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. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM Here's the clicky |
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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackray From: Morticia Date: 05 Jul 00 - 04:13 PM I don't know either of these as Jake Thackrays and I thought I knew all his stuff |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: bobby's girl Date: 05 Jul 00 - 06:15 PM I agree that RVSWCD is definately a Jeremy Taylor song - I have a wonderful lunatic LP of him and Spike Milligan performing live together - totally bizarre! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackray From: Lanfranc Date: 05 Jul 00 - 06:44 PM It would be easier to find Jake's material if people could spell his surname! It's spelt THACKRAY. A Google search with those terms will come up with something but .... Red Velvet Steering Wheel Cover Driver is by Jeremy Taylor as above and I can't think of a song about a cement mixer by either Taylor or Thackray! Try Google again, or do a one-year hunt through the Mudcat. Happy hunting - join Mudcat and have all your misconceptions about the authorship of songs corrected! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Jul 00 - 07:00 PM Well, that's sorted - now tell us more about the concrete mixer, and see if that sparks any memories. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: AndyG Date: 06 Jul 00 - 04:38 AM The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage
AndyG |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: GUEST,Alan Francis at the Office Date: 06 Jul 00 - 08:40 AM Thank you AndyG, one day I'll discover the secret of the blue clicky thingie! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: Snuffy Date: 06 Jul 00 - 08:54 AM Try OUR BILL in the Digitrad Lyrics Search box - that's about a concrete mixer driver, but it's not by Thackray
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: GUEST,Brian Date: 06 Jul 00 - 10:50 AM Thankyouthankyouthankyou. I had thought for the longest time that Jake Thackray sang the song about the RVSWCD. Thanks for putting the record straight. As to the song about the concrete mixer, Our Bill is the one. I heard this sung at a small Folk festival up in New Hampshire about 15 years ago and couldn't get scraps of the song out of my head. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 06 Jul 00 - 11:20 AM The Secret of the Blue Clicky Thing -
"Sherlock, my good fellow. You've been sitting in the corner in front of that funny looking box long enough. God knows what you are trying to do, but it's hiugh time you laid it on one side, and had one of Mrs Hudson's excellent Muffins."
Outside the fog, a London Particular, was muffling the sounds of the passing carriages..."
...Someday the full story will be told, when the world is ready for it." But not just yet. Here is the short version for the above link:
{a href="http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html"}The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage{/a}
"http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html" is in thiscase the address of the website you'd be try9ng to link to. But in place of eveery { in the abve paragraph, you write < , and in place of every } you put >
And when you do that, this is what you get: The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray From: Lanfranc Date: 06 Jul 00 - 07:28 PM Wow - It's just like WordStar 1.0! Who'd have though the blue clicky thingie had so many control characters embedded in it! Thanks, neighbour, that's a beer I owe you. |
Subject: Jake Thackray From: Lanfranc Date: 22 Mar 01 - 07:52 PM No, not bad newa, just a link requested on PalTalk. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html Excellent site, loads of info and lyrics. Glad Jake's songs are having a bit of a revival on PalTalk. |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: SINSULL Date: 22 Mar 01 - 08:10 PM Thanks Lanfranc. Pseudolus introduced us to Sr. Josephine. Great stuff. |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:53 PM Lanfranc does the Gorilla song.... one of my favourites. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Greyeyes Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:16 PM I once heard Jake described as "the Noel Coward of the North." High praise. I have a vague memory of singing "Lah Di Dah" on Paltalk once, long, long ago. |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Morticia Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:59 PM I do a few of his songs, it is a great sadness to me that he appears to have gone undergound.....guess that is his choice but oh my, do I miss him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Mr Red Date: 24 Mar 01 - 04:50 PM 7/10 years ago Jake was helping run the Monmouth Town festival. All free and in the town square. they even closed the high street off to have a ceilidh, now thats what I call "FOLK". He was doing the odd gig then but asking 700 Uk pounds & I didn't think I could pull in enough punters on the Malvern Fringe festival or I would have booked him there and then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Mar 01 - 08:00 PM It's mainly his liver that has gone underground. I suspect it won't be long before the rest of him joins it. Lovely bloke though. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: Mr Red Date: 25 Mar 01 - 06:17 PM Yea it looked like that then, shaky hands! |
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray From: roopoo Date: 26 Mar 01 - 01:36 AM I remember some 15 years ago he was supposed to be at Stainsby for the Saturday night concert, but broke his wrist and couldn't do it. Nevertheless, he turned up in the afternoon to apologise, and did a spot while he was at it! What a trouper! Andrea (Martin Carthy stepped into the breach for the concert!) |
Subject: jake thackray song lyrics From: GUEST,merrick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 03:44 PM does anyone know of a site containing lyrics/music of jake thackray? or any similar? |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: GUEST,ta2 Date: 04 Feb 02 - 03:54 PM between my bizzie lizzie and my portrait of the queen......... i'll think over the next couple of days and get back when i remember |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: nager Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:02 PM I have a whole book of them at home, published around the early 1970s I think. I found it in a second hand shop at the little town of Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia around 10 years ago.. complete with cartoons by Bill Tidy.. cost me $2 (Aus)... absolutely brilliant. Not much help to you, I guess, but there are a couple of Thackray sites I have come across on the net.. maybe the spelling you used stuffed you up. It is Jake Thackray.. good luck. |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: MMario Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:12 PM the unofficial home page |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: GUEST,merrick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:18 PM thanks nager and mmario found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the right name makes!!! |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:18 PM There are 4 or 5 on the make 'em laugh website, hopefully this will take you to it. Fingers crossed......Giok |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: GUEST,merrick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:19 PM thanks nager and mmario found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the right name makes!!! |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:22 PM There are 4 or 5 on the make 'em laugh website, hopefully this will take you to it. Fingers crossed......Giok |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: GUEST,merrick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:22 PM thanks,nager and mmario,found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the correct spelling makes!!! DOH! |
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics From: John in Brisbane Date: 04 Feb 02 - 09:09 PM Hi Nager, if you're in Australia I would happily notate some of the tunes from your bokk if you were able to send a copy. Jake is one of my all time favourites. Regards John johninbrisbane@lycos.com |
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs From: GUEST,David@g8ina.enta.net Date: 05 Jul 02 - 12:43 PM Just in case you missed my earlier thread, we also have a Jake Thackray forum at HERE Talk, ask, listen... all about Jake. ...and we have plans afoot !! David |
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