The late Ray Moore - for BBC Children In Need 1986

[@mickparrish3121]

Ray Moore was the wittiest man i have ever heard. in my opinion when he died the.bbc died with him. what a talent sorely missed.

[@johngrout8741]

I had only just 'discovered' Ray Moore before he passed away. Sadly missed.

[@jamyskis]

Listening to this reminds me of my late Dad, who recorded this for me off Radio 2, must have been around 1989-1990 as I remember him mentioning that Ray Moore had already passed away.

[@Xxfancythat79xX]

lol my mum and dad bought this on 7 inch and they've still got it! They've also still got Joggin on the bog eyed jog by Ray moore...I used to love listening to these when I was a kid.

[@metalman4141]

Great man so very missed by many

[@Plumstix]

Classic, I haven't heard this since I was 10. Thanks for posting it.

[@Ampex196]

I'm pleased you've found it here. It was released in 1986 (PLAY 213) for the benefit BBC Children In Need. Ray was among the most professional of broadcasters' but was never afraid to send himself up, especially if it could raise a few 'bob' for a good cause. Thanks for your comment.

[@Hawkwoman246]

One of the joys of KZbin is finding gems like this... I haven't heard this ditty in years, but I've never forgotten the line "She was running faster than a double-decker bus". Simple, gentle humour - proving you don't always have to be crude or ironic to raise a chuckle.

[@conniff44]

I have been looking for this for years but could never remember Ray Moores name or the title so had little hope of finding it. I remember it at the time of release and like many others who enjoyed Rays banter always had a laugh at it. Thanks for posting Ampex.

[@paulbowden1]

Thank you for this posting - the end of the song with Ray's beautiful laugh brings tears to my eyes - thanks again Paul Bowden (Isle of Man) ex-loiner

[@stuarttorevell2353]

I first Hurd this crazy tune today on boom radio.

[@dippey]

If you get the chance get hold of Ray's autobiography 'Tomorrow Is Too Late' it will have you in stitches especially his attempts to paint a black grand piano white for a Oldham rep stage production and how actress Jessie Mathews became stuck to it. Lot's of loverly tales some tinged with sadness and of the goings on behind the BBC announcer's bike shed ! A great broadcaster sadly missed. Thank you Ray.

[@dippey]

Thanks for the recommendation of the other book about Ray. I have managed to get hold of a copy and it just confirms what a unnasuming man Ray was even towards the end of his life. PS Like the PPM in the video. I had a stereo version some years ago, wish i had kept it.

[@Ampex196]

I'm glad you've found 'the sequel'! Sad and uplifting at the same time! Many years on, Ray is still appreciated and loved!

[@fenian1888]

i remember this playing in our house when i was a kid funny wee song Love it

[@joolshamilton6003]

marvelous simply marvelous still got it on 45 next the bog eyed jog!

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

The 'Bog eyed Jog'! OMG....I'm getting old! ;)

[@Xxfancythat79xX]

20 years...god. I remember seeing him on Wogan when he was dying of throat cancer.

[@michaelporter2574]

I might as well come clean about this from the start - Ray was my favourite broadcaster of all time, and since I'd been besotted with the medium of radio broadcasting ever since I'd been a small lad, that's no small claim. Yet despite working in the medium myself for thirty years, I somehow managed to never meet him..... On first coming to London I understand that Ray himself briefly worked in Upper Regent tobacconists, Henry Botteril & Son, just south of Margaret Street near to Broadcasting House itself, and on the same side too. Funnily enough, I never met him in there either..... Ray was, inter alia, much tickled by the phenomenon of apparently ever more youthful looking policemen, so one day I wrote into his early morning Radio Two show with my own favourite 'young policeman' stories. Nothing happened for quite some time and I assumed I'd missed it, or perhaps that it just didn't quite make the cut. Then, one morning he quite suddenly said "I've got a letter here from Old Mike Porter in Bromley....... cheers Mike...." I nearly fell down the lavatory! And the story itself, went after this fashion:- '.....two very young policemen, (about nine & three requarters perhaps) are standing on a street corner, after a slight bend of the knee, one young copper turns to the other saying "ave you noticed" he says, "ave you noticed how Old The Public looks these days?"....

[@paulbowden1]

@Ampex196 I'm sure I could write a book on Ray Moore and would probably call it "Ray Moore the greatest friend I never had" - Thanks Paul Bowden

[@Saltysellers2372]

Head the ball love it!!!

[@christophertalbot7432]

what will we do when we we no longer have VAT? I will suddenly have to be older!

[@christophertalbot7432]

I mean, I don't feel fifty! - even after the discount!

[@jeffrey44]

Couldn't Ray or his family examine one of the eggs that this creature laid in the garden? Too late now, of course, but it would have been a good way to identify it at the time. I suppose no one thought to collect the eggs though, what with his Mother running around in the road outside. Whatever the thing was, it didn't come to a very nice end. Stuffed, cooked, salted, wrapped in foil and then eaten by a cat, all while still alive by the sounds of things.

[@patrickairth1276]

I played the guitar part on this - totally boring but I was told to play it that way by Shag Connors who wrote it !

[@Fledhyris]

This song was the B side to the record release of Spitting Image's "Throw a Chicken in the Air" - I don't know why!

[@paulnporter]

The 'B side to 'The Chicken Song' was ' I've Never Met A Nice South African' wasn't it? 'O' My Father Had A Rabbit' was an ' A' side. The 'B' side was just an instrumental of the same song.

[@michaelcallaway7721]

I've actually still got the record. Paul Porter is right. The cover has a duck-rabbit and a rabbit-duck creation on the front.

[@Fledhyris]

I stand corrected - must've just played them both around the same time and conflated the records!

[@paulbowden1]

Produced by Dennis O'keefe - or as Ray called him "Dentures no teeth!!"

[@NewRootsHairUK]

A load of crap.

[@juliemcclelland6640]

Chester Fields No Respect at all.

[@jimduffy1967]

You're a load of crap.