Jake Thackray 'Jake's Scene - Swaledale'
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- A rare ITN programme from around 1971 featuring Jake Thackray as a 'roving reporter'.
This features variations of "Fine Bay Pony", "Go Little Swale" and "Old Molly Metcalfe" in which Jake is accompanied by a choir of school children.
Apologies for the quality.
The genius of Jake Thackery. One of our finest song writers who does not get the recognition he deserves.
he is amazing no doubt
Jake was one of our finest poet-troubadors. I'd followed his music for many years, and finally saw him; in Cyprus, at the Dhekelia WOs and Sgts Mess, in, I think, 1983. I incurred his displeasure by talking during a song (I was v, v ratted), but made up for it by giving him a lift to his hotel in my taxi at closing time. Lovely man.
I'm afraid when Jake was on TV I failed to appreciate the special quality of the man and his work. What a joy to watch and listen again to this now, and wallow in the nostalgia of what we have lost. Have we totally llost our grip on what quality of life is really about in this over-materialistic age?
Quite agree with you...we don't know what we've got 'till it's gone...can be said for everything really. I thought he was brilliant! Cx
I love the children singing Molly Metcalf my favourite Jake song , it always gives me goosebumps..Jake must have had a lot of compassion to write such a beautiful song about a person who is cast out , and who cannot fit in. I reckon jake had a big heart and poetic soul as well as a captivating voice and a uniquely creative mind
Crazy to think they’d be about 60 now
Yes it is Muker school in approx 1971. My mother is the teacher in the film. It closed in about 1978, I think. By then there were only seven or eight children left there and they were all related to my mother. It celebrated it's tercentenary in 1977. She loved the school and wrote a book about it just before she died.
That's amazing, actually. I kind of appreciate how Jake took the time to put a place like Swaledale on the television, broken leg and all.
What's Swaledale like now? Do you know?
It's still a lovely place to live, albeit less schools and more cars! The hills haven't changed much.
My heart went out to your dear mother when she spoke about the school closing. I can see how much the children meant to her. Lovely lady.
Wonderful to see at least one of these programmes from what I believe was a series.
Your mum took pride in her pupils and school and didn't they sing well!
I met Jake a few times . Truly one of our great unsung musical heroes!
That sounds amazing. What is the book called? And any idea where i might get my hands on a copy?
Brilliant post and proof that in the right hands, TH-cam is a wonderful thing. I'm a Cumbrian who's been living in a city for a long long time and this documentary left me with a real feeling of melancholic yearning for better times and better people
thebadloser hello fellow Cumbrian
Those last few words you say....I feel it too though mostly in terms of the landscape. I'm a North Easterner originally and my parents and I stayed on holiday in Swaledale a number of times. Those sunny views of country roads, clear of traffic.....ohhhh so sadly in the past for me. But hey, we were privileged too in enjoying them at the time. And poor Jake's far far less lucky again than I am....not being here let alone able to reminisce.
I bet old Jake was a big hit with the ladies. He's a a good looking dude, he's charming and self effacing, and he actually sings in French! What woman could resist that?
My family used to stay summer fortnights at a tiny place called Newbiggin in Wensleydale side throughout the 80s. Even though i was so young the magic, the green countryside smells, the water on the rocks, the cattle grids and narrow hump bridges, the hamlets and the solid market towns would cast a spell on me I could never hope to unpick with words.
I want to go back again, but I know I would be distracted by what more has been lost.
This is such a wonderful "double" time capsule, a look back into the past from half a century ago. I had previously only known Jake Thackray's music and am only now being exposed to his televised appearances. What a unique talent!
What a magnificent social document, a true history piece with so much relevance in a gentle, confident manner which caresses you along. A privilege. Makes me proud to be an Englishman
This is superb. Swaledale is still wonderful. Thanks to Jake, his songs and to you for putting it up for us.
I'm very happy to hear that Swaledale is still a marvelous place, I'd love to visit sometime 😊
Amazing talent. Massively underrated.
Jake was such a delightful man, self-deprecating and naturally witty. What a talent, I miss him!
'They're quite without guile.' I love the way she delivers that line.
An interesting mix of RP and Yorkshire, not something you'd hear these days I imagine.
I bet she was a great teacher too. Looked like the kind of teacher who everyone loved but didn't dare cross.
A beautiful film in so many ways - not least as an important piece of social history. We also experience Jake Thackray's engaging personality and acute sense of creative observation.
Incredible upload. The final couple of minutes or so is UTTER bliss. It's bizarre that not enough programme-makers appreciate that the simple capturing of an North England landscape is SO MUCH better than all the jazzed-up, fast moving, fast edited crap made nowadays.
I can guess from the time code that it's a next generation copy from the TV company made many years later (perhaps late eighties or even 90s). Quality is pretty good nonetheless. As for the content itself. Nice to see Jake so at ease. The view of the countryside with his 'Fine Bay Pony' accompanying in particular makes me long for times gone by in all sorts of ways.
How can people hit the dislike button for this? What's wrong with them!!
i've had a Jake Thackray evening, glorious way to conclude.
what a lovely post great to see Jake relaxed he always looked nervouse when performing on TV which was always part of the charm but here seeing him relaxed is lovely . I remember him on Thats Life in the early 70s i was to young to appreciate his talant. later through an apprecistion of Nick Drake, Jaques Brell I discovered him again. thank you wonderful post.
Yes i also thought of Nick Drake.
I met Jake at a chip shop in Exeter (that sounds made up but it's true) and he struck me then as being anxious. He stiffened a little, I remember. But here....he's in good fettle. Just goes to show, if you're comfortable in your surroundings and the people around you....
This video is mesmerizing. I watched it from a Jake-o-centric perspective, learning what I could about the setting and inspiration for Jake's songs but the beauty of the landscape and the people -- the language of the sheep-farmer, the affection and good sense of the teacher, the young curly-headed man's idealistic fervor for protecting the swale from the depredations of progress -- were so powerful that I think even if Jake wasn't featured, I still would have been moved. And there were so many nice touches: for example, the camera lingering on the face of the teacher after she had finished talking, the attention to the pinafored ladies sweeping hay (I'd always misread that line as an erotic insinuation), the sheep on the rock wall: even the blackness for the last five or ten seconds seems poignant somehow. And, I don't know why this moved me, exactly - maybe because it seemed to me to emphasize his frailty and foreshadow the terrible last part of Jake's life, or maybe because it seemed to express in a matter-of-fact way the idea that 'things happen' and people push on - but I was moved by Jake's broken leg. And I loved that the film ends before he and the costumed monkish fellow get to met the other costumed jongleurs. Jake says he needs to sit, they sit, the jongleur makes a joke about falling down the well, they share an illicit cigarette, and the film suddenly takes flight: "Go Little Swale," et finis. So beautiful. Thank you.
"...the pinafore'd ladies turning the hay".= it would stay damp underneath and rot,if it wasn't turned to let the breeze and sun get to the hay closest to the ground..These days it's turned by tractor .
I'm crying...so beautiful
This is such a beautiful film. I have a great love of Jake, his life and songs.. Thanks ITV for filming this. An important and historical moment in time...
Since my mum and dad watched him on tv I’ve always remembered his wonderful and unique talent…..and this little film is a gem to discover. Wonderful ! ❤️👌🏼✨🌟✨
That was more than a video it was a gift x
This really captures the speech and attitudes of my childhood in Yorkshire in the 60s and 70s. Our parents took us camping from the "East Riding" right across to 'Cumberland' and this is how I remembered it. Thank you Jake.
This is bliss I love it .... my youth
Genius was Jake ..lovely to find this .
I can't express how grateful i am for you putting this up.Thank you very very much
Thanks Peter, that's lovely to hear. Is it the area or Mr Thackray you are interested in?
Its Jake Thackray, although i'm not immune to the charms of Swaledale, its just so nice to see Jake being himself and the original footage brings back such memories of seeing him so regularly on the tv back in the 1970s.I think he was probably one of our most gifted and underrated songwriters , and his use of the English language never fails to bring a smile to my face.
I absolutely agree about Jake and am desolte I never saw this and the rest!!
DesOlate that is. Jake is brilliant all round, but the people in this episode are all wonderful too. Beats most contemporary magazine work hands down!
It's warming to hear such appreciation. Ta man !
Fabulous, what a lovely film with the superb Jake Thakray
This is the Swaledale I remember, my Grandparents took me all over North Yorkshire in the late 60's, early 70's. I always wanted to go to Scarborough. I was a kid then, as you get older you appreciate it's beauty.
Just found this gem. Thank you for putting it up. Love and miss Jake Thackray. There's still no one who even comes close to his style and delivery.
That was a pleasure to watch ❤
Really enjoyed that, a real historical document of the time.
I love this Jake was is wonderful
I could die happily in my last minutes listening to 'Fine Bay Pony' (& as an extra watching that video clip) - heaven!
Many many thanks for posting. A rare glimpse indeed of a great man ,sadly missed.
I had a head master used to play this at morning assembly never forget it brilliant
Wow! Thank you so much for this! Jake stuff is so Rare! Greetings from Florida.
Cheers MJR!
Thank you for sharing this ❤
This is gold -- pure gold! Thank you for putting this up.
Glad you like it Noah.
Lovely to see the, now late, John Squires at 16:55 outside his lovely house, before he painted it white. What a superb chap he was!
Why the chained fox??
@@Joolzratbag so what was His story. Artist, naturalist or just eccentric?
Mr John Squires was not a artist although he did paint his house ,called the White House. Every three years. John was a bit of a eccentric. Loved all creatures great and small , He saved some Foxes over the years . His nickname was Foxy, married to Hilary They had two children , Meg and Joe. His interests were varied but local history and military badge collecting were the top two. Most of his working life was spent at Catterick Garrison with the PSA. Then has a Army range warden until retirement. Motorbikes 26:16 and the 3x wheeled Reliant Robin’swere his mode of transport . With a lot of walking in between. John was a true gentleman, proud and hardworking . I met John in the Officers mess in Bourlon barracks, Catterick Garrison 1988. I called John my brother and friend until the day he died,3rd April 2018 . Post Script : John purchased the White House as a derelict barn in the late 60s. For the first few years ALL the building materials. We’re transported on his motorbike crossbars, or on his shoulders!!. Mr JR.
@@Joolzratbag . Mr John (Foxy) Squires saved Foxes that he found as abandoned cubs or ones injured by the roadside. Some were delivered to Johns doorstep. This was at a time when foxes were killed on sight in the dales ?. Mostly. If possible the foxes were released back in to the wild. MrJR.
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for uploading. Strange to think that all those children will be pensioners by now and their teacher will be long gone. What an odd life we live - most of reality is obscure to us.
The look on that teacher's face after she stops speaking is so chilling in the way the happy hopefulness suddenly gives way to realistic despair.
Thank you for this. The man was a GENIUS. I might have been on a junior school trip walking "holiday" at Richmond Youth Hostel that week.
Absolutely Fabulous! Seriously delightful. Aaaah
I am very pleased you like it!
Dear Dodge Devil, where did you find it? are there more? where are they hiding?
Sorry Peter...only one I have. A family friend gave it to us a few years ago as my father in law is in the film. Not sure how they had it though.
Why is this popping up as new????
This is wonderful stuff. Intake was our local school and it's nice to see Jake looking relaxed. Also a nice reminder of Swaledale as it was from the many camping trips we made there in my youth.
Bloody fantastic. The one, the only, the great Jake Thackery. Thanks for putting this up. It has made my day😊🏴
My dad (Ken Stephinson) made this programme - I remember it well
That's brilliant! We may have photos of your dad and the film crew getting their kit up the hill. Will have to have a hunt about for them.
@@dodgedevil8404 A wonderful film. Do you have any photos with Jake in them? I'm working on his biography.
@@PaulThompsonMusic Sorry Paul. None with Jake in them.
@@dodgedevil8404 That's a shame, but thanks for letting me know.
Did your dad say anything about what it was like working with Jake? I'm researching Jake's biography.
The old boy to his right on the swing chair seems, at least to my ears, to have a cumbrian accent..? A very beautiful and charming video. Thanks a lot.
North Pennines, quite different to North Riding and more like Cumbria - I always noticed they often do a funny short intake of breath through lips like whistling (in reverse)
That was just splendid. Thanks for posting it. Jake was the tops when it comes to song writing.
Jake was a genius---Wonderful film
"They'd set off here at 6 o-clock in the morning and was many a time be near six o-clock at night before they got back." My mom shops all day too!
Thank you immensely for posting these.
"There will always be an England"
❤️ 🇬🇧 ❤️
In our memories, yes. I feel privileged to have enjoyed the countryside as it was then. Remarkable that the conversations in the programme also pre-meditate the loss of what was.
Enjoyed very much, thanks.
Thanks for uploading this video. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Beautiful.
Thank you very much indeed for uploading this. I knew nothing about Jake until my best pal (a Yorkshireman) told me about him. I ordered a CD of Jake's greatest hits from Amazon, and have never looked back!
I'm a big fan of John Shuttleworth (played by comedian Graham Fellows), and when you listen to Jake talking, particularly at the beginning of this video at the pub, I'm sure that Graham Fellows based some of John Shuttleworth on Jakes demeanour !!!!
Again, thanks for uploading this mate; all the best.....
Thank you posting this. It has taken me on a joyful journey :)
Wonderful! Thank you so much. My friend sent me this knowing full well it would evoke joy. Thanks for sharing.
Back in the 1960's, I won an album from a radio station in Washington, DC. I'd never heard of this guy and was disappointed I didn't get a Beatles or Rolling Stones record. Still, I always remembered a few lines from 'Black Swan,' but until the internet, couldn't recall who sang it, etc. I was finally able to trace it a few years ago and it's been a pleasure to hear some of his other music.
Jake recorded at Abbey Road at the same time as the Beatles somewhere along the road and it turned out that John Lennon was a bit of a fan and knew Thackray's song Statues.
Through the haze of time amidst the late 60s and into the 70s and being a youth i was first enthralled by David Bowie Roxy Music and all that came with the short lived real punks
Jake Thackray stood in amongst all of this! To this day i love Mr Thackray a giant in many ways but funny warm melancholic eccentric his pronunciation was a big part of him. I remember seeing him on tv late 60s and i was a little afraid of this man at first but i loved his eccentricity but down to earth
I think Jake was a beautiful talented human and humane being
Two of the people i admire and are no longer with us Thackray and Bowie i will always admire and listen to the day i die ♥ The kids singing with Jake is wonderful 💖
Thank you for posting this…wonderful!
really wonderful to see
wonderful documentary!
Thanks very much for uploading - fantastic
Lovely to watch
Fantastic. Thanks for uploading this.
Thank you for a beautiful video. Greetings from Ireland☘️
Very moving. Thanks for posting.
My pal got me into Jake; I’m a big Bob Dylan fan and with regards to his lyric writing, I think Jake is comparable. Thanks for uploading this mate
I always think that Jake Thackray is the best British lyricist, at least since Noel Coward. I can't think if anyone better.
Oh my goodness I’m crying…need to come home to Yorkshire…..
This is fantastic . Thanks for posting
Absolutely wonderful
Yorkshire, doGs county🐕👍
Thank you 🙏👊
Thanks for sharing
My dad was a big fan can see why all these years later
I’m so happy I found this - thank you so much for posting it.
Wonderful.
Fabulous thank you for sharing.
go little swale is a lovely song for a lovely place
Brilliant post - thank you
"Jake's " last will and testament" was the finale at my mums funeral.
Great man Jake....loved him...
What the fucking fuck am I watching? Love it 😂
"Have a cigarette, put your hat on"
Wonderful
"Jakefest" This weekend up at Scarborough!
This could have been a great series
To find out more about Jake’s remarkable life and work, read the critically acclaimed biography, Beware of the Bull, The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray. Available online from Scratching Shed Publishing.
Oh I want that book!!!
@@normasouthwood3182 Researching and writing it was a fascinating project. The book is available in many places, but if you are in the UK and order it direct from Scratching Shed Publishing, the postage is free.
Fabulous.
An accurate transcription would be a great gift.
I bet that landlord and landlady didn't reign long there.
If anyone was wondering about the ball game, it was called Knurr and spell.............old game. But fun too.
7.37 the info John Tom has in is head, i would love to talk to him for hrs alas i recon he is long gone.great history!
Heritage video.
Great...
Amazing to see this - don't know how you managed to get hold of it but thanks so much for uploading. Do you have the other episodes from the series?
I am afraid not Mark. Just got this one.
Rood for the soul
the scene at 17.00min...bizarrely reminiscent of WithNail & I
Ha! One of my favourite films. Must be careful what I say as the fella with the fox is my father in law.
+Dodge Devil is he still in Swaledale?
@@dodgedevil8404 Is he? I like him. Liked what he said and agreed with him.
I came to listen to some Jake hilarity. I stayed for what turns out to be a fascinating insight into early 70s rural life in Yorkshire. Brilliant! Thanks for uploading this.
Funny. It was exactly what I expected it to be. Sincere, unforced conversations on a hillside with folk from his neck of the woods.
Jokes aside, I see Jake as quite a somewhat serious, introverted man who just happened to weave some wit as well as bawdiness into his songs. I can imagine he would have been quite a depressive type after too much to drink. Lovely to see him in such warm, social circumstances.
This is awesome ! thank you so very very much, it is an absolute delight to see Jake in non performing dick mode, you really have made my day.....i kid you not.
Its always nice to brighten up someone's day! Big confession...don't really know anything about Jake and I only have this video because a family member is in it and a friend sent it to him a few years ago. He seems like an alright bloke...apart from his dislike of foxes :)
@@dodgedevil8404 i discovered his music on a promotional copy of one of his lp records in 1970. finding out much about him has not been easy. Although I love his humorous songs, The Remembrance, is the song that capitivates me the most.
@@stevesedberry There is a wealth of information of the Jake Thackray website.
wow, where on earth did you get this? Amazing stuff!
totally forgotten genius !