With this song Jeremy added a word to the O.E.D. refering to a worker with more power than wit or wisdom. We all know these people. Want more info? Buy the CD at .
Jeremy Taylor: “Jobsworth”
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With this song Jeremy added a word to the O.E.D. refering to a worker with more power than wit or wisdom. We all know these people. Want more info? Buy the CD at .
Havent heard this since the LP with Spike Milligan. Still so very true.
jobsworth!!!!!”!!!!!!
Thanks for uploading this vid, great fun song! I saw Jeremy live about 5 years ago i think, absolute legend. Very good live performer.
this fellow has a million facial expressions
Amazing.. I’ve known this song all my life since my mother was into folk music and had the the album but I’ve never known who wrote it (maybe I should of just asked). I searched a lot for it on Emule and other places years ago and never came up with anything and now it turns up here. Thanks so much for uploading.
I first saw him in “Wait a minum” in ther sixties in London. “Wait a minum” was a play put on in five minutes to plug a five week gap in a Johannesburg stopgap. It played in Jozie for just under three years, in London for five years and then went on to New York. A fantastic talented cast.
Jeremy Taylor writes:
Skipunk12’s comment made me laugh. It’s so typically bloody ME to turn up on the wrong day, let alone the wrong place or the wrong time. I’m quite capable of all three at once.
I am glad to know I behaved with grace and that the consequences were happy.
If I remember aright, my good old friend Noel Murphy was singing that night – and he WAS booked.
I could have written a history of the British Folk Revival from the ’50’s through to the ’80’s. It was a great time.
JT
Great, thanks for posting these tracks rlukeball……….I saw Jeremy Taylor at Hitchin Folk Club (UK) in the 70’s, I even purchased a vinyl LP with this track on it, Jeremy signed every copy he sold that night.
English folk clubs in pub back rooms were brilliant, a lot of famous names started out in them, great days, great memories.
Cheers
This is so appropriate to the PCSOs we now have in England. Two of these idiots gave a £50 ticket to a grieving grandmother in a cemetery because she had her dog with her – against the Jobsworth rules of course.
England is over-run by Jobsworths these days.
Sorry but the term ‘jobsworth’ has been around a lot longer than Jeremy…brilliant song tho…..even Facebook have deleted it for ‘inciting hatred’….honestly !!! Great …
@macbrack04,
The phrase “more than my job’s worth” is older than this song. But “Jobsworth” as a noun, which this song implies by calling the lazy fellow Jobsworth!, is indeed Jeremy’s creation. There was a 1970’s BBC television show “That’s Life!” that featured a “Jobsworth of the week.” It was a takeoff from this song.
@chrisruddchiro1
Regarding “For One Night Only”: I have a 2 CD set digitized from the Spark LPs from Jeremy and Spike’s live recording of their show at Cambridge University, 1973. It features the original artwork and a recent commentary from Jeremy. Contact me at JeremyTaylorUSA@gmail.com if you are interested.
Wasn’t it from I’m all right Jack with peter Sellers?
Anyone remember … “M4 Freedom Talkin’ Blues”??? I had it on an album with Spike Milligan playing the Cambridge Footlights… Please someone upload it. “I was on the M4, headin’ west, goin’ like mad, doin’ my best. To Overtake Everything in sight.. Musta been doin’ a Hundred allright… Just for Kicks… Well, Everybody’s gotta be a Hero, Sometime”…
TornFreedom:
We have digitized the Live at Cambridge 2-LP set with Spike. Jeremy has added some new liner notes. Go to the website: see comment below. Contact me there.
-rlukeball
Heard this on “Folk on Friday” in 1970 and have sung it to myself on many occasions ever since.
jeremy is my great uncle!!! his brother is michael taylor and he is my grandad
Saw him in Munster at the flagon folk club in the late 70’s absolutely fantastic entertainer
Well, I’m a more recent discoverer of his music and think he’s great. Love to him!
my parents loved this song
First heard this back in the 70s when he did a show with Spike Milligna – the famous spelling error.
FGQb