The original of this is well-known, a 1973 song by Dolly Parton.
On Jarvis Cocker’s BBC Radio 6 Music show on Sunday (I listened to it later on iPlayer) he broadcast the slowed down version, supposedly played at 33 rpm instead of 45.*

First the original speed.

Dolly Parton: Jolene

The “33” rpm sound is astonishingly effective, turning what had been a reedy, needy song of desperation into something sombre and dignified.

Dolly Parton: Jolene at 33

*Wiki says it’s slowed by 25%. 33 is 26.6% of 45 so it’s close enough.

Hawkwind were said not so much to play as point their guitars and fly.

In the very early 70s Science Fiction author, sometime begetter of the New Wave in SF and New Worlds magazine editor Michael Moorcock became associated with the band.

This was their sole UK hit.

Hawkwind: Silver Machine

The Tomorrow People was a Science Fiction series that started up on ITV’s children’s slot in the early 70s. It had a “futuristic” sounding theme à la Doctor Who.

As far as I know the theme was never released as a single. This clip cuts to the end credits after the initial theme tune.

The Tomorrow People

Ace of Wands was a children’s TV programme, broadcast by ITV between 1970 and 1972, which had fantasy elements. As well as this, another attraction was the cracking theme tune.

The tune was released as a single, Tarot, and was performed by Andy Bown. There’s some brilliant mellotron in this.

Andy Bown: Tarot

The Adventures of Sir Prancelot was a cartoon series – each episode lasting only five minutes – first broadcast in 1972, about a bumbling knight who sets out on a crusade and of course gets into scrapes. As I recall it the one who always pulled his irons out of the fire was his minstrel whose voice narrated the episodes.

The minstrel of course played a stringed instrument – from the pictures it may be supposed to be a lute – and Sir Prancelot’s (but also the minstrel’s) theme tune was a belter.

The programme was broadcast at 5.55 pm, just before the early evening news. I can remember rushing home from University in order to catch it. (No iPlayer or DVD box sets in those days. No videos even.)

They don’t make them like that any more, sadly.

Sir Prancelot

It was this tune by Andrew Lloyd Webber I had in mind in my previous post in this category. This appeared a few years after Après Toi.

It’s a good tune. Lloyd Webber used it several times.

It’s not usually this lyric people think of though.

David Essex: Oh What a Circus

Prelude’s only other hit apart from their cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush (see Reelin’ in the Years 31) came in 1980.

This is another Top of the Pops appearance. (The fadeout on the actual record lasts an extra minute!)

Prelude: Platinum Blonde

I was never much into punk but I confess to a soft spot for Plastic Bertrand – mainly because he’s one of those famous Belgians there are supposed to be none of.

(Well he’s famous if you were around in the 70s.)

I was shocked on loading this video to discover the song was nothing to do with him; being both sung and composed by its producer Lou Deprijck.

Plastic Bertrand: Ça Plane Pour Moi

Speaking of ELO, this was their first single from that eponymous first album, Electric Light Orchestra.

Heavy cellos; as well as brass.

The guitar riff has been much copied. (Yes, Paul Weller, I’m looking at you.)

Electric Light Orchestra: 10538 Overture

This only just creeps in as it was a January 1970 release, on the Bridge Over Troubled Water LP.

Never a single, to my mind this is the best song on the album; better even than the title track. The choral effect given by the multi-tracking of the duo’s voices is sublime.

Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York