Originally Posted by IainBusby
Who can forget them. At the time they were at the peak of their success, I was playing in a band and we were doing night club residencies with both the Mecca and Baileys nightclub chains. As part of our contract we had to keep up with the current pop chart hits and when listening these days to the various recordings of our live shows which were done at the time, I always suffer my absolutely worst cringe when I hear myself crooning out "we sang shangalang and we ran with the gang". Aaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhh......When I think of how much good music there was around at that time, I still can't believe what diabolical taste the average teenybopper had in the seventies.
Iain.
Being just that wee bittie older than you, I'd always imagined my musical memories were firmly lodged in the 'juke box era' of the late 50s and early to mid 60s; indeed, rather like a stylus getting stuck on an old gramaphone record. Hence, by the dawn of the seventies, being a "pop" myself, I felt I had long outgrown the halcyon days of tuning-in to 'the Top Twenty' on Radio Luxembourg - so that, at the time the Bay City Rollers reached the height of their popularity in 1975/6 [when the group became a household name on the lips of practically every teenager in Scotland] their rise to stardom was loston a 30 something-year-old like me.
Ironically enough, during the past decade - after I was widowed, my two children grown-up and when, as a late middle-aged man, I found myself revisiting my "youth" - 'Shangalang' appears to have enjoyed a resurgence of acclaim that transcends the generation gap. Consequently, as the 'number' has special (if somewhat belated) significance for me - and doubless more than a few other "golden oldies" besides - long may the trend continue ...!
members prepared to confess to listening to the 'Top 20' presented by Barry Aldis on Radio Luxembourg. 
Al! When I played their track on You Tube it featured them "singing" or - perhaps more accurately - capering about LIVE
compared with their actual recording of 'Shangalang'.
now 60's we ARE TALKING ABOUT MUSIC but i am afraid i dont believe the bay city rollers come into that league 
I stand corrected! Anyway, the aforesaid Tam still managed to live out his allotted span of 'three score years and ten' in relative comfort without having to join the "breadline".
