Keith Michell - Captain Beaky (1980)

[planetrockford]

The BBC would ban this these days.

[briwinter2901]

Indeed there are some rare gems on YouTube and I am glad I found this. I get really annoyed that there are websites that allow people to buy LEGAL MP3 tracks, but you have to be an employee of a radio station to get them and then have to cough yup £50 a month to get 25 songs . Still, gripe over. Great record, got to number 5 in UK chart. Was made popular after Noel Edmunds started playing it on his Sunday morning show on Radio 1.

[PondRiversong]

If you wanna see my childhood... this is it...

[dilancarrillo1993]

OH WOW THIS IS SO FUNNY, BECAUSE I CURRENTLY TRAIN KEITH, HE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST FUNNIEST CHARACTERS I HAVE EVER MET.

[RadioRuderham]

I love this and I want to play on my midmorning show.

So if any one has an MP3 of this they would like to share.......

[owenandrew2702]

@RadioRuderham Send me your email address, I have this in a way better quality mp3 now than when I posted this.

[MrBulletbonce]

@RadioRuderham erm get it on Bearshare I did but dont tell anyone

[cobbax9916]

I remembered I'd heard Keith Michell singing a catchy song now I found it

fun.... thanks for posting.

[tc030564]

omg 1980 were did 31 years go!

[100blueeyedboy]

I've got this on LP. :D

[coachnut1]

Brilliant Fun ..... Thanks for a great post !

[Marty1fatbstard]

Reminds me of Terry wogans morning radio2 show and the days / weeks of letters and discusions from listeners. Most of which had to be adults

[TheFlubber2kool]

wow this is so nostalgic. I havent heard this for years and years.

[boid731]

love this remember it as a kid living in the UK. Now in the US it was great to find it here!

[Kryonics]

Had forgot all about this song used to love it as a kid .... god i feel old now :-(

[TheHeff27]

One of my fave childhood songs...this is kids music at its best, and all kids should be bought up on it now!!!...:-)

[halpinliz]

hissing sid was innocent...brilliant i actually bought this for my kids...sad

[guidnav]

I loved this song when I was young. Listening to it again I can appreciate the quality of the musical arrangement. Thanks for posting this.

[collibosher100]

wonderful!, if only all childrens books could be made more entertaining, more children might read, or even the adults!

[MegaFunkyskunk]

How good is this? Love it. 4 people have been sent by Hissing Sid.....

[MrBarmybob]

it was in the charts when i was at school,but i can't work out why.What an awful song

[MegaFunkyskunk]

@MrBarmybob Why listen if you don't like it?

[MrBarmybob]

it was in the charts when i was at school,but i can't work out why.What an awful song

[adamc1407]

I got the album today!

[smudger1973]

HISSING SID IS INNOCENT!

[PHDarren]

Keith Michell also illustrated the book, which I have. :)

[WishawMalt]

Ah excellent. For some reason this song came into my head a couple of days ago and I've been searching through my old record collection looking for the disc - all to no avail. Brilliant to hear it again.

[cameraguy38]

At the risk of showing my age, I can remember this being in the charts. It was on Top of the Pops, and I named my pet snake Hissing Sid. I was only 10 or 11.

[pegasus10para]

Brilliant and not hurtful to anyone.

[pegasus10para]

Brilliant and not hurtfull to anyone.

[aisbymatt]

Ahhhhh!!!! I'm 8 years old again!!!! Marvelous!! Thank you!!!!!

[paulc68]

weird

[Spitsvedermuis]

This brings back memories:-)

Thanks for publishing xxx

[Clare1970]

blimey this takes me back! I loved this song when I was a kid!

[LDNn15]

Captain Beaky was rock hard. This historical recording of his career was from 1980. By 2003 he was general Beaky and in charge of the parachute regiment. He was quietly pensioned off after a disagreement with that jug eared para pretender, Prince Charles. Beaky said that we should slaughter every man, woman and child for victory. Charles said that we should capture all their potted plants and negotiate with them and get the Iraqi flora to uprise.

As we can see by events today, Charles won

[milolovesmusic]

in 1980 it was a show in london west end at the adelphi theater brilliant show

saw it several time laughed all night

[MissCharlotte75]

I would love this, takes me back to my childhood. Listening to the tape in the car.

[Ginguskhan]

First record I ever brought - brilliant

[gray2k1]

This meant the entire world to me when I was 9. I remember taking a portable radio into school to listen to it on the Noel Edmund's show.

[PearTreePam]

Hissing Sid didn't have a leg to stand on!

