Mike Batt Quotes

I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.
Mike Batt

I think my favourite is one of the more obscure ones. We had eight hits in the Seventies and the main ones are Remember You're A Womble, The Wombling Song, Banana Rock, Wombling Merry Christmas, Minuetto Allegretto, and Wombling White Tie And Tails.
But my favourites are the more obscure ones like the Nashville Wombles, the James Bond Womble song called To Wimbledon With Love, and probably my all-time favourite is the one with the longest title ever, The Myths And Legends Of King Merton Womble And His Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.
Mike Batt

To be honest with you, I just never felt Sony treated The Wombles like artists. They treated them like back catalogue. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're a record company and that's all you can afford to do, that's it.
Mike Batt