <i>musically<\/i> as Stig for the comedy special and the soundtrack album, Ollie Halsall performed musically as Dirk, with Idle miming to Halsall&#8217;s musical performance on screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, my terming the song &#8220;pseudo-Rutles.&#8221;  Idle sounds like Idle, not like Dirk, and it&#8217;s novelty song, not a pastiche.  Even the video feels more Monty Python sketch than Beatles promo film.  I feel like Neil Innes would have had notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s catchy and fun, and I like the steel drum sound.  The video was apparently shot at Tittenhurst Park, which was owned by Ringo Starr at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul McCartney&#8217;s brother, Mike McGear, recorded his own version of the song a decade earlier with his comedy band, The Scaffold, with the verse lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gin Gan Goolie (1998 Remaster)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGfbGBCORRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fun in a different way.  I like both, though my preference is for the Dirk &amp; Stig version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I find myself wondering what a Bonzo Dog version would have sounded like.  Viv Stanshall would have been madder than a box of hatters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;d known about Eric Idle&#8217;s pseudo-Rutles song, &#8220;Ging Gang Goolie,&#8221; for years, I&#8217;d never heard it until last night. It&#8217;s an old Boy Scouts nonsense song, performed by &#8220;Dick &amp; Stig&#8221; &#8212; ie., Eric Idle and Ricky Fataar, as Idle played Dirk McQuickly and Fataar played Stig O&#8217;Hara in Idle&#8217;s The Rutles: All You<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34626\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ging Gang Goolie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[462,565,95,132,4951,566,5284],"class_list":["post-34626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-boy-scouts","tag-eric-idle","tag-neil-innes","tag-ringo-starr","tag-the-beatles-2","tag-the-rutles","tag-the-scaffold","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}