Another obscurity. The only JRH record that I have managed to trace, an EP entitled 'Sing Along With Jack Hawkins and his Show Band', is pictured above - I presume the label is actually called 'JRH': as can be seen, it could just about be J&H, or even JH with a squiggly separator. As Jack Hawkins was the artist I reckon we can be moderately sure that the 'J' and the 'H' are his initials, but the 'r', or whatever it is, is slightly perplexing - combined with the 'J' it could even be 'Jr' for 'Junior', as the record was aimed at children. There's no date on the label, but it has a distinctly '70s look to it, and the tracks are in stereo, so I'm quietly confident that it belongs on this site. Tracks on the EP are 'Goodnight Children', 'Gay Gordons' (a Scottish medley, including 'Donald Where's Your Trousers'), a slightly bloodless version of 'Let's Twist Again', and - the stand-out track for me - a sprightly rendering of the old HP Baked Beans jingle from the 1960s. Apparently the jingle caught on amongst children and turned into a kind of singing-game; thus, perhaps, its inclusion on this EP. A triumph for the advertising agency, there, and no mistake.
Copyright 2011 Robert Lyons.