As a result of the track reaching number 6 in the British music chart, they went on to record an album in the early 1980s, Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, produced by the former Human League and then current Heaven 17/BEF member Martyn Ware.
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In 1974, Phillips started forming the core of a troupe; Italia Conti student actress Lesley Manville turned her down.
In 1970 Summerton started his own talent agency, recruiting in its heyday Noele Gordon, the dance groups Love Machine and Hot Gossip, Lesley Joseph, Sinitta, Bonnie Langford and the Beverly Sisters.
The film stars Debbie Ash, better known as one of the dance troupe Hot Gossip, and also stars Debbie's sister Leslie Ash (later a TV star in her own right) as Rosie's sister Natalie.
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British dance troupe Hot Gossip covered this song in 1981 for their compilation album Geisha Boys and Temple Girls which was produced by Martyn Ware, but the album was a commercial failure.
"The New York critic Huneker disliked his 'mincing gait' and complained of a 'lack of virility in his impersonations.' Whether this was fair comment or merely a Puritan critic's reaction to what was then hot gossip, is hard to know; it was widely rumoured that Plançon had been caught in his dressing room with the composer Herman Bemberg 'in flagrante delicto'." (See Michael Scott, The Record of Singing, published by Duckworth, London, 1978; page 84).