Aug 18, 2018
Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 53/?
Keith West - Excerpt From ‘A Teenage Opera’ (1967)
“'It’s ten o'clock!’ The housewives yell, ‘When Jack turns up We’ll give him hell!’ Husbands moan at breakfast tables: No milk, No eggs, No marmalade labels. Mothers send Their children out To Jack’s house To scream and shout: ‘Grocer Jack, Grocer Jack, Get off your back, Come into town, Don’t let us down…’”
#keith west#excerpt from a teenage opera#grocer jack#mark wirtz#keith hopkins#philwit hopkins#1967#an undeniably cheesy bit of 60s melodrama pop#from wirtz's ill fated teenage opera#apparently somebody actually tried to stage it last year#some fifty years after it was first announced#a pre yes steve howe worked on this too#i loved this song as a kid#i mean i still do#but i was obsessed as a little kid#favourite lyrics#it's a testament to how weird the charts could be in the sixties#that this was a monster hit#sadly none of the follow ups did very well#so the project was shelved
