I remember it well as a teenager. School kids loved it. From a less censured era when you could sing or say virtually anything. Different times. Thanks for the memories!!!!
Clearly remember this record when it played on Top of the Pops for the first time and the reaction from all the kids in the school playground the next day. Really felt sorry for the few kids who happened to be called Gordon. Thanks for the memories.
When this song came out I was in my first year of senior school. Our art teacher's name was miss Gordon. The poor woman never stood a chance. Great song. 😂
I couldn't work out if Cynthia kept talking to stop Chris expressing his, apparent, dissatisfaction? Certainly, he didn't get a chance to give his views.
I mean let's face it - - it's not a great song -- it revels in its own medocrity - -which you have to embrace or comepletely shun. I do embrace it out of nostalgic value
When Graham Fellows was promoting this, he would do interviews in character as Jilted John and confuse the heck out of journalists who couldn't work out whether it was a spoof (which it was) or if he was for real.
This song was played on Boom radio uk on Dab radio today on the David Lloyd show 10am till12pm when they did the top 5 chart from this week in 1978 and not censored to which i am pleased!
No.1 in the uk , and took this single to school to play at lunchtime on a portable deck , and teacher came in after the 5 time playing . She listened then when the English class began , she wanted a essay from all of us about what the song was about and what we thought of it . True story
Despite this being a spoof, this song had the best B-side song that I loved as a teenager. It follows on from John's ill-fated relationship with Julie and his new love, Sharon. It's called Going Steady and I highly recommend it to anyone watching this video. Anyway, Graham Fellows carried on doing character-based comedy music and his most famous incarnation is as John Shuttleworth. Can't Go Back To Savoury Now is a genius Shuttleworth song.
Wow! This one is out of left field. Though it was a big hit in the UK in 1978 (number 4 on the charts). It's kind of a send up of punk really. Graham Fellows has another alter ego called John Shuttleworth, a middle aged aspiring singer songwriter from Yorkshire. Much more of a comedy character really than Jilted John.
Loved this song I remember going out with my sister to buy the single all those years ago - everyone at school used to sing it 🙂 I doubt there is anyone called Gordon these days on the back of this
The original title on the single is 'Jilted John by Jilted John'. Jilted John is known these days by the name John Shuttleworth. There were a few tracks like this during the Punk era another band 'Splodgenessabounds' and their tracks 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Please', 'Simon Templer' and 'Two Little Boys' the latter being a cover of a song by Rolf Harris.
Real name Graham Fellows. His John Shuttleworth persona is completely different but quietly hilarious. BTW have you checked out Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers? Road Runner has a similarly daft feel to it.
Graham Fellows is a very talented comedian, actor and songwriter known for his character comedy in the UK as the elderly John Shuttleworth, a grumpy fellow who writes songs about everyday irritations on his Bon Tempi organ and is very funny with it. However, I urge you to listen to his work under his own name, his most recent album, ‘Weird Town’ was excellent. I suggest ‘Diary of a Skinbird’ which is a touching acoustic number very different to this song.
Two Margarines On The Go, Discontented Youth, Caravan Capers, Austin Ambassador Y Reg and Pigeons In Flight are great! The radio shows still make me laugh.
A classic from 1978 the B side where he finds true love is almost as good. I don't think they're allowed to play this on the radio anymore Graham Fellowes is a comedy genius
I was 12 years old in 1978 and I lived in Birmingham in the UK. I loved music. I had two paper rounds and bought three 7 inch singles a week. Jilted John was one of them. 1978 was a great year for music in England if you were 12 years old. Denis - Blondie. Withering Heights - Kate Bush. Because the Night - Patti Smith. Teenage Kicks - Undertones. Take a Chance on Me - Abba. Nice n Sleazy - Stranglers. and Ca Plan Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand .. if you don’t know it, go check it out. 😀
As Adam LeRoi Davis says below, this isn't really punk but more of a spoof and one amongst quite a few which started appearing around 1978-ish. My brother bought Jilted John's album "True love stories", which contained a range of different genres and was actually pretty good.
