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The Popco Special
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1974
Can you believe we took a gas bottle, flashpowder ingredients and a cannon prop on the plane. Today we would be suspect terrorists! We tested the cannon in the Motel carpark. It shot a plastic ball clear over the motel roof!– John Walmsley (Drut)
Unlike the Auckland shows, such as Happen Inn, we always sang live. They recorded the backings on a Saturday morning and we recorded the show in the afternoon. There was always a lot of walking up and down stairs and trying to sing in tune at the same time. They’d say, ‘When you get to the second verse, walk down the stairs'.”– Popco regular Pat Kearns, in an AudioCulture article on the show
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