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Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray

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BROTHER GORILLA
ISABEL MAKES LOVE
LA-DI-DAH
SISTER JOSEPHINE
THE BANTAM COCK
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAKE THACKRAY


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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


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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


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From:
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM

Here's the clicky

click here


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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!


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.
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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


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Subject: Lyr Add: ULYSSES (Jake Thackray)
From: AndyG
Date: 23 Feb 99 - 01:16 PM

ULYSSES

When Ulysses comes home,
He always greets me with an open heart,
But you will see how Ulysses
Has taken my life apart.

I've got a dog called Ulysses.
He plays all day in the park,
Sniffing at his friends and the chestnut trees,
And chasing cats 'til after dark.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, his tail in the air,
His usual exuberance
Is awfully hard to bear.

When I stumble home at night, I'm jaded and stale,
And so I try to take a little repose.
I don't want waking up with a happy tail.
I don't want a kiss from a big wet nose.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, he gets on my wick.
For Ulysses communicates
His love with a snuffle and a lick.

I like to sit in my fireside chair,
Watching telly 'til the epilogue
In a semi-coma and without a care,
And I would do if it were not for my bloody dog.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, like a maniac,
It's useless to pursue my viewing,
So I sent my television back.

I tried to climb the social scale,
And so I organised a little "do".
Some very posh people came to my cocktail,
But at half-past seven my party was through.

When my Ulysses came home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, I knew I was sunk.
My guests were not at all impressed,
And they left when my dog got drunk.

I brought my sweetie home one night,
And we both knew that this was it.
Sipping Chianti by candlelight,
We were getting to a very important bit.

When my Ulysses came home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, he broke the spell,
Intruding on my beautiful romance,
Like a Hound from Hell.

My one solution is quick and grim:
A little bottle of cyanide.
I can't bring myself to get rid of him.
I shall have to perform a suicide.

So when Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, home for his tea,
He'll have to cry a little bit,
For having given so much love to me.

Recorded on: Jake Thackray's Last Will and Testament

AndyG

Spelling corrected. --JoeClone, 18-Jul-02.


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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.


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Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs
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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
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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.
I assume it is part of the proof of God's existence "a posteriori".
I love breasts and arms and ankles, elbows, knees.
It's the tongue, the tongue, the tongue of a woman that spoils the job for me.

Please understand, I respect and admire the frailer sex,
And I honour them every bit as much as the next misogynist,
But give some women the ghost of a chance to talk, and thereupon
They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on.

I fell in love with a woman with wonderful thighs and hips
And a sensational belly. I just never noticed her lips
Were always moving. Only when we got to the altar and she had to say, "I do",
She folded her arms and gathered herself and took in a breath and I knew

She could have gone on again, on again, on again, till the entire
Congregation passed out and the vicar passed on and the choir
Boys passed through puberty. At the reception I gloomily noted her family's jubilant mood,
Their maniacal laughter and their ghastly gratitude.

She talks to me when I go for a shave or a sleep or a swim.
She talks to me on a Sunday when I go singing hymns and drinking heavily.
When I go mending my chimney pot, she's down there in the street,
And at ninety-five on my motor bike, she's on the pillion seat

Wittering on again, on again, on and again and again.
When I'm eating or drinking or reading or thinking, or when I'm saying my rosary,
She will never stop talking to me. She is one of those women who
Will never use three or four words when a couple of thousand will easily do.

She even talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night,
Throughout the sweetest of our intimate delight,
Not even stopping while we go hammer and tongs towards the peak,
Except maybe for a sigh and a groan and one perfunctory shriek.

She just goes on again, on again, on again, on and I must
Assume that she has never noticed that she's just
Been interrupted. Totally unruffled she is, and as far as I can see,
I might just as well have been posting a letter or stirring up the tea.

She will not take a hint but once she's made a start
I can yawn, or belch, or bleed, or faint, or fart.
She'll not drop a syllable. I could stand in front of her grimly sharpening up an axe,
Sprinkle her with paraffin and ask her for a match;

She'd just go on again, on again, on again even more.
The hind leg of donkey is peanuts for her. She could bore
The balls off a buffalo. "Mother of God," I cried one day,
"Oh let your kingdom come, but in the meantime, Mother, can't you strike this bugger away?"

Believe it or not, she appeared to me then and there,
The Blessed Virgin herself in answer to my prayer,
Despite the vulgarity, shimmering softly, dressed in blue and holding up a hand.
I cocked a pious ear as the Mother of God began,

But she just went on again, on again, on again, on and I
Must state how very much I sympathi -
-ze with the rest of the family. Give some women the ghost of a chance
To talk and thereupon
They go on again, on again, on again, on

Again and again, and again, and again, and again,
They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on.



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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


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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


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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.


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