Subject: billericay dickie From: The Sandman Date: 25 Nov 12 - 05:58 PM does it qualify under the 1954 definition.BILLERICAY DICKIE Good evening, I'm from Essex In case you couldn't tell My given name is Dickie I come from Billericay And I'm doing very well Had a love affair with Nina In the back of my cortina A seasoned-up hyena Could not have been more obscener She took me to the cleaners And other misdemeanours But I got right up between her Rum and her Ribena Well, you ask Joyce and Vicky If candy-floss is sticky I'm not a blinking thicky I'm Billericay Dickie And I'm doing very well I bought a lot of Brandy When I was courting Sandy Took eight to make her randy And all I had was shandy Another thing with Sandy What often came in handy Was passing her a mandy She didn't half go bandy So, you ask Joyce and Vicky If I ever took the mickey I'm not a flipping thicky I'm Billericay Dickie And I'm doing very well I'd rendez-vous with Janet Quite near the Isle of Thanet She looked more like a gannet She wasn't half a prannet Her mother tried to ban it Her father helped me plan it And when I captured Janet She bruised her pomegranate Oh, you ask Joyce and Vicky If I ever shaped up tricky I'm not a blooming thicky I'm Billericay Dickie And I'm doing very well You should never hold a candle If you don't know where it's been The jackpot is in the handle On a normal fruit machine So, you ask Joyce and Vicky Who's their favourite brickie I'm not a common thicky I'm Billericay Dickie And I'm doing very well I know a lovely old toe-rag Obliging and noblesse Kindly, charming shag from Shoeburyness My given name is Dickie I come from Billericay I thought you'd never guess So, you ask Joyce and Vicky A pair of squeaky chickies I'm not a flaming thicky I'm Billericay Dicky And I'm doing very well Oh golly, oh gosh Come and lie on the couch With a nice bit of posh From Burnham-on-Crouch My given name is Dickie I come from Billericay And I ain't a slouch So, you ask Joyce and Vicky About Billericay Dickie I ain't an effing thicky You ask Joyce and Vicky I'm doing very well |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Date: 25 Nov 12 - 07:07 PM Wouldn't like to answer that Dick, but it's a great song (I was singing a bit of it just a few days ago). One of many, that were full of humour, from a much-missed singer and songwriter. Mick |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: michaelr Date: 26 Nov 12 - 12:52 AM Gosh, you lot are coy. Whose is it then? |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: Allan Conn Date: 26 Nov 12 - 04:12 AM I've been practising this (it's Ian Dury - michaelr) myself along with There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards. Great songwriter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvRsLWlDXw |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,Peter Date: 26 Nov 12 - 04:21 AM Ian Dury I am not sure why I am bothering to respond as GSS is obviously trolling by posting the words of a random pop song. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,michael gill Date: 26 Nov 12 - 04:59 AM You have to admit though ... it is amusing where Dickie doth protest over and over that he's not a blinking, flipping, blooming, common, flaming, effing thicky. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,John Foxen Date: 26 Nov 12 - 11:21 AM I don't understand Peter's line about random pop song. Ian Dury is so steeped in the British music hall/urban tradition that New Boots And Panties Could be seen as one of the great folk rock LPs, alongside Liege And Lief and Bright Phoebus. It's interesting to compare and contrast My Old Man from that LP with Ewan MacColl's My Old Man. Both equally moving. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: melodeonboy Date: 27 Nov 12 - 03:08 AM Indeed, John! |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,michael gill Date: 27 Nov 12 - 03:55 AM however ... it does expose the utter futility of trying to categorise music. If Ian Dury is in the same genre as Ewan MacColl then John Lydon is in the same genre as Jimmy Page. And it's amusing that people who might argue such toss would probably also argue that Bellowhead are not in the same genre as Christy Moor |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: Musket Date: 27 Nov 12 - 12:15 PM Genre is, in my experience either a) A "feature" of iTunes or b) An excuse for a bore to shove his head up his own arse and make us all listen to the echo. Music is an abstraction. Get over it. Ian Dury was one of my heroes, and his observations of people, culture and society make his songs worthy of anybody's definition of folk, punk, rock, jazz, pop, whatever. The Blockheads were, and still are, one of the tightest jazz outfits out there, bless 'em. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,michael gill Date: 27 Nov 12 - 12:44 PM oooh, I dunno .... I wouldn't say they were Jazz? smirk Smirk SHAMELESS NAME DROP ALERT AAARROOOOGAAA AAARROOOOGAAA I was playing at a festival in France once, years ago, And all the bands were getting their sound checks on the saturday morning. There was this bass player playing with an awful kind of rock/folk band, can't remember their name, but we noticed the bass player was pretty good. Then our keyboard player recognised him and when it was his turn to twang a few notes for the sound man our keyboard player shouted out, "do My Old Man!". Which he did, to much cheering from us. Norman Watt-Roy spent the rest of the festival in our bus getting wasted with us. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: GUEST,John Foxen Date: 27 Nov 12 - 03:22 PM As for a jazz influence, Ian Dury proudly stole the bass line for Sex & Drugs n Rock n Roll from the great Charlie Haden. And Ewan MacColl hired Bruce Turner to put in bluesy clarinet lines. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: Musket Date: 28 Nov 12 - 03:58 AM Yeah, that clarinet in the "usual" recording of Dirty Old Town is simply wild... It genuinely brings out the old goose pimples. The Blockheads are a tight jazz outfit or they are a rock band or they are whatever you want them to be. As I dismissed genre above, it would be silly for me to pigeon hole them, but if good tight jazz floats your boat, you won't be disappointed to listen to them.... If you appreciate Ewan McColl's use of prose to descibe people's lives and UK society, you may enjoy listening to the words of some of Ian Dury songs. It was satisfying to see that years after The BBC banned it, Spasticus Autisticus was played at the opening ceremony of the disabled olympics. |
Subject: RE: billericay dickie From: Nigel Parsons Date: 28 Nov 12 - 04:09 AM Never having heard it said, I'd always read it as "Bill - AIR- i -kay" Now (post Gavin & Stacey) it's clearly "BILLer Rickie" Oh well, we live and learn. |
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