''Jake's Progress'' is the second

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

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 Abbey Road Studios, produced by

Norman Newell Norman Newell (25 January 1919 – 1 December 2004) was an English record producer, 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 musicians such as Shir ...

, and released on LP by

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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 ''Jake in a Box'' is a 4-CD box set retrospective of the songs of Jake Thackray, recorded by EMI from 1967 to 1976. It includes his four studio albums, ''The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray ''The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thack ...

'', which also includes alternate versions of eight of the songs – "Left on the Shelf" (in the

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, 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 ''The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray'' is the debut album by Jake Thackray. It was produced by Norman Newell in August 1967 and released on LP that year by EMI in the UK and Philips Records in the USA. The record company, unsure of how ...

'' in 1967. "The Blacksmith and the Toffee-Maker" was adapted by Thackray from a story from

Laurie Lee Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (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 ...

's ''

Cider with Rosie ''Cider with Rosie'' is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as ''Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England'', 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with '' As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'' (1969) and ''A ...

''.

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 prolific British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes. He became famous in the late 1950s, playing under the pseudonym of Manuel and The Music of The Mo ...

- 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