Your Tuesday K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

Feel Good Songs Week continues! They were banjo playing hitnmakers WAAAAY before Mumbleford And Thumbs. And back around 1982, they had one of the biggest songs in the world, a song that continues to be a cultural touchstone. Also it's darn catchy in a everybody sing-a-long kind of way.

In a Songfacts interview with Kevin Rowland, he explained how he felt the song came together:

""We wanted a good rhythm and we found one. Lots of records we liked had that rhythm: 'Concrete and Clay,' 'It's Not Unusual' by Tom Jones. Lots of records we liked had that 'Bomp ba bomp, bomp ba bomp.' We felt it was a good rhythm. We came up with the chord sequence ourselves and just started singing melodies over it. I remember thinking, 'We're really onto something here.' ""I came up with that, 'Too ra loo ra,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is sounding really good.' You get a feeling when you're writing a song. Something happens. And in the end it kind of finished itself."

This song is based on a true story. Eileen was a girl that Kevin Rowland grew up with.

...AND IT'S YOUR K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!!!