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Pardon Me Boys were a short lived Australian swing jazz-cabaret band. [1] The group released one studio album which peaked at number 63 on the Australian charts in 1988.
The main song opens with a dialog between a passenger and a shoeshine boy: "Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?" "Yes, yes, Track 29!" "Boy, you can give me a shine." "Can you afford to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo?" "I've got my fare, and just a trifle to spare." [9]
In 1982, after their disbandment, Jones pursued a solo career and by the mid-1980s was a member of a swing jazz-cabaret band, Pardon Me Boys, with O'Riordan and Jones' sister, Monica Trapaga – former Play School presenter. In 1990 Jones, with Pat Sheil, co-wrote True Hip and Jones followed it a year later with The 1992 True Hip Manual.
In 1985, Trapaga, on lead vocals, was a member of a swing jazz-cabaret band, Pardon Me Boys, with William O'Riordan (aka Joylene Hairmouth) and her older brother, Jones: both had been members of shock rockers Jimmy and the Boys.
In the mid-1980s Jones and O'Riordan formed a swing jazz-cabaret band, Pardon Me Boys, with Jones' sister and former Play School presenter Monica Trapaga on lead vocals. [1] [6] Following his solo career Jones co-wrote, with Pat Sheil, a book True Hip (1990), and in 2000 helped organise the opening ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. [6]
Pardon me boy - the term "boy" in that era was a racist term for any black male irrespective of his age, and the theme continues "give me a shine" - embodying the term "shine boy" another term for the typically menial job permitted to the blacks at that time.
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Joe Cocker is the third studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1972 in Europe as Something to Say on Cube Records, and in the USA as Joe Cocker on A&M Records.It contains the hit single "High Time We Went", that was released in the summer of 1971.