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JONA LEWIE - TERRY DACTYL On a Saturday Night - Brett Marvin

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Uploaded by on Sep 15, 2007

'On a Saturday Night' shows a line-up for Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs (AKA Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts) that was not usual. Jona Lewie (singing) is the only original Terry Dactyl member to have taken part in this 1973 broadcast for the German TV show 'Hits A GoGo.'

After the recording of 'On a Saturday Night' guitarist Graham Hine left Terry Dactyl / Brett Marvin; Jona Lewie (John Lewis) was soon to leave too.
The mandolin player here is Tim Branston. As Terry Dactyl's Keef Trouble and John Randall didn't make it to Germany, it was Jona Lewie who fronted this song with the members of Tim Branston's own band, 'The Jawbone Jug Band.'
Tim tells the story of how they were met at the airport by a limo complete with young ladies, provided by the studio. Apparently the rehearsal for this broadcast produced a better performance, the silly dance being suggested by the studio director. Unfortunately, copious amounts of alcohol were available.

Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs was the 'popular' name given to 'Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts' for promotional purpose. Jona Lewie was a Brett Marvin vocalist, and their keyboard player, later replaced by Taffy Davies from The Jawbone Jug Band. Graham Hine eventually rejoined Brett Marvin, and the line up remains as it was, including:

Graham Hine: guitar/vocals
Pete Gibson: percussion/vocals
Taffy Davies: keyboard/vocals
Keef Trouble: percussion/guitar/vocals
Jim Pitts: harmonica/sax/vocals
John Randall: percussion

Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, playing for 40 years, is one of the longest still-performing blues outfits with original line-up.

Jona Lewie's web site:
http://www.jonalewie.com
Jona Lewie's MySpace page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid...

Special thanks to Jörg Günther for providing this video.

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  • I am not bothered about Mr.Lewies leanings.I am somewhat worried for the well being of the young lady who is holding a mans horn whilst he blows it in public.Surelysome form of offence is being committed?Hey thats rock n roll.

  • Point taken. I suppose this kind of thing wasn't such an issue back then :)

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  • They like to wiggle their ass when they have a butt plug stuck up em.

  • He's obviously a bender. Look how he bends over and wiggles his ass.

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  • funny

  • WTF? He looks like Phil Daniels in "SCUM"!

  • get back in the charts , way better than the false crap played today.

  • great weed ay

  • One of many great songs of that era, an enjoyable easy listening record which we just don't get these days and no crudeness either, thats for shallow people!

  • MY MUM SWEPT UP THE STAGE WHEN EVERYONE WENT HOME, SO THERE...

  • oh god he has the look of a pedofile

  • ive got this on single oh oh 1973 where has it gone THE 7OS BRILLIANT DAYS ULTRA TOP MUSIC !!!!!

  • THANKS 2 ALL 4

    PUTTING THIS HERE

  • Hi can i just confirm that Tim Branston (my father uncle) was in this band.. thank you

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