Bad Penny Blues -Humphrey Lyttleton

[crodrigo]

LADY MADONNA, CHILDREN AT YOUR FEET....

[throovest]

100 club. Woman comes in while they were playing this "Always turns up like a bad penny" said Humph. That got the title. Joe Meek produced / recorded it. Sent band away and Humph went on hols. When he came back, he was furious at what Joe had done with heavy compression and tricks unheard of back then. But it was ground breaking and a massive hit. Beatles / Martin certainly copied the whole effect for Madonna

[RonnieGinsburg]

Lovely. Takes me back to the late 1950s

[danastev924]

Its pretty funny that George Martin recorded this as well. Man, would the Beatles ever had gotten screwed for plagerism with this, or Lennon's rip-off of Spectors song for "So this is Christmas"

[michaelvkelly1]

which spector song did lennon rip off for so this is christmas?

[Bellyflops2]

did the monkey statue kill the man?

[Cacophony89]

We loss a men in Jazz...

...Smell' yàh next!?!

[captainhowdy1967]

Humph was the man. A great loss.

Can't see how mccartney got nailed for ripping this off for Lady Madonna (ha ha). There goes Mccartney Humphrey in his head, listening to the melody he's just been fed.

[Wagimawr]

It was just the drumbeat that was swiped, as far as I know.

[af4k]

Just the drumbeat? The whole piano riff too....

children at your feet.... but still Humph had it all over them on this one. He who plays the best groove laughs last!

[dilzappa]

This song is an utter rip off The Beatles "Lady Madonna"

[electrorocket]

you've got it backward, this is like 10 years older, duh.

[maada2]

ahahahahaaaaaaa

[maolchalium]

OMG.

[gonzotime7224]

haha yea bud, the beatles used this song for lady madonna

[fabiomr2]

I would like very much to see some of his cartoons from the time he worked for The Daily Mail.

May God Bless his soul

[sarnviner]

I too share Humph's birthday - what a lovely Gemini person he was. I love Bad Penny Blues, superb, thanks.

[itsChristonabike]

I know nowt about Jazz, but Humphrey made me laugh out loud on many occations!

[ManUtdMrs]

R.I.P.Humphrey.

My dad introduced me to you at a very early age.

Am I grateful!

xx

[sturdle]

got this on a 78. RIP H

[olivejohn]

i have the same birthday as humphrey, i feel blessed:) r.i.p.

[drummer1943]

Il va y avoir de ces "Jam Sessions" au Paradis... Repose en paix Humphrey, tu vas nous manquer !

[nonsociopathskin]

Goodnight Humph. Sleep well.

[lapetitepaumee]

RIP Humph :(

[neil73]

RIP :(

[oeronpropp]

RIP Humph. You will be long remembered.

[etagloh]

RIP Humph.

[northwest500]

RIP Humph....best dry wit ever....thanks for the memories.

[screenaged]

RIP :(

[adorant]

Just noticed the statue: 'Alas poor Humphrey'

[MoleDFigg]

Yes, well spotted!

"...we Knew him well."

[Gehenna74]

Goodbye Humph. Kensal Rise.

[adorant]

Wow, i never heard of him untill yesterday when i read about this song in re'make re-model by michael bracewell and posted my previous comment...he died the same day...

[adorant]

Produced by Joe Meek and a favourite of Roxy Music's Brian Ferry !

[marhill20]

This is where Paul got the idea for Lady Madonna too, its the same piano style

[jphar]

I have a copy of the 1956 EP. GEP8645.

The line up was Lyttleton tpt.Parker piano. Jim Bray bs. Stan Greig dr. The other numbers are Apex Blues, Echoing the Blues and Jelly Bean Blues. with slightly differing personnel.

[patercake]

Sounds like the original recording. Excellent.

[03TTAM]

Thanx for sharing this with us. I was searching the song on the web and this is the first one I found. Nowadays it's easier to find videos than audio files :-o

Now I can confirm what I just read: the first lines are the ones McCartney took for Lady Madonna 12 years later!!

[WelshSaddler]

A real blast from the past... my original copy (also long gone) was on a Parlophone 78rpm disc. Worth noting that the record was produced by the young George Martin (now Sir George) who went on to achieve so much with The Beatles.

[af4k]

and possibly GM gave them the idea for Lady Madonna from this too....

[MoleDFigg]

Thanks, Tamla

Clive.

[tamla1942domino]

it was humph trumpet,JOHNNY PARKER PIANO<JIM BRAY BASS

STAN GREIG DRUMS recorded in london 20/4/1956

[tbl43]

WOW! This takes me back to my early years, stomping at the Midland Jazz Club in Birmingham.

[tamla1942domino]

great stuff i remember humph playing this at st pancras town hall about 1956.

i had a copy of this[long gone] it was on the parlaphone super rhythm style series. it was a considerable "hit", even going into the 'top twenty'

it was followed up by echoing the blues which also sold well

about this time the band were becoming more mainstream which put a lot of fans off they even had a sax player'bruce turner' which put a lot of traditionalists unhappy but not me!

[maolchalium]

Many thanks. Gawd that takes me back. WOW.

[MoleDFigg]

Glad you liked it. Can you pass it on to the other guy who seemed (some time ago) to miss it? I haven't been able to identify him, but he (she?) was in conversation with you.