That album also yielded the worldwide hit ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)’. The song ‘Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime)’ was an inspired parody of the Beastie (or is it Toastie) Boys hit ‘No Sleep Til Brooklyn’, which featured on the legendary rappers 1987 debut album ‘Licence To Ill’. There were exceptions of course, including The Firm’s ‘Star Trekkin’ (see earlier post) and Alf’s ‘Stuck On Earth’ (bit of an extraterrestrial connection there), but it was rarer to see a comedy based song take off on the charts. By the late 80s the novelty song had become less c ommon on the mainstream charts than at the star t of the decade. The Majors were credited as Rusty Wing and Phil Errup (puns very much intended), but th eir real identities became, and remain, a bit of a mystery. So who were Morris Minor & The Majors, and just what ins pired them to record ‘Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime)’? At the heart of the project was comedian, actor and writer Tony Hawks, whose alter ego was Morris Minor. Not very politically correct I know, but it was only one facet of the whole tongue in cheek app roach by Morr is Minor & The Majors - and it proved very effective. Whil st the employment of stuttering by vocalist Jamie Hardman in the Ben’s Brother hit was done so to illustrate a love struck young man overcome by nerves, the artist behind ‘Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime)’ utilised the concept of stammering for comic effect. Mystikal scored a UK#7/OZ#19 hit with ‘Stutter’, and back in the late 80s a trio of British comedians did likewise with a cheeky, and very humorous novelty song called ‘Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime)’. It wasn’t the first time that the speech disorder had cropped up in the title of a British chart hit - history does have a habit of repeating itself after all. band Ben’s Brother scored a hit at home with the catchy pop love song ‘Stuttering (Kiss Me Again)’ (UK#41).

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