Obviously, Terry Dactyl wasn't his real name. The footnotes accompanying this video will tell you more ... meanwhile, enjoy this one hit wonder from 1972.
Re the in-video quote about the thing with a boot on it, it's a Zob Stick or Rhythm Pole, and Sam Spoons (real name Martin Ash) of the Bonzo Dog Band played one too, not to mention scores of skiffle players up and down the country.
Fantastic song, they say that the 70s were bad times because of the fuel crisis, strikes etc. As a teenager surely no one could disagree that it was the best eara to grow up in. Apart from the 60s everything was so much simpler. This music was typical of the summer mood and atmosphere, Love it.
This song was written by Jona Lewie, who also wrote, sang and best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".
@@colinwalker6042 Jona Lewie performed 'Stop the Cavalry' at the Great British Folk Festival a few years ago. It certainly wasn't his best performance. 🤨 Afterwards, Sue Marchant put the original on the sound system to compare; oh dear - !
@@hawkeyepierce59That was what occurred to me at the time. I didn't realise that they had the same musical structure although that structure's the 12-bar blues and lots of other songs also fit into that category that are not reminiscent of this ("Little Red Rooster" by The Stones, "Shakermaker" by Oasis just to name two). The way the rhyming is organised is also common to both songs, but the happy-go-lucky summery feel's probably the link that most people would pick up on.
I attended Sussex University in the 80s, the last golden age of academic study before computers changed that world for ever. I loved Brighton in that time and used to see the football play at the Goldstone.
Waaa! I have been searching for the title/name of the song/group for ages. All I could remember was the single cover (a crocodile or a dino in sneakers😅) I had the single myself, and it was a 'hit' on a party wayyyy back in my youth.('70's) Suddenly I remembered there was the word 'shuffle' in the title... And at last I can lay my worried head to sleep 😂.
Happy days. I remember this song well. Quirky and fun stuff around then. Not the easiest of times but the world felt kinder. I'm fully aware of what was happening in the world then but I didn't have a sense of the oozing hate of nowadays. Music could be just for the fun and pleasure it brings. We need more bands like these so that we can leave our agendas at home and just have some old fashioned 'bop around your handbag' fun. 😊
I like the harmonica and the rat a tat beat. As music styles changed there was still a lot of the past left in there and people produced records that they wouldn't probably have ever made. The Seventies totally eclectic, inventive..
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs was a name adopted by Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts of which Graham Hine and John Randall were original members. John Lewis aka Jona Lewie joined the band and wrote this song which was their only hit. I saw Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, c1969, at the M.S.G. (Manchester Sports Guild) of blessed memory. John Randall sadly died in 2021.
I am completely shocked. Australian band 'The Dingoes' released a song in 1973 called 'Way out west" which was a landmark recording dealing with the subject of mining in the outback. However, now I hear this 'Seaside Shuffle' and it is the same melody!
The Whottsit with the boot on the end is studded with loose rattling beer bottle tops and is technically called a “Lagerphone” …I saw these guys when I was a kid and they were a riot!!!!!!!
Almost identical melody to Dylan's classic song 'Buckets' of Rain'. Wonder if the eclectic Dylan knew of this song and was influenced by it (perhaps subconsciously) for Buckets, or was it just a coincidence? Seaside Shuffle was the 2nd single I bought with my pocket money at age 7. The first was Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll!
I must say that the drummer is John Randall, and the zob-stick (well, that is the name) player is Keith Trussel. Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs is the nickname of ANOTHER band, Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts, formed by the same personnel plus Peter Gibson and Jim Pitts. One band with two names... :-)
The Wotsit with boot on the must be related to the morrisette. As used by Maddy Prior on 1973’s Below The Salt album track Spotted Cow in the bridge sections.
I like it and find it in the same vein as the song "in the summer time", by Mungo Jetty. IMHO This tune could have been improved by the addition of a small jug section.
I have just found out this includes Joan Lewis,of « Stop the cavalry ,Always find me in the kitchen at parties,I always thought this was Mungo Jerry too!
A bit of genealogy: Mungo Jerry: In The Summertime (1970); Seaside Shuffle: Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs (1972); Buckets of Rain: Bob Dylan (1975); no plagiarism here, just a clear kinship relationship... (not excluding other relatives...)
@@raymondbonington9355 Thanks, Raymond - same to you. (I once went to hear Chris Bonington speak on his conquest of the north face of the Eiger. I was a keen rock climber myself at that time).
Ahem….Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts made the boot on a stick covered in beer bottle tops famous. Although there is some overlap with Terry etc etc etc.
Keith Trussell on Zobstick aka Keef Trouble later co-wrote Jona Lewis's hit, You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties. However, to say that John Lewis was Terry Dactyl is absolute tosh. The band name was just made up like the band's "real" name, Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts and a later used name Ernie Blimp & the Blimpsolls.
there was a song called The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures which was a parody of In the Summertime. ha ha! that didn't end up in court either. Not that it really matters
Re the in-video quote about the thing with a boot on it, it's a Zob Stick or Rhythm Pole, and Sam Spoons (real name Martin Ash) of the Bonzo Dog Band played one too, not to mention scores of skiffle players up and down the country.
Thanks for the input, Mark. Your comment will be useful to a lot of viewers.
Yep, my first thought as an answer was The Bonzos :-)
My dad made us some out of beer bottle tops nailed to brush stails. Awesome.
The Intro's & Outro's - Sam Spoons, rhythm pole.
Got here through a QI clip, the zob stick is a take on a Jangling Johnny. A marching instrument used by the Janitzars.
Fantastic song, they say that the 70s were bad times because of the fuel crisis, strikes etc. As a teenager surely no one could disagree that it was the best eara to grow up in. Apart from the 60s everything was so much simpler. This music was typical of the summer mood and atmosphere, Love it.
Totally agree....THE best times 👏
The lost sounds of Summertime, when growing up in the 70's your life was led by music!!! We grew up richer because of our music!
This brings back memories.
I.ve got this on vinyl.
They were good times
We had so much variety in music in those days, now you can't tell one from another.
Yet this song sounds almost exactly like "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry
This song was written by Jona Lewie, who also wrote, sang and best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".
@@colinwalker6042 Jona Lewie performed 'Stop the Cavalry' at the Great British Folk Festival a few years ago. It certainly wasn't his best performance. 🤨
Afterwards, Sue Marchant put the original on the sound system to compare; oh dear - !
All great songs!
Sounds like "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry to me.Anyone?
@@hawkeyepierce59That was what occurred to me at the time. I didn't realise that they had the same musical structure although that structure's the 12-bar blues and lots of other songs also fit into that category that are not reminiscent of this ("Little Red Rooster" by The Stones, "Shakermaker" by Oasis just to name two). The way the rhyming is organised is also common to both songs, but the happy-go-lucky summery feel's probably the link that most people would pick up on.
Memories of driving down the arterial road to Southend and going to the Kursaal on a bank holiday in the 1970s. Priceless.
The power of music to stir old memories!
An absolutely classic summer song
Very true. I remember being with my Mum while my eldest brother was driving his red Ford consul convertible. This was playing on the radio
I attended Sussex University in the 80s, the last golden age of academic study before computers changed that world for ever. I loved Brighton in that time and used to see the football play at the Goldstone.
Such a memorable song; and the shakey stick with the boot, great stuff - ! 😅
The wotsit is known as the Lagerphone in Australia and is one of the most enjoyable instruments to make
That''s 'cause you have to drink a lot of lager to get enough bottlecaps to make the phone... ;-)
That beat is full on rock on
3/4 of century old + still rocking
3/4 of century > to me it's only 1/2 a century.
Always loved this crazy song, love the cajun rhythm.
Fantastic British summertime song!
