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5 unusual facts about The Ladies' Bras


Duncan Wisbey

The inclusion of Wisbey's song "The Ladies' Bras" on the 2007 compilation album Now We Are Ten and its appearances on The All Day Breakfast Show proved so successful that it was released as a single and became the shortest single ever to enter the UK Singles Chart following a campaign on BBC Radio 1 by Scott Mills.

Recently Duncan Wisbey became noticed on Radio 1 with the U.K's shortest song to reach the U.K top 40 with the song "The Ladies' Bras" which was 36 seconds long and reached number 27 in U.K top 40.

The Ladies' Bras

"The Ladies' Bras" is a song by Jonny Trunk and Wisbey.

The melody is "The Gonk" from George Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, as played in the supermarket scenes.

"The Ladies' Bras" became popular after it was played on Danny Baker's All Day Breakfast Show podcast show, reaching #70 in the UK singles chart with 1,644 sales and no national airplay.


Lady's Magazine

This was by no means the first women's magazine, as The Ladies' Mercury had been published in 1693.

The Ladies' Diary

The first editor and publisher, John Tipper, began the almanac by publishing a calendar, recipes, medicinal advice, stories and ended with "special rhyming riddles."

The Ladies' Repository

The Ladies' Repository was a monthly periodical based in Cincinnati and produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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