My Uncle Pete was a huge fan of the ‘Magic Roundabout’ and my mother managed to track down a copy of the soundtrack from the film ‘Dougal And The Blue Cat’ which was a ‘Magic Roundabout’ feature film voiced by Eric Thompson and released in 1972. She bought a copy for Pete and one for us at the same time and we played it over and over again on our stereo as children.
At the time there was no video and no video cassettes and so the only thing we had was an LP of the songs and no idea of what the actual film was like, but we loved the songs and this one was my favourite song from the film.
Buxton the evil blue cat, who has taken over the magic garden, imprisoned Florence and Dougal as well as Zebedee and Mr. Rusty sings this song as he finally becomes king! With such classic lines about being ruler of all the world including Bognor and Crewe as well as thumping and clouting anyone who gets in his way he ‘crowns’ his glory with a truly awesome piano solo which just goes to show that sometimes even evil villains have talent!
This is a great song and a great clip…
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