Richard Gilbert "Dick" Emery (19 February 1915 – 2 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, an eponymous television series ran from 1963 to 1981.
Life and career
Richard Gilbert Emery was born in University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. They took him on tour when he was only 3 weeks old and gave him the occasional turn on the stage throughout his childhood, which was always on the move and disrupted, creating problems for the future, but at least setting the scene for eventually going into show business. His parents split up when he was 8 and he chose to stay with his mother, who gave up show business. He tried a variety of jobs before the stage: mechanic, office boy, farm hand and driving instructor.
During the Second World War he was called up to the RAF and rose to the rank of corporal. However, because of family problems, he returned to London joining the chorus line of The Merry Widow at the Majestic Theatre, London. He was recruited by Ralph Reader into the RAF Gang Show to entertain air and ground crew at bases in Great Britain.
Podcasts:
Dick Emery
ALBUMS
- Pick 'n' Mix: An Assortment to Suit All Tastes released: 2006
- 6 Pack of Laughs released: 2002
- You Are Awful... But We Like You! released:
Pick 'n' Mix: An Assortment to Suit All Tastes
Released 2006- Intro (feat. Billy Connolly)
- Sounds of the Seventies
- Spacewalk
- Dancing in Outer Space
- Let the Good Times Roll, Part 1
- Freestyle (Steinski's Additive remix)
- Chicken in a Box / Ju Ju & Bloody Moon - Ahhhhhh Punch You in the Face
- White Lines / Dillinger - Cocaine in My Brain
- Chip Funk
- We Got the Funk
- Pump Me Up
- Liquidator (Hex Hop remix)
- The Rip Off
- Fug
- Adventures on the Wheels of Steel / West Street Mob - Break Dance Electro Boogie
- Popcorn
- You Really Got Me
- You Are Awful (But I Like You)
- Pulse (dance mix)
- Na Na, Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)
6 Pack of Laughs
Released 2002- Gather in the Mushrooms
- Transistor Radio
- Harvest of Love
- Pepy's Diary
- Gypsy Rock
- The Piccolo Song
- Lonely Boy
- Moving On Again
- The Andalucian Gypsies
- The Egg Marketing Board Tango
- Bamba 3688
- What a World
- I'll Never Know
- My Garden of Love
- In the Papers
- Golden Days
- Flying South
- Wild Women
- Jose's Cantina
- Rose
- Those Days (Duet with Maggie Stredder)
- The Old Fiddler
- [untitiled]
You Are Awful... But We Like You!
- You're the One That I Want
- Prisencolinensinaincuisol (Freezin' Cold in 89 Twoso)
- Ecstasy
- Dance With Me
- I Like Birds
- Where Will You Be
- My Little Tune
- Get Me to the Church on Time
- Oh Cheryl
- If You Believe
- I've Never Been to Me
- Copacabana
- The Worzel Song
- Living Doll
- If a Hundred Million People
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again
- Wasting Time
- Once Upon a Time
- Stone the Crows
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- Rhubarb Tart Song (feat. 1948 Show)
- Hands Off, Stop Mucking About
- Georgy Girl
- We'll Be Together
- The Sheik of Araby
Born: 1915-02-19
Died: 1983-01-02
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by Andrew W.k.
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by Bramma
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by Queensberry
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by Chipettes Queensberry
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by Barclay James Harvest
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by Ceti
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by Second Coming
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by Craig Morgan
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by Melvin Thomassen
The Song
by: Andrew W.k.Do you really want to go down now?
Do you really want to know where I've been when i go out?
Can you understand what I'm feeling?
And do you understand what it means, man?
When you here the sound
Feels just like a pleasure
And when you hear the sound and you know
We're coming for the sound
Don't ever stop the pleasure
Remember what it's like coming down
And don't stop singing the song
That's what we said, we said
Don't ever stop the song
You can never stop, singing your song
Singing it loud and you're singing it long
And you can never stop
No, never stop, the song
You don't know that sound when it feels bad.
And you lost what you knew So you took what they had
Now you try to take it from others
But try and mess with us and you'll suffer brother!
When you here the sound
Feels just like a pleasure
And when you hear the sound and you know
We're coming for the sound
Don't ever stop the pleasure
Remember what it's like coming down
And don't stop singing the song
That's what we said, we said
Don't ever stop the song
You can never stop, singing your song
Singing it loud and you're singing it long
And you can never stop