in the early 1960s comedic pop records by artists such as charlie drake, bernard cribbins and spike milligan were very popular in the uk and enjoyed chart success alongside pop music parodies by pop cabaret acts such as the barron knights, and this fledgling version of the bonzos was already slowly turning its style from more orthodox music towards the comedy-tinged 1920s popular jazz-style sound of groups such as the alberts and the temperance seven.