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Wurzel
Songs - Part 6 (T - Z)
The
Wurzel Songs pages list in alphabetical order as many of
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels' songs as I have been able
to find, and gives brief notes about each. This part covers songs
beginning with T to Z. Obviously there is no substitute
for hearing them, but at least this might give readers who have
not had that privilege some insight into the West Country
humour unique to Scrumpy & Western music.
For
some of the songs I haven't been able to make out all the words.
I've pinpointed where this is the case in the descriptions below.
Also I've never heard some of the songs and don't know the composers
of some of them. So if anyone can enlighten me with any of this
missing information, or knows of any other songs not in the list,
then please Don't Tell 'Ee - Tell I!
| Song
Title & Composer(s) |
Notes |
Tanglefoot Twitch
(Adge Cutler)
|
This
is Adge Cutler's 1960s dance craze song from the first album
session in November 1966.
LP:
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels |
Thee Cassent Kill Cooch
(Adge Cutler)
|
Excellent
song from the first album. The title refers to "cooch" (or
"couch") grass, which has a reputation with gardeners as being
vernigh impossible to get rid of - the song is about a bloke
who never gives up trying to get what he's after.
LP:
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels |
Thee's Got'n Where Thee Cassn't Back'n, Hassn't?
(Adge Cutler)
|
Song
about Flo & Joe and their little motor car which he has
trouble manoeuvring in tight spaces. The title, translated
from the original Bristolian, means "You are not going to
get out of that one very easily". A true Cutler classic!
LP:
Cutler Of The West, CD:
Cutler Of The West, LP:
The Very Best Of Adge Cutler, LP:
Adge Cutler's Cider Drinking Favourites, LP:
Vintage Zider |
There's A Spider In The Bathtub
(Tony Baylis)
|
Written
and sung - well, spoken really - by Tony Baylis.
LP:
Golden Delicious |
Tractor Song, The
(Idris & Evan Jones) |
Yet
another Wurzels parody, this time of the Australian band The
Mixtures' Pushbike Song, which reached
#2 in the UK in 1971 (The Mixtures' song, that is). Unfortunately
The Wurzels' parody version failed to chart, but the guys
did get to perform it on Cheggers'
Plays Pop! though!
45
rpm single (a-side); LP:
Never Get A Scrumpy Here, LP:
The Wurzels Greatest Hits; CD:
The Wurzels and Adge Cutler & The Wurzels;
CD: The Wurzels
Collection;
CD: The Wurzels
Greatest Hits |
Tremble On
(Roger Cook)
|
A
country 'n' western style song which sounds suspiciously like
Johnny Cash.
LP:
Give Me England!, LP:
The Wurzels; CD:
The Wurzels |
Tubthumpin'
(Abbott, Bruce, Greco, Holden, Hamer, Huter, Watts, Whalley)
|
A
re-make of the Chumbawumba hit single, all
Wurzelled up, and released on their Never Mind The Bullocks
album.
CD:
Never Mind The Bullocks - 'Ere's The Wurzels |
Twice Daily
(Adge Cutler) |
This
Adge Cutler-penned song was originally recorded as part of
the session for Adge Cutler & The Wurzels' first album
at the Royal Oak, Nailsea on 2nd November 1966. The song was
coupled with Drink Up Thy Zider on the band's
first single, which reached #45
in the UK singles charts. Although "Zider" was popular
in its own right, the record partly owed it success to the
fact that Twice Daily was banned from the
air by the BBC! As you could have predicted, this only helped
to get the record into the charts. The song seems innocuous
by today's standards, but its references to pre-marital naughty
behaviour leading to pregnancy and a shotgun wedding was deemed
too strong for the sensitive public by the prim Auntie Beeb
of the 1960s.
A
later recording was made by The Wurzels on the 1975
Wurzels Are Scrumptious! album, and a different live
version also appears on Mendip Magic.
Pete Budd still sings this at Wurzels' gigs, and it's as popular
as ever!
45
rpm single (b-side);
EP: Scrumpy & Western; LP:
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels, LP:
The Very Best Of Adge Cutler, LP:
Adge Cutler's Cider Drinking Favourites, LP:
The Wurzels Are Scrumptious!, LP:
Mendip Magic; CD:
The Wurzels and Adge Cutler & The Wurzels; CD:
The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels featuring Adge Cutler (2000);
CD: The Finest 'Arvest
of The Wurzels featuring Adge Cutler (2001);
CD: The Wurzels
Live; video:
The Wurzels Live |
Two Milk Churns
(David McDonagh)
|
Issued
as an album track by The Wurzels, on the Never Get A Scrumpy
Here album. An agricultural aria, as Adge might have
called it...
LP:
Never Get A Scrumpy Here, LP:
The Wurzels; CD:
The Wurzels |
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Verger, The
(Kevin Sheldon, Trevor Crozier)
|
Another
Sheldon/Crozier composition (see Don't
Tell I, Tell 'Ee) recorded on The Wurzels Are
Scrumptious! album and sung by Tommy Banner. This ditty
is all about the huge range of celebrities (all rather dated
now!) who visit the church and sign the visitors' book, curiously
always when the verger happens to be absent!
LP:
The Wurzels Are Scrumptious! |
Virtute Et Industrial
(Adge Cutler)
|
An
Adge Cutler-penned song recorded on the first album. The song
takes its title from the motto of the City of Bristol - Virtute
Et Industrial; virtue and industry. These refer to the
main emblems that are associated with Bristol, the Unicorn
and the Ship, both of which feature on the city's coat of
arms and which can be seen all over the city.
The
Wurzels subsequently re-recorded this song for their A
Taste of the West album, although sadly mis-spelling
the title as Virtuet Industrial. However, as 'virtuet'
can be translated from the Finnish as 'river', that could
give the motto as 'industrialised river' - which is probably
more accurate than the real motto!
This song is one of four which The Wurzels recorded which
mention Bristol City football
club in the lyrics. The song was also recorded in 1973
by Fred
Wedlock.
LP:
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels,
LP: Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1974), Don't
Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1978); CD:
A Taste of the West |
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When The Common Market Comes To Stanton Drew
(Adge Cutler) |
Another
Adge Cutler song from the first Royal Oak session of 1966;
this was also the b-sider to Adge's second single The
Champion Dung Spreader. This is Adge's vision
of what would happen to the Somerset way of life if Britain
should enter the European Common Market, an event some years
in the future at the time. Some of his predictions have come
true, others not... yet.
The
Wurzels subsequently re-recorded this song for their A
Taste of the West album.
45
rpm single (b-side); LP:
Adge Cutler & The Wurzels, LP:
The Very Best Of Adge Cutler, LP:
Adge Cutler's Cider Drinking Favourites; CD:
The Wurzels and Adge Cutler & The Wurzels; CD:
A Taste of the West;
CD: The Wurzels
Greatest Hits |
Who Needs Summer?
(Ed Welch)
|
A
soppy romantic song with plenty of harmonies. This was part
of the band's live set prior to Adge's death, but never recorded
until the 1975 Wurzels Are Scrumptious album.
The song was part of the Adge Cutler & The Wurzels live
set on their appearance on Folk 73
on the BBC.
LP:
The Wurzels Are Scrumptious!, LP:
I Am A Cider Drinker |
Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?
(Barry Mann, Gerry Goffin)
|
This
song was co-written and originally recorded by American singer
Barry Mann in 1961 - Barry's version was a US Top 10
hit. In the UK it was covered by The Viscounts who
had a Top 30 hit with it. The Wurzels' version is done fairly
straight, with Pete Budd showing his rock 'n' roll roots!
LP:
The Wurzels; CD:
The Wurzels;
CD: The Wurzels
Collection |
Why Does It Always Rain On Me
(Healy) |
A
re-make of the Travis hit single, all Wurzelled
up, and released on their Never Mind The Bullocks
album.
CD:
Never Mind The Bullocks - 'Ere's The Wurzels;
CD: The Wurzels
Greatest Hits |
Wild West Show, The
(adapt. Bob Barratt)
|
A
song about the exotic delights of the Wild West Show which
appeared on the band's second album. Notice that it is Bob
Barrett, the band's producer who is creditted with the song.
LP:
Adge Cutler's Family Album, LP:
Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1974), Don't
Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1978) |
Willie Friese-Greene
(John Christie)
|
A
song dedicated to the Bristol bloke who invented the movie
camera.
LP:
Give Me England!, LP:
The Wurzels; CD:
The Wurzels |
Willie The Shake
(adapt. Adge Cutler, Tony Baylis, Tommy Banner, Reg Quantrill)
|
A
parody of the 1968 Scaffold no. 1 UK hit Lily
The Pink which appaeared on the album Carry
On Cutler! album. According to producer Bob Barratt,
this song contains some "startling, though probably mythical,
revelations about the Bard of Avon" (as opposed to The
Bard Of Avonmouth!). One of the few songs where each member
of the band takes a turn at singing lead vocals. When you
hear it you'll know why it's one of the few...
LP:
Carry On Cutler! |
Wish I'd Stayed A Bachelor
(Tommy Banner)
|
Written
and sung by Tommy in the style typical of the extreme northern
extremity of Somerset (i.e. Scotland!) Tommy sings how he
wishes he'd stayed a bachelor, just like his old dad...
LP:
Never Get A Scrumpy Here |
Wurple Diddle I Doo Song (The Village Band), The
(Mart Fryberg, Theo von Donop, Peter Kirsten)
|
One
of the few songs where Adge lets the members of The Wurzels
sing lead vocals on a verse each. If you hear it you'll know
why such songs are few... the words of this song are self
explanatory and need no further comment.
The
tune is an old German melody in 3/4 time (written in 1933)
which Adge Cutler added lyrics of his own creation. For some
reason Adge is never credited for the lyrics.
LP:
Cutler Of The West, CD:
Cutler Of The West, LP:
Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1974), Don't
Tell I, Tell 'Ee (1978), LP:
The Very Best Of Adge Cutler, LP:
Adge Cutler's Cider Drinking Favourites, LP:
Vintage Zider; CD:
The Wurzels and Adge Cutler & The Wurzels; CD:
The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels featuring Adge Cutler (2000);
CD: The Finest 'Arvest
of The Wurzels featuring Adge Cutler (2001) |
| Wurzel
In Love |
LP:
Freshly Cut |
Wurzel Rap
(Lee Sheriden)
|
Issued
on a single in 1983 - as you may guess, it's The Wurzels
attempt to cash in on the 1980s rap craze.
45
rpm single (a-side); LP:
Freshly Cut |
Wurzel Rock, The
(David) |
Also
known as Wurzellin' Time In Somerset, this little
gem surfaced on the HMV Wurzels Collection CD. A
typical Wurzels song, it is slightly reminiscent of the Malt
& Barley Blues, which The Wurzels do a few bars
of from time to time at their gigs.
LP:
The Wurzels; CD:
The Wurzels;
CD: The Wurzels
Collection;
CD: The Wurzels
Live; video:
The Wurzels Live |
Wurzels On Stereo
(Steve Fearn)
|
The
b-side of the Wurzel Rap single.
45
rpm single (b-side); LP:
Freshly Cut |
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