Waaa! I have been searching for the title/name of the song/group for ages. All I could remember was the single cover (a crocodile or a dino in sneakers😅) I had the single myself, and it was a 'hit' on a party wayyyy back in my youth.('70's) Suddenly I remembered there was the word 'shuffle' in the title... And at last I can lay my worried head to sleep 😂.
It was a UK label marketing name for Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts
An eclectic old fun song from the 1970's with a hint of Bonzo Dog about it, which I liked at the time, being a seaside fan. Thanks for sharing...
My pleasure, Ted.
And a massive 'hint' of Mungo Jerry.
Happy days. I remember this song well. Quirky and fun stuff around then. Not the easiest of times but the world felt kinder. I'm fully aware of what was happening in the world then but I didn't have a sense of the oozing hate of nowadays. Music could be just for the fun and pleasure it brings. We need more bands like these so that we can leave our agendas at home and just have some old fashioned 'bop around your handbag' fun. 😊
I was a member of a college radio station when the promo copy of this came in. I was the only one who liked it. Never charted in the USA.
The memory stayed though, huh?
The lyrics s were too British for the USA, and this was almost ZYDECO or Cajun) Louisiana rhythm and instrumentation.
I like the harmonica and the rat a tat beat. As music styles changed there was still a lot of the past left in there and people produced records that they wouldn't probably have ever made. The Seventies totally eclectic, inventive..
To Thomas: The 1970s was the best generation for music.
INDEED!! I was there. Every music genre was at its peak.
Just on the train coming through Crawley, which gets a mention in this wonderful song!
I feel some people connected to Mungo Jerry must have had hands at this recording session
Possibly ....
Takes me back. I was serving in the raf in Cyprus.happy days
I remember the lads n self asking one of our local bands if they could play this..was told where to go in no uncertain terms 😂.happy daze.
You had a lot of nerve, Peter .... they should've humoured you!
The biggest hit single to feature a jingling johnny aka zob stick.
I love this, also, On A Saturday Night. Always have
Driving along the arterial road to Southend in a souped up Ford Anglia for an afternoon at the Kursaal on a Bank Holiday. Happy days!! 😄🎢
Now just a Tesco supermarket, I believe! 😒
@@sunryse111 Thanks for the heads up. They call it progress. I am not so sure.🤔
Another one of those happy songs!
We like happy songs!
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs was a name adopted by Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts of which Graham Hine and John Randall were original members. John Lewis aka Jona Lewie joined the band and wrote this song which was their only hit. I saw Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, c1969, at the M.S.G. (Manchester Sports Guild) of blessed memory. John Randall sadly died in 2021.
Spot on mate! I saw them once as T.D & theD,s and 2 or 3 times as Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts.
I am completely shocked. Australian band 'The Dingoes' released a song in 1973 called 'Way out west" which was a landmark recording dealing with the subject of mining in the outback. However, now I hear this 'Seaside Shuffle' and it is the same melody!
That one must have slipped in under the radar, Ric Mac!
@@sunryse111 Obviously 1972's Seaside Shuffle was not a hit here or else 1973's Aussie release would not have received the plaudits it did.
@@ricmac2067 Got it! Thanks for that.
It is Bulldoze Blues, otherwise known as Going up the Country.
Same melody as 'Buckets of Rain' by Bob Dylan from 'Blood on the tracks' Album, too.
From a time when life was just more fun!
Those were the days! A lot more fun indeed!
@@sunryse111 happier and more tolerant too.!
And less complicated, and a whole lot of other things… 👍🏻👍🏻
Digging this song it’s a total jam!
Love the band trivia. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Anne. Enjoy your day.
The Whottsit with the boot on the end is studded with loose rattling beer bottle tops and is technically called a “Lagerphone” …I saw these guys when I was a kid and they were a riot!!!!!!!
If that's Keith Trussell holding it I saw him play in the Okee Dokee band on Saturday. Still playing it.
Almost identical melody to Dylan's classic song 'Buckets' of Rain'. Wonder if the eclectic Dylan knew of this song and was influenced by it (perhaps subconsciously) for Buckets, or was it just a coincidence? Seaside Shuffle was the 2nd single I bought with my pocket money at age 7. The first was Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll!
I must say that the drummer is John Randall, and the zob-stick (well, that is the name) player is Keith Trussel.
Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs is the nickname of ANOTHER band, Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts, formed by the same personnel plus Peter Gibson and Jim Pitts.
One band with two names... :-)
So I got it the wrong way round, huh! Working from duff information, I guess ....
Saw Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts at a London art college in the 70s. Great fun.
Yes indeed! Although both Pitts and Gibson are playing here and on subsequent "On a saturday Night".
I bought this single, loved it. now it strikes me that its very much in the vein of Mungo Gerry's 'in the summertime' bought that too.......
*Mungo Jerry
The Wotsit with boot on the must be related to the morrisette. As used by Maddy Prior on 1973’s Below The Salt album track Spotted Cow in the bridge sections.
Jona Lewie is a very underrated versatile musician .
Absolutely agree
Mega…..ist mir gestern Abend eingefallen 😂
Not really a one hit wonder. John Lewis (Jona) did "Stop the Cavalry" and (With Keith Trussel) "You'll Always find me in the kitchen at parties"
He was also in Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs in the '70's.
Group also had a minor hit on a Saturday night. Follow up to seaside.
This is one of the songs that followed in the wake of Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime. Another one was The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures.
Brilliant, good days❤
Phil John thank you:-)Mixtures
Reminds me of my first teenage holiday in Blackpool, without the parents.😅
I like it and find it in the same vein as the song "in the summer time", by Mungo Jetty. IMHO This tune could have been improved by the addition of a small jug section.
there was another song by the mixtures called the pushbike song which was also in a similar vein ..check it out
@@rokker101 Totally agree. All in the same vein and all good!!!!
Have you heard the album 'Down by the Jerry' by Dr Feelgood?
Forgot this one sounds so good
I have just found out this includes Joan Lewis,of « Stop the cavalry ,Always find me in the kitchen at parties,I always thought this was Mungo Jerry too!
Yep - I think if you watch the video, you'll see I have noted those details.
This Will always remind me of Newquay Cornwall
Nope, still can't hear a guitar in this. Great memories of being 15, but.
John Randall is on drums, while keith Trussell is the guy on the zob stick with the boot. ;-)
Some elements of "Stop the cavalary" are already showing here.
Thank you QI.
Whoever wrote the info got the names of the zob-stick player and drummer round the wrong way .... Keith Trussel on Zob-stick and John Randal on Drums.
"In the summertime, when the weather is fine".........
This wouldn't exist without Mungo Jerry. (Actually, I bought In The Summer Time and this)
Sing along with me, da da dadda Dee …. No?
This.was.on the.1972.album World top.12
Their doesn"t seem to be a single video with this band singing this song(very sad)
Love this
I hope my video comments didn't spoil your enjoyment of this one, Anne. My silly sense of humour!
Not at all. Thought it was funny. Enjoyed it
A very good listen. I'll just tick the likes to 58.
In Australia the "whats it" is called a lager phone, for obvious reasons
Thanks sno ball. But as an old geezer living 10,000 miles away from Australian culture, the reasons are not immediately obvious to me.
Here from QI because I wanted to learn more about this Zob Stick
😂😂😂 I run a musically educational channel here, my friend! Be safe!
Yep, known in Australia as a lagerphone. From Tim Branston, ex member. 😁
Fantastic song bit like a Scottish dance song
The "wotsit" is an instrument called a Turkish Crescent, aka a Jingling Johnnie.
Mungo jerry..in the summertime..sounds the same in a way
love iiittt
A bit of genealogy:
Mungo Jerry: In The Summertime (1970);
Seaside Shuffle: Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs (1972);
Buckets of Rain: Bob Dylan (1975);
no plagiarism here, just a clear kinship relationship... (not excluding other relatives...)
FIRST CLASS !
Brilliant
Actually T.rex bassist had a boot on end of his bass during the Marc shows if 77 check it out on you tube
'not his real name'! and there we were thinking that it was(!)
Love it :D
Very similar to, in the summer.
time
To me, it’s sounds just like Mungo Jerry singing ‘In The Summertime” from 1970.
i said that before too i had both on 45 in the 70s
They get mixed up.all the time .
They had a follow up so g never charted high
The accordionist didn't do too badly 😀
Exactly
Just dropping in from QI, with Phill Jupitus and Danny Baker...
Never heard of those guys, but I'm guessing QI is a TV programme .... (thanks for the visit! 👍 )
@@sunryse111 You can thank a kind poster of this link!
@@Fifury161 okay .... I think. (totally baffled!)
I came here from the same video of QI!
Here's the clip: th-cam.com/video/RVOxjwvxc2w/w-d-xo.html
super
Reminds me of Mungo Jerry.
Very similar!
Did have a smaller hit called on a Saturday night .
You're right, Raymond - it made #45 in the charts the following year. PS: are you any relation to Chris Bonington, the mountain-climber?
@ if i had a pound for everyone one who asked that etc lol , no I don’t think so but you never know , oh happy new year .
@@raymondbonington9355 Thanks, Raymond - same to you. (I once went to hear Chris Bonington speak on his conquest of the north face of the Eiger. I was a keen rock climber myself at that time).
@@sunryse111 nice one .👍
I bought this single and written between the lines near the centre was 'jonathan king is GOD'
I had that and I have always remembered mine had that too !
This band reminds me of Mungo Jerry
Ahem….Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts made the boot on a stick covered in beer bottle tops famous.
Although there is some overlap with Terry etc etc etc.
vocalist is jona lewie youl always find me in the kitchen at parties and stop the cavalry
Yes ... I think if you watch the video you will see that information.
in the summer time when the ........
It wasn’t a one hit wonder, Jona Lewie had a number of hits including, always in the kitchen at patties and can you stop the cavalry.
It was a one hit wonder for this band.
Sounds just like "in the summer time" by Mungo Jerry. Who agrees?
Sounds a LOT like Mungo Jerry.
Keith Trussell on Zobstick aka Keef Trouble later co-wrote Jona Lewis's hit, You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties. However, to say that John Lewis was Terry Dactyl is absolute tosh. The band name was just made up like the band's "real" name, Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts and a later used name Ernie Blimp & the Blimpsolls.
A rather abrasive little comment, but thank you anyway.
Saw Keith play in the Okee Dokee band on Saturday. They did a version of In the Kitchen at Parties too.
jona lewies first ever group loved this song alice cooper kept him off no 1
I like Mungo Jerry much better. How come this did not end up in court?
I guess Mungo didn't care!
there was a song called The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures which was a parody of In the Summertime. ha ha! that didn't end up in court either. Not that it really matters
@@alastairstevenson575 True! Thanks, Alastair.
The tunes are not the same, just the style. Folk only get sued if they steal the tune, you can't copyright a genre.
@@superviola12341 the words are different but the music is the same😄 slow it down to .75 and you'll hear it.
Who else followed the lead from Danny Baker and Phill Jupitus?
Well to begin with it sounds like Mungo Jerry then at 1:02 it goes the full on Morris!
I'm guessing terry didn't own a metronome!
His real name was Bron Tosaurus.
He's not called Terry Dactyl, that's obvious, but is he a real dinosaur?
I think most of us baby-boomers (and I'm including myself here) are definitely dinosaurs! 😂
Anyone else here from QI?
What episode?
Season 10, ep 14 "Jingle Bells". 😊
Scottish sea shanty
This sounds a lot like In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry but played faster.
Очень похоже на Mungo Jerry 😊
QI brought me here.