CAPSTICK COMES HOME - Tony Capstick

[2100Rose]

We used to call this "The Hovis Song" . Obviously becuase of the backing music that was also used in the Hovis bread adverts .

[Andyo183]

Brilliant

[debnpete1]

Fantastic!!! caught the back end of this on Magic radio on Saturday. Hadn't heard it for donkeys years so checked it out on here. Reminds you of life before this country went down the pan. Nostalgia Rules, it's all we've got left.

[1Fairypoppy]

Brilliant vid never tire of hearing this,God bless Tony xx



[myepiphone]

And you think you had it bad ?. My pal Phil "Phibber" Munchausen says .When I was a lad the only way we could eat was to sneak into the zoo,annoy the the Gorilla so he'd pelt us with faeces,then we'd rummage through the monkey poo and eat the undigested nuts,they were all we had.

[3000gilly]

Bloody riots they should listen to this

[Chappy9]

e wa a r8 tata mi father! LOL

[srmunden]

Heard this for the first time in God knows how long, after remembering on a whim.

PMSL!

[MrMermaid58]

Thirty years old this may be, but it still makes me laugh.

[TeKarawata]

Magic .

[john111257]

classic..love it

[Stemax1960]

3 stone o' monkeynuts and still 'ave change out  on a farthing!

[1305alz]

Brown bread and butter for your tea ? brown bread AND butter yer posh sod, me dad used to spit on ours, and on our birthdays we had it toasted with a slap of axle grease for a rare treat, they don't know their fookin' born t'day.

[Gisburne2000]

We used to call everyone 'spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzocks' when this came out! I'd not heard this for maybe 20 years and yet as soon as he paused after 'we'd a lot o' things in them days they 'aven't got today' I immediately said 'rickets'! Good memories of this, back in Brampton (between Barnsley and Rotherham) when ah wor a lad!

[49blackboab]

UK TOP 10 - 30 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

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NUMBER 3 (10) TONY CAPSTICK - CAPSTICK COMES HOME

[anjelina1940]

The past is so alluring... it is really all we have, as today reveals itself it is the past and tomorrow is uncertain!

[DetectiveDaz]

and then i threw mi mam on fire LMAO

[stoikes]

YORRRKSHIRE YORRRKSHIRE YORRKSHIRE.

[1974Burnsy]

Ahh,I loved this as a child.Great to hear it again

[tez601]

by gum them were the days loll

[Dristarg]

"When I were a lad, you could get a tram down into town, buy 3 new suits and an overcoat, 4 pair of good boots , go see George Formby at Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, have some steak and chips, bunch of bananas, three stone of monkey nuts and still have change out of a farthing."

You can't do that now, not since all the shops installed security cameras.

[timdavies45]

Dedicated to Lee, a proper Yorkie, rest in peace...Tim

[genesisisok]

Makes you proud to be a Yorkshireman.

[philmex1]

Tony's gone 'home'! Eee, t'lad ad such a way wi words, tha knows!!

God bless you, Tony! This record means so much to us Yorkshire folk!

[leftclog1]

brilliant thanks for posting

[doddling]

I first heard this on the Jimmy Young show. I nearly fell out of me cab. Wonderful stuff from a great bloke

[remeclerk]

My god, I only found out he died today (5th april 2010) god bless......

[remeclerk]

My god, I only found out he died today (5th april 2010) god bless......

[samdaftpunk]

lol very funny

[remeclerk]

brilliant! such a P..SS take of the old Hovis ads....( and the North in general-its Ok im Lancashire born!)

[gigglesden07]

Wassock ha ha ha

[oldfolkiepad]

A wonderful mixture of the poignant and the absurd.

[Kittielips]

Nethen; that were proper gradely.

'Ow's thi Mam?

5*****.

Jennie.

[DADRENO]

Although Tony has gone now, it's nice to see him occasionally as a dim policeman in back numbers of 'Last Of The Summer Wine'.

[gazeris]

Has Tony gone ???

[P2roverman]

@gazeris Yes 23rd October 2003.

[P2roverman]

@gazeris Yes he went 23rd October 2003

[Gillyyorkie]

@DADRENO

Thanks for posting

[6856victoria]

Just appealing again......does anyone know if any footage survivies of Tony performing this on Top of the Pops in the early eighties? I'd love to see it again. Please get in touch, thanks.

[costellodan]

This is what they want! :)

[todd8137]

i`ll go to foot ov are stairs

[GAZZA251170]

I once mixed this into a hip hop instrumental in a club off Tottenham court road in the mid 90's, fuckers didn't know what was going on I laughed my tits off behind the decks!!!

[turboandy]

What is the actual name of this song???

[trap0001]

Its all written in the info.

