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I Can't Sing Very Well
Mother Goose , Music Video – 1982
Hailing from Dunedin, rock band Mother Goose filmed the video for 'I Can't Sing Very Well' in their home city's historic Athenaeum theatre. Swaying dreamily on the moodily-lit stage, the group perform to an almost empty theatre, with the subject of the love song appearing to be the (very deflated) usher working her dreary shift. As is customary for Mother Goose — who dressed like nursery rhyme characters — the song has a naive and novelty quality, like a lullaby. The song won lyricist Steve Young the 1982 APRA Silver Scroll award for songwriting, presented on the night by Ray Columbus.
Like Split Enz, they owed a debt to the English tradition of theatrical rock, rather than the commercial rock traditions of the USA.– Murray Cammick, in the AudioCulture profile for Mother Goose, April 2013
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