Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 May 11 - 06:21 PM

Dick (and others), if you want to post a YouTube link, that's fine - but please don't start a new thread for every YouTube video you happen to like. Use the filter and find an existing thread on the song or performer in question, and refresh that existing thread with your YouTube link.
Threads combinde.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: wizz jones 1960
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 May 11 - 05:52 PM

Seriously underestimated bloke, Wizz. I saw him a good few times at the Tree Inn Folk Club, as was, in Stratton, near Bude. Bloody brilliant. The last time I saw him I lasted about three of his songs then spent the rest of the evening, half-pissed, in nearby Stratton Medical Centre, having a foreign object removed from my eye by a nurse of the old style, one of those who took no prisoners. Ah, those were the days!

Subject: RE: wizz jones 1960
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 May 11 - 05:30 PM

so, new people join mudcat who may not have seen it before.

Subject: RE: wizz jones 1960
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 16 May 11 - 04:55 PM

Been posted on here before Dick

Subject: wizz jones 1960
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 May 11 - 04:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDsQSOf6_ow

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 08:02 PM

to be fair to Mr Witty, we have actually made more fuss of lesser talents.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: dwditty
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 05:05 PM

I sure missed that one Murray. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 03:48 PM

Subject: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: dwditty - PM
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 09:49 AM

OK, I can't believe I made it to almost 60 years of age without knowing about Wizz Jones. You Brits have really kept this one a secret. I can't get enough of watching this WIZZ JONES VIDEO.

Well, we haven't really been keeping him a secret, dwditty, in fact I posted the link to that video a few hours after Wizz uploaded it to YouTube on This thread here

Also,   the link to the BBC archive video is on that thread as well ...









http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=60047

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,John Robinson
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 12:11 PM

The embedded YouTube video works a treat Nicholas. In fact, you've sparked off some ideas for Julie's website here at Acoustyistics towers!!

It is amazing to watch Michelmore and Whicker on air. The whole thing has the air of a Monty Python sketch. I couldn't get the Whicker's Island sketch out of my head for hours after watching it!

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM

Thanks, John Robinson, for that link to the Topic. I hope the shrunken YouTube I embedded on the site works OK (I changed the size parameters on the embedding code). If not, and for anyone wanting to see it full size, the original YouTube is here.

For those of us in the UK, it is also nice to see old Cliff Michelmore (whose son Guy is an Emmy-winning composer btw) introduce the report, and Alan Whicker reporting it.

Nick, Topic Webo

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: dwditty
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 10:36 AM

refresh in case Bobert wants to watch this video

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,John Robinson
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 01:05 PM

Wizz Jones is appearing at the Topic FC in Bradford on Thursday 30th November, as part of their 50th Aniversary celebrations.

There is a link from their home page (Topic Folk Club website) to a YouTube hosted video showing Wizz on TV as part of an Alan Whicker report from 1960 covering "beatniks" in Newquay!

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: Dreadnought
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 11:58 AM

Wizz put on a fantastic show at the Walthamstow club last year and he'll be back on 7th January 2007 if anyone is in the area.

More details at http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: BanjoRay
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 11:39 AM

Excellent stuff
Ray

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Wizz Fan
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 11:35 AM

Worth having a look at his website: http://www.wizzjones.com/

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: Scrump
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 11:19 AM

Yeah, I'm a great fan of Wizz too - thanks for posting that link. Haven't seen him for a few years now - really nice guy too.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 10:46 AM

Just one of Peggy Seeger's guitar pupils from her early days in the UK. He does have CD's available I believe. One of them may even be of his duets with Pete Stanley a one time banjo student of Peggy's from the same period.

H.

Subject: Wizz Jones!!!!!!!!!
From: dwditty
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 09:49 AM

OK, I can't believe I made it to almost 60 years of age without knowing about Wizz Jones. You Brits have really kept this one a secret. I can't get enough of watching this WIZZ JONES VIDEO.

Check it out.

dw