THE PIGLETS - 'Johnny Reggae' + 'Version' - 1971 45rpm
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- "What's he like, Mavis?",
"He's a real tasty geezer".
Jonathan King aside (spit), this record was massively popular back then. Vocals by typecast-tart actress Adrienne Posta
Being a cockney and having left school in 69 this is just one of the best reggae songs i ever heard. have it in the car and play it most days. Let's have the 70's again..... oh well i can dream can't I?
What a tune
Just love the catchy song left school in 73 and yes you can dream coz those times won't becoming back
@@roydickinson2786 It's a pity as the 21st century is total crap.
I ALSO LEFT SCHOOL IN 69 AND ALSO HAD THIS RECORD.GRAT MEMORIES OF ALL THE SKINHEADS IN GT YARMOUTH.I HAD BEN SHERMAN SHIRTS AND LEVIS STA PRESSED BUT NO DOCS.
Same here m8 i went to Stepney Green ....great times
Jonathan King explained in his autobiography 65 My Life So Far that the vocalists were session singers "coached to sound like teenage scrubbers", and that the lead vocalist was session singer Barbara Kay.
The singer is Barbara Kay also known as Kay Barry.
Great old tune . Still got it on vinyl ❤
Fuck me mate! Envy. First heard this song around 1994, was 15 then. Absolutely cosmic song. That's why English music is a such an archetype, and why people all around the world love English punk.
This slightly longer version is, correspondingly much better .! Some songs were just too short! And the instrumental version show just how beautiful the music is!
Yes im a cockney i was 15 when this came out all time great
The version is excellent :)
One of the first records I ever heard and I’ve been a Johnie Reggae ever since ❤️
This song is pure class - just listen to the instrumentals - sounds like a full orchestra.
You're right Martin, it was the popular and highly respected Johnny Arthey Orchestra!
Those was the days xx
Played this to a good friend and we both loved it took us back to Rhyl Fairground ,Johnny Reggae brilliant!
Rhyl fairground. Happy days.
Spitting image tune for John Major, had the house rolling around in tears of laughter. Genius comedy !!!
Brings back memories.I was just 8 when this was being played on the radio lol
First time hearing this from when I was a youngster, I think I was 10
We were huge fans in Toronto, Canada when an English friend introduced the song to us back in 1971. Thank you Trevor!
I remember finding the cd in the street when I was a kid I always thought Pauline fowler sang it lol
As it came out long before Eastenders, my Mum used to think the lovely London actress Pat Coombs was singing it!
Takes me back to my youth club days
I have the 7" single back home at my Mum's house in Birmingham England... =D
still love this,cant help it
'he looks me in the eye when he shoots.. '
oo-er missus! love this.
Thanks Rosanna, a fellow 'Carry On' fan? 'Ooh Matron'!
That line has always made me laugh, also the heavy breathing.
As a mere youngster, I was 6 when this out, I thought of it ten minutes ago and I remembered thinking the lyrics didn't make sense, I now know why, haha ha. Brilliant tune, from a time when you could park outside the shop you wanted to go in.
Brings back great memories
this is interesting - absurd and excellent at the same time -PLEASE LISTEN THRU TO THE INSTRUMENTAL PART !
Yes Tony, the instrumental is a very good piece of orchestration, and I've only just realised it was arranged by the great Johnny Arthey.
The credits for the main female vocals are unclear. They were attributed at various times to various artists, most frequently to the actress Adrienne Posta and at times to Wendy Richard and to Kay Barry; some claim that the vocalists were trained (anonymous) session singers coached to sound like teenage girls. King himself in his autobiography 65 My Life So Far says it was, indeed, session singers with the lead vocal performed by Barbara Kay, then in her 40s.
takes me back to being a Hythe skinhead it was always played in our youth club at Hardley
the Beeb banned all sorts in those days including J'taime...(sung in French) and all the Judge Dread Big 6 Big 7 etc songs. But this one got through!
