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Sun_King
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 Your First Jake - 2007/02/08 11:25 Hello all

I was just wondering if people can remember the first song they ever heard by Jake and what their first memories of him were.
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Hugh Williams
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 Re:Your First Jake - 2007/02/08 12:11 Good question,Michael. Mine was probably "Lah Di Dah". I'd only be a young chap at the time but,thanks to my dear old Dad,I had an appreciation of an eclectic array of musical genres.Consequently I could see that this guy was something a bit different.As the years went by I realised that he was something a bit special.It's great that,with this site,I realise that it wasn't just me who thought so.
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Malcy
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 Re:Your First Jake - 2007/02/08 16:11 "Jolly Captain" on "That's Life", which our family always watched. 1977, I think. Several weeks later, having watched Jake sing "The Cactus" and "Bantam Cock" too, I borrowed the "The Very Best of Jake Thackray" lp off a mate at school and that was it. :o) Eranu !
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Sun_King
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 Re:Your First Jake - 2007/02/08 19:28 I have to to confess that I'm only a recent convert (Thanks to the recent BBC programme). I was channel hopping well past midnight when I caught the start of Jake singing "The Black Swan". At the risk of sounding like a big girl's blouse, I was immediately captured by how sad and beautiful a song it was. After a bit more flicking I turned back to BBC4 (3?) just in time to catch most of "The Statues". My first thoughts were: WHO WAS THIS SINGER??? WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE?? After listening to "The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle", I was hooked! I went straight on to Amazon Online shopping. The rest is history.
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Paul
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 Re:Your First Jake - 2007/04/19 18:26 For me, it was all my mum's fault. I guess I was thirteen or fourteen years old, had just started to learn to play the guitar, and she suggested I might like to have a go at songs by this clever, funny singer. So I bought the songbook without ever having heard any of his songs. Then I saw him on The Innes Book of Records, doing On Again, On Again, and I was hooked (and realised that I had no hope of playing his songs properly!). Soon after that I saw the TV series 'And Songs', which became required viewing. Round about the same time I managed to see him live for the first time, in Hereford. The occasion (in the rather formal setting of a proper theatre) was memorable because there was lots of interference through the P.A. system from taxi radios, something Jake made great fun of.
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Uncle Sebastian
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 Re:Your First Jake - 2007/05/14 12:32 It was That's Life! for me too. Like Malcy above, I couldn't attempt to remember when except to say I was in my early teens (if anyone could pin down his appearances on the show, they could fill some holes on his imDb.com page)*. My dad remembered him from The Braden Beat, as I recall.

The usual selection of compendium albums followed, but I didn't see him play live until 1985 — in a very lah-di-dah room in the Queens Hotel, Leeds, where someone was trying against hope to establish a new folk club. The room looked like a wedding reception venue, smelt of fresh paint and was host to an early incarnation of the dreaded public venue smoking ban. Recognising the adverse effect this was having on the folky atmosphere (if not the gaseous one), Jake insisted that everyone who was so inclined light up immediately.

(* Edit: I've just seen the listings in the TV section. Nice one. I'll pass them on to imDb. com myself)
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