‘Mary Ann’ was released as a single (as most Eurovision entries were) and reached #42 on the U.K. The song they performed was ‘Mary Ann’, but Black Lace coul d only manage seventh place (the Eurovision contest was won that year by the Israel entrant Milk & Honey with the song ‘Hallelujah’).
After several years mucking around the local pub and club circuits, Black Lace was selected as Britain’s official entry in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest. Black Lace originally formed as a quartet in Yorkshire during 1973, comprising Steve Scoley, Terry Dalton, Colin Routh and Alan Barton. There was a compilation album of sorts released here as well, also called ‘Agadoo’, that charted in early 1986 (#81), but most of Black Lace’s chart success came in Britain and Europe. duo Black Lace scored in Australia, the song peaking at #16 in late 1984. But hey, we’re all retro tragics here, so my hands are up in saying that on occasion (when all eyes were averted) I busted a move or two to ‘Agadoo’, and I was too young to drink in 1984, so there were no mitigating factors, aside from having a momentary lapse of reason - damn that admission could come back to haunt me. You’d reserve that sort of performance for the office party or summer barbeque, when the element of being moderately inebriated could be mounted as a credible defence. It’s not that it was such a bad song, it’s just that you probably wouldn’t want to get caug ht singing along boisterously to the tune on the car radio, let alone carrying out the dance moves.
The 1984 Black Lace hit ‘Agadoo’ was one such song. The 80s was a decade that threw up plenty of cheesy music, you know the kind of tune that makes you cringe just a little bit (or a lot), but you still find yourself humming along and tapping your feet to it (when you think no one’s watching).
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