Unsurprisingly, the Spurs label featured a single by the Tottenham Hotspur Football Team. It was called 'Hot Spurs Boogie' b/w 'Spurs!', and it came out in February 1973 with a catalogue number of MEI-102, M.E.I. ('Music Enterprises International') being the company behind the record. According to 'Music Week' of the 17th of February the single was only to be available through the club shop. MEI-001, which was presumably the release before this one despite the '100' numbering, was by the Queens Park Rangers football team, and can be found on the 'Q.P.R. / M.E.I.' page. A group of Tottenham supporters, the Cockerel Chorus, charted early in 1973 with 'Nice One Cyril' (Young Blood, YB-1017), but the team themselves failed to match their supporters' success with 'Hot Spurs Boogie'. However, they managed to score Chart hits twice in the '80s in the shape of 'Ossie's Dream' and 'Tottenham Tottenham', both of which were on the Rockney label. See 'Big League' for an earlier Spurs-related single.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.