Yes I remember this from school too.. I had a friend called Gordon who got some stick from this song ( not from me) Luckily he was used to it as his name was actually Gordon Bennet!! Brought it all back .. thanks for playing this.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME !!!… Chris , your reaction was priceless my friend 😝, Cynthia got it right away 😂 When I first seen this on TOTP I was 16 and never questioned it’s Punk credentials … at first 🤦♂️.. it was shortly afterwards that the penny dropped and it was a spoof character . However , that fact cannot change the way it was interpreted at the TIME in 1978… it was radical , on point emotionally and accepted as part of the scene , it was less than the accepted trope of a 3 chord quickie - in that it had only 1 chord 😆 … view this quirky song as it was meant to be viewed , as part of a mini revolution in the musical landscape of the late 70’s and you’ll GET it ! He later went on to create John Shuttleworth , Grahams 80’s creation who is still with us today , his 2 songs which slay me are “ Pigeons in flight “ and my bestest fav “ Catch the fox “ which is about the real life hunt for a murderous robber 😮…ps : can you imagine what a difficult 18 months to 2 years it must’ve been for teens called Gordon at that time …. Yikes 🤷♂️ Love this track - puts me RIGHT back there in 1978..👌 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Yes ! I keep reminding myself ,that period in time imo was probably the most creative time in music , period ! Glad to have been there ! cheers pard ,
Mite be just the accent by i could hear traces of PETE SHELLEY either way THANKS YOU GUYS and the HANIER CREW for reintroducing me to some more old time favourites 👍👏👏👏
@@BKKMekong I'm from Aotearoa new zealand i have trouble understanding every English accent their terrible I'm not sure if they even spoke England over there?
@@heathcornbeef Any race that keeps Hokey Pokey and stubbie in a chilly bin whilst going for a tramping in the wop wops can’t really complain about spoken English haha. In the UK there is a big difference in accents every 1/4 mile never mind the nearly 60 miles between Leigh and Sheffield. I should know being from same town as Pete Shelley.
Graham Fellows (Jilted John) is a British actor/musician whose current alter ego is John Shuttleworth a character who carries around a keyboard singing little dities to basically anyone who cares to listen. I once saw Graham in a play called Lennon, where he played Paul McCartney, he played the role very well. He's a very talented guy.
This song was a parody and a send up of punk. Real name, Graham Fellows had a couple of comedic characters throughout his career, and he still performs as John Shuttleworth.
The single and artist are both called Jilted John. Actually the entire album is great. It chronologically tells the story of the singers teenage love life, is pretty musically varied and lyrically sometimes quite touching in that it was obviously written by an older person with a lot more perspective and experience than the imagined narrator.
First appeared in early 1978 on Rabid Records, a small label in Manchester but was only a hit 12 months later after the label had been bought out by EMI and made no4 in the UK charts. Sung to perfection in a right mardy voice by Graham Fellows who was known more as an actor. There was a response to this entitled 'Gordons not a Moron' by Julie and Gordon.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 you must have been listening to it on John Peel. Recorded March 78, released by Rabid April. Re-released by EMI 1st August and entered the charts on the 26th. Peaked at the end of September
Loved this when it came out. Was an original punk [now 62 and still love the music]. We all used to sing this out life in people's faces. lol Those were the days.
So amusing - both your reactions and Jilted John. If you want something in a similar vein but more musically sophisticated and darker, try Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias song 'Kill'.
i was a kid when this came out, all i can think of when listening to this is, imagine trying to get something like this in the charts now, it would upset so many groups of snow flakes, i bet even the government would get involved lol.
It was meant as a jokey micky take of a punk song, not to be taken seriously. Jilted John morphed into John Shuttleworth, a quirky alternative comedian still much loved here in the UK.
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The singer has had a tv series and a longer running radio series recently on BBC as John Shuttleworth. He has musical stars on his radio show which is a little sitcom and is hilarious if you get it.
