Beer makes you do funny things.  In this case it was swearing my life that Moonlight Shadow was by Sally Oldfield.  Well of course I knew that Mike Oldfield wrote it, but I thought Sally was the vocalist.  In fact, I didn’t think, I was sure.  My photographic memory consistently recalled an old EMI compilation called Knuckle Sandwich from my youth, whereupon Sally crooned away about being unable to shove through something or other.

It was a loud and animated argument in the Soho pub, and so you can imagine my chagrin when I later found I was sober, and wrong.

Melthebells seems to be the only person on the Internet with any available info on this clearly very popular compo.  From slightly silly ska from Darts and Rocky Sharpe and the Replays to some execrable Black Lace (which I really didn’t miss), it’s an interesting excursion.  The angelic Sally does feature as my memory maintained, but unfortunately singing her only hit single, Mirrors, rather than Moonlight Shadow as my fuzzy adolescent brain had stored.  (Some Scottish vocalist I’ve never heard of sang Moonlight instead.)

So, I’m now committed to buying an extra round at the pub and have remembered a 1977 song I’d long-forgotten.  A curious sniff around Youtube reminded me why:

Bring back Fiddler’s Dram.  All is forgiven.

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