Amazingly, this was The Sweet’s sixth straight hit single in 18 months when it reached No.4 in September 1972. But it was the first one they actually played on.

It’s also the first to feature Steve Priest doing one of those camp comedy cameos with a wink to the camera that would become the band’s signature, interjecting with “Try a little touch, Try a little too much.”

The five hits The Sweet enjoyed before this were recorded with session musicians (producer Phil Wainman on drums, future Status Quo producer Pip Williams on guitar, John Roberts on bass). This was all their own work.

Like its five predecessors (Funny Funny, Co-Co, Alexander Graham Bell, Poppa Joe, Little Willy) it was written by Glam’s golden songwriting team of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. And like many of ChinniChap’s songs its lyrics are bonkers. I don’t think they’d get away with these today.

Apparently it’s inspired by two Native American themed works a century apart: Longfellow’s poem Hiawatha from way back in 1855 fused with an obscure 1959 song called Running Bear, and features their respective womenfolk, Minnehaha and Little White Dove.

Not that we gave too hoots about any of that when we saw The Sweet glammed up for the first time on Top of the Pops, Priest in an extravagant Indian head-dress, Connolly (with silver stars painted on his face to match his silver trousers and waistcoat), with the ‘tribal’ drums and the ‘tomahawk’ guitar line and the layered vocal harmonies that went on to influence Queen.