Jo Baker
2007-12-24

Jo Baker
I was introduced to Jake Thackray when I was 21 (I'm now 39) when someone thought that I should hear Sister Josephine (there being a name connection). I haven't looked back since! I LOVE Jake Thackray. I wish I'd got to hear him live. I have been known to sing Sister Josephine in public a few times and want to do Brother Gorilla and Ulysses as part of my repertoire! It's a shame so many are so male-focused or I'd make them centre stage :o)

Anyhow, I'm delighted to discover this webiste -it's not the first I've found but it's the BEST!

Leon Coster
2007-12-05

Leon Coster
I've loved Jake's songs since I was a kid in the 60's. Jake was and remains a great poet, brilliant guitarist and always a hero to me.

God bless him. :)

Dean Curtis
2007-12-01

Dean Curtis
Finding this site is one of the high points of my long life, no hyperbole. Nobody over here knows about Jake except me and my 43-year-old son; we discovered him in 1972 when I bought an LP just because the photo of him was so stunning, having no idea what the music was like. When we heard it we couldn't believe it. Now with the CDs finally available I've discovered many more songs, and I'm obsessed....can't get too much information and love reading other people's rhapsodies about Jake experiences. Thank you so much for making this for us!!

Simon Bate
2007-12-01

Simon Bate
just saw "On Again On Again" on You Tube reminding me when Jake came to Moseley Grammar School to do a gig

Dunckley
2007-11-08

Dunckley
Whoever created this web site can have no idea how they have made my day today. I have searched for a source of lyrics and tabs for years and gave up. Today was by chance and prompted by a conversation with a colleague yesterday about Jake and in particular "Lullaby". I shared a urinal with Jake in a working Men's club just outside Cannock, a very long time ago. I told him that I had bought "the Jake Thackeray Song Book No1" in my youth (late 60's) and asked him how I could get hold No2 or No3 . He told me that there never was a No2 and that he thought the songbook was badly titled as a result of over optimism on the part of those who promoted him. He was a truly lovely man, even in the Gents. Until recently, my guitar has bee under employed for want of something inspiring to play on it. The discovery of this will just about site solve that problem. Thank you again.

charles Everett
2007-10-09

charles Everett
Just loved the gig at Stroud on the 28th Sept. Despite my 8 year old Jamie insisting on playing my Jake live performance tape in the car over and over again for 2-3 years and starting to know some of the complicated songs by heart, he didn't initially want to go to the concert. I bought tickets anyway and for my parents. It was great to find Paul Thompson and family there and the two kids going to perform a couple of songs. Testing my memory here, was it William and Jenny, his two children and my Jamie got into a singsong of Leopold Alcox and The Hole before the performance.

It was a great night to add to the one I'd been to myself in York on 30th Aug at the Black Swan.

A couple of the guys singing could do with being more conscious of not letting their voices fade away a little at times and trying harder to keep the great clarity of diction that we got from Jake and which we very definitely need for his songs to be heard to best effect. Charles Everett, huntington York. Get in touch Paul.

Valerie
2007-10-07

Valerie
Have some excellent memories of Jake from early 70's. Had a friend at uni,Greg, did amazing impressions of Jake and introduced me to a comic genius. Greg got Jake to come and do a gig at Marie Grey. Lovely man, Lovely evening. Thanks Greg. You out there??

Valerie

darekgdansk
2007-10-07

darekgdansk
A massive influence on my life and music. The world is poorer since the loss of his genius.

eileen mitchell
2007-09-06

eileen mitchell
I keep trying by writing letters to papers and mags about Jake, hoping to bring his name back to memory. Most people say "I remember him" but nothing in the media ever mentions him. Why don't we all write letters to the press about him, his wonderful lyrics and voice.

John Mills
2007-09-06

John Mills
I "rediscovered" Jake Thackeray" only recently, having seen him on TV many years ago. Having bought a couple of CDs I find I had forgotten how funny he was, and I now realise what a very clever musician he was.

His lyrics and composition were brilliant. In performance his timing and delivery were unique.

At a recent boozy gathering of Morris Men I gathered my courage and sang "Old Molly Metcalfe". No one can imitate Jake and I did not try! But it went down well.