I’d forgotten about Kenny. I kinda wish I hadn’t remembered, though the story behind them is worth telling – especially the fact that Cheggers was nearly their singer. And that Kellogg’s took offence (and legal action) at their signature style of wearing tops with a big ‘K’ for Kenny on the front.

It’s hard to know what’s worse: the costumes or the song itself, which is symptomatic of the arse end of Glam, when every Tom, Dick and Kenny tried to cash in on cash cow that was already on its knees by 1975, throwing in a bit of the boy-band vibe of the Bay City Rollers for good measure.

I’m quite sure Kenny, a mid-table second-division Glam outfit at best, would have been also-rans or never-wases if they had come along a couple of years earlier. They actually did pretty well, scoring two Top 5 hits including this.

The band was something of an accident, taking shape after Tony Kenny, an Irish showband singer, recorded a song called Heart Of Stone, produced by Mickie Most, who released it under the name ‘Kenny’.

It became a hit, and so did a follow-up called Give It To Me Now, but Kenny himself had gone back home to Ireland by then, so Most decided to cash in – something he always did very well – by taking a completely unconnected band from north London called Chuff… and called them Kenny.

Chuff were fixtures on the prog-rock free festival circuit in the early Seventies, playing alongside contemporaries like Hawkwind and The Edgar Broughton Band, and initially scoffed at the idea of becoming a pop band when they were approached by Most at their rehearsal space in a banana warehouse in Enfield.

In the end, the prospect of fame and fortune won out over the spirit of the age and they agreed to wear fancy dress and sing terrible songs written by a guy who wrote for the Bay City Rollers.

Their first big hit, The Bump, was actually recorded first by the Rollers. This was the second, Fancy Pants. The lead singer is Rick Driscoll, though it was very nearly Keith Chegwin. In the end he said no and pop’s loss became children’s television’s embarrassment.

This song, like most of their others, was written by the successful songwriting duo of Bill Martin, who had churned out hits like Congratulations and Puppet On A String, and the England football song Back Home (ironic as he’s from Derry) and Phil Coulter, the Scottish songwriter behind the Rollers.

Unusually for a band of this era, none of Kenny’s five members went on to do anything of note and they never reformed for the nostalgia circuit, although Driscoll (who now skippers charter yachts on Corfu) did once appear on Never Mind The Buzzcocks as part of their identity parade.