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The Wombles are a British novelty pop group, featuring musicians dressed as the characters from children's TV show ''The Wombles'', which in turn was based on the children's book series by Elisabeth Beresford. Songwriter and record producer, Mike Batt, wrote the series' theme tune, and went on to perform and produce a number of successful albums and singles as 'The Wombles'. ''British Hit Singles & Albums'' jokingly referred to them as the "furriest (and possibly the tidiest) act... are natives of Wimbledon Common, London". In 2011, the band played at The Glastonbury Festival. ==History== Filmfair acquired the television rights to ''The Wombles'' and commissioned Batt to write the theme song. He waived the flat fee for writing a single song, and secured the character rights for musical production to write songs under the name 'The Wombles'. To help him get into character, Batt's mother made him a Womble suit, which he wore for a week prior to writing the first songs. The band released several albums and singles. All four studio albums went gold and four of the singles reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.〔 The Wombles were the most successful act of 1974, with albums in the UK charts for more weeks than any other act. A single called "Wombling U.S.A.", written to break into the American market, was recorded in 1974 but was not released. Several of the songs were included in the soundtrack of the 1977 film, ''Wombling Free''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wombles (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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