Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.

Host of the Looks Unfamiliar podcast, Tim Worthington, stretches our show's format to near breaking point by selecting a single from the actor/singer/storyteller Bernard Cribbins which didn't technically get released - Ringing On The Engine Bell.

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.

Morgan Brown brings along a childhood folk favourite, Tom Paxton's The Marvelous Toy, and we delve into cover versions which leads us to Peter, Paul & Mary's I Dig Rock And Roll Music.

Welcome to the Head Ballet Podcast! In this episode, Dr Freya Jarman brings along Netta's 2018 Eurovision winning song, Toy.

We discuss Eurovision history, the politics of hosting, some classic Eurovision winners and losers, cultural appropriation and more besides. If you enjoy this, please share, review & rate.

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.

Rob Charnock joins us to discuss the theme to Grandstand (1976) and George Harrison's Faster (1979) as well as ten other very silly records that helped to inspire this show.

In this short follow-up to our 1st episode, Ben Baker tells us all about the various rewards he received for investing in the Kickstarter for Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story documentary. A nice little discussion of the power of memorabilia and other items and what they mean to fans. Thanks for listening.

Welcome to The Head Ballet podcast! Paul Abbott invites guests to discuss their favourite novelty songs.

To inaugurate the podcast Paul is joined by author & host of the Don't Lets Chart podcast Ben Baker to discuss Frank Sidebottom's 1986 "The Sci-Fi EP".

Welcome to The Head Ballet Podcast.

This podcast is the place to come to hear guests discuss with me, Paul Abbott, their favourite novelty songs - the funny, the weird, the daft and the outright baffling tunes that have been skipping and dancing around in their heads for years. Everybody loves something that could be considered novel, so why not celebrate it?