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The Mike Flowers Pops (also known as The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 easy listening
Easy listening

Easy listening music is a style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the mid-20th century, evolving out of Swing music and big band music, and related to Beautiful music and Light music....
 band fronted by Mike Flowers (real name: Mike Roberts) and supported by the "Sounds Superb Singers" and "Super Stereo Brass". There were between 13 and 14 of them on stage at any time. The band is known for lounge music
Lounge music

Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres....
 covers
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of both older and contemporary popular music.

band became famous in the UK in 1995 when they released a cover version of Oasis
Oasis (band)

Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
' hit song "Wonderwall
Wonderwall (song)

"Wonderwall" is a song by English rock music band Oasis , written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from Morning Glory? in October 1995, "Wonderwall" peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and...
".






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The Mike Flowers Pops (also known as The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 easy listening
Easy listening

Easy listening music is a style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the mid-20th century, evolving out of Swing music and big band music, and related to Beautiful music and Light music....
 band fronted by Mike Flowers (real name: Mike Roberts) and supported by the "Sounds Superb Singers" and "Super Stereo Brass". There were between 13 and 14 of them on stage at any time. The band is known for lounge music
Lounge music

Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres....
 covers
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of both older and contemporary popular music.

Emergence

The band became famous in the UK in 1995 when they released a cover version of Oasis
Oasis (band)

Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
' hit song "Wonderwall
Wonderwall (song)

"Wonderwall" is a song by English rock music band Oasis , written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from Morning Glory? in October 1995, "Wonderwall" peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and...
". Flowers had been recruited by BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
 DJ Kevin Greening
Kevin Greening

Kevin Greening was a British radio presenter, who co-hosted the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show with Zoe Ball from 1997 to 1998....
 to cover the "Hits of 95" for Greening's Saturday show; "Wonderwall" was his first week's project. Chris Evans heard the song and made it "single of the week" on his Radio 1 breakfast show, telling listeners that this was the original version of the song. The single, issued by London Records
London Records

London Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 in music through 1979 in music, then becoming a semi-independent label....
 under the name The Mike Flowers Pops, was released while the Oasis original was still in the charts, and itself reached the top ten. It peaked at number 2 in the Christmas 1995 chart, beaten to the number 1 spot by Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
's "Earth Song
Earth Song

"Earth Song" is the third single from Michael Jackson's album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. It is a ballad that incorporates elements of blues, gospel and opera....
". Oasis had previously refused to let other novelty acts parody the song, but were said to have enjoyed Flowers' tape so much that they allowed the group to cut it. The B-sides of the single featured the songs "Son of God" and "Theme From Memory Man".

Following the success of "Wonderwall", The Mike Flowers Pops toured festivals in Europe as well as British universities. At the end of 1996 they toured Britain with Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter

Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
 on his last "Who's in the Gang" tour. They played very large venues including Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena

Wembley Arena is an indoor arena in Wembley, London, UK. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium. It was built for the 1934 British Empire Games by Arthur Elvin, and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its former name, the Empire Pool....
 and Birmingham NEC. A cover version of The Doors
The Doors

The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
' "Light My Fire
Light My Fire

"Light My Fire" is a song originally performed by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 in music and released in January 1967 in music. It spent three weeks at number one on the Hot 100 number-one hits of 1967 , and one week on the Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1967....
" also reached the UK top 40 singles chart.

The band has not received any consistent or widespread popularity since 1995. Flowers himself makes fun of this, saying things such as, "1998 was quite a big year for me, I appeared on Blue Peter
Blue Peter

Blue Peter is a long-running BBC television programme for children. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC Channel....
 and Through the Keyhole
Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole is a light-hearted panel game, hosted by David Frost where panelists are given a video tour of a mystery guests property and attempt to identify them....
".

Discography


Albums


  • Get Easy! TheFuture Collection Volume 2 (includes "MacArthur Park
    MacArthur Park (song)

    "MacArthur Park" is a song written by Jimmy Webb. Originally written as part of an intended cantata rejected by The Association , it was first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968 and then Cover version by many other performers....
    " by The Mike Flowers Pops)
  • My Unknown Love (single produced and arranged by Mike Flowers. Flowers also plays some keyboard and saxophone)
  • A Groovy Place (1996)
  • The Freebase Connection: The Mike Flowers Pops meets Aphex Twin
  • Collaborations Vol.2 (Includes "Freebass" mix of Flowers' "Freebase" by Funki Porcini
    Funki Porcini

    Funki Porcini is musician and Disc Jockey, James Braddell, from England.His music is a combination of Downtempo, Breakbeat and Jazz, with elements of Hip hop music, Drum and bass, Sampling and Audio timescale-pitch modification vocals....
    .)
  • The Cocktail Shaker-New Groove Kitsch and Space-Age Pop
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, released in 1997 in film, is the first film of the Austin Powers . It was directed by Jay Roach and written by Mike Myers who also stars in the Austin Powers....
  • Mike Flowers meets Cylob - 1999/Chime Remixes*
  • Constant Friction - Collaboration2
  • The Karminsky Experience Inc - The Power of Suggestion (Flowers contributes a spoken word vocal on "The Wayward Camel")


Singles

  • "Wonderwall
    Wonderwall (song)

    "Wonderwall" is a song by English rock music band Oasis , written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from Morning Glory? in October 1995, "Wonderwall" peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and...
    " (1995)
  • "Light My Fire
    Light My Fire

    "Light My Fire" is a song originally performed by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 in music and released in January 1967 in music. It spent three weeks at number one on the Hot 100 number-one hits of 1967 , and one week on the Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1967....
    /Please Release Me" (1996)
  • "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
    Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

    "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is the best-known song from the 1978 musical Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Sung by the title character Eva Peron, it was titled ?It?s Only Your Lover Returning? before Rice settled on the eventual name....
    " (1996)
  • "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (Alternate)"
  • "Talk" (digital single)


See also

  • Richard Cheese
  • In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
    In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy

    In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy is 1997 album by Pat Boone in which Boone covers hard rock and Heavy metal music songs in a jazz/big band style....
  • Frank Bennett
    Frank Bennett

    Frank Bennett is an Australian jazz singer whose stage name is formed from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. His vocal style is clearly influenced by these two singers and the music of the 1940s and 1950s, and he is known for his big band renditions of rock and pop singles, including "Creep " by Radiohead, "Better Man" by Pearl Jam, and "Unde...


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