When I was back in Blighty for the first time in many years a coupla years ago, I was in a friend's car taking his two chidlers to school and he was playing The Monk's "Cuckoo" over the sound system. I was very familiar with the Monks but not so with this song; what will make this song forever memorable to me is the hyperactivity it brought out in the kids, Leon and Oscar, and they reminded how songs like this are meant to be listened to. It was like flipping a switch as soon as they heard the words cuckoo, with the youngest especially banging his big kid head and rolling his eyes around his skull and chanting the lyrics with his kid lisp; it had me in stitches and got me thinking that if the next generation are going to be brought up on nonsense, better this nonsense than any other the hit-parade has to offer:
