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.
@johngrout87418 жыл бұрын
I had only just 'discovered' Ray Moore before he passed away. Sadly missed.
@jamyskis12 күн бұрын
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.
@Xxfancythat79xX16 жыл бұрын
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.
@metalman41412 жыл бұрын
Great man so very missed by many
@Plumstix16 жыл бұрын
Classic, I haven't heard this since I was 10. Thanks for posting it.
@Ampex19616 жыл бұрын
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.
@Hawkwoman24613 жыл бұрын
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.
@conniff4416 жыл бұрын
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.
@paulbowden113 жыл бұрын
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
@stuarttorevell23533 жыл бұрын
I first Hurd this crazy tune today on boom radio.
@dippey11 жыл бұрын
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.
@dippey11 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ampex19611 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you've found 'the sequel'! Sad and uplifting at the same time! Many years on, Ray is still appreciated and loved!
@fenian188811 жыл бұрын
i remember this playing in our house when i was a kid funny wee song Love it
@joolshamilton60038 жыл бұрын
marvelous simply marvelous still got it on 45 next the bog eyed jog!
@theymusthatetesla31867 жыл бұрын
The 'Bog eyed Jog'! OMG....I'm getting old! ;)
@Xxfancythat79xX16 жыл бұрын
20 years...god. I remember seeing him on Wogan when he was dying of throat cancer.
@michaelporter2574 Жыл бұрын
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?"....
@paulbowden113 жыл бұрын
@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
@Saltysellers237213 жыл бұрын
Head the ball love it!!!
@christophertalbot74324 жыл бұрын
what will we do when we we no longer have VAT? I will suddenly have to be older!
@christophertalbot74324 жыл бұрын
I mean, I don't feel fifty! - even after the discount!
@jeffrey4411 жыл бұрын
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.
@patrickairth127611 жыл бұрын
I played the guitar part on this - totally boring but I was told to play it that way by Shag Connors who wrote it !
@Fledhyris10 жыл бұрын
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!
@paulnporter9 жыл бұрын
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.
@michaelcallaway77219 жыл бұрын
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.
@Fledhyris7 жыл бұрын
I stand corrected - must've just played them both around the same time and conflated the records!
@paulbowden113 жыл бұрын
Produced by Dennis O'keefe - or as Ray called him "Dentures no teeth!!"