I know this looks like I must have run across it while scrounging though old ABBA videos - or perhaps after entering "Dutch 70's Soft Porn" on my search engine, but I actually found it while researching whether "a year and a day" had medieval meanings other than homicide common law. (My guess is that it does, but I can't prove it yet. I can only verify them back to the 18th C.) That led to twelvemonth, which led to "All Around My Hat," which led to Steeleye Span's version of that song, which this band covered. Really, I'm innocent.
There are a dozen videos of the group on Youtube, and I'm not convinced that one on the right ever learned to quite keep the beat.
This will substitute for an ABBA update. There is no reference to this Dutch girl group imitating them, but it sure looks it to me. Or maybe Northern European girls dressed like this in the 70's and 80's more than I knew. I wasn't there, after all.
What was the homicide implication? The only reference to "year and a day" that I knew of was in handfastings, essentially a short-term marriage for 366 days of which any issue was considered legitimate. I'm not sure how accurate my sources are though so any part of that definition my be less than accurate.
ReplyDeleteWow, that was spectacularly awful. You can't fault their legs, though.
ReplyDelete"This will substitute for an ABBA update. There is no reference to this Dutch girl group imitating them, but it sure looks it to me. Or maybe Northern European girls dressed like this in the 70's and 80's more than I knew. I wasn't there, after all."
ReplyDeleteYeah, drugs will do that.
"...I am The Legman, coo coo ca choo..." The are pretty.