This brought back some odd memories. I guess I was 11 or 12 years old when "Top Secret" was being serialised, the first time we had a TV in our house, and it was compulsory weekly watching. The theme tune remains stuck in my head, and seems to have had a similar effect on others.
I was a computer programmer in the early eighties and worked for a while with what I now realise was a very remarkable group of people. Wilie Carroll, the team leader, had started his working life as a shipyard apprentice in Stephens of Linthouse, in the Govan area of Glasgow. Quiet spells in the office would be broken up by fragments and sometimes whole renditions from his amazing repertoire of both Orange and Green songs. A big Celtic fan, he didn't seem to favour any particular shade of music (if anything, his preferences lay with the more scurrilous verses from either side). Rosie Harrison, married to a local folk-singer, went on to gain a first-class honours degree in computer studies and helped run the old Kirkham Folk Club for many years. Ivan McKeown, then just an occasional visitor to Fleetwood Folk Club, has gone on to become an adept song-writer in his own right with an eclectic choice among other people's material. Richard West, who sat opposite me, had obviously been affected (or afflicted) by similar exposure to "Top Secret" and its catchy theme tune. A successful bit of coding or the results of a good trial run would be celebrated by an outburst of "Ay! Ay! Ay! The beat is crazy, Sucu Sucu is everywhere", sometimes the full chorus. His alternate celebratory "crow" was "'scuse me, while I kiss the sky!"
I always meant to bring in a recorder to tape Willie's Glasgow songs. Office re-organisation took him away from the area and he died (too young) a few years ago.
If you've got something to do, do it now.
Ay!Ay!Ay!
Ross