Ralph on You Tube

[Henrik]

Mmmm....Dora the driver's not opening up for me?!  

Welll, she doesn't drive with just anyone, you know  

You may need to update your flash player, JJ.
That worked for me.

H.

[Henrik]

Three more 'Tickle on the Tums' have appeared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboUgNl_BKk  (Dora the Driver)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27xip5dRH1Y  (Bunny Brown's Petshop - sounds like Philbert is a relation of Albert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TELrCjjorxg  (Farmer Song)

 

Great, thank you, Naomi  

Seems he is keeping us in suspense, adding just 3 every day now  
Maybe we should try contacting our newly found hero for copies in a
better quality than what Youtube has to offer ?

Hope you are enjoying your new videos ?  
Think I know how to make a VCD now - trying later.

When playing full screen on the PC monitor, it actually looked
pretty good, so I expect an OK result on TV as well.

H.

[CarlWoodb]

Interestingly, these all appear to be from the second series as the original "help" was Danusia Harwood  - later replaced by Jacqueline Reddin.   I wonder if good ol' Cheggars67 has any early stuff.

Bizarrely IMDB movie database suggests that if you like "Tickle on the Tum" you may also enjoy "Blood on satan's claw" !!!!!!  

Carl

[JJ (Joanna)]

Interestingly, these all appear to be from the second series as the original "help" was Danusia Harwood  - later replaced by Jacqueline Reddin.   I wonder if good ol' Cheggars67 has any early stuff.

Bizarrely IMDB movie database suggests that if you like "Tickle on the Tum" you may also enjoy "Blood on satan's claw" !!!!!!  

Carl

I quite like Danusia's voice, can't say I'm overstruck on JR tho a bit harsh and overpowering at times, in fact I wished she had just let Ralph sing!  

Can open up Dora now btw H, must just have been a blip!

[Leighton]

I see Barney Bodger 2 has been posted by Cheggars at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S868dkSA1aE

Just wondering has anyone tried to contact Cheggars at You Tube ?

Just in case he gets loads of e-mails asking the same thing ?

[gower flower (Shirl)]

Mmmm....Dora the driver's not opening up for me?!  

Words are inadequate at times like these.....

[Henrik]

I see Barney Bodger 2 has been posted by Cheggars at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S868dkSA1aE

Just wondering has anyone tried to contact Cheggars at You Tube ?

Just in case he gets loads of e-mails asking the same thing ?

Well, not yet officially - I think one person has though.
We shall probably have to make him an offer he can't refuse  

Surely this Cheggars fellow must have access to these videos in a far better quality than
what YouTube has to offer. I tried making a VCD out of these last night, and in most parts it
was acceptable quality but of course not very good - they did look fairly good on full screen
PC monitor using Mplayer however, so I shall try again in SVCD later to see if this low quality format
(VCD) attributed substantially to this rather poor result. But the best thing would of course be to have
(digitalized) copies of the "originals" in a hopefully far better quality and higher resolution than these
highly compressed flv-files from YouTube.

Please feel free to contact me, if you are interested in having a "closer look" at these gems  

Henrik

[JJ (Joanna)]

Looks like a Christmas surprises one has gone up now, (probably cos Henrik said that Christmas has come in June this year!   ) Can't view it yet tho. It only went up an hour ago.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Cheggars67

[JJ (Joanna)]

aww...viewing it now, its sooo cute!   Poor baby Jenny being bounced around!  

Wonder if she is a Ralph fan now?!  

[Chris]

I wonder what 'Jenny' thinks of it now?.....!!

[Henrik]

Looks like a Christmas surprises one has gone up now, (probably cos Henrik said that Christmas has come in June this year!   ) Can't view it yet tho. It only went up an hour ago.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Cheggars67

Great - thank you, min lille JJ  

H.

[MAJ]

I know I am not the only one in touch with Cheggars67 (our new hero!) but this is some of his reply to me today, giving a little of the history of how these clips came to be preserved.

Hi Marianne,

Can't believe the response since I started putting these on Youtube. I originally recorded the songs each week as my children loved them & made a VHS tape for them to watch. This is why some of the songs miss the beginning - just trying to guess when Ralph was about to sing.

It has always niggled me a bit that 'Tickle On The Tum' has never been released on CD & over the years I have contacted Ralph via letter & e-mail through his web-site asking if it will be released. I have always been fobbed off - it's as if he is embarassed by it & is trying to wipe it from history - but there are some really good songs in there. With the recent release of 'Bridge Of Sighs' on CD, it was announced that all his back catalogue was now available on CD & this completed the CD re-releases - which it certainly has not.  A good job was made of the Alphabet Zoo CD, why not Tickle? It would be good if you could pass this letter on to your Ralph Forum members - we could start a "Get 'Tickle On The Tum' Released" campaign!
'Cheggars67'.

[Henrik]

Thanks , Maj - interestinggg  


And here now is ... "From Clare on Speed to Here" btw.

The Furey's and Davey Arthur - Luton 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYgP67Rsnh8

I am not sure I like this version very much act, but funny/ "interesting",
because I have heard Ralph mention their ultraspeedy version sometimes.

H.
 

[CarlWoodb]

Cheggars is at work again - "The things you wish yourself"  has been loaded in the past hour.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5zNMDKXN1A

The bells of St Tickle?  

[John Beresford]

It's from the same 1986 Christmas show as "Surprises 2". The donkey is "Mr Robinson". Camilla was otherwise engaged...

[Henrik]

Cheggars is at work again - "The things you wish yourself"  has been loaded in the past hour.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5zNMDKXN1A

The bells of St Tickle?  

Wow !    - Ralph as poor old  "Joseph", hehe  

Would like to see Ralph playing all of it himself as well.

Thanks, Carl.
H.

 

[JJ (Joanna)]

That has to be the corniest one yet!  

Yes agree Henrik, I too would have loved to have seen the Hands of Joseph at work on this song!!!  

[Cocker Freeman]

That's the clip they'll still be playing in a hundred years time!

It's what he'll be remembered for don't you reckon, JJ?

[Henrik]

That's the clip they'll still be playing in a hundred years time!

It's what he'll be remembered for don't you reckon, JJ?

Nah, there are so many other great ones  

Remember it wasn't made for you and other grown ups, CF -
you have to watch these within this context.

And he had young children at this time, so they would
of course inspire him with these ideas / songs -
( eg. the wonderful "Keeping the Night at Bay" ) -
and then he would of course be able to "stay at home" with them.

[MAJ]

Cheggars is at work again - "The things you wish yourself"  has been loaded in the past hour.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5zNMDKXN1A

The bells of St Tickle?  

As long as they are not the Belles of St Tickle.....!  

I can't get beyond 27 seconds of this clip.......... Grrrr  At that point it just stops and asks me if I wannaplayagain.  Just once would do.....!