How?
"He'll always start a fight for me,
he's always on the phone"
He's a keeper! 😉
😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Bone.
Takes me back, love the cockney voices “Regg-ay”
barbara kay was the lead vocalist
This came out when I joined the Army as a young Boy Soldier aged 15 in 1971. Thing was, I come from Scotland and never even heard of Reggae and the English guys tried to explain it to me .... laugh or what.
Luv this Ska Record wiv a London Cheeky Babe touch x I My Collection!
forgot how much I liked this haha. Thanks for posting.
Vocals were provided by a session singer named Barbara Kay who would have been in her early 40's at the time this was recorded..... I think King confirmed this years later in a biography... Either way, I think you can discount it being King himself on vocals
Barbara Kay was also known as Kay Barry, and had a sideline covering chart hits for Woolworths' own label Embassy.
mrbillhicks thanks did wonder who sang this.
My late Mum thought the vocals were provided by the lovely London actress Pat Coombs!
reminds me when i was a skinhead girl back in the 70s great times
Canny beat the auld yins
Super Song. in den Siebzigern irgendwann gehört. Einfach super!
Ja stimmt das waren noch Zeiten ein Fach Hammer
just heard it in a coffeeshop in amsterdam. must have forgotten about this song somehow. still awesome though!
fantastic wee tune :)
I remember having that Top of the Pops vol XX and this was the last song on side one or two. Very eccentric, fun and catchy. Always thought the lyrics went "What's he like my fish? He's a real tasty Geisha" :D I was about eleven then :D
Those Top of the Pops albums weren't even the original artists -- they were dodgy covers!
@@annother3350 Little did we know way back then in 1971-1972
This was out when I was 5 and my brother and I made up story's about Johnny Reggae... yep they where VERY rood!
Cor not heard this since it was on Top of the pops!
l was only 6 years old when this was number one, in the year 1971, still got it on 7'' inc some were,
11 here, have the black vinyl version just as pictured, loved it lol
In solid appreciation my friend...I subscribed.
So funny so danceable...great tune !
Barbara Kay on vocals. From King’s autobiography
Thanks for the instrumental version :)
What a great song brings back memories ,sure singer is Wendy Richards
Nope; Wendy did voiceovers for Mike Sarne.
This is Posta: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Posta
Blimey, they sing how I talk! :)
Insane love it.
Can't see this being played on Heart anytime soon !
hitmix107.5 will play it
not herd this in years
great song my now wife used to call me JR back in the day.kevo
This is the first 45 I bought with me pocket money............cor blimey, seem's yonks ago!!
MrGibbo04 it was my first record too. I was 4. Can't believe the innuendo.. All went over my head.. Just loved dancing about singing Reggae reggae reggae :-D
"....he looks me in the eye when he shoots."
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FUCKING ELL ! I WAS ONLY 4 YRS. OLD WHEN THIS CAME OUT
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R.I.P UNCLE JOHN XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
oh, Jonny Reggae!!!
I love this, ❤ fyi the Chicklets (a Dutch group) did a cover in English/Dutch which is to die for....
Yea, it's a great version. I've been trying to get that song on vinyl for a few years.
Iv'e got this on record but what did Blackmans sell.
It certainly sounds like Pauline - real name Wendy Richard - who performed on Mike Sarne's 1960 hit "Come outside"
No it’s Adrienne posta
@@coleen1a Aha. Thanks for enlightening me :)
Wendy Richards was also on the Joe brown song. Come outside
@@coleen1aNo, its Barbara Kay 👍
I always thought it was the one who played Pauline, from Eastenders, who sang this? Or am I wrong? Brings back so many memories this tune.
It’s Adrienne posta
@@coleen1a its Barbara kay on lead Adrianne Posta sang backing vocals probably the oohh ahh bit 😊 bit late replying but not as late as yours 😉
Sounds like Wendy Richards anyway. I agree with you.