[trap0001]

CAPSTICK COMES HOME - Tony Capstick and Carlton Main/Frickley Colliery Band. (1981)

'The New World Symphony' by Dvorak,

CAPSTICK COMES HOME

[6856victoria]

Does anyone have the live version of Tony performing this on Top Of The Pops? I'd love to see it again. There's not enough of this greatly missed genius on Youtube- Please please get posting, those of you who have this material.

RIP dear Tony; Rotherham's finest.

[MsCluckers]

I thought he was from Mexborough

[drwhatson]

Is this yet another tribute to Wigan Casino??

[wenglishsal]

Ee I remember when I was nobbut a lass, lissnin t' this ont radio... Oh it were reet grand an all... Crackin bit o stuff this eh...

Brilliant post, thankx again for reminding an older lady...lol..of the genius of Tony Capstick...R.I.P.

[thepostieles]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee we used to work a 70000000000000000 hr shift, great stuff

[torreviejalads]

And that got to No.3 in the UK Top 40. great stuff.

[lyndloo]

excellent !!! im from Yorkshire so I can relate to this !!! thanx for posting >>>Lyndloo...

[salvadormarley]

Truly great

[trichoone]

brilliant my friend not bad for a yorkie .

[mikenco]

I've had this recording in various formats for the last 25 yrs.. I've always loved it.. 'bout time made a proper video were made to make it famous again. Eeey youth of day don't know they are born! :)

[pathdaly]

'Ee I dint arf laff!

[Hasmatkid]

Mind you do you remeber the original Hovis ad? I always thought it were too bloody far to go for a loaf.

[cleckheatoncentral]

Great memories of my life and folks in Dodworth, Near Barnsley. My dad was a miner, uncle was a fireman on the railway. I agree with the song...young ones do not kow they are born today. Could you imagine the new yobs working a 12 hour shift down Dodworth pit and still going to the pub on a friday night!

[Chappy9]

And then he threw mi mam on fire... LOL... funny as fuck I love the Yorkshire accent

[scaredweepel]

Best Ever!

[xx0xxSmokeyxx0xx]

google "download from youtube"

[wilsonslass]

spawny eyed parrot faced wazzock.............classic. Ive heard Mike Harding do this one.

[RussRubens]

lol with tears rolling down my face. thank you

[ricspeed1971]

our kid got this on a single back when i wuz a nipper lol must be nigh on 30 years since i heard it :-)

[lesthepost]

eeeee good stuff rip tony

[wbottomley1]

great, heard it on radio 2 and had to find it

[craiggotti]

im a capstick and if it want for mag thatcher id ive been in the mines like my grandad and dad. love this tune

[bodrinker]

Same here brilliant memories from back in the day. Heard it on radio 2 tuther day n had to find it. Thanks.

[k3dude]

Listening to this and seeing the pics brings tears to my eyes too I remember me and my late dad hearing it on radio sheffield before our afters shift at wooley pit yea it was a bloody hard job but i loved it

[gpwannab]

brilliant, heard it first time today on radio 2 and had to find it to listen again, wazzock, lol

[tieayellowribbonuk]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. My late dad LOVED this record; we used to sit screaming with laughter at this. Really pleased to find this, brought back some brilliant memories. Thankyou so much.

[brisheil]

can i download it

[murrmac]

excellent stuff, and actually funnier than the Monty Python sketch in similar vein, which is probably on YouTube as well.

I always remember Derek Brimstone's crack about Tony Capstick ..."his missus complained that she wasn't being satisfied, so he bought her one of them vibrators, but she said that it made all her fillings loose ..."

[trap0001]

Four Yorkshiremen. Yes it is on You Tube. Don't know about funnier though.

[JimmyTankMan]

gud un fatha

[bobsjob2]

Thatcher ,,Who???

Look at this country now what did she DO?

She only knows...

Bob

[EvelcyclopS]

lol this is hilarious

[leaningoak]

I bought the original vinyl record, three hundredweight of nutty-slack, haddock n'chips for six, forty-three Fair Isle ganseys, twelve pair o' woolly wellie-socks and had change out of 2d to get me and a pal into the Odeon for the second house last Friday.

[mikenco]

I've never heard that version. Sounds like a treat.

[randybullcow]

@leaningoak Eeeeeeeeeee by gum,tell that t'young 'uns now,and they wunna believe thee!!!

[meeshiskeysh]

at 0.43

[trap0001]

I thought I recognised him.

[meeshiskeysh]

on the bottom left is my grandad!!!!!!!!!

[JimmyTankMan]

well done cappo x

[Razie1502]

My sister used to have this on vinyl... I used to steal it all the time

[trickywoody]

My Grandfather had this on record and used to plat it to me all the time. Great to hear it again after all these years.

[RUTHII3395]

Odd.

Brings a tear to the eye.