260. "Right," said Fred (Myles Rudge and Ted Dicks)

This song, written in 1962 (lyrics by Myles Rudge, music by Ted Dicks), was a big hit for Bernard Cribbins. I was fascinated by this song as a young teenager, trying to visualise the object Fred and Charlie were attempting to move. I remember there was another great song sung by Bernard Cribbins called "Gossip Calypso" which I thought was on the B-side of this single, but in fact they were separate recordings. The B-side of this was a song called "Quietly Bonkers".

This song, which inspired the name of a pop group, is well known by Australians in their thirties as it was included in a widely used school song book about twenty years ago.

This is one of only two videos I have made with my son, Kit, the other being the song "To Morrow."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• song
• humour
• bernard
• cribbins
• gossip
• calypso
• kit

[barttheanorak]

Have you done Hole In The Ground? Oh and nice bit of acting at the end, 'specially from you RC. Take that from a drama student.

[raymondcrooke]

@barttheanorak Not yet. And thanks.

[davifive]

I remember this song either as a cartoon, or with two moving men or monkeys, was it ever done any or these ways

[raymondcrooke]

@davifive  It probably was, but I don't remember it.

[MegaLuckyBunny100]

Lol my gran sings this song to me i love it

[raymondcrooke]

@MegaLuckyBunny100 Well, you are lucky to have a gran who sing you such great songs!

[raymondcrooke]

Yes, it was a lot of fun doing this one.

[slemasson01]

that's very cute.. nice job guys! I love this song.. sounds like you guys do too... ! :D

[franko1616]

Please! Tune your guitar, play the right cords and don't give up your day jobs.

[raymondcrooke]

Sorry. I don't do video tutorials. I don't consider myself a good enough guitarist. However, lyrics and chords of my songs can be found on my website: raymondcrookeDOTcom