Bluebells

[scotty]

Renowned for their jangly guitar based pop not dissimilar to their Scottish contemporaries Aztec Camera and Orange Juice, they had three Top 40 hit singles in the UK, all written by guitarist and founder member Bobby Bluebell (real name Robert Hodgens) - "I'm Falling", "Cath", and their biggest success "Young at Heart". The latter was co-written with Siobhan Fahey (ex-Bananarama, Shakespears Sister) (with whom Hodgens was romantically linked for a while) and made it to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart on its original release in 1984. The band also released one EP, The Bluebells, and one full-length album, Sisters.


The band split up in the mid 1980s, but enjoyed an unexpected revival in 1993 when "Young At Heart" was used in a Volkswagen television advertisement. Re-issued as a single, it was number one for four weeks and led to the band reforming temporarily to perform the song on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. A singles collection followed.

The band reformed in late 2008 with orginal members the McCluskey brothers and Bobby Bluebell to support for Edwyn Collins at a show in Glasgow on 23rd January 2009.


South Atlantic Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpPu-qrVsOE]

[whojamfan]

Sorry, thought the title was something else
Where's my glasses?

[jps]

Is that Kenny in the first video?

[godber]

Good stuff Scotty. I quite liked the commercial end of Postcard-esque Scottish music (also Altered Images).
BTW, South Atlantic Way vid doesn't allow embedding.

Sorry, thought the title was something else
Where's my glasses?

The hot pants in the video are adding to my bluebells.

[scotty]

Thanks Mark.