[brm6263]

I remember watching this on the BBC when I was a child. Penelope Keith and Keith Michell along with Harry Seacombe with an assortment of other talent read these poems to music. I believe there were two programs one aired at Christmas and had a group of choirboys singing a Christmas song about Captain Beaky's Band. Thank you for sharing this! :-)

[bdpickering]

I too have had the words "and leaping off said 'FOLLOW ME!' and ran head first into a tree!" in my mind since I was a child. I can't believe I've found it have been telling my husband for 40 years about this song and he didn't know it...Tonight I will reveal the mystery words to him...LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

[bdpickering]

I too have had the words "and leaping off said 'FOLLOW ME!' and ran head first into a tree!" in my mind since I was a child. I can't believe I've found it have been telling my husband for 40 years about this song and he didn't know it...Tonight I will reveal the mystery words to him...LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

[geowyn]

Hissing Sid was framed!!

[mikethefoto]

@geowyn

Hissing Sid did it for the insurance!!!

[88GTi]

Oh dear...I just found this record...I played it...And to my amazement I am still word perfect!!!

Very pleased to know my inner child is still alive...haha!!!

Great Upload...Thanks!!! :)

[No1magggot]

Hissing Sid Is innocent !!

[electikkblues]

I loved this as a kid. Can you believe his got to number 5 in the Uk pop charts in 1980?! :-)

[MyShelly11]

so many memories!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChrisMum]

Keith Michell is currently appearing in the episodes of Murder She Wrote on BBC1, he's brilliant!

[gotch09]

I stumbled across the wildest stuff on youtube, and this is one of them. Never heard of it, was it just a song or was it like a children's tv program?

[owenandrew2702]

@gotch09 It was a hit single in the UK, reaching #5 in the singles chart in 1980. I believe the story within the song was based on a series of children's books, but I can't be sure.

[mikethefoto]

@owenandrew2702 You are correct. They were written by the Britih actor Jeremy Lloyd - well known for playing the chinless upper class twit in countless films & TV programmes.

[Wolgrub]

@gotch09 It was from a book of poems by Jeremy Lloyd, published in about 1975. A selection of the poems were released on an album in 1977, recited by various celebrities. The music was composed by Jim Parker who generally specialised in TV music, hence the 'pit orchestra' sound. It was huge at the time. I was in hospital when the second album was released in 1980 and that's more or less all we heard for a month!

[baileysisters]

Fabulous!  Happy memories!

[MummyCookie123]

HISSING SID IS INNOCENT!!!!!

[shout102]

I had a homosexual relationship with him shortly after this.

[ZXC5000]

If the publishers see this, please, please get it out on CD !!!

[TraineeGynaecologist]

I heard this for the very first time on Radio 2 yesterday morning, such a brilliant track :)

[Elimin8]

"...and leaping off said 'FOLLOW ME!' and ran head first into a tree!" - this has stayed with me as one of the funniest things i heard as a kid. Brilliant

[bdpickering]

@Elimin8

I too have had the words "and leaping off said 'FOLLOW ME!' and ran head first into a tree!" in my mind since I was a child. I can't believe I've found it have been telling my husband for 40 years about this song and he didn't know it...Tonight I will reveal the mystery words to him...LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

[pjp1971]

@Elimin8 good luck, said owl, cos your the man, lol, i loved this as a kid, still do.

[dippydipper]

Freaking Awesome

[honeybabe68]

Fabulous to hear this again! Took me back to when my little boy was a baby (some baby-6'1" now) He had a pillow case with all the characters on (it's still in my airing cupboard-is that sad)? Thanks for posting.

[petesapwell]

Oh how time marches on... This is still brilliant though... So enjoyed hearing it again (only 45... only 45...) lol

[Jojoseahorse]

Fabulous!  Hadn't heard this in almost 30 years :)

[splitpinpickanin]

Who's got the ginger cat? In plimsolls and a paper hat!

[kiwichickibabe]

I love this song!! I use to hear on 1ZB on Sunday mornings when it was story time for children. Just love it!!

[thisismikehunt2009]

It's so lovely to hear this song again. Transport me back to January 1980

[spock5006]

I loved it too! I was 29, also ex-raf henlow 1970-1972

[rafhenlow]

1963-1966.

[rafhenlow]

I LOVE THIS SONG! Always have, bought it when it came out! Was I really 34yrs. old?

[hirdy6]

I was also too old to enjoy stuff like this when it came out but it didn't stop me from buying it either!!! Now I play it to my kids and they just look at me like I'm a dill, they just don't get it, perhaps at 5 and 9 their too young!!!

[rafhenlow]

Your kids look at you funny, I think I know what you mean as my wife looks at me the same way when I play it. Who cares. I also love the film The Princes Bride, (so does my wife). " My name is Inigo Montoya etc"

[davidpalmer09]

its so camp fab thats why i think i went gay

[theweirdestone]

love this song got it and the trial of hissing sid