Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Jul 00 - 03:33 PM "Red-Velvet-Steering-Wheel-Covered Driver" - surely that wasn't Jake Thackray? It was (and is) sung by Jeremy Taylor, and I'd assumed he wrote it. (Not a lot about Jeremy Taylor either onthe net that I could find - here's a bit I found: :
Jeremy Taylor. Here's an extract of a review, "Live at the Parkgate Hotel - Wirral, 18th June 1998" by David Jones from the Autumn 1998 edition of Folk North West: "In the last issue, I described Roy Bailey as a legend in his own lifetime. Well, another artist who could easily shoulder that mantle is Jeremy Taylor. An Oxford graduate, former Eton schoolmaster, humourist/singer/songwriter and satirist, the list goes on... For more than thirty years, he's been travelling the world, with no shortage of colourful experiences to draw on... "Jeremy moved back to these shores in 1994, after living the previous 14 years in South Africa. He now tends his garden in rural mid-Wales, but his mind is still razor sharp, and he still holds audiences in the palm of his hand." I can confirm that last bit, from seeing hgim at the last Walton Folk Festival, when he sanf Red Velvet Steering Wheel Ciover among others. Anyway, I reckon a thread asking about Jeremy Taylor is more likely to come up with the words you are after. (Walton Folk Festival is on again this year incidentally, in September. there's info about it on this page |
Subject: Jake Thackeray From: GUEST,a642acgs@hotmail.com Date: 05 Jul 00 - 02:31 PM I'm looking for the words of some of Jake Thackray's songs. I can't seem to find them on the net anywhere. In particular, I'm looking for the words to "Red-Velvet-Steering-Wheel-Covered Driver" and the song about a concrete mixer. Any pointers will be appreciated. Brian |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: Muriel Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:18 AM Thank you very much to everybody who replied to my request. I now have not only a source for Jake Thackray, but other British humour I was having trouble finding, at Magpie Records, which has a link on the Jack Thackray (Unofficial)Homepage. I also know how to spell ThackRAY correctly, which helps a lot. Thanks again. |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: Brendy Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:53 PM Great stuff man. When you have time to do it I would love to have a copy. Anything you want me to look up for you just shout. B. |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: johnp Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:37 PM gidday Brendy...yep, did the clicky thing right but forgot the ID thing. Hogmanay left me dazed for days. I picked up a book of Jakes verse "Jakes Progress" in a junk shop. If you want any I will arrange a scan and e-mail it to you. |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: Brendy Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:19 PM How're ye John, ana a happy New Year as well!! Was that you who put the clicky thing in? Nice one though. I never knew he had a home page. All the best B. |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM Here's the clicky |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: johnp Date: 04 Jan 00 - 05:11 PM lots of info on Jake and sources of recordings www.socresonline.org.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html I also have some lyrics if you are looking for specifics BRENDY...Happy New Year and I'm working alongside that Bantam! |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery From: Brendy Date: 03 Jan 00 - 10:51 PM Hello Muriel, and your friend. Here's one: Jake Thackray Lah-Di-Da EMI CDP 7 96271 2 (UK: CD IDL 1 1 5) That's the only one I can find at the minute. B. |
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackray From: Muriel, again Date: 03 Jan 00 - 10:08 PM Sorry, that should read Jake Thackray's songS. He did a number of them, all very funny. |
Subject: Jake Thackray From: Muriel Date: 03 Jan 00 - 10:07 PM Does anybody out there know of a source for any records of Jake Thackray's song, by Jake or anybody else. All I have is a tape, made by a friend, about 16th generation recording. I've tried the net, and my local large CD supplier -- no luck. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: jake thackray From: Ian HP Date: 23 Feb 99 - 03:45 PM None of Jake's original LPs have, unfortunately, been reissued on CD. However, a compilation CD called Lah-Di-Dah is available, and both of these songs are on it. |
Subject: RE: jake thackray From: AndyG Date: 23 Feb 99 - 01:21 PM Oops, I think I've just spelt Ulysses wrong ? Jake Thackray, by the way, is a Yorkshireman and proud of it. I don't think he'd like it to get about that he was welsh.
AndyG |
Subject: Lyr Add: ULYSSES (Jake Thackray) From: AndyG Date: 23 Feb 99 - 01:16 PM ULYSSES
When Ulysses comes home,
I've got a dog called Ulysses.
When my Ulysses comes home,
When I stumble home at night, I'm jaded and stale,
When my Ulysses comes home,
I like to sit in my fireside chair,
When my Ulysses comes home,
I tried to climb the social scale,
When my Ulysses came home,
I brought my sweetie home one night,
When my Ulysses came home,
My one solution is quick and grim:
So when Ulysses comes home, Recorded on: Jake Thackray's Last Will and Testament AndyG |
Subject: jake thackray From: cqc Date: 23 Feb 99 - 11:45 AM it's been 13 years since i heard it on a toronto radio station and 13 years i have been trying to find a recording of it.....jake thackrays' (welsh) "my dog ulysses".....on digital tradition folk song database i located jake thackrays' "Isabel makes love", but no other songs. can anyone help me before i go COMPLETELY crazy? thanks. |
Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs From: Date: 07 Dec 97 - 09:47 PM Many thanks to those who responded! Bert, I remember On again, on again now - thanks for reminding me of it. Pete |
Subject: Lyr Add: ON AGAIN, ON AGAIN (Jake Thackray)^^ From: Bert Date: 05 Dec 97 - 02:02 PM ON AGAIN, ON AGAIN (Jake Thackray)
I love a good bum on a woman. It makes my day.
Please understand, I respect and admire the frailer sex,
I fell in love with a woman with wonderful thighs and hips
She could have gone on again, on again, on again, till the entire
She talks to me when I go for a shave or a sleep or a swim.
Wittering on again, on again, on and again and again.
She even talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night,
She just goes on again, on again, on again, on and I must
She will not take a hint but once she's made a start
She'd just go on again, on again, on again even more.
Believe it or not, she appeared to me then and there,
But she just went on again, on again, on again, on and I
Again and again, and again, and again, and again,
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Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 05 Dec 97 - 12:19 PM National Monuments is in the database. Isabel Makes Love |
Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs From: Charles Colyer Date: 05 Dec 97 - 12:06 PM Pete: For a Jake Thackray discography try accessing the following site: http://kennedy.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html You might also want to check the book "Jake's Progress", published in 1977 by The Paperback Division of W. H. ALLEN Co. Ltd. It contains many of Jake's verses. Charles |
Subject: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs From: Pete H. Date: 04 Dec 97 - 11:13 PM I'm trying to locate any of Jake's songs, please help. Don't remember titles to many of them, but remember one about a young lady whose hobby was making love on English National MOnuments, another one about the escapades of a cockerel he purchased! Thanks to anyone that can help. Messages from multiple threads combined. |
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