Video: Voice of the Beehive - Don't Call Me Baby - TOTP 1988

How come I didn't get the memo on these guys? Seriously -- I always liked the name, but for some reason I never actually listened to an obviously terrific band. Better late than never, I guess. [h/t thers]

"It's those American girls again" - that would be my Dad's observation whenever I played Let It Bee, and he wasn't wrong. Although he used to confuse Voice of the Beehive with The Rhythm Sisters, so it could be he didn't really recognise them. They were, perhaps, the ultimate Janice Long Night-time Radio 1 Band: kinda ballsy, kinda cute, confusingly transatlantic (Tracey and Melissa were, indeed, American, but their percussion section - Woody and Mark - came from Madness, which is about as British as you could get at the time without being Norman Tebbit. Twenty years ago, [...]