Y'know, when I read the topic I didn't know what ad or song it refered to, but after seeing the "ba ba ba ba ba" lyrics fragment, I now have that song playing in my head. Of course, I can't remember any other lyrics, so I can't help out with that.

But if you email or phone Air New Zealand, they'll probably be able to tell you.

Sickening, my brother downloaded that and has been playing it incessantly for the last 3 days.

Well, y'know. considering that song was released eight years before I was born, and probably close to 20 years before many regulars here were born, it's not like many of us have fond memories of listening to it when it first came out.

I'm familiar with many hit records of the '60s, but not all of them. I've heard "Wild Thing", but not "A Girl Like You". It's not like I heard "Wild Thing" and thought "Wow, I dig that simple drunken fool shoutalong classic. I wonder what other songs The Troggs did? I will buy their greatest hits CD and find out."

It is useful to have a good knowledge of popular music of the past, but I prefer to focus on the music of the present. (That and my fear of turning into either a classic hits (or retro) radio listener, or one of those music nerds, a la "High Fidelity".)

I was going to be facetious and ask for a list of all the songs one should be familiar with before one could discuss music intelligently. But I'm refraining.

Everyone approaches music from their own angle. I have a friend who (unlike me) wouldn't recognise any songs in the top 40, but who (also unlike me), can say what the three B's of dancehall are.

I'm happy for that Troggs song to stay on that Air New Zealand ad and not be part of my life. But there are other areas of music history that I'm happy to delve into.