LA-DI-DAH..JAKE THACKRAY

Thank you for posting this. I saw Mr. Thackray (twice!) in Sheffield in 1972. The concerts were like having a black-sheep-of-the-family favourite uncle come visit.

very nice song indeed a very talented man he was , thanks for the upload

Brilliant!!! This is Jake keeping it real (properly real that is-minus the bloody posing of those who normally profess this)..nearly forty years ago. Genuity in music and performance not approached by many.
This song should be compulsory listening by all corporate suavesters and modern politicians-embarass em' with their bleeding lahdi bloody -dah !!

Astonishing how this song manages to be funny and truly romantic at the same time. Always makes me cry, which is a bit embarrassing. He was a guest on every TV programme going when I was growing up in the 1970s (when it wasn't bloody Clodagh Rodgers). Always thought of him as a strange mad uncle. Only come back to him in the last five years or so -- can't get enough of him now. Wish I'd seen him live.

What can one say, this is still as good today as the day it was first heard, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

I am surprised that there seems to be no mention of his liking for Georges Brassens the French singer poet and of course that he read French at Durham Hatfield before that's Life He appeared with Brassens in the seventies at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. Master and pupil sort of thing The BBC recorded the Brassens half ,if I remember Was it Les Copains de Cardiff.? The audience was made up of French teachers and students and French assistants. Brassens only concert out of France I think

I lit a show for Jake in about 1980 in Cardiff but I'm pretty sure that was solo and it was most certainly at the WCM&D in North Road. Brassens was a genious as was old Jake!

This is a most romantic song - I wish I could write like this. Thanks for posting - The world is a better place thanks to Thackray and his bloody ladida.

his guy is amazing god bless

genius and magic!