Hoots Mon There's A Moose Loose Aboot This Hoose - Lord Rockingham's XI

Lord Rockingham's XI were professional musicians brought together by Jack Good as the house band for the rock and roll British TV show 'Oh Boy' made by the 1960s regional ITV contractor ABC Television. The band never toured, but their claim to fame was that they recorded the very first number one instrumental, Hoots Mon, which hit the top spot in 1958 hit parade and stayed there for three weeks. The band leader Harry Robinson (who wrote Hoots Mon) was joined by Benny Green on saxophone, the famously enthusiastic Cherry Wainer on the Hammond organ and her husband Don Storer on drums. Hoots Mon roughly translates as Hey Man. 'There's a moose loose aboot this hoose' refers to a mouse rather than a moose.