Thank U Very Much (for the Aintree Iron), Recorded by The Scaffold.

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Other things thanked for in the song include the birds and bees, the family circle, love, the Sunday joint, out cultural heritage, national beverage, nursery rhymes, Sunday Times, the atom bomb, everyone, playing this record and our gracious team.

Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.a b c "SCAFFOLD | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 12 October 2022.

The Scaffold re-work 'Thank U Very Much' for the NHS to raise money for NHS Charities". Cherry Red Records. 10 April 2020 . Retrieved 12 October 2022. By early 1973 The Scaffold had transferred to Island Records and released Fresh Liver, their first full album of new material since 1969, and from which no singles were released (aside from "W.P.C Hodges" which was credited to Gorman as a solo artist). The new album again featured most of the musical performers from Grimms and as such, like the earlier McGough And McGear album, it relied less heavily than usual on purely spoken-word material. The trio then concentrated on their work as part of Grimms, until the end of the year when McGear left that group after frayed tempers on another demanding UK tour led to an altercation with Brian Patten. We hammered them in the end 6-0. We were leading quite easily at half-time and then the crowd was chanting, stirring up the Wolverhampton crowd: "Thank you very much for Alun Evans. Thank you very much. Thank you very very very very much..." [sings the ditty as he recognises LFChistory doesn't know this song.] It's a bit of a Liverpool song. They were chanting that, that was satisfying. Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron, the original was." After releasing a few more singles, McGear retired from the music business in the 1980s. Having proven himself artistically, he reverted to using his family name and has since carved out a career as a professional photographer and author. Gorman remained in the public eye through his regular appearances on such children's television programmes as Tiswas throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. He continued to perform and record, and later moved into theatrical direction and production. Meanwhile, in 1978, McGough released his spoken-word solo album Summer With Monika (based upon his celebrated poetry collection of the same name). Since then he has arguably maintained the highest-profile and most sustained post-Scaffold career, still appearing regularly as a vocal performer on British radio and television, and continuing to be a highly regarded poet and author. He returned to the Midlands with Aston Villa but struggled to establish himself at Villa Park and, after 17 goals in 71 games, moved across to Walsall before finishing his playing days in Australia where he still lives. His philosophical approach to the frustrating way his football career played out after such a stellar start was reflected in a letter he sent to Bill Shankly at the time of his departure which the famously-tough Scot admitted meant an awful lot to him.

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A 1968 broadcast of the radio series Round the Horne (Series 4, Episode 6) featured a version of the song with the words changed to those of movie stars. It includes references to John Wayne in "Tobruk" although he never appeared in the film. Shankly was as good as his word and five days later Evans’ name was on the teamsheet as Liverpool prepared to take on the Foxes at Anfield. Whatever nerves the young debutant may have been feeling were eased when, as was sometimes customary at the time when new players arrived, a fan ran on to the field to greet him. "That was something I wasn't expecting”, he said. “In those days you came up from the dressing rooms, up the steps and on to the field. The next minute a lad got hold of my hand. As we ran over to the Kop he held my hand up and had a big welcome."

Shankly had two daughters. I think he would have liked also to have a son he could talk to. You wouldn’t though have a conversation with him like we’re having now. All he ever talked about was football. He talked and you listened. That’s why none of the players wanted to sit beside him on the train for the away games. He would go on and on..." The handsome blond and blue-eyed kid from Kidderminster was talk of the town but even though the girls liked the look of young Alun he stayed loyal to his girlfriend who remained in Wolverhampton and he spent most of his time with other young Reds. I thought some of them would have gone on longer than they did," he later admitted."They had won the league, the FA Cup and the league again. I would think about the players we had and I could see that some of them were going a bit." Released at the beginning of November 1967, "Thank U Very Much" didn't reach its peak on the UK charts until two months later at the beginning of January 1968. It performed best on the Record Retailer, peaking at number 4. [1] Released in the US in January 1968, the song peaked at number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, though performed better on the Record World chart, achieving a peak at number 43. [7] Elsewhere, "Thank U Very Much" performed best in New Zealand where it was top the Listener chart. [8] The song was notably a favourite of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and of the then- Prime Minister Harold Wilson. [9] Evans featured for 68 minutes in the 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in the final after being chosen ahead of Peter Thompson. Charlie George scored the winner in extra-time. When asked what he remembers especially from that big day at Wembley...

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READ MORE: Four things spotted in Liverpool training as seven stars absent and Fabio Carvalho has special role That was nice of him to say," Evans says. "The fee really didn’t bother me as I have always been such a down-to-earth guy. Tony Hateley moved to Coventry in the same week which made space for me in the side. I said to Shankly when I signed that I would progress in the reserves but he bawled at me that he'd bought me for the first team." Their best known recording is " Lily the Pink" which topped the UK charts in 1968. The group also composed and sang the theme tune to the popular BBC TV comedy The Liver Birds, which aired from 1969–1978. Live at The Queen Elizabeth Hall 1968 (Él ACMEM63CD) [CD] Jan. 2006 [Reissue of the 1968 album, The Scaffold, recorded live on 10 February 1968]