Kipper Family

Subject: Kipper Family
From:
Date: 30 Jul 97 - 07:51 PM

I've heard some songs played on a Canadian folk music radio program. How can I get hold of their album(s)? Anybody know an address or contact number? Their stuff is really great, especially to a traditional ballad singer like myself.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Andy Geliher
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 05:31 AM

Hi Moira,
I'll try to get some answers for you and post them tomorrow, if nobody gets there first. The Kipper Family albums include:

• From Time Immoral
• Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
• The Crab Wars
• Fresh Yesterday
• The Rhinestone Ploughboy

I know the earlier albums were published by Dambuster Records, but that's it I'm afraid.

AndyG

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From:
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 05:46 AM

Hi Moira

I can't offer any more on the recordings than Andy's contribution; but you may be interested to know that although the Kipper Family no longer performs, young Sid is still active - or should that be hyperactive? His agency web page

http://www.demon.co.uk/wizard/adastra/bandnews.html#Sid Kipper

might be worth a peek.

Regards Sam

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 05:52 PM

E-mail: [e-mail]

Address for Recording Sales (Tayberry, I think, is the name) that hass all the Kipper Family recordings in stock.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Andy Geliher
Date: 01 Aug 97 - 04:48 AM

Hi again,
Not a lot to add, as all I got that's not appeared above is the UK distribution:

C.M.Distribution,
2-4 High Street,
Starbeck,
Harrogate,
North Yporkshire,
Emgland.

TEL: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

Oh yes, I missed

• In The Family Way

From the album list.

AndyG

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Moira Cameron
Date: 03 Aug 97 - 02:00 AM

Thanks, everyone. I'm looking forward to getting some of their stuff.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 01:14 AM

Sometimes I think there's something wrong with me, but I never seem to catch onto dirty jokes. They used to make fun of me in grammar school for this.
Can somebody discreetly tell me what The Unlaid Maid is a parody of?
Discreetly, please - send the information in a plain brown envelope...

-Joe, blushing-

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 04:24 AM

It's not really a parody of one song, but all the 'I went walking in May and got pursued by ploughboys, Rogered coming home from the Wake, shagged senseless by Sailors just as the tide was flowing, ravaged by wraggle taggle gypsies-oh and f***d by Friars who should know better' songs.

Each verse is based on songs well known in the UK folk tradition - try getting hold of a copy of 'Marrow Bones' - the songs collected by Hammond & Gardiner in the UK, they're mostly in there.

Oddly enough, I've spent some time this week learning 'Coming home from the wake' - having Roger the Cabin Boy (name, not instruction) as a friend, I thought it would be funny to stand next to him and sing it.

LTS

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 04:52 AM

I bow to your greater expertise.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 05:48 AM

Now then , Liz - DONNT be nasty about our Roger ! LOL

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: nutty
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:19 AM

There's a copy of Marrow Bones up for grabs on ebay at present.

And a couple of copies of the Kipper Family Song Book in Reputable second hand book shops at over £100.

Should we tell them??

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:56 AM

Why would I be nasty about Roger? I've been rambling in the new mown hay and shared many beers with him and he's promised to take me sloe picking next month.

Bet you've never heard it called that before!

LTS

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 08:24 AM

I'm delighted to say that we've got Sid Kipper doing his new Christmas show at the Lewes Arms on Sunday 9th. December and tickets are available in advance:

SID KIPPER PRESENTS

A KIPPER COUNTRY CHRISTMAS

SUNDAY 9th. DECEMBER 2007

Lewes Arms Folk Club

Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes BN7 1YH UK

8.00 - 10.45 p.m.    Doors open 7.30 p.m.   £8



Name:



Address:







Telephone:

E-mail address:



No. of tickets required @ £8 each:



PLEASE INCLUDE A

STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE



Tick for map:       Tick for accommodation list:



            Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL



Telephone [phone].

e-mail: [e-mail]

Website: http://members.aol.com/lewesarmsfolk/

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:38 PM

Just to point out that all the Kipper Family CDs (as well as Sid's Solo efforts) are available from CAMSCO Music. Of course.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Dave Swan
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 08:58 PM

Good God, Liz. That is the definitive distillation of those songs. Henceforth let them be called the ROGERED RAVAGED SHAGGED tradition.

D

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:58 PM

And, since we are advertising, I might also add that 'Marrow Bones' is now available in a new and substantially improved edition, from EFDSS

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:22 AM

And wonderful it is too.. I got a copy for my birthday, which lead to me wondering if Marina Russell was a relative (right names, right area, right sort of time as she was born around 1834), which led me to discover the computer will no longer open all my family tree files... so I bought another CDRom programme and have spent several days putting information into that, thus not having time to learn anything new from the book, other than 'Rogered coming home from the wake'.

LTS

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:26 AM

Sorry, that should be 'Roger, coming home from the wake'.





Oh I dunno though....

Still can't see if Marina is a relative, she's elusive. Although she appears on a couple of Census returns, she's proving harder to find in the Parish Registers.

LTS

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: GUEST,John Stafford
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 07:37 AM

Am looking for the lyrics to Unpleasant and Frightful from Sid Kipper's album Chained Melody. Can anyone help?

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Jan 24 - 09:06 AM

Many recordings on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kipper+Family

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 07 Jan 24 - 06:03 AM

Guest John Stafford: I found a reference to a member of the Dragon Folk Club in Worcester having sung Unpleasant and Frightful back in 2015 (they keep a blog detailing what's been sung). The singer was called Colin and there's certainly a Colin currently there - I imagine it's the same one. Maybe he'll be able to recall the lyrics for you:

Dragon Blog

The reference to U & F is just past half way down the page.

Good luck in your search!

LFF

Subject: Unpleasant and Frightful
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Jan 24 - 08:46 AM

That's just a short verse sung in 25 seconds:

UNPLEASANT AND FRIGHTFUL
Sid Kipper

Goodbye my dearest Nancy I must heed thee ahoi,
Though it pains me to leave you which brings me great joy.
The ship she lies a-waiting for the next flowing tide
And if ever I return again I will let you tan my hide.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 10 Jan 24 - 07:50 PM

Can’t find it just now as the Search isn’t working, but some years ago there was a massive thread on here with loads of Kipper lyrics on it, especially the Christmas parodies.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Jan 24 - 09:49 PM

It might be the first of the Related threads as there are 76 posts in it.

Subject: RE: Kipper Family
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Jan 24 - 02:02 PM

Yep, that’s the one!
(So much for late night posting - didn’t notice that!)