Mouldy Old Dough

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Mouldy Old Dough is a popular song by Lieutenant Pigeon.

Written by Nigel Fletcher and Rob Woodward and produced by Woodward and Fletcher under the name of their other band Stavely Makepeace, Mouldy Old Dough was one of the more unusual number one singles of the 1970's.

Recorded in the front room of Woodward's Coventry semi it featured his mother Liz Woodward on piano, in a style reminiscent of 50's star Winifred Atwell. The only lyrics are the growled title Mouldy Old Dough by Woodward. It is the only number one single to feature Mother and Son.

Originally released in early 1972 it flopped on its first release. It was picked up in Belgium and used on a current affairs programme, and became a massive hit there reaching number one on the singles chart. Decca encouraged by this success, rereleased it and with the backing of breakfast DJ Noel Edmonds finally became a hit in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the singles chart in October 1972. It spent 50 weeks in the singles chart, selling 790,000 copies in the process and was the third biggest selling single of 1972.

[edit] Trivia

"Mouldy Old Dough" was one of the choices of Jarvis Cocker when he appeared on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs.
The track "Mouldy Old Dough" has since become almost a 'theme song' for the sport of British Banger racing, where it is played at the start of many races at tracks across Great Britain, as the racers begin their 'rolling lap'.

It was used as a backing track for a peep show compilation called sectioned featuring the quotes used in season three of series