Lyr ADD: Day Is Done (from Jacqui and Bridie)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Day Is Done (from Jacqui and Bridie)
From: Little Robyn
Date: 22 Feb 14 - 12:27 AM

This one?
Hold back the dawn
Robyn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Day Is Done (from Jacqui and Bridie)
From: GUEST,Mike
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 06:52 PM

Does anyone have the lyrics to Hold Back The Dawn by Jacqui And Bridie?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Day Is Done (from Jacqui and Bridie)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Oct 11 - 06:23 PM

Actually there are several Jacqui & Bridie videos at YouTube—see here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Take My Hand / Day Is Done (Jacqui,Bridie
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 07:26 PM

(The YouTube clip linked to above is no longer available)

This is nice though....: Pink & Pleasant Land - A film about Jacqui and Bridie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Take My Hand / Day Is Done (Jacqui,Bridie
From: GUEST,MV
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 06:54 PM

There's a clip of "Hold Back The Dawn" from "Beat City" here:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQAh3MjgNw&feature=channel_page


MV

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: GUEST,Tom Willis
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:02 AM

I also visited their house in Allerton 'The Coach House' wonderful round rooms/doors etc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Jim McLean
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 03:10 PM

I recorded a few LPs by Jacqui and Bridie. I remember staying in their house which had semicircular doors! Sadly Bridie left us a few years ago but a great talent.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Susan of DT
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 02:44 PM

I heard them a couple of times in the early 1970s. Yes, I remember the welliephone. It looks like I only entered a few songs into the DT that I think of as "theirs", which does not mean written by them: Dear Elizabeth, Tallow Candles, Bread and Fishes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie '
From: GUEST,Tom Willis
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 12:51 PM

Jacqui McDonald has got a great web site now www.jacquiandbridie.com if unable to find it try google Jacqui McDonald

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: GUEST,rich J
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 08:00 PM

Hi...yes, I remember the Welliephone!

Jacqui and Bridie came to my primary school a couple of times, when I must have been anywhere between 5 and 11. So that would be 1977 to 1983 I suppose.

Basically a broom handle, stuck in a wellie with lots of bottle tops nailed to it! But it fascinated me at that age...

Rich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 03:46 AM

I remember Bridie with the wellie, keep saving bottle tops and you will be able to make one!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: GUEST,Tom Willis
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 03:42 AM

Think the song is called Day Is Done, check it out with Jacqui Mcdonald www.jacquiandbridie.com

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Trevor
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:41 AM

I was inspired to make a 'welliephone' like the one that Bridie had. Anybody remember it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: GUEST,Granny
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 08:57 AM

Jackie and Bridie were inspirational to me when I was a very shy 14 year old learning songs and playing my guitar .... they came to perform at my Youth Club in St Albans about 1965, allowed me a "spot" and sang with me. They were very kind. I believe "Bridie" has passed away now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 08:05 AM

Trevor, see THE WEE KIRKCUDBRIGHT CENTIPEDE(Matt McGinn), but I think they sang leggies.

I enjoyed Jacqui and Bridie very much, and my mother loved them. She sent me their 'Farewell' double tape recording when they played their last gig at Cafe Lena. It was a bit funny, because they came from England to play in the US, and someone in the US bought the recording, had it autographed and sent to me, in England.

Jacqui McDonald's website. (CDs available)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Nick
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 07:37 AM

A couple of friends of ours who used to come and sing with us when we were at the Blacksmiths Arms (in Farlington (N Yorks) before Sam Smiths killed music there) were friends of Jacqui's and she came and sang to us one evening - probably a little over two years ago. The pub was a lovely place to play music and it was good to hear her in such a small intimate venue.