Canadian here, who had a late-70s dive bar band with my English girlfriend. We played this ("Jilted John"), Going Steady, plus some T Rex, X-Ray Spex, Stranglers, Madness and Clash. I'd give us a 6/10, but the venues sold lots of beer due to spillage.
great one-off hit when punk gave permission to anyone who wanted to make record whatever they wanted to say. After the often fake profundities of Prog Rock lyrics there was quite a lot of self-effacing deadpan humour in punk, Wreckless Eric, Madness, The Members, The Ruts, Plastic Bertrand and so on, and lots of serious bands made humorous, if sarcastic, records too; Slits - Typical Girls, Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (and much else) several XTc tracks, Gang of Four, early Human League, Clash 1977, Alexie Sayle. There were a lot of small indie labels who'd put anything out if they could sell a few hundred copies and a lot of fanzines like Sniffin Glue promoting anything new so almost anything had a chance in the late 70s in the UK when loads of local scenes flourished across the UK and John Peel would play anything on Radio One.. Hence the success of Belfast's Undertones; check My Cousin Kevin for their more Irish humour. Or just listen to the mad John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett and "Cor Baby, That's Really Free..." which has similarities to Jilted Gordon...
The album True Love Stories is great... although I only just found out that Graham Fellows is a bit ambivalent about it, apparently he wanted to do the album in the same style as the single but Martin Hannett the producer wanted to do it with keyboards, which is how it ended up.
Dear Hanier Family. `Jilted John` Does not exist! He was the `persona` created by English actor Graham Fellows. The true title of the song is actually "Jilted John". Graham Fellows has had more success of recent with his eccentric musician character of `John Shuttleworth.` Graham a very talented artist.
I thought this was genius at the time, and it still makes me laugh. I like the haplessly amateur feel of it, which can be a great antidote to "serious" music. Also worth checking out, along the same artfully amateurish lines: Headbutts by John Otway, Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric, Roadrunner by Jonathon Richman.
John Otway is a real Character. I never did see him live despite him playing outdoors at the Fetival in the 80s. Apparently he almost got into trouble a few times back then for climbing on Monuments and Old Buildings as well as harassing Coppers.
What stops this from being a profound accurate depiction of a break up in most bloke's eyes is ... we'd all like to think we aren't such a perfect wuss and sad-sack as Gilted John ... even if we do recognise his reactions in ourselves!!
Love this song... cracks me up... Yeah... It WAS called "Jilted John" by Jilted John... at least it was when I played it as a college DJ... A few great songs to recommend: Cheers! BEULAH: "Emma Blowgun's Last Stand" DANIELLE DAX: "Fizzing Human Bomb" THE DELGADOS: "The City Consumes Us"
One song I'd love you to react to is by Rainbow. Man on the silver mountain, is iconic and I would love to hear you react to the studio and live versions back to back. The song is very different live but both versions are epic. I would recommend the studio version from 1975 and the On Stage ,version of 1976/77. Or alternatively the live in Munich version. I was much more a punk but this song always resonated with me. I wish that Ronnie James Dio had done a punk album.
I think this was lost in them, it’s a British thing and certainly growing up and in senior school when this came out it’s lasted all my life. Good times!
Iirc, this is produced by Martin Hannett, of Factory Records fame....at the time you could get badges, that either said Gordon was, or wasn't, a moron. John is a character, played by a guy who's name i forget, same guy is also the character, John Shuttleworth, so in a way, Jilted John never stopped, he just changed name.
Didn't know if you'd get some of the cultural references or the 70's slang, there wasn't much else for youths to do in those days except hang around chip shops
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The song is actually called "Jilted John" by Jilted John.
I was going to say the same thing!
@@RichTeer me too
I remember it well as a teenager.
School kids loved it.
From a less censured era when you could sing or say virtually anything.
Different times.
Thanks for the memories!!!!
Anyone in the playground with the unfortunate name Gordon went through hell when this song was in the charts.
To this day I can't say the words "Here we go" without adding "2,3,4". 🙂
Yup 😅
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Same.
Same here.....2,3,4
I've been doing the same for the past 46 years
Haha, happy to report I still know all the words to sing along.
Hilarious! Grief, denial, anger and acceptance all in one song! Lol. Classic.
Clearly remember this record when it played on Top of the Pops for the first time and the reaction from all the kids in the school playground the next day. Really felt sorry for the few kids who happened to be called Gordon. Thanks for the memories.
When this song came out I was in my first year of senior school. Our art teacher's name was miss Gordon. The poor woman never stood a chance. Great song. 😂
Yep Brill ! The lighter side of Punk that never took its self too seriously ! A Proper funny Album ! Great reaction , cheers
2 PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF CRISP, A OTHER LIGHT. HEARTED PUNK SONG WHICH DID WELL BACK IN THE TIME 😊😊
Yes, Splodgenessabounds had some great tunes
Chris looks totally unimpressed 😂😂.
