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Jake's Progress (TV Series)
''Jake's Progress'' is the title of two albums and a TV series: * ''Jake's Progress'' (album), a 1969 album by Jake Thackray * ''Jake's Progress'' (TV series), a TV miniseries written by Alan Bleasdale Alan George Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946) is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. .... * ''Jake's Progress'' (soundtrack), a 1995 soundtrack album to the above series by Elvis Costello and Richard Harvey {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake's Progress (album)
''Jake's Progress'' is the second album by Jake Thackray. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, produced by Norman Newell, and released on LP by EMI 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's ''Cider with Rosie''. Track listing Personnel *Jake Thackray - vocals, guitar *Frank Horrox - piano * Ike Isaacs - guitar *Frank Clarke - bass *Geoff Love Geoffrey Love (4 September 1917 – 8 July 1991) was a proli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake's Progress (TV Series)
''Jake's Progress'' is the title of two albums and a TV series: * ''Jake's Progress'' (album), a 1969 album by Jake Thackray * ''Jake's Progress'' (TV series), a TV miniseries written by Alan Bleasdale Alan George Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946) is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. .... * ''Jake's Progress'' (soundtrack), a 1995 soundtrack album to the above series by Elvis Costello and Richard Harvey {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Bleasdale
Alan George Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946) is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. Bleasdale's plays typically represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life in Liverpool than was usually seen in the media. Early life Born in Liverpool, Bleasdale is an only child; his father worked in a food factory and his mother in a grocery shop. From 1951–57, he went to the St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Infant and Junior Schools in Huyton-with-Roby outside Liverpool. From 1957–64, he attended the Wade Deacon Grammar School in Widnes. In 1967, he obtained a teaching certificate from the Padgate College of Education in Warrington (which became Warrington Collegiate Institute, now part of the University of Chester). For four years he worked as a teacher at St Columba's Secondary Modern School in Huyton from 1967–71, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |