SINGING POSTMAN, THE
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- Allan Smethurst
- Sandy Smethurst
Basic Information
- Sheringham, Norfolk, Uk
- Novelty / Folk
L1964 - L2000
Musicians
Allan Francis Smethurst, Sandy to his friends, holds the unique position of being an elevated part of East Anglian music folklore without being native to the area or having spent the greater part of his life there. However, that is not to say in his eyes the greatest part of his life. His connection to the area is one of nostalgia and the love of the place he grew up, and there is still a great appreciation for his witty and whimsical folk-satirist style today. There is plenty of depth behind the story of one of Britain’s best-known folk song composers for whom the stage was never a destiny, and although the world saw him as a novelty, Smethurst would not have seen it like that. His poems and ballads captured important moments, changes and observations that occurred during his life. A useful source for information on Smethurst is Tom Carver's [1] press release Singin’ Them Old Stewkey Blues, a piece written to help publicise a musical called ‘Singing The Postman’, a play researched by Carver and written by Jo Edye for the Crude Apache theatre company in 2006. There is also Keith Skipper's [2] publication Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy? published by Countryside Books in 2001, and a small biography piece called ‘My Early Life’ written by Smethurst, which appeared in The East Anglian Magazine in January 1976. We also managed to acquire access to official Ralph Tuck press releases and a clippings collection from the local newspaper.
Smethurst was born in Walshaw, near Bury, Lancashire, on 18 November 1927,[3] to father Allan and mother Gladys Mabel nee Curson. In around 1930, when Smethurst was two, he, his mother, father and older sister moved to 48 Cliff Road, Sheringham. According to Carver, his father was a musician and taught trombone, while his mother was running the family home as a B&B. From 1930 until the outbreak of war in 1939, Smethurst spent his summer holidays just down the coast at his great granny’s in Stiffkey, leaving an extra room to rent out at the house while Smethurst earned a little cash stone picking with friends. His mother had been born in Stiffkey, and it was her Norfolk accent he first heard. The close family bond cemented Smethurst’s ties with the area. In September 1939, he briefly attended Paston Grammar School in North Walsham, Nfk, although it has been suggested that he was not the model student the school had become associated with. Smethurst’s father passed away in 1942, and before the war ended, so did his time at Paston when his mother remarried, and the family moved to Cleethorpes, Lincs. In 1945 Smethurst was called up for his national service but was graded unacceptable at the medical. This did not deter him, and he tried to volunteer around a year later, but that time, he did not even make it past the eyesight assessment.
In 1949 at the age of twenty-one, he bought his first guitar, Smethurst, a fan of music hall stars such as George Formby, Jimmie Rogers, and the Hill Billy style, said, “My guitar was only for strumming in the privacy of my bedroom. No one could have persuaded me to sing for my supper in any club or pub.” In October 1961, he told the local EEN paper, “I am an introvert. I like being by myself. I like to make up my little tunes on my own. They are a sort of meditation that I speak out loud. I really like to do them best shut up in my own little room so that they are just between me and the tape recorder.” Carver interestingly notes that this was not Smethurst's first instrument as he had clubbed together with school friends to buy a second-hand Banjo-Ukulele for half a crown, and publicity later put out by his manager to be Ralph Tuck also states that Smethurst had his first guitar at 14. He had begun writing lyrics, or poems as he saw them, while he was at school. He began to strum along to these, most of which recalled his childhood days in tranquil Norfolk. Smethurst has commented more than once that from the time of his move to Grimsby, he was homesick for Norfolk and found it hard to settle.
After a few unsuccessful jobs, in 1953, he joined the Post Office; strolling and cycling his route proved an excellent time to hone his homespun ditties. He described his time as a postman as happy but uneventful. A summer holiday visit to Albert Bayfield, an old Paston school friend then living in Mundesley, Nfk, in 1959, started the ball rolling on Smethurst's ‘pop’ career. Bayfield owned an old guitar, and while sitting in the garden, Smethurst played him a song he had written about Sheringham. Bayfield was impressed and said he should send it to the regional radio programme ‘Wish You Were Here’. This is where the story starts to twist; some reports say that Smethurst took Bayfield's advice and made a tape recording of a few of his tracks and then caught the train to Norwich with the hope of getting an audition at the BBC studios in St Catherine’s Close. But he did not make it past the station bar, where a few pints of dutch courage and a smoke, led to a few more pints and then a trip home. An alternative report says he made it to a café opposite the studio but once again lost his nerve. Another version of his introduction to radio was that Bayfield himself taped some tracks and sent them in. But the story told by Smethurst in 1976 is that on returning from that holiday in 1959, he taped the track and sent it off, forgetting all about it until he found a BBC recording van parked outside his house on returning home from work one day. The BBC recorded around three tracks in three hours: Come Along O’Me, Moind Yer Head Boy and Ar You Alroight Boy. Smethurst’s ditties were picked up and played by a few light entertainment shows but became a regular feature on a programme called ‘Wednesday Morning’, a magazine show of local news and features. One of the show’s hosts was Ralph Tuck, a Suffolk farming expert who ran a successful cattle feed business and would, amongst his chat, give out farming tips. Many of Smethurst’s early recordings were made in an improvised studio at his home in Grimsby. Tuck, who had christened Smethurst The Singing Postman [4] and had continually championed his inclusion on the show, was now getting requests from listeners wanting to buy Smethurst’s songs on record. It is a caveat to the above that Smethurst also sent out tapes to many of the top London record labels at the time but did not receive a single reply.
The smallest recording organisation in the world.
“It was in the summer of 1964 that I received a letter from Ralph Tuck, compere of the regional radio programme ‘Wednesday Morning’, which often featured my songs. Mr Tuck suggested sponsoring a record for me and asked me to record four songs on tape from which he would have a number recorded in the hope of catching the music market,” stated Smethurst. The request for Smethurst’s tunes on disc goes back to his earliest airplay and is mentioned by East Anglia’s BBC representative David Bryson in the local paper as early as 1959. Tuck was a successful businessman within the Suffolk farming community and had also started a printing and publicity company in 1963; however, he admits to being very naive when it came to the music industry. Tuck made enquiries into putting out a release but found that the key element was distribution, and he felt they wanted too big a slice of the pie. He was told, though, that without it, he would have no success. The Guardian reported in 1965 [Local Boy Sings Good by Dennis Barker] that being from East Anglia, Tuck was too ‘boneheaded’ to accept this and decided to go it alone. Tuck brought in Douglas Fisher, who had been making promotional films for his animal feed business and set up a studio at an old farmhouse at Combs near Stowmarket, Sfk. He was to oversee Smethurst’s recordings and later produce the few promotional videos we have of him performing. The quiet and secluded farm suited Smethurst. Tuck took on his management and founded his own RTP [Ralph Tuck Promotions] label, and rather than choosing one of the four tracks Smethurst had provided, he released all four on one EP. He originally ordered 100 copies, which were advertised in the local press and sold via mail order for 12 shillings. This first hundred came in a homemade sleeve – see page 141, Pic 75.[5] Tuck found demand was such that within four months, he was ordering represses by the thousand, which came in a more professional sleeve of a slightly different design.
A follow-up EP was soon released in April 1965, and Tuck took out adverts in The Guardian and The Daily Mirror. This prompted requests from chain stores, who were writing to Tuck directly. “We were opening new accounts at the average rate of ten a day,” Tuck told the record retailer magazine in 1965. Now supplying directly to the trade, distributor and publisher, Keith Prowes was brought on board to help with the demand; but Tuck had made his point, and the self-proclaimed ‘smallest recording organisation in the world’ had shown an independent label could be a success. The flip side of this success was that now the comforting isolation of his bedroom studio or the rural sounds and space of Comb Farm were replaced by TV studios, press reporters, stages, and, worst of all, audiences. The week that Tuck released Smethurst’s first EP, he appeared on both regional news programmes, BBC Look East and About Anglia. Early live performances consisted of a nervous Smethurst gazing down at his shoes or singing with his eyes closed. It is clear from his comments of 1959 and 1961 that despite his songwriting talent, he was not cut out for the heavy demands of show business and although many reports comment on him starting to suffer from stage fright during his debut summer season in 1965, that anxiety already existed, and now those early pints of dutch courage were just not going to be enough for the journey ahead.
Smethurst had only performed around three times professionally in public before being signed up for his first full, 16-week summer season at The Windmill Theatre in Great Yarmouth in 1965. He had performed before for family and had even done a few turns at his local when cheered on by friends, who naturally supplied the drink. Jack Jay, the owner of the Windmill, signed Smethurst up without seeing or hearing him and his son Peter told me why “My band, The Jaywalkers, had played most of the summer seasons at The Windmill since 1960, but we had moved on and were now playing all over the country. I would keep a lookout for dad and tell him of anything causing a bit of a stir. I heard the Singing Postman and thought he would be great for The Windmill and told him to get in first before somebody else does.”
Jack Jay was pleased to announce the coup to the local press but was shocked to find out Allan was a real middle-aged postman and not some young, suave pretender. The Windmill engagement meant Smethurst could give up his job and go professional. The mild-mannered Smethurst left the GPO and was granted permission to continue wearing the postman’s uniform on stage. Overnight Smethurst had gone from earning £12 a week to £50. The season opened on 21 May 1965 and was a great success, although Smethurst was now well and truly in the limelight with live shows daily, new recordings to make and fete openings to attend; this was going to take all the courage he could drink.
Four weeks into the show, Smethurst collapsed in his hotel room and was rushed to hospital, later reported as having suffered a minor heart attack. His place in the show was ironically taken on by a local Gorleston performer called Jimmy Carter, better known locally as The Singing Dustman. Smethurst recovered but did not finish the summer season and, as far as we can see, never took on such a commitment again. He returned to the stage in September 1965, but having decided to turn professional, he was now committed to many engagements; and the ever-present nerves saw the suds replaced by whiskey. Smethurst’s first major engagement on his return was away from East Anglia; he headed for Wales to make a series of programs for TWW (Television Wales & West) called “1034 And All That”. However, the pressure was soon back on, and Smethurst was now becoming unreliable, once turning up for a show at a village hall, popping to the next-door pub for a tipple and becoming so drunk that he could not perform. Despite this, when Smethurst’s first album, The Postman’s Year, was released just in time for the 1965 Christmas market on 15 November 1965, the demand for his first three EPs on Tucks RTP label had reached 30,000, and the album itself sold over 1000 copies in the first three days: possibly making the RTP label one of the first successful independents of the period.
In April 1966, with Tuck still guiding Smethurst’s career, he signed a publishing deal with London’s Dick James Music. Dick James (1920-1986) re-licenced Tuck’s recordings to EMI and all his early output was re-released on EMI’s Parlophone label. The label at the time was synonymous with The Beatles but had originally made its reputation putting out novelty records. All the EPs were given new colour picture covers of Smethurst in full GPO tunic, supposedly going about his daily chores around the county on a bicycle with his guitar [6]. EMI also had to slightly adjust some of the song titles to help those without a grasp of the Norfolk dialect. James and Tuck had big plans to pitch Smethurst to the American market. Rumours of a deal with Columbia Records and a 30,000-dollar investment prompted the making of a promotional video, but it soon became clear that Smethurst was not going to become the household name they had all hoped. His peak came in 1967. Despite being the same happy-go-lucky man with the Norfolk dry wit, he could no longer perform without alcohol. That said, on 27 March 1967, he won an Ivor Novello Award for Novelty Song Of The Year for Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy? [7] at the award ceremony held at the Lyceum Ballroom, London. He was also recruited that year by British Rail Eastern Region as the face to advertise their first roving East Anglia by rail scheme. There were follow-up EMI releases, with The Sound Barrier album being his last for the label in October 1967.
Outselling The Beatles and The Stones
At Smethurst’s peak, local headlines about outselling The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were considerably blown out of proportion and more so by the national press. Not to detract from any of Smethurst’s success, the event in question was factual but very localised and brief. Chart wise Smethurst has never had a record in the national singles or album chart. The sidebar to this was the EP chart which was a pop anomaly that came about in the UK in 1954 and bridged the gap between a single and an LP. It often contained four tracks and was a good place to preview forth-coming album tracks, leftover sessions, live material and tv or movie tie-ins. Smethurst made his first appearance in this chart on 5 June 1965 with his debut release “Songs Made Favourites on the ‘Wednesday Morning’ Programme” on the RTP label featuring Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy. This was not the opening track of the EP but the first track on the second side, which had already received copious airplay through the Wednesday Morning radio programme before its release and was seized on as his signature tune. The EP managed two weeks at No 20, and although for the first week this was higher than two new EP releases by The Rolling Stones (Got Live If You Want It!) and The Beatles (Beatles For Sale No2), the chart only showed the top twenty, and so these EPs that were bubbling outside were not really in the chart. The EP Chart was often littered with multiple band releases, and the above EPs, were later to hit the top ten. Smethurst was not a major artist, so to make this chart on an independent label was a feat.
From a local press perspective, the Here and Now page started in the Eastern Evening Newspaper on 29 March 1965. The page carried a chart called, The Norwich Top Ten, and sales figures were supplied by various record outlets in the city. This chart did not differentiate between singles and EPs. Smethurst first appeared in this chart with his debut EP on 19 April 1965, entering at No 6. The Beatles were top of the chart on that day with Ticket to Ride and had been there the two previous weeks. The Rolling Stone's single The Last Time also had already topped this chart on its first printing and was now drifting down week by week. On 26 April 1965, Smethurst's second EP, “Songs Made Favourites on the’ Wednesday Morning’ Programme No2”, went straight in at No 4, with his first ep holding at the No 2 position. Smethurst knocked Ticket to Ride off the top spot on 3 May 1965, and at that point, his second EP was at No 3. Smethurst stayed at No 1 for two weeks, with his second EP remaining at No 3 for the same period. This was the sum of Smethurst's chart action nationally and locally while on Tuck's RTP label, noting that “Songs Made Favourites on the ‘Wednesday Morning’ Programme” EPs No3 and No4 and his first album did not feature in any charts we have come across.
Smethurst’s second entry into the EP chart came on 10 December 1966, but it is important to note that this was the EMI reissue of his debut EP but retitled First Delivery. The National EP chart by this time had started to wane, and it only amounted to a top ten. The EP stayed in the chart for ten weeks, peaking at No 7, and at no point was competing with The Beatles or The Rolling Stones but instead with acts such as Val Donnican, Andy Williams, Georgie Fame and Ken Dodd. This was the end of Smethurst’s chart success, and no other release of his charted locally or nationally.[8]
I’ve Been Foolish
We re-join Smethurst in 1969, who was now playing far fewer events. The shock departure of his manager Tuck in January that year genuinely stunned him as it was announced in the paper before he was told. He responded, “You’re telling me something I didn’t know. I’m amazed. I haven’t seen Ralph Tuck for a month. As far as I’m concerned there’s been no disagreement. He’s done a lot for me. I only regret that our relationship seems to be over.” Smethurst had given up playing the guitar because of arthritis and had signed onto the dole. It is estimated he earned around £25,000 at his height, and if asked about it, he replied, “I’ve been foolish and spent the lot.” This is where we leave Smethurst for this volume, but there is a reprieve for him in the seventies. He died on 22 December 2000 at the age of 73, still living his reclusive lifestyle at Brighowgate House (Salvation Army Hostel) in Grimsby, and was still reluctant to talk to the media about his musical days.
NB [1] Tom Carver was a reviewer for the Eastern Evening News in the 1980s and played drums in local bands. [2] Keith Skipper was an Eastern Counties journalist who attempted musical recognition with a local band - see Captain Boyton's Benefit Band. [3] Wikipedia has his birth date as 19th November 1927, as do other sites; our DOB comes from an article he wrote for East Anglian Magazine in Jan 1976 entitled ‘My Early Life’. [4] We could not find any connection that Smethurst’s stage name had been inspired by that of Jimmie Rodgers 'The Singing Brakeman'. Smethurst was a fan of Rodgers, but it appears as though Tuck was the first to refer to him as The Singing Postman. Although it should be added that a great many novelty acts had their occupation invoked in their name - see The Singing Dustman. [5] Some early misprinted RTP records had Essex instead of Southwold as the label’s location. [6][a] The EMI re-released EPs carried pictures of Smethurst delivering around the county of Suffolk, but it is important to note he was never a postman in Suffolk at any time. [b] The new EMI covers also stated incorrectly that Smethurst was Born in Sheringham. [7] Mollie Bayfield was the wife of Paston school friend Albert Bayfield and was the inspiration for the chain-smoking girlfriend Molly Windley in the song Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy. It is believed that Smethurst and Mollie were sweet on each other in their childhood. [8] When EMI/Parlophone re-released Smethurst's first 4 EPs, his RTP No2 EP was titled Third Delivery, and his RTP No3 EP became their Second Delivery EP; one and four remained the same.
