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Unanswered Wurzels Questions

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Throughout the Wurzelmania! site there are various questions scattered about - all to do with The Wurzels and Adge Cutler. The questions have been collected together on this page. If YOU, dear Scrumpy & Western reader, can answer any of these questions, we at the Scrumpy & Western Page will be eternally grateful! We might even buy 'ee a pint next time we see thee down the Black 'Orse! So, if you know the answers, Don't Tell 'Ee - Tell I!

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Recording Session Details (Dates, etc.)

I'd like to know the exact dates of all Adge Cutler & The Wurzels recording sessions, and also in the case of Adge, when certain tracks were recorded. Can you provide any details? For the background information to these questions, see the Wurzel Sessions section of the site.

• Can anyone provide any details of when/where any of the following songs by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels were recorded, i.e. at which session, dates, etc.? They were all originally issued as singles and not on any albums except the later compilations:
  
      - All Over Mendip - the single version
      - Aloha Severn Beach - the single version
      - Champion Dung Spreader - the single version
      - Chitterling
      - Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee
      - Faggots Is The Stuff
      - I Wish I Was Back On The Farm
      - My Threshing Machine
      - Poor, Poor Farmer
      - Up The Clump - the single version
  
  My guess is that Faggots Is The Stuff may have been recorded at the Webbington Country Club session for Cutler Of The West - maybe you were there and know for certain?
  
• Does anyone know the exact dates of any of the following recording sessions?
  
      - the Cutler Of The West 1968 session at the Webbington Country Club
      - the Carry On Cutler! 1969 session at the Webbington Country Club
      - the Carry On Cutler! 1969 session at the White Buck Inn, Burley
  
  Details of the Carry On Cutler! sessions in particular are confusing and any clarification would be appreciated - see also the next three questions below
  
• Does anyone know which tracks of the Carry On Cutler! album were recorded at the Webbington Country Club and which tracks were recorded at the White Buck Inn, Burley?
  
• The version of Aloha Severn Beach on the 1969 Carry On Cutler! album is a different cut from the 1968 single version. However, the album states that the track was recorded in 1968. Is this correct, or was the album version actually recorded in 1969?
  [Note: The two versions are different, but similar enough to make it seem likely they were recorded around the same time, possibly even at the same session. - Zider Ed]
  
• The version of All Over Mendip on the 1969 Carry On Cutler! album is a different cut from the 1967 single version. However, the album states that the track was recorded in 1967. Is this correct, or was the album version actually recorded in 1969?
  [Note: In this case, the two versions are markedly different - even the arrangement differs between the two. It therefore seems more likely that the later version was indeed recorded at a later date than the 1967 one - Zider Ed]
  
• Can anyone confirm that the 45 rpm single versions of the following songs by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels are the same as those on the albums?
  
      - When The Common Market Comes To Stanton Drew
      - Easton-In-Gordano
      - Ferry To Glastonbury
      - Saturday Night At The Crown

• Does anyone know who played the Hawaiian guitar on Aloha Severn Beach (either version)?

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Discography Questions

• Does anyone know of any records by The Wurzels or Adge Cutler not listed in the Wurzelmania! Discography?
• Were there any other songs recorded at the same session as I'd Love To Swim In The Zuider Zee? Was that song ever issued as a single / on an album (apart from the two Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee compilations)?
• There is a gap of about five years between Adge Cutler's 1969 album Carry On Cutler! and his death in 1974, during which the only known record issued by Adge and The Wurzels is the single Little Darlin' / Mother Nature Callin'. Does anyone know if there were any other records made / issued during this period, or if there weren't, why not?

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Other Miscellaneous Wurzel Questions

• Adge Cutler's Look At 'Ee Lookin' At I, The Market Gardener and Down In Nempnett Thrubwell are all co-creditted with Henry Davis. They were all issued by The Wurzels after his death, but did Adge ever record any of these songs himself - or did Henry put music to three sets of unfinished Adge lyrics?
• Adge Cutler has mentioned a few songs written by a bloke called Len "Uke" Thomas - these were all written in Bristol dialect, and I assume Len used to sing them in the 1950s or 1960s, possibly (I'm guessing from his nickname!) accompanying himself on ukulele. Does anyone know anything about Len Thomas, and can anyone provide the words and/or music for any of his songs? Does anyone know if Len or anyone else ever recorded any of the songs? I asked Fred Wedlock about this and he knew Len's name but couldn't throw any more light on him or his songs. The songs mentioned by Adge (but as far as I know, never recorded by him) were entitled "Wassfink Of 'Ee, Den?", "Thee Bissn't Gonna Get'n Out Of I" and "Thee's Better Keep Thee Eye On 'Ee".
• Can anyone identify the mystery band on the cover of the Little Darlin' single by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels? (right)
• In the Adge Cutler version of The Mixer Man's Lament (on the first album), the name of the ganger has been overdubbed by electric guitar (presumably in the studio). Does anyone know what the name was, and why it was edited out? [On The Wurzels' 1977 version they use the name Ol' Les Stroud - is this the same name as Adge used?]
• Can anyone identify the female singer on the Wurzels recording of School Days, Young Days?
• Can anyone provide any details about past and present members of The Wurzels, such as dates when members of the band joined / left?, Did they go on to make solo careers?, What are they doing these days?, etc., etc.
• There's a rumour that the Wurzels might issue either or both of the parodies used in the Ambrosia ads as a single. Can anyone confirm or deny this, or provide any further information? Maybe someone who works for Ambrosia can provide some more info...?

If you know the answers to any of the above questions, or can provide any information that might help, please Don't Tell 'Ee - Tell I!

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