Little & Large - Around The Old Camp Fire

Here it is - the "holy grail" of Little & Large records: Around The Old Camp Fire! This cost quite a bit on ebay but it was worth every pound/euro... Much loved and remembered by those who were there at the time (like myself), Around The Old Camp Fire should have been a hit but it wasn't. But everyone - including myself - seems to remember it from the performance on The Little & Large Show - so that only proves how extremely popular Syd and Eddie were at that point. Aaahh yes. The good old fun loving days where you could look forward to a decent Saturday early evening comedy variety show - Little & Large, Russ Abbot, Bobby Davro, even Michael Barrymore had it in him at some point (but we won't go into that). How times have sadly changed... Well, anyway, onto the record...

"Around The Old Camp Fire" is a nostalgic anecdotal tale of being a boy scout, singing songs and eating fairy cakes whilst sitting around the old camp fire "where the mushrooms used to grow and me muscles you to show". It's a splendid bit of harmless fun and an insanely catchy track to boot. It's a bit of a crime that it hasn't been reissued on some novelty compilation. The b-side - "I'm In Love With Angela Rippon" - is rather horrible and is twice the length of the superior a-side although it does feature the amusing line: "There's nowhere on Earth that I wouldn't take her - She's much nicer legs than Richard Baker." Note that the song chorus actually goes "We're in love with Angela Rippon" and not "I'm in love with Angela Rippon" which it is actually titled. For the record, I could never stand Angela Rippon - I was always more of an Anna Ford kinda guy.

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Little & Large

Around The Old Camp Fire

EMI

1981

17 mb

MU / RS

1. Around The Old Camp Fire

2. I'm In Love With Angela Rippon

Ripped/encoded/remastered by X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut @ 320 kbps.