Notes: to be added
- Signs two-year deal in July 1970 with Scratbys City music label. Label owner and fan Tony Palmer was keen to see if he could turn Smethurst’s fortunes around!
- Rolf Harris visited Smethurst at his hostel in ?? to sing 'Hev Yew Gotta Loight Bor' as he had recorded a version in 1966 (said it had charted but can’t see that it did).
- In 1994 “Have You Got A Loight Boy” was used as the backing music for the Ovaltine adverts. Smethurst and Smethurst received some royalties
- Smethurst appeared on Top Of The Pops & Crackerjack (unknown episode and date)
- He had previously worked as a electrician on Grimsby Docks. While living in the hostel,
- A tribute Radio 4 programme entitled 'In Search of the Singing Postman' was broadcast on 7th September 2010. It was written and presented by the Norfolk-born writer D.J. Taylor.
Discography:
7” Come Along A Me EP
Come Along A Me / Moind Yer Hid Boy
b/w Hev You Gotta Loight, Boy / A Miss From Diss
Ralph Tuck Promotions BEVEP152/3 second press released on 19/12/64
NB: No date for the release of the first 100 discs. Second pressing released 19/12/64.
Licensed and repackaged by EMI/Parlophone as The First Delivery EP GEP8956 [r] ??/11/66
7” Hev The Bottom Dropped Owt EP
Hev The Bottom Dropped Owt? / Oi Wear Horned Rimmed Glasses!
b/w Oi Can’t Git A Noice Loaf A Bread! / Yew Can’t Liven’In The Past
Ralph Tuck Promotions BEVEP 178/9 released on 10/04/65
Licensed and repackaged by EMI/Parlophone as The Third Delivery EP GEP8959 [r] ??/01/67
7” They’re Orl Playin’ Dommies In Bar EP
They’re All Playin’ Dommies In The Bar / Tha’s A Lot Of Squit!
b/w Shoot A Rabbit Up A Tree! / Stoon Pickin’Toime
Ralph Tuck Promotions BEVEP 253/4 released on 02/08/65
Licensed and repackaged by EMI/Parlophone as The Second Delivery EP GEP8957 [r] ??/11/66
7” Little Old Boy EP
Who’s That Little Old Boy? / The Motor Bike Song
b/w The Great Train Robbery / Took A Long Time
Ralph Tuck Promotions RTPEP400 released on 10/04/66
Licensed and repackaged by EMI/Parlophone as The Fourth Delivery EP GEP8960 [r] ??/01/67
12” The Postmans Year
January Sales / Suffin’ Cold / Spring Cleaning / Wass The Bottum Dropped Owt? / Hev You Gotta Loight, Boy? / The Cricket Match / Are Yew Alroight, Boy? / Followin’ The Bionder Round / The Mystery Of Owld Tom’s Grave / On The Hight Of Halloween / Charlie In The Winta Toime / The Postman,s Lament
Ralph Tuck Promotions SP121 released on 15/11/65 – see now – singing postman album
Licensed and repackaged by EMI/Parlophone as Recorded Delivery LP [r] ??/11/66
R.Tuck PMC7013 66
7” Roundabout b/w The Ladies Dart Team
Parlophone Records R5505 released ??/??/66
7” P/S Please Mr Postman EP
The Clock In The Biscuit Tin / The Washday Song
b/w Railway Song / Runton Man
Parlophone Records GEP8964 released on ??/05/67
7” Mind How You Go b/w Daddy’s Trombone
Parlophone Record R5584 released on ??/??/67
7” Soundbarrier b/w Old North Walsham Line
Parlophone Records R5632 released on ??/??/67
12” Soundbarrier
Sound Barrier / Devils Hoof Prints/Dew Yer Father Keep A Dickie / February Lady / 1776 / First World War / Old Tom Tide / Labour On Principle / Poachers Lament / Wroxham Broad / Tommy Dack / What Yew On Holiday
Par PMC7031 67
Last commercial release in 77 except for CD pack
Mediography:
Norwich discovery 30/12/59
I always suspect a publicity gag.. 07/10/61 – singing postman really is shy