This chorus was widely sung in the school yard for a long time. An hilarious song.
Yeah great innit ??
@@ghichens3418 🌟🥳
@@colrhodes377 Chow
Especially if you had a kid called Gordon in the school, poor kid😅😅
This is such a tongue in the cheek, fun song. Chris's obvious disapproval is funny.
I couldn't work out if Cynthia kept talking to stop Chris expressing his, apparent, dissatisfaction? Certainly, he didn't get a chance to give his views.
@@andyyoung9463 Chris said it all with his face. His lack of comment or a like also expresses his dissatisfaction
I mean let's face it - - it's not a great song -- it revels in its own medocrity - -which you have to embrace or comepletely shun. I do embrace it out of nostalgic value
@@annother3350 It's very popular on this channel. Currently sitting at #97 and rising. I'm willing to wager that it goes top 50 by Christmas
@@Starburst_Candy Only if Gordon Brown returns to the Labour party
When Graham Fellows was promoting this, he would do interviews in character as Jilted John and confuse the heck out of journalists who couldn't work out whether it was a spoof (which it was) or if he was for real.
Ought to have watched Jilted John performing on Top of the Pops for a funnier reaction
This song was played on Boom radio uk on Dab radio today on the David Lloyd show 10am till12pm when they did the top 5 chart from this week in 1978 and not censored to which i am pleased!
The B-side "Going Steady" is another classic and was originally meant to be the A-Side.
The first record i ever bought and well over 40 years later my record collection hasn't improved much.
No.1 in the uk , and took this single to school to play at lunchtime on a portable deck , and teacher came in after the 5 time playing . She listened then when the English class began , she wanted a essay from all of us about what the song was about and what we thought of it . True story
Haven’t heard the gem in years
as my name is john and i was 17 in 1978 i know and can relate to this song very well, and ive still got the 7 inch single.
A really clever funny spoof punk song...... i always thought it was an insult to punks in a way!!!!.....still makes me laugh😂
Despite this being a spoof, this song had the best B-side song that I loved as a teenager. It follows on from John's ill-fated relationship with Julie and his new love, Sharon. It's called Going Steady and I highly recommend it to anyone watching this video.
Anyway, Graham Fellows carried on doing character-based comedy music and his most famous incarnation is as John Shuttleworth. Can't Go Back To Savoury Now is a genius Shuttleworth song.
Guys called Gordon got grief for years after this lol
Wow! This one is out of left field. Though it was a big hit in the UK in 1978 (number 4 on the charts). It's kind of a send up of punk really.
Graham Fellows has another alter ego called John Shuttleworth, a middle aged aspiring singer songwriter from Yorkshire. Much more of a comedy character really than Jilted John.
Yay John Shuttleworth......"cant go back to savoury now" 😸👍
Loved this song I remember going out with my sister to buy the single all those years ago - everyone at school used to sing it 🙂 I doubt there is anyone called Gordon these days on the back of this
I remember when this came out in 78, same year i moved to London.
The original title on the single is 'Jilted John by Jilted John'. Jilted John is known these days by the name John Shuttleworth. There were a few tracks like this during the Punk era another band 'Splodgenessabounds' and their tracks 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Please', 'Simon Templer' and 'Two Little Boys' the latter being a cover of a song by Rolf Harris.
I haven't heard two pints in years 😢
@@heathcornbeef I still have it on vinyl, but it would be a great one for C and C to react to.
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Hell yeah it would be great 👍
I triple endorse this request ,, “ I’m getting very thirsty John “… 😅
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Real name Graham Fellows. His John Shuttleworth persona is completely different but quietly hilarious. BTW have you checked out Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers? Road Runner has a similarly daft feel to it.
The song's actually called "Jilted John", the same as the artist.
Graham Fellows is a very talented comedian, actor and songwriter known for his character comedy in the UK as the elderly John Shuttleworth, a grumpy fellow who writes songs about everyday irritations on his Bon Tempi organ and is very funny with it. However, I urge you to listen to his work under his own name, his most recent album, ‘Weird Town’ was excellent. I suggest ‘Diary of a Skinbird’ which is a touching acoustic number very different to this song.