It’s Adrienne posta
@@coleen1a The singer is Barbara Kay en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Reggae en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piglets
GOOD TRACK PITY ABOUT HIS HABITS N F L
This was banned in Australia!
Brilliant. Jonathan King! Legend :)
Convicted Paedophile 👍
Takes me back.. Ha ha
Top of the tots album can't remember which year
i thought id POSTA comment...
Looks me in the eye when he shoots ;)
The whole song is about sex:
1. here comes johnny reggae
2. johnny reggae reggae lay on me
3. he looks me in the eye when he shoots
4. he's a real tasty geezer and I´m his here inside
Plus the moaning
been a while
Tony Graves
I am 54 and have just got that.
Thanks for that ntiffin, I had always suspected as such but thought I was the only one. How this sneaked under the razor wire when the likes of Judge Dredd, Max Romeo, and Jane Birkin with Serge Gainsbourg didn't, I will never know!
Robert Davies Gary’s dead right I still say it 😂
I have it that the singer was not Adrienne Posta but Barbara Kay. Confirmation???
i too was a boy soldier in 1971
Nope - not Adrienne Posta ( a fit little blonde in her day, I really fancied her!). A lot think it's Wendy Richard and it sounds very like her, but it's not her either. An obscure session singer really dun it!
zippgunz I always thought it was Wendy Richard
My Mum used to think it was performed by the lovely London actress Pat Coombes, but it was in fact a session singer from the same city who I think was called Barbara Kay?
Robert Davies - i’d loved to have seen Pat Coombs having a go at this
@@davidk6271 Thanks for that David, I think Pat would have given it a run for its money - 'oo-er'!
Yes i always thought it was Wendy too
Sids60sSounds?
com on we all knew a jonny reggae!!!!!!!, i shaw did loads of them lol, still laughing today, don the love muscel was one of them, alright geezer
As much as I dislike Jonathan King, I must admit that this is an incredibly well crafted piece of shit that was aimed at the chart and got there immediately. It's also very funny.
LAY ON ME!
"lay it on me" not "lay on me"!
itsPOWOW it's "late on me"
pozdro Joze 🌮
Im sure the last comment is 'Chelsea' at the end of the dub...
Proper.
I realise Hypocrisy is nothing new but when the BBC refused to play Johnathan Kings’ music on moral grounds apparently due to his taste in willing young men - whilst it’s star presenter , Jimmy Savile enjoyed decade after decade of assaults upon the unwilling , even children for his kicks , common knowledge amongst many too intimidated to speak out , must be up there with the worst cases of public double standards in media or music history 🙄🏴😇
Actually, the BBC probably refrained from playing any of King's records due to the fact that he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s.
King went to prison for sexually assaulting five boys aged 14/15. Those weren’t willing and even if they were did he groom them?
You have to become friends with the royals
John Bully Bullocks the Crack heads Favourite song
So good it's bad.
Your name is Piglet???
@8757kathy Them were the days.
You just have to look back through history...so what if J King wrote it...if we thought like that we wouldn't watch / listen to anything...
just found out where my name came from, thank you mum, dad not,
I thought this song was funny... Probably the first "chav record"... Nowadays I would imagine these birds would hang out at Lakeside Centre and things like "'e's gonna hav bands on his teef"
There were loads of these gimmicky records out at the time.
The 1970s was rife with these.
They say you had to be there,i was it ain,t improved
Muppet!
It is wendy richards
Its Adrienne Posta
+steve turner She used to sing on The Rolf Harris Show when she was very young, and I also recall her in Carry On Behind. I wonder where she is now.
No. It isn't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Posta
I fancied Adrienne something chronic when I was a teenager. Those brown eyes and beautiful figure drove me nuts.
It's neither. It's an unknown session singer, he said in his biog.
Frag
Bollocks this was the on the UK label yours is a foreign rehash.
prefer the b side
John Robertson haha, the historic band that has made 2 songs, included 1 cover
😉
Johnathan king 🤦♂️