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November 18

Please do not link to copyright violations

Admin hat on. It would appear to me that a number of YouTube links here are carrying a work in violation of the creator's copyright. For example, the Beavis and Butt-Head video with Spanish subtitles in the thread just below this. I ask contributors to find links that conform with Wikipedia's copyright and external links policies. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

I can isolate and re-upload the part of the video that is relevant to my question. it's literally a two-second fragment. btw, since people link to stuff all the time, and this is non-article space, and you didn't seem to care before, and since I said some political stuff recently, I can't help but to question your motives. Asmrulz (talk) 12:24, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Would've been nice to notify me when there's stuff going on against me, too. Asmrulz (talk) 12:40, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

tune ID

what is the tune at the end of this video? something very popular (perhaps Jarre or Vangelis), but I can't put my finger on it. or is it just a generic evening news broadcast jingle? Asmrulz (talk) 00:38, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

It's reminiscent, especially at the end, of some of Sam Spence's work. --Jayron32 01:00, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Who sang these songs?

Something that's been bugging me for years. Is the lead singer of Johnny Reggae by The Piglets the same person as the lead singer of Don't Stick Stickers on my Paper Knickers by X Certificate? Mjroots (talk) 17:45, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

According to The Piglets, the lead singer of Johnny Reggae is someone named Barbara Kay. According to your link, the singer of that song is someone named "Sally", though this seems to indicate it's by an artist called Katina. --Jayron32 18:26, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I am aware of Katina's version, but it's not the same as X Certificate's. So the question is, Did Barbara Kay sing with X Certificate? Mjroots (talk) 19:07, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Unless Barbara Kay is also named "Sally!", then no. Because the video you showed named the singer as "Sally!" (exclamation point in original, not my emphasis). --Jayron32 20:32, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Found information here. Doesn't list any personnel though. --Jayron32 21:12, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I've been searching for 1/2 an hour and I'm stumped. Near as I can tell, that one 7-inch single is the sole release from the band X Certificate, and I can find no other information on them or that specific recording other than it was on rotation at Radio North Sea International during 1973. Given that this one pressing is the entire catalog of the band in question, and it's 43 years old, we may never know. --Jayron32 21:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

According to Jonathan King here, the Piglets "were three session singers and Barbara Kay did the lead (Mavis). As they were in their 40's I made them sound like 15 year old scrubbers behind the bike shed." Barbara Kay was also known as Kay Barry (on Embassy Records), and apparently first recorded in 1961. Here she is in her earlier incarnation... and here.... and here. Here she is in 1963 (aged 22, apparently).... and here. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:05, 18 November 2016 (UTC)