Rik Mayall in Nether Wallop with the Jools Holland Big Band.
'EVIL'
This is a Rik singing 'Evil' in the big top in Nether Wallop at a big charity gig. It is with Jools Holland's Big Band featuring Bill Wyman, Jools on piano and a bizarre appearence from John Otway on guitar.
For reasons best known to somebody else I learned all I could by rote of this song and the local investigative journalist from Redditch, Kevin Turvey!
My beloved hero Rik Mayall accepts his Doctorate from Exeter University from Floella Benjamin and grants us some wisdom to carry forward
well these youngsters have to hear wisdom from somewhere and where better than from one of our greatest (and naughtiest!) comedians. I have said before I first saw Rik with his compadre Ade Edmundson as The Dangerous Brothers who appeared to hurt one another and in doing so deconstructed a joke live on my tele box about a gooseberry in a lift . . . . . I was amazed and nobody had ever done anything quite so funny and with pyrotechnics that beat everyone else to boot, they caught my attention and my undying love
Then suddenly I spotted a young news reporter doing a Black Country report on the state of his relationships called 'Kevin Turvey' and my life was never quite the same again; from The Young Ones to Alan B'stard to seeing his Bottom live!
I miss him . . . . . Ade I keep an eye on and wonder still . . . a fine actor actually and last seen in War and Peace I think, where I thoroughly enjoyed everything he does on his own but there is always a sadness.
The absence of his partner in criminally funny ‘naughty’ behaviour!
disc 1: 1. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker 2. My Babe - Little Walter 3. I Wish You Would - Billy Boy Arnold 4. You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover - Bo Diddley 5. Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry 6. Shimmy, Shimmy Walk, Pt. 1 - The Megatons 7. Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James 8. I Got Love If You Want It - Slim Harpo 9. Messin' With The Man - Muddy Waters 10. The Walk - Jimmy McCracklin 11. You'll Be Mine - Howlin' Wolf 12. Homework - Otis Rush 13. Oh Carolina - Folkes Brothers 14. Dumplins - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires 15. Housewife's Choice - Derrick & Patsy 16. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu, Pt. 1 - Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns 17. A Certain Girl - Ernie K-Doe 18. She Put The Hurt On Me - Prince La La 19. The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry) - Etta James & The Peaches 20. I Done Woke Up - Louisiana Red 21. Don't Start Cryin' Now - Slim Harpo 22. You Need Love - Muddy Waters 23. Baby What You Want Me To Do - Jimmy Reed 24. Dimples - John Lee Hooker 25. Hide Away - Freddie King 26. Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf 27. I'm Talking About You - Chuck Berry 28. Poison Ivy - The Coasters 29. Hitch Hike, Pt. 1 - Russell Byrd 30. Boppin' With Sonny - Sonny Boy Williamson
disc 2:
1. Last Night - The Mar-Keys 2. Shout And Shimmy - James Brown & The Famous Flames 3. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 4. Do You Love Me - The Contours 5. Hitch Hike - Marvin Gaye 6. I've Got A Claim On You - Betty Everett 7. I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) - The Ikettes 8. A Fool In Love - Ike & Tina Turner 9. I've Got A Woman, Pt. 1 - Jimmy McGriff 10. I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) - Barbara George 11. Baby It's You - The Shirelles 12. Devil In His Heart - The Donays 13. The Hoochi Coochi Coo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 14. She Said "Yeah" - Larry Williams 15. Shout Bamalama - Otis Redding & The Pinetoppers 16. You Can't Sit Down, Pt. 1 - Philip Upchurch Combo 17. Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey 18. Don't Mess With My Man - Irma Thomas 19. You'll Lose A Good Thing - Barbara Lynn 20. Cry To Me - Solomon Burke 21. Get On The Right Track Baby - Ray Charles 22. The Seventh Son - Mose Allison 23. Foxy - The Mar-Keys 24. Sweets For My Sweet - The Drifters 25. Delilah - Major Lance 26. Gypsy Woman - Derrick & Patsy 27. Cleo's Mood - Junior Walker & The All Stars 28. I Pity The Fool - Bobby Bland 29. Young Man Blues - Mose Allison 30. Jack, That Cat Was Clean - Dr Horse
disc 3:
1. I'm Shakin' - Little Willie John 2. Daddy Rollin' Stone - Otis Blackwell 3. Just A Little Bit - Tiny Topsy 4. I've Got A Feelin' - Big Maybelle 5. Burnt Toast And Black Coffee - Mike Pedicin 6. Sugar In My Tea (Cream In My Coffee) - Piney Brown & His Blues Toppers 7. It's Your Voodoo Working - Charles Sheffield 8. Keep On Loving Me, Baby - Otis Rush 9. Think - The 5 Royales 10. Have Love Will Travel - Richard Berry & The Pharaohs 11. Oo-Ma-Liddi - J J Jackson & The Jackaels 12. I Found You - Yvonne Fair 13. Looking Back - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 14. That's A Pretty Good Love - Big Maybelle 15. Uh Uh Baby (No No Baby) - Little Willie John 16. Why Don't You Do Right? - Mark Murphy 17. Oasis, Pt. 1 - The Majestics 18. I'm Going Home - Prince Conley 19. I'm Tore Down - Freddie King 20. That's It Man - The Valentines 21. She's Mine - John Lee Hooker 22. Mess Around - Ray Charles 23. All Around The World - Little Willie John 24. What Kind Of Man Are You - Dolores Johnson 25. When You See Me Hurt - Carl Lester & The Showstoppers 26. Louie Louie - Richard Berry & The Pharaohs 27. I'm A Little Mixed Up - Betty James 28. Seven Day Fool - Etta James 29. Chain Gang (The Sound Of My Man) - Theola Kilgore 30. Burnt Biscuits - The Triumphs
