Track of the Week - 22 September 2019
With (possibly) the last week of really good weather this year, it was time for a final garden tidy. Much hedge trimming took place!
That meant a couple of green bags were filled with garden waste and taken to the tip. (Look, I'm concentrating on the greenness and bagness here, not the littleness or otherwise of the bag.)
Little Green Bag* was an October 1969 single by Dutch outfit George Baker Selection. It was a hit in the Netherlands, Belgium and the US over the next six months or so but didn't trouble the British charts.
The song became a cult classic when used in Quentin Tarantino's magnificent 1992 film Reservoir Dogs. The action takes place while the fictional radio station, K-Billy, is holding a 'Super Sounds of the Seventies weekend'. Back in the real world the song reached number one in Japan the same year.
* It was supposed to be called Little Greenback but a mistranslation led to Little Green Bag. So Wikipedia says anyway - why should I disbelieve them? It certainly sounds like greenback on closer listening.
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