After posting last week's Top Twenty chart, a mate remarked "Some 'poptastic' stuff in there". This immediately made me think of Smashie and Nicey (aka: Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield as Radio Fab FM's superstar DJs). 'Poptastic' was one of there catchphrases, as was "Pop a doodle do' and I seem to recall they also said 'A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom!' And if they didn't, then they should have !
Which brings me to today's other tenuous link. My Top Twenty had tracks covering 6 decades, but nothing from the 50s. Last weekend BBC4 re-ran their Rock 'n' Roll America series and they showed this clip of Little Richard singing 'Tutti Fruiti'. Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 declared that the song "still contains what has to be considered the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded"  So 'A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom' it is…
Continuing with last week's dance theme, this 1956 high quality video footage shows dancing really is for everyone, of all shapes and sizes.

And cue DJ Mike Smash: "So, tonight's poptastic quiz-question, who was the lead singer of Genesis -great-bunch-of-guys-personal-friends-of-mine -do-a-lot-of-work-for-charideee-  before Phil Collins?
Answers on a post card, to Peter Gabriel competition, Fab FM, Fab Towers, Swindon, SW1 3WW (dubya dubya).