“Ding A Dong” — Teach-In

The world of popular music has a long and noble history of writing nonsense in song lyrics.

“Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard is one of my favourite songs, but I think most people would struggle to make any sense of its lyrics. I’m not even sure they made much sense to Little Richard as he wrote them.

For many years, a great place to find plenty of nonsense lyrics has been the annual Eurovision Song Contest, which is happening again this coming weekend.

In the old days it was Terry Wogan’s job to gently make fun of some of the strange…