Whack 'em And Bash 'em - or H A N G O by Leon Rosselson sung by Sylvestra Le Touzel.

[@MrJansco]

Sylvestra Le Touzel she is really good

[@kandlaker]

She is amazing!! I Did not know she sing so well 🙂

[@David-mg1yj]

She's excellent.

[@JBiggsofWSNC]

I saw Sylvestra Le Touzel playing an investigator on a crime drama called 'Appropriate Adult' yesterday. What a great actress.

[@petebest22]

Great days, when London people talked London talk 🙌 flintlock what a great band 🙌

[@JJamerson]

Oh yes, and I should add that H-A-N-G-O isn't about kids. The lyric concerns the Anti-Violence League, an extra-right wing of the Conservative government of the day (early 1960s, when it was written), whose cause was the restoration of capital punishment for a range of crimes, and the introduction of the cane and birch as punishments for adults. (Using classic Orwellian double-talk, such campaigners labelled themselves the "anti-violence" league!)

[@rachelschaufeld392]

In Scotland use of the belt in schools persisted for longer than in England and teachers were not required to keep any record of how many children they belted. A leather tawse called a Lochgelly (after the village in Fife where the belt factory was situated) was used. In 1976 as a student from London who went to the University of Stirling I was shocked to hear the many painful memories of this punishment from Scottish students.One friend who went to a comprehensive in Aberdeen told me he always chose a seat near the radiator as the heat would make his hands sting less after receiving a belting. I assume that school students who went on to uni were probably better behaved than the average child and yet no-body went through the school system without being belted on the hands several times at least.

[@opinionatedisntbad7528]

Corporate or whipping is a parent choice. Government has gone too far. America's politician should not be following mishaps of England. Whipping is not an assault. Georgia Washington, Abraham Lincoln were disciplined with corporate punishment. Other greats were discipline with a scrap. They would have never considered discipline as a assault. Parents take charge of this issue. Children are not above corporate punishment.

[@jakesummers1174]

Corporal* lol and wgipping most certainly is assault.

[@MrColinfarrell]

" Children were often cruelly and sadistically beaten" -- this is tendentious claptrap. Some students received moderate punishment for offences committed, according to a system that was understood and accepted at the time. That system was eventually abolished, but there is absolutely no evidence that cruelty or sadism was the norm, or anywhere near the norm. It does nobody a service to misrepresent history in this way.

[@Ballinalower]

Nothing claptrap about it. At the time it was made in the mid 1970s those punishments were widely used in British schools, and it is hard to believe that didn't make teaching attractive to certain types of people who derived pleasure from inflicting pain on children. There's no rewriting of history about it. The two boys John and Ray were still in school and writing and performing a skit based on their current personal experiences. Of course a lot of adults didn't like ITV giving them the airtime to do that. And it seems some still don't. It's chilling that anyone could want the return of corporal punishment.