Sing Something Simple, Radio 2

[WildRosie]

Otherwise known as Something Simple Sings or Sing Something Senile. For those of us old enough to remember this weekly geriatric dirge, what songs can you think of that would have at least raised a bushy eyebrow or two or been utterly unsuitable ? For example...

Let's Get It Up by AC/DC
Male Stripper by Man2Man meets Man Parrish
Je T'aime Moi Non Plus by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

To be fair, Sunday Night is Music Night is hardly an improvement.

Gawd I can hear that theme tune right now. Im 56 so would have been late 60s /early 70s but I felt bloody depressed listening to it even at that tender age. Dad would have come back from the pub having had one too many, my mam would had been all lemon-lipped over the dried up dinner. He'd then go to bed farting out beer fumes and cabbage before waking up to listen and sing along all sentimental...urgh

anyone remember Waggoners Walk which was a radio soap thing?

Burkiss Way was Radio 4 comedy, about the same time as H2G2. The radio was always on in our house!

And I also remember Two Way Family Favourites. It baffled me too, but then I didn't know anyone in the services.

@Gatekeeper, a weird 15 minute soap opera break in the middle of the Jimmy Young Show.

Yes, I remember Waggoners Walk, I think that was later (mid 60's?) than Mrs Dales Diary, which I always listened to with my mum after school. I loved it! We'd sit there listening with our cups of tea...I must have been 6 or 7. Simple pleasures.
What was the programme on Saturday morning; latterly with Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart? All the old favourite kids records - Burl Ives and 'there was an old woman who swallowed a fly' and Danny Kaye's The Little Fiddle (although these are song from the 50s and probably a previous presenter).
I also loved 'The Clitheroe Kid'. You can still find episodes online. I listened to one and god knows why I ever thought it was funny.
Still love the radio, especially radio 4, or 'the home service'!

Junior Choice, Reed. He used a Stan Butcher version of Morningtown Ride as the theme music, with added drum roll at the end. Tony Blackburn used 'Beefeaters' by John Dankworth.

Sing something simple
As cares go by
Sing something senile
We don't know why
Cliff Adams loves us
He likes you too
So sing something what it
Who are you?