"A bad cover version of love is not the real thing
Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in"
This refers to the budget-priced compilation albums released on Britain's Hallmark record label in the late sixties and early seventies, which featured extremely bad cover versions of current chart hits.
These albums were titled "Top of the Pops" (not to be confused with the BBC television show) and usually featured pretty bikini-garbed girls on the cover. One of the strangest of these LPs I have seen had a gorgeous bikini-wearing twentysomething girl on the front cover and a hairy, ugly thirtysomething man on the rear cover. The man had a dog leash around his neck and was clad only in underpants. I am not making this up, that's the 1970s for you.
All of the cover versions on these albums were by anonymous session musicians rather than named acts Famously, one of these anons was a young singer and pianist named Reginald Dwight, nowadays better known as Elton John.
"A bad cover version of love is not the real thing Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in"
This refers to the budget-priced compilation albums released on Britain's Hallmark record label in the late sixties and early seventies, which featured extremely bad cover versions of current chart hits.
These albums were titled "Top of the Pops" (not to be confused with the BBC television show) and usually featured pretty bikini-garbed girls on the cover. One of the strangest of these LPs I have seen had a gorgeous bikini-wearing twentysomething girl on the front cover and a hairy, ugly thirtysomething man on the rear cover. The man had a dog leash around his neck and was clad only in underpants. I am not making this up, that's the 1970s for you.
All of the cover versions on these albums were by anonymous session musicians rather than named acts Famously, one of these anons was a young singer and pianist named Reginald Dwight, nowadays better known as Elton John.