1. Donovan in Barabajagal (it was a mondegreen: actually "molten" not "Motown". But as John Sebastian, much admired by Don, used Heatwave to create Do You Believe in Magic, it's a mishearing which is not entirely unreasonable. Here's a clip from the documentary John Lennon's Jukebox in which Sebastian admits to the intro to his song being "strangely adapted" from the Motown song.
2. They are all by Sarstedt brothers apart from the Don Partridge song.
3. Sorry, I was actually thinking of Fields of St. Etienne, a Gallagher and Lyle composition recorded by Mary Hopkin.
4. Johnny B Goode, as hymned by Chuck Berry
Fats Domino, I'm Ready
Opal Autumn, Opal Autumn (title track of their 1969 Deram LP)
5. Cilla Black, If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind
The Move, Omnibus
Opal Autumn, Cellaphonic Picturesque Movements
6. Quick Joey Small. (What, you were expecting some convoluted enquiry about a connection between Susan's Tuba and Danny Kaye?)
7. Hank Ballard exhorted us to do the Twist before anyone else; Chubby Checker, who recorded the big hit version, was inspired by the prancing of Freddie Garrity to record a song called Do the Freddie in homage to Freddie.
8. Minnelli's film The Sterile Cuckoo, written and directed by Alan J Pakula, was known by the name of Minnelli's character, Pookie, when released in the UK. And doo wop fans will know that the leader of the Spaniels was James "Pookie" Hudson, a nickname which stuck after an instance of childhood incontinence.
9. Lem Lubin and Ian La Frenais, sung by Joe Brown
10. Ray Davies. What, you didn't know that? Pathetic. He doesn't sing it on the film, but there is a recording which has been widely avaialble for many years.
11. No, Islands in the Stream.
12. I don't know.
13. See above.
14. Because after each gig he walked right in and drove the Shadows away.
15. No, not the Isley Brothers. Schoolboy error. She heard Alex Harvey singing it live.
16. Michael Palin. Trivia: it features at the end of one of those "Frank Muir Goes Into ..." radio programmes.
17. The theme tune to the 1974 TV series Follow That Dog
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, by Lobo
The Brotherhood of Man's Sweet Rosalie
18. They are all 70s songs whose lyrics had to be changed to avoid allegations of product placement:
Bonaparte Shandy/Napoleon Brandy (Nothing Rhymed, Gilbert O'Sullivan)
Cherry Cola/Coca Cola (Lola, the Kinks)
Unlocked cars/Marks and Sparks (All the Young Dudes, Mott the Hoople)
19. The two Lennon (oh alright, Lennon and McCartney) allude to the Royal Albert Hall; Hubert Gregg, composer of the third song is reputedly the man behind the alternative lyrics for Colonel Bogey (Hitler has only got ...), which suggests that the Fuhrer's missing bodily part resides in that venue.
20. Boomerangs. Drake's wouldn't come back; Kazan made a film of that name and a "Woomerang Boomerang" regularly featured in song on the TV series Tinga and Tucker, presided over by Ms Morton.
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