Song

Seaside Shuffle: TERRY DACTYL and the DINOSAURS

+ scroll down for You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties, Stop the Cavalry and Louise (We Get it Right) by Jona Lewie

Single:
Seaside Shuffle entered the Australian singles chart* on 21 August 1972 and peaked at #20.

Songwriter:
John Lewis (Jona Lewie)

Record label of Australian release:
Decca

*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.

From the YouTube channel: ‘Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs – Topic’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.
From the YouTube channel: ‘sunryse111’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

BONUS VIDEOS BELOW – You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties, Stop the Cavalry and Louise (We Get it Right) by band member Jona Lewie

Wikipedia:
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs were an English novelty band that issued a few recordings in the early 1970s. The band was an alias adopted by Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts but signed to a different record label.
Notable band members were John Lewis (aka Jona Lewie), composer/vocals/accordion, and Keef Trouble, percussion.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Dactyl_and_the_Dinosaurs

Lyrics:
It’s a warm day, the sun is shinin’
Someone says, “Let’s go to Brighton”
So we all get up on our friend’s car
Hold on tight ’cause we’re doin’ ninety miles per hour
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THREE BONUS SONGS
Band member Jona Lewie charted with four solo singles and one album in Australia.

You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties entered the Australian singles chart* on 9 June 1980 and peaked at #21.

From the YouTube channel: ‘The Magic Music Clip Restorer’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

Stop the Cavalry entered the Australian singles chart* on 29 December 1980 and peaked at #2.

From the YouTube channel: ‘JonaLewieVEVO’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

Louise (We Get it Right) entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 July 1981 and peaked at #2.

From the YouTube channel: ‘stiffrecordsuk’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

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