Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast. Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.In this special one-off episode (whilst I get some new guests and material ready!) I'm joined by the author, podcaster and all-round bon ou

Laura Grimshaw on Neil Innes and The Bonzo Dog Band

Jun 10th, 2021 59m 38s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast. Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.This episode marks one year of The Head Ballet's existence and what better way to celebrate than by exploring the band who gave the show it

Chris Shaw on Cook & Moore

May 11th, 2021 53m 23s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast. Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.It's back to 1967 for this episode as my guest, Chris Shaw, of the amazing Beatles podcast I Am The EggPod, joins me to unravel the dark ps

Ian Scanlon on Martians

Apr 21st, 2021 58m 42s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast. Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Along for a nightmare-inducing ride into the world of Science Fiction prog epics is musician Ian Scanlon, of the band Model Village (whose

Catrin Lowe on Sue Wilkinson

Apr 4th, 2021 44m 50s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast. Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.It's season two! How nice to be back. Episodes will be coming out as-and-when this time around, but thank you all for your support and enco

Darrell Maclaine on The Wombles

Dec 28th, 2020 35m 21s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.To round out the Christmas Novelty Offerings for this year, voice-actor, musician and impressionist Darrell Maclaine treats us to a No.2 hi

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The Beatles and Dora Bryan

Dec 21st, 2020 51m 9s

CHRISTMAS CROSSOVER!Your usual novelty-song podcast host, Paul Abbott, joins his brother - Garry - for a crossover episode with his podcast, The Big Beatles Sort-Out. They've mashed up their podcasts to make one sparkling christmas bonus Beatl

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Tim Worthington on Daleks

Dec 15th, 2020 40m 2s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Returning to the show, laden down with a bag full of Skaro™ Brand Plum Pudding, is Tim Worthington who is transporting us in his own person

Paul Putner on Johnny Japes and his Jesticles

Nov 27th, 2020 51m 43s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.For this, the season one finale, actor Paul Putner has come along and brought the very first single released by Viz magazine on their Fulch

Shanine Salmon on Soap Star Singles

Nov 13th, 2020 53m 38s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.We just can't escape 1986! This time theatre reviewer, Shanine Salmon, has brought along a classic single from a TV soap star to kick off a

Ben Baker on Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?

Oct 31st, 2020 35m 38s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Our first ever guest, Ben Baker, is back to tell us all about this intriguing Canadian novelty charity single released by the North America

Jake Ward on The Mummy

Oct 29th, 2020 36m 20s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.First up in our brace of Hallowe'en episodes is Jake Ward with Bob McFadden and Dor's 1959 song, The Mummy. Released on Brunswick in the US

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Mini-Pod: Submarines, Leopards and Votes

Oct 23rd, 2020 12m 50s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Except they don't on this mini-episode... it's just me bringing you a mini stop-gap episode to help me get the show all lined up for next w

Dame Agnes Guano on Charlie Drake

Oct 9th, 2020 45m 49s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.In this episode Paul welcomes internet purveyor of comedy and novelty record content extraordinaire, the pseudonymously enigmatic Dame Agne

Phil Catterall on Robots

Sep 25th, 2020 49m 27s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Joining Paul after 4 million years of slumber is podcaster Phil Catterall who has brought along Stan Bush's 1986 The Transformers: The Movi

Denise Courcoux on The Matchroom Mob

Sep 11th, 2020 44m 3s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Today, we're off back to 1986 and a smokey club in Romford, as Denise Courcoux joins Paul to tell us all about the Snooker Players looking

James Errington on Charles Penrose

Aug 30th, 2020 43m 57s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.In this episode James Errington from the Centuries of Sound podcast brings along one of the most famous novelty songs of all time - Charles

Garreth Hirrons on Bart Simpson

Aug 19th, 2020 51m 52s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.This episode sees podcaster and musician, Garreth Hirrons, launch a full-scale investigation into not only Bart Simpson's 'follow-up' sin

Emma Burnell on Stan Ridgway

Aug 9th, 2020 36m 50s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.It's back to the 1980s with journalist and host of the Zeitgeist Tapes Podcast, Emma Burnell. Emma has brought along Stan Ridgway's 1986 hi

Jake Ward on Roger Miller

Jul 29th, 2020 52m 19s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Comedian, Writer and one half of the awesome band Eureka California, Jake Ward, tells us all about growing up with Country music and the co

Tim Worthington on Bernard Cribbins

Jul 19th, 2020 39m 45s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Host of the Looks Unfamiliar podcast, Tim Worthington, stretches our show's format to near breaking point by selecting a single from the ac

Morgan Brown on Tom Paxton

Jul 9th, 2020 32m 49s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Morgan Brown brings along a childhood folk favourite, Tom Paxton's The Marvelous Toy, and we delve into cover versions which leads us to Pe

Freya Jarman on Eurovision

Jun 29th, 2020 42m 41s

Welcome to the Head Ballet Podcast! In this episode, Dr Freya Jarman brings along Netta's 2018 Eurovision winning song, Toy.We discuss Eurovision history, the politics of hosting, some classic Eurovision winners and losers, cultural appropriat

Rob Charnock on Grandstand

Jun 19th, 2020 45m 13s

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.Rob Charnock joins us to discuss the theme to Grandstand (1976) and George Harrison's Faster (1979) as well as ten other very silly records

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Bonus: Ben Baker on his Box of Thingies

Jun 16th, 2020 13m 28s

In this short follow-up to our 1st episode, Ben Baker tells us all about the various rewards he received for investing in the Kickstarter for Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story documentary. A nice little discussion of the power of memorabilia