Singing Postman record 21/11/64 – singing postman goes on record
Singing Postman’s second disc 10/04/65
Singing Postman Tops Beatles DM 20/04/65
Singing Postman challenges the Beatles H&N EEN 26/04/65
Singing postman puts ‘stamp’ on EP disc LJ 23/04/65
Singing Postman beats Beatles H&N EEN 03/05/65
Local Boy Sings Good TG 03/05/65 [p]
Allan’s TV series 17/05/65
Postman in Top Twenty 03/06/65
Singing Postman in hospital NM&J 18/05/65 [p]
The Singing Postman is taken ill 18/06/65
Six-week rest for the Singing Postman 22/06/65
Postman’s return unlikely 23/06/65
The Singing Dustman takes over EEN 12/07/65 [p]
Singing Postman had slight heart attack EEN 30/07/65 [p]
The Singing Postman Starts A Trend LJ 06/08/65
Heart attack hit Singing Postman 31/07/65
Singing Postman back on stage EEN 21/09/65
The Singing Postman Is Leaping To Success LJ 19/11/65
Singing Postman tops 30,000 EEN 20/11/65
The Singing Postman, Mr Allan Smethurst… 26/11/65
Singing Postman At Tory Dance EEN 18/12/65
Postman’s pop 24/03/66
Singing Postman discs for U.S. 02/04/66
Singing Postman finds nice loaf 24/04/66
Crowds wait – but Singing Postman fails to turn up 02/05/66
First Single by Singing Postman 09/09/66
Singing Postman film for America 25/10/66
Help By Singing Postman EEN 25/10/66
Yew hev gotta prize, boy 27/03/67
Variety is Allan’s new bag 03/04/67
Singing Postman ‘solve’ jet noise 31/08/67
School Swimming Pool EEN 27/05/68
Mr Tuck Surprises Singing Postman EEN 01/01/69
Singing Postman says he’s amazed 02/01/69
Singing Postman is on dole 04/07/70
Allan Smethurst is back with a new disc 27/07/70
Happy Allan 16/11/70
Back in the studio 06/09/71
Allan spreads the word 15/11/71
Allan Smethurst spans the years 20/09/72
Love-song serenade for Pam NNN 22/09/72
Singing Postman’s whairl of a time 11/12/72
Singing Stiffkey rector saga 11/11/75
Probation for fallen star 18/07/78
Video men seeking the Singing Postman 08/03/84
Singing Postman in Humberside 15/03/84
Return of Singing Postman 13/10/87
Allan: a great songwriter 09/01/93
Hev Yew gotta record bor? 14/05/1993
Allan’s becoming a star – again! 17/1/94
No mail model for Jack GYM 28/01/94
Radio:
BBC Women’s Hour
Today
Pick Of The Week
TV:
Anglia TV: As You Like It ~ unk trks c67
Friday 14th May 1965
BBC2 Late Night Line-Up 10.45 pm - end
Allan Smethurst (The Singing Postman)
Wednesday 8th September 1965
BBC2 Late Night Line-Up 10.55 pm - end
Donovan – The Universal Soldier
The Singing Postman – Mind Your Head Boy
Maureen Kennedy Green – The Leaves That Are Green
Sunday 19th September 1965
Anglia The Singing Postman 5:15 - 5:35 pm
Thursday 8th September 1966
BBC2 Late Night Line-Up 11.10 pm - end
Donovan – Universal Soldier
The Singing Postman – Mind Your Head Boy
Friday 28th April 1967
BBC1 Joe And Co 4.55 - 5.40 pm
Joe Brown / The Barron Knights / Manfred Mann - Ha Ha Said The Clown / Alan Smethurst (The Singing Postman)
Grampian The George Kidd Show /
The Warm Sounds - The Birds and The Bees
09/05/67 Southern As You Like It 7:00 - 7:30 pm
Hosted by Don Moss
Adam Faith talks to passengers and staff on an Amsterdam-bound planes and gets their song requests
Sandie Shaw / The Dave Clark Five /
Manfred Mann - Sweet pea (Mike D’Abo seen playing piano on this instrumental) / Alan Smethurst (The Singing Postman)
Adam Faith & Sandie Shaw - Something Stupid
