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ScarTam
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 BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/07 11:20 It is generally agreed, I think, that the very best of Jake on TV was in his BBC 2 series from 1980, Jake Thackray and Songs - a series of six half-hours recorded live in small venues around the Midlands by BBC Bristol. Each programme included a guest - Alex Glasgow, Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson etc - and Jake was accompanied in each by his bass player Alan Williams.
For a long time it was thought that the BBC had wiped the tapes of these programmes, but this has since proved to be quite untrue. In the light of the up-coming tribute documentary to Jake on BBCtv (still no date, but can't be long!), and the release by EMI of the four-CD box set and the 2-CD Live at the QEH set (both scheduled for this month), I wrote to Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, suggesting/requesting that the BBC should release Jake Thackray and Songs commercially on DVD.
I've now had a letter back from Mark Thompson telling me that the commercial music team at BBC Worldwide is currently considering the suggestion and will respond "as soon as they are in a position to do so." In the light of this, can I suggest that it might do no harm if everyone who reads this were to write to Jason Blain at BBC Worldwide, Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane, London W12 0TT, urging him to look kindly upon the idea and convincing him that such a DVD release would be bound to have excellent sales?
Ian W
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Pam
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 Re:BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/07 17:08 Sounds like a good idea Ian.

It's in my "to do" list, and will be done very soon!

Pam
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aliasmacalias
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 Re:BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/07 19:40 Interesting how the passage of time changes things. When I wrote to BBC Worldwide several times in the past the response was distinctly more hardnosed - give us money and we'll let you have the rights!

Ian I got boogie, boogie, in my socks
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philreckless
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 Re:BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/08 10:40 At last, the BBC may be coming to their senses!
My letter has just been sent. It'd be great if all 1247 of us wrote. I'm sure many Richard Thompson fans are completists and would buy it too.
Cheers
Phil www.philmcginity.co.uk
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STEVE DRIVER
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 Re:BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/18 15:52 If all else fails and the BBC fail to deliver the goods, all is not lost - whilst searching through my loft I came across some audio cassettes with all six episodes - a bit crackly since I remember taping from a hand held microphone next to the tv while everyone else in the room had to be quiet! Jake did indeed have a different guest each week - Maddy Prior Band, Richard Thompson and his guest on Programme 4 was a young lad from the north east called Pete Scott - I wonder whatever happened to him. I thought he was quite good and original.
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aliasmacalias
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 Re:BBC's Jake Thackray & Songs - 2006/04/18 18:48 Steve

At least one home video recording of the show exists - I have a copy but it is fairly low res. The key issue is with the rights. The BBC are prepared to be very helpful with licencing but on commercial terms (the fact that we knew precisely where it was in their archives and they didn't seemed to pass unremarked). I have also written to them again suggesting that if they don't want to release it themselves then they should give us a copy from the vaults and a licence to do it ourselves on much more preferable terms.

The proceeds from the last Jakefest in Edinburgh and any profits from the Live in Germany cd have gone into a pot to form the beginnings of a fund for future releases. I have a mental list of things which could be done but for now am ready to revel in the releases from EMI.

More on this later, depending on the Beeb's response.

Cheers

Ian

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Post edited by: aliasmacalias, at: 2006/04/21 10:11 I got boogie, boogie, in my socks
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