All excellent choices, sure, but I think the inclusion of James Last's Two Tribes is what's persuaded me to give this a listen.

An alternative theory that popped up on this morning's timeline:

I love how they made up a daft backstory to justify the gap between the songs and the style.

I remember seeing one of those in a Calais hypermarket in the mid-90s referred to as 'l'escargot rouge', and I've used that name ever since, regardless of colour

How about a newspaper pun riffing on another classic newspaper pun?

I want a comedy film to break that tune. Like the way that Hoppipolla is now, for me, permanently the soundtrack to Alan Partridge booting footballs off the roof of a substation.