"The Silly Sage of Unexplainable Egbert Nosh"
Two ways to enjoy this weeks song.
Audio Version https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=4111228
Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcqBgM6gn4
A blast from the past.
Egbert Nosh was a colorfully animated cartoon film designed by Hilary Hayton and shown on the BBC May 1 1974 (based on a children's book by Paul Groves.) In it Mr Egbert Nosh takes his house, garage and dustbin for a walk. I was so impressed back then that I wrote a song about it and around 1976 used to sing it with a band called Mr. Grumbold.
I understand the original cartoon was wiped - but I found a few Nosh pics and a snippet of video on YouTube called 'Egg' on the web. I mixed what I could find up with a few other images. If anybody else remembers it, then enjoy! It's just a silly song about a kiddies book that caught my imagination back in the day :-)
The original book goes for quite a price. (If this link is still active... https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Egbert-Nosh-Paul-Groves/dp/0516034510) Very happy to say my dear wife obtained a copy not to long ago and gave it me as a birthday present. But that was after I put together the video!
The audio only version has an introduction featuring the words being read as the audience joins in. Doing the honors was now Merseyside DJ 'Chris Currie', who has an excellent radio program showcasing Merseyside music on Monday nights - repeated Tuesday - on Mersey Radio.(merseyradio.co.uk) The opening segment, featuring Chris, was recorded at the United Reformed Church Hall in Hoylake, probably around 1976 and rescued from a cassette tape.
It is an unusual song. Very short. Numerous key changes. Lot of chords. And finishes with a plagiarized nursery rhyme. Amazing what you can come up with when nobody has taught you how songs are meant to sound or should be structured!
The Silly Sage of Unexplainable Egbert Nosh
© Adrian J Pratt 1974 (ish)
Egbert Nosh,
Ever so posh
Have you seen him on your TV?
He's portrayed in technicolour
A funny sort of fellow
Is Egg-Bert, Egg-Bert, Egg-Bert Nosh
He owns a house
Which takes fancies to walking about
So does his garage
His dustbin rides a motorbike
But poor old Egbert could not allow that
It attracted attention
Much to
Much to
Much to
Much to
Much to
Talkabout
So he signs up an agreement
To see his holdings have fair treatment
He promises to take
His holdings out on Sunday
So for the rest of the week
They will remain normal
Suburban sundry.
(Guitar break)
Egbert Nosh,
Ever so posh
Have you seen him on your TV?
He's portrayed in technicolour
A funny sort of fellow
Is Egg-Bert, Egg-Bert, Egg-Bert Nosh
Egbert Nosh, Ever So posh
Egbert Nosh, Ever So posh
Egbert Nosh, Ever So posh
Egbert Nosh, Ever So posh
Egbert Nosh, Egbert Nosh.
