Anyone remember Dave Mandel who performed around the Manchester area in the late sixties / early seventies and ran a club in Sale for a time?

He played the ukelele, and his songs included:-

"Standing on my Head" which extolled the therapeutic virtues of this position, which he of course took up at the end of the song.

"Nuclear Power Station" which had a tinkling ukelele accompaniment to mimic the geiger counter "ping" in nuclear establishments - the chorus finished with him shouting "..nuclear bomb ..."

He once told us, in all seriousness, that he was over 800 years old (yes 800 - it's not a typo) and had killed Kenneth Horne of BBC "Round the Horne" fame by "putting the fluence" on him following a dispute over a song!