Two Margarines On The Go, Discontented Youth, Caravan Capers, Austin Ambassador Y Reg and Pigeons In Flight are great! The radio shows still make me laugh.
A classic from 1978 the B side where he finds true love is almost as good. I don't think they're allowed to play this on the radio anymore Graham Fellowes is a comedy genius
I was 12 years old in 1978 and I lived in Birmingham in the UK. I loved music. I had two paper rounds and bought three 7 inch singles a week. Jilted John was one of them. 1978 was a great year for music in England if you were 12 years old.
Denis - Blondie.
Withering Heights - Kate Bush.
Because the Night - Patti Smith.
Teenage Kicks - Undertones.
Take a Chance on Me - Abba.
Nice n Sleazy - Stranglers.
and
Ca Plan Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand .. if you don’t know it, go check it out. 😀
Hou-hou-oou-oou!
LOVED that song. Brings back memories❤ 'My Perfect Cousin' - also worth a listen
As Adam LeRoi Davis says below, this isn't really punk but more of a spoof and one amongst quite a few which started appearing around 1978-ish. My brother bought Jilted John's album "True love stories", which contained a range of different genres and was actually pretty good.
When this comes on at a party, our mate Gordon fu##in loves it
This is awesome 👌.. John is indeed jilted by Gordon 😆 🤣
What a finely tuned sense of humour this pair has.
Though, apparently, irony isn't their strong suit.
Graham Fellows is a comic genius. Saw him as John Shuttleworth last year. A great night was had.
A song you can't help but song along too, I think you'd really enjoy Jilted John's other love song 'Going Steady'.
Then on Saturday night we go .. to the bus shelter at the end of the road. We sit in it and mess about .. then we go and buy some chips.
Yes I remember this from school too.. I had a friend called Gordon who got some stick from this song ( not from me) Luckily he was used to it as his name was actually Gordon Bennet!!
Brought it all back .. thanks for playing this.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME !!!… Chris , your reaction was priceless my friend 😝, Cynthia got it right away 😂
When I first seen this on TOTP I was 16 and never questioned it’s Punk credentials … at first 🤦♂️.. it was shortly afterwards that the penny dropped and it was a spoof character . However , that fact cannot change the way it was interpreted at the TIME in 1978… it was radical , on point emotionally and accepted as part of the scene , it was less than the accepted trope of a 3 chord quickie - in that it had only 1 chord 😆 … view this quirky song as it was meant to be viewed , as part of a mini revolution in the musical landscape of the late 70’s and you’ll GET it !
He later went on to create John Shuttleworth , Grahams 80’s creation who is still with us today , his 2 songs which slay me are “ Pigeons in flight “ and my bestest fav “ Catch the fox “ which is about the real life hunt for a murderous robber 😮…ps : can you imagine what a difficult 18 months to 2 years it must’ve been for teens called Gordon at that time …. Yikes 🤷♂️
Love this track - puts me RIGHT back there in 1978..👌
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Well said that Jay !
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_BletheringYay and Yay ! Those were ace times or what ?
@@ghichens3418 wouldn’t have missed 77-79 for the world G ✊
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Yes ! I keep reminding myself ,that period in time imo was probably the most creative time in music , period ! Glad to have been there !
cheers pard ,
Yes this is a very serious record your right to analyse it so deeply...
This was a hoot at the time - you had to be there in the punk scene to understand fully.
You two reacted exactly the same way my mum and step-dad reacted back in the day.......😂😅😂😅
Mite be just the accent by i could hear traces of PETE SHELLEY either way THANKS YOU GUYS and the HANIER CREW for reintroducing me to some more old time favourites 👍👏👏👏
What do all Northerners sound the same to you, Pete Shelley (Leigh Lancs) sounds nothing like Graham Fellows (Sheffield Yorks)
@@BKKMekong I'm from Aotearoa new zealand i have trouble understanding every English accent their terrible I'm not sure if they even spoke England over there?
@@heathcornbeef Any race that keeps Hokey Pokey and stubbie in a chilly bin whilst going for a tramping in the wop wops can’t really complain about spoken English haha.
