Blast from the past: Agadoo was quite possibly the worst novelty song ever written

Based on a Moroccan tune apparently, Agadoo, the holiday-hit popsong once banned by Radio 1 because it simply wasn't ‘credible’, eventually peaked at No2 and refused to leave the Top 75 for some 30 weeks – as if the 1980s weren’t bad enough!

Agadoo represented the nadir of truly awful novelty songs, and there were plenty, like Orville's Song, by the ventriloquist Keith Harris and his puppet duck, the toe-curlingly sachhrine, There's No One Quite Like Grandma, by St Winifred's School Choir, and Rat Rappin’ – Roland Rat Superstar

Industry experts voted Agadoo the worst song of all time in a 2003 poll for Q magazine – just one of several it topped. Describing it as "magnificently dreadful", the panel concluded: "It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever heard."