Granada Simon & Garfunkel 11:35 pm - 12:00 am part two
Saturday 11th May 1968
ATV The Des O’Connor Show 7.00 - 7.30 pm
Lonnie Donegan / Mrs Mills / The Singing Postman
Wednesday 7th August 1968
Granada Hats Off 4.55 - 5.20 pm
Don Partridge / Anita Harris / The Singing Postman
Residencies:
The Windmill Theatre, GY SS65
Notes below unchecked
Discography:
7”Come Along A Me ep (Red Label) ~ Come Along A Me/Moind Yer Hid Boy/Hev You Gotta Loight, Boy/A Miss From Diss R.Tuck BEVEP 152/3[ ]64
7”Hev The Bottom Dropped Owt ep (Green Label) ~ Hev The Bottom Dropped Owt?/Oi Wear Horned Rimmed Glasses!/Oi Can’t Git A Noice Loaf A Bread!/Yew Can’t Liven’In T R.Tuck BEVEP 178/9[ ]65
7”They’re Orl Playin’ Dommies In Bar ep (Yellow Label)~ They’re All Playin’ Dommies In The Bar/Tha’s A Lot Of Squit!/Shoot A Rabbit Up A Tree!/Stoon Pickin’Toime R.Tuck BEVEP 253/4[ ]65
7”Little Old Boy ep(Blue Label)~ Little Old Boy/The Motor Bike Song/The Great Train Robbery/Took A Long Time R.Tuck RTPEP400[ ]66
12”The Postmans Year~ January Sales/Suffin’ Cold/Spring Cleaning/Wass The Bottum Dropped Owt?/Hev You Gotta Loight, Boy?/The Cricket Match/Are Yew Alroight, Boy?/Followin’ The Bionder Round/The Mystery Of Owld Tom’s Grave/On The Hight Of Halloween/Charlie In The Winta Toime/The Postman,s Lament R.Tuck SP121[ ]66
12” Recorded Delivery ~ R.Tuck PMC7013[ ]66
7” First Delivery ep ~ Come Along A Me/Moind Yer Hid Boy/Hev Yew Gotta Loight,Boy/A Miss From Diss Parlophone GEP8956[ ]66
7" Second Delivery ep ~ They’re Orl Playin Dommies In The Bar/Tha’s A Lot Of Squit/Oi Shot A Rabbit Up A Tree/Stoon Pickin Toime Parl GEP8957[ ]66
7” Third Delivery ep ~
7” Fourth Delivery ep ~ Who’s That Little Old Boy/Motor Bike Song/The Train Robbery/Took A Long Time. Par GEP8960[ ]66
7” Roundabout b/w The Ladies Dart Team Parlophone R5505[ ]66
7” Please Mr Postman ep ~ The Clock In The Biscuit Tin/The Washday Song/Railway Song/Runton Man Par GEP8964[ ]67
7” Mind How You Go b/w Daddy’s Trombone Par R5584[ ]67
7” Soundbarrier b/w Old North Walsham Line Par R5632[ ]67
12” Soundbarrier ~ Sound Barrier/Devils Hoof Prints/Dew Yer Father Keep A Dickie/February Lady/1776/First World War/Old Tom Tide/Labour On Principle/Poachers Lament/Wroxham Broad/Tommy Dack/What Yew On Holiday Par PMC7031[ ]67
12” The Best Of The Singing Postman ~ Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?/Dew Yer Father Keep A Dickie?/Come Alone A Me/They’re Orl Playin’ Dommies In The Bar/Wass The Bottum Dropped Owt?/Who’s That Little Old Boy?/Oi Can’t Git A Noice Loaf A Bread/The Cricket Match/Soundbarrier/A Miss From Diss/Motor Bike Song/The Train Robbery/Oi Shot A Rabbit Up A Tree/Moind Yer Hid Boy Starline SRS5063[ ]
Cs” Shoont I Be On Th’ Inside ~ My Boy John/The Foxhunt/Keep Myself Gorn/Norfolk Poacher/45 Stringed Guitar/Edna The Barmaid/Here I Go/Wednesday Morning/My Christmas Dream/Thass Only Me/The Postman & The Milkgirl/Norwich Is A Fine City/I’ll Think It Over/Eating Out Me Hand/The Vikings/Bubbles & The Wall/Took A Long Time/Acle Sale/Bin Born A Long Time/The Old North Walsham Line. City Music CM02870LP[ ]70
7” Tha’ss Only Me b/w Edna The Barmaid City Music CMSP7050[ ]70
7” The Foxhunt b/w My Christmas Dream City Music CMSP7090[ ]70
12” First Class Mail ~ City Music GM2012[ ]71
7” Fertilizing Liza b/w Ballad Of A Ten Bob Note President PVK005[ ]77