In the UK there is a big difference in accents every 1/4 mile never mind the nearly 60 miles between Leigh and Sheffield. I should know being from same town as Pete Shelley.
Graham Fellows (Jilted John) is a British actor/musician whose current alter ego is John Shuttleworth a character who carries around a keyboard singing little dities to basically anyone who cares to listen. I once saw Graham in a play called Lennon, where he played Paul McCartney, he played the role very well. He's a very talented guy.
This song was a parody and a send up of punk.
Real name, Graham Fellows had a couple of comedic characters throughout his career, and he still performs as John Shuttleworth.
The single and artist are both called Jilted John.
Actually the entire album is great. It chronologically tells the story of the singers teenage love life, is pretty musically varied and lyrically sometimes quite touching in that it was obviously written by an older person with a lot more perspective and experience than the imagined narrator.
"i cried all the way to the chip shop" ..the saddest line in pop
Mrs. Hanier is really into it.
A fun song when people still knew how to enjoy themselves,the Nanny State was a distant nightmare!
The Piranhas- Boyfriend. Tells a story with a nice twist at the end.
First appeared in early 1978 on Rabid Records, a small label in Manchester but was only a hit 12 months later after the label had been bought out by EMI and made no4 in the UK charts. Sung to perfection in a right mardy voice by Graham Fellows who was known more as an actor. There was a response to this entitled 'Gordons not a Moron' by Julie and Gordon.
It was actually a hit in 1978 (released in July '78 & August '78). I remember it well because I started my first job in July '78.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 you must have been listening to it on John Peel. Recorded March 78, released by Rabid April. Re-released by EMI 1st August and entered the charts on the 26th. Peaked at the end of September
@@btj-oo8xc Yeah,I was listening to Peel's show a lot around that time
Loved this when it came out.
Was an original punk [now 62 and still love the music].
We all used to sing this out life in people's faces. lol
Those were the days.
Really gotta listen to John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett, Really Free, or Cheryl's Going Home. That's the way it's done.
Oh yeah, this song got played 3RRR in Melbourne along with 'Don't Care' by Klark Kent
The song is called Jilted John. It's a comedy record.
Look at all the positive comments, that says so much.
A comedy record from 1978. Comedy records did top the charts occasionally.
So amusing - both your reactions and Jilted John. If you want something in a similar vein but more musically sophisticated and darker, try Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias song 'Kill'.
About what I expected, but wow, your listeners must really like this.
i was a kid when this came out, all i can think of when listening to this is, imagine trying to get something like this in the charts now, it would upset so many groups of snow flakes, i bet even the government would get involved lol.
love this my boyfriend bought this for me, we are still married.
His best one was "Two Margarines" by his other character John Shuttleworth
It was meant as a jokey micky take of a punk song, not to be taken seriously. Jilted John morphed into John Shuttleworth, a quirky alternative comedian still much loved here in the UK.
A playground fave for me late 70's. Funny song.
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Great to hear this again. Who can't relate to this. Keep it up. ; )
jilted john wow that brings back memories ...............one hit wonder
Kia ora hello guys hay do you have some stinky old PUNKROCKERS subbed to your channel be careful hold ya noses
The singer has had a tv series and a longer running radio series recently on BBC as John Shuttleworth. He has musical stars on his radio show which is a little sitcom and is hilarious if you get it.
Canadian here, who had a late-70s dive bar band with my English girlfriend. We played this ("Jilted John"), Going Steady, plus some T Rex, X-Ray Spex, Stranglers, Madness and Clash. I'd give us a 6/10, but the venues sold lots of beer due to spillage.
Great choice in bands to cover. It must have been fun.
One of the best songs on a break up
great one-off hit when punk gave permission to anyone who wanted to make record whatever they wanted to say. After the often fake profundities of Prog Rock lyrics there was quite a lot of self-effacing deadpan humour in punk, Wreckless Eric, Madness, The Members, The Ruts, Plastic Bertrand and so on, and lots of serious bands made humorous, if sarcastic, records too; Slits - Typical Girls, Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (and much else) several XTc tracks, Gang of Four, early Human League, Clash 1977, Alexie Sayle. There were a lot of small indie labels who'd put anything out if they could sell a few hundred copies and a lot of fanzines like Sniffin Glue promoting anything new so almost anything had a chance in the late 70s in the UK when loads of local scenes flourished across the UK and John Peel would play anything on Radio One.. Hence the success of Belfast's Undertones; check My Cousin Kevin for their more Irish humour. Or just listen to the mad John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett and "Cor Baby, That's Really Free..." which has similarities to Jilted Gordon...