As I remember she still sang well and accompanied herself nicely on guitar. I also remember that she had some very entertaining stories from across the years and was a definite character and highly amusing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Trevor
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 07:29 AM

While we're on, would anybody happn to have the words to the song I heard them sing that was about a centipede and it's various pairs of legs?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 07:52 PM

This is the first year (October, '06, actually) that Jacqui did not come over to us to do her annual concert visits. She always sang at Cafe Lena, and two or three other places in the Northeast. She did solo appearances after Bridie's death a few years ago. The two of them were charming performers with much humour. Jacqui's voice is high and expressive. I have a picture of her as a beautiful young girl with that 'new' group, The Spinners. Bridie O'Donnell was of Irish ancestry, a large girl with a hearty voice, made everyone laugh without trying. She was most known for, "The Winkle Song," and everyone would request it. Usually Jacqui was "straight man" to give Bridie a chance to make a joke. They were marvellous. I haven't tried but I'm sure you would get some info if you just type, "Jacqui and Bridie" into a search box. Jacqui was a songwriter, also; one of her best songs is called, "Hold Back the Dawn," written and recorded back in the sixties I would guess.

Apart from their performance tours (they once did a command performance for young Queen Elizabeth 11 in the big concert hall when they lived in Liverpool- 1970s?), over the years they owned and ran at least three different coffeehouses, and were good hosts to many USA visiting performers there. They lived in Chester for awhile, but now she and her friend Lynn have a house in the Lake Country and spend much time at a cottage on Luing in Scotland.       Jean

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:45 PM

I have 3 albums in MP3 format of Jacqui & Bridie...but not that one.

"Come Day, Go Day"
"Hello, My Friend"
and "On Stage"

they are nice singers...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: oggie
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:59 PM

That's the album I must have heard it on. The couple across the road had and I used to listen to it when I was babysitting.

Many thanks

oggie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Scrump
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 03:03 AM

This website has some CDs by Jacqui/Jackie: Jacqueline McDonald

She was a founder member of the Spinners ("Liverpool Spinners" in the USA) in the late 1950s, but fairly soon left them and formed the duo Jacqui & Bridie (or Jackie & Bridie) wih Bridie O'Donnell. ISTR Bridie is no longer with us, but I can't remember any details (apologies if I'm wrong!)

To oggie: the above song was on their 1972 album "Next Time Round" if that helps.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 01:55 AM

Are there 'Jackie and Bridie' recordings available? A website?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: oggie
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:49 PM

Many thanks everyone - didn't know it's correct title which makes DT a little difficult

oggie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 05:02 PM

I won't bother then.... :)

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:58 PM

Sorry. Cross-posted, Joe.

Subject: Lyr Add: DAY IS DONE (Peter Yarrow)
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:57 PM

"Day is Done"


Tell me why you are crying my son,
I know you're frightened like everyone.
Is it the thunder in the distance you fear?
Will it help if I stay very near
I am here.

And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done,
And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done.
Day is done, Day is done, Day is done, Day is done.

Do you ask why I'm sighing, my son?
You shall inherit what mankind has done.
In a world filled with sorrow and woe,
If you ask me why this is so...
I really don't know.

And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done,
And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done.

Tell me why you're smiling, my son,
Is there a secret you can tell everyone?
Do you know more than those that are wise?
Can you see what we all must disguise
Through your loving eyes?

And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done,
And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done.
Day is done, Day is done, Day is done, Day is done.

And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done,
And if you take my hand my son,
All will be well when the day is done.
Day is done, Day is done, Day is done, Day is done.^^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:54 PM

Hmmmm. I'll betcha it's Day Is Done (click for definitive transcription), by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. Also in the Digital Tradition here (click).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:52 PM

Please note that the duo is often called 'Jackie and Bridie'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:46 PM

I have a couple of their song books, I'll see what I can find.

LTS

Subject: Lyr Req: Jacqui & Bridie 'Take my Hand'
From: oggie
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:34 PM

Hi there

Does anyone remember a song recorded by Jacqui & Bridie late 60's or early 70's with a chorus that started -

'So take my hand my son, all will be well when the day is done'

I can remember the tune but not the words.

Many thanks

oggie