"Yellow On The Broom"

"JOE AITKEN" : know him well.

"I've just listened a number of naff performances of this - again, a perfectly good song when sung well".   : Agreed, but the question wasn't about "good" or "bad" songs, the word was "hackneyed", and it's a much abused and over-sung song - usually "naff performances", to use your phrase, and I'm thoroughly sick of it.

"A poor workman always blames his tools, in my opinion". What is that supposed to mean, in the context of this thread ?

"Try listening to it in conjunction with the moving BOOK THAT INSPIRED IT" : Read it years ago. Bit condescending of you to assume I hadn't. The book doesn't have any relevance to the "naff" versions of the song I regularly hear.