YouTube
Originally a No. 1 for Norman Greenbaum in May 1970, the Doctor (real name Clive Jackson) and his band took 'Spirit In The Sky' back to the top on 3rd June 1986 for three weeks.
Another one I could hardly fail to remember from those days, although I don't think I've ever heard another Doctor And The Medics song. Not unlike Amazulu, they found themselves stuck in a circle of covers; whilst they never seemed like they were trying hard to be taken seriously, their fans will claim that they started out as a group with slightly more to offer than novelty hits. I'm not going to take a position on that but I will say that now this is older than the original was at the time, it's hard to see the point - aside from the fact that it's the only one of the three chart-topping versions of this song ever to appear in the Now! series.
They make surprisingly little alteration to the song and whilst that saves it from sounding utterly of its time now, it's at the expense of making the Doctor's Kiss-like make-up the only distinctive feature. I was never that fond of the song anyway.
Also appearing on: Now 8
Available on: Laughing At The Pieces
No comments:
Post a Comment