Albums: The Wombles - Golden

The Wombles - Golden

The Wombling Song; Remember You’re A Womble; Banana Rock; Minuetto Allegretto; Wombling Merry Christmas; Wombling White Tie and Tails; Superwomble; The Womble Shuffle; Let’s Womble To The Party Tonight; Wombling USA; Rainmaker; The Wombling Song - Film version.
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Celebrating fifty years since The Wombles 1974 chart debut, this collection includes all their greatest hits. For anyone of a certain age, these tracks will bring back a lot of memories. The Wombles, a popular children's television programme, led many viewers to believe that they were the ones singing the songs.

The realisation that Mike Batt sung and created the songs came as a big revelation, similar to learning that Santa doesn't deliver your presents on Christmas morning.

At the time, no one realised that the songs were actually quite good, with subtle changes between each single that covered a different musical style.

Banana Rock had a Jamaican vibe, Remember You're A Womble had a glam rock influence, and Minuetto Allegretto had classical overtones.

There was even a Christmas single called Wombling Merry Christmas, which is rarely heard on the radio today. Other Christmas pop songs, in some cases, are far inferior to this long-forgotten hit, which cheekily includes a saxophone solo ending with the Remember You're A Womble refrain.

Immaculate pop was The Wombles trademark sound, which still stands today, half a century later, with the band not looking a day older than they did in 1974!