''Jake's Progress'' is the second

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

Jake Thackray John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet, humourist and journalist. Best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s for his topical comedy songs performed on British television, hi ...

. It was recorded at

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, produced by

Norman Newell Norman Newell (25 January 1919 – 1 December 2004) was an English record producer and lyricist, who was mainly active in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the co-writer of many notable songs. As an A&R manager for EMI, he worked with musicia ...

, and released on LP by

EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...

in 1968. The album is currently out of print, but its songs, digitally remastered, are included in the four- CD retrospective '' Jake in a Box'', which also includes alternate versions of eight of the songs – "Left on the Shelf" (in the first person, rather than, as on the album, the third), "The Blacksmith and the Toffee-Maker", "Family Tree", "One-Eyed Isaac", "Grandad", "Salvation Army Girl", "Sophie" and "Nurse" – recorded during the sessions for '' The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray'' in 1967. "The Blacksmith and the Toffee-Maker" was adapted by Thackray from a story from

Laurie Lee Laurence Edward Alan Lee, (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire. His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy '' Cider w ...

's '' Cider with Rosie''.

Track listing

Personnel

*Jake Thackray - vocals, guitar *Frank Horrox - piano *

Ike Isaacs Ike Isaacs may refer to: * Ike Isaacs (guitarist) (1919–1996), Burmese-British jazz guitarist * Ike Isaacs (bassist) (1923–1981), American jazz bassist {{Hndis, Isaacs, Ike ...

- guitar *Frank Clarke - bass *

Geoff Love Geoffrey Love (4 September 1917 – 8 July 1991) was a prolific British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes, famous in the late 1950s under the stage name Manuel and the Music of the Mountains. Early years ...

- musical supervision

References

External links

Track listing and sleeve notes at jakethackray.comJake’s Progress at The Downstairs Lounge
{{Authority control Jake Thackray albums 1969 albums EMI Records albums Albums produced by Norman Newell