Great song great reaction 👍
The album True Love Stories is great... although I only just found out that Graham Fellows is a bit ambivalent about it, apparently he wanted to do the album in the same style as the single but Martin Hannett the producer wanted to do it with keyboards, which is how it ended up.
Dear Hanier Family. `Jilted John` Does not exist! He was the `persona` created by English actor Graham Fellows. The true title of the song is actually "Jilted John". Graham Fellows has had more success of recent with his eccentric musician character of `John Shuttleworth.` Graham a very talented artist.
This is English humour, it doesn't always travel too well, it was a big hit in 1977...there hasn't been an English baby given the name Gordon since
First record I ever bought.
I thought this was genius at the time, and it still makes me laugh. I like the haplessly amateur feel of it, which can be a great antidote to "serious" music. Also worth checking out, along the same artfully amateurish lines: Headbutts by John Otway, Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric, Roadrunner by Jonathon Richman.
John Otway is a real Character. I never did see him live despite him playing outdoors at the Fetival in the 80s. Apparently he almost got into trouble a few times back then for climbing on Monuments and Old Buildings as well as harassing Coppers.
@@SPKdesign1 I generally approve of getting into trouble, if only because it keeps happening to me.
@@delorangeade I've done the odd night in Lock up but managed to avoid being caught for most of it.
Have you seen this video of Headbutts?
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Roadrunner is an absolute banger
I was still at Skool when this came oot and unfortunately for them there was a few Gordons around.
Yup. ‘..just cos he’s better lookin than me…”. That was my response.
@@Owlstretchingtime78 I was never very good at Riting.
Oh god! You really have to be around at the time. People were iconic…. For seconds.
What stops this from being a profound accurate depiction of a break up in most bloke's eyes is ... we'd all like to think we aren't such a perfect wuss and sad-sack as Gilted John ... even if we do recognise his reactions in ourselves!!
Omg i loved this. I was about 13
Jilted John by jilted John
Love this song... cracks me up... Yeah... It WAS called "Jilted John" by Jilted John... at least it was when I played it as a college DJ...
A few great songs to recommend: Cheers!
BEULAH: "Emma Blowgun's Last Stand"
DANIELLE DAX: "Fizzing Human Bomb"
THE DELGADOS: "The City Consumes Us"
One song I'd love you to react to is by Rainbow. Man on the silver mountain, is iconic and I would love to hear you react to the studio and live versions back to back. The song is very different live but both versions are epic. I would recommend the studio version from 1975 and the On Stage ,version of 1976/77. Or alternatively the live in Munich version.
I was much more a punk but this song always resonated with me. I wish that Ronnie James Dio had done a punk album.
Also very true to life
Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand.
We did a video for that song a little while back. Very interesting.
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The song is based on true events. My brother has met Gordon.
Fantastic reaction guys have you done Plastic Bertrand Ca Plane Pour Moi?
We have indeed. Very interesting.
I think this was lost in them, it’s a British thing and certainly growing up and in senior school when this came out it’s lasted all my life. Good times!
Fun song, yeah, oh yeah...
I ha this album aged about 14 and I loved it! 😊
Iirc, this is produced by Martin Hannett, of Factory Records fame....at the time you could get badges, that either said Gordon was, or wasn't, a moron.
John is a character, played by a guy who's name i forget, same guy is also the character, John Shuttleworth, so in a way, Jilted John never stopped, he just changed name.
We read it was Graham Fellows.
@@hanierfamily I couldn't have remembered that if my life had depended on it!
Please listen to the whole album for context. 😊
i know all the words.
John Shuttleworth
Didn't know if you'd get some of the cultural references or the 70's slang, there wasn't much else for youths to do in those days except hang around chip shops
You could try Toyah, I want to be free. It was a real commentary on the early 80s and what was going on
OR.... Toyah with Rebel run.
I love this song till this day brings a smile to my face 😊here we go 234
John Shuttleworth 🤪