1967
PUPPET ON A STRING * KEN BOOTH * MUZIC CITY * JA
B. Martin & P. Coulter wrote this song for Pop singer Sandie Shaw to perform on the Eurovision Song Contest, they also wrote Congratulations, another Eurovision ditty, for one of the giant crab people. Other major song writing achievements by this pair were for the Bay City Rollers. Normally I wouldn't rate this cut high enough to put in a hard cover, but it does just make it because of its charm which is, apart from the Rock Steady musical rhythm and pulsing beat, the classic free interpretation of the lyrics, that, if followed closely, make little or no sense at all . . .
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