Dance with Me

I came across this on Reddit recently, I hadn’t really ever heard of it, so I’m just going to copy details from Wikipedia because this isn’t a high school essay:

Reginald Tindal Kennedy Bosanquet (9 August 1932 – 27 May 1984) was a British journalist and broadcaster who was an anchor of the half-hour News at Ten bulletin for Independent Television News (ITN) from July 1967 to November 1979.

In 1980, Bosanquet “sang” (or, more accurately, narrated in the style of a newscast) the lyrics on the disco single “Dance with Me”. It was voted no. 1 in the Bottom 30 by listeners of British DJ Kenny Everett.

So this is fascinating because I was already doing some research on vanity singles by entertainers, and I had never heard of this before and it’s kind of a perfect example of the type of delusional hubris required to make something like this, but I suppose you never actually would make it to the top without some level of personal delusion. Whatever, this is weird and you should listen to it.