Four Jacks and a Jill (Official Thread)

[CP/M User]

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Jimmy Come Lately 1965
The House With The White Washed Gables 1967
Timothy And Other Hits 1967
Master Jack 1968


I only knew them for this intriguing song they had in 1968 - "Master Jack"



I'll try and search for some of their other music! ​

 

[CP/M User]

Re: Four Jacks and a Jill

Very hard finding any other songs, but I've got "Mr. Nico" which was a followup single to "Master Jack" peaking at #98 in America in 1969.

 

[CP/M User]

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And I've got Timothy which was a hit in South Africa circa 1967 I think!

 

[CP/M User]

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Here's some history about Four Jacks and a Jill on Wikipedia.

 

[METALPRIEST]

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This is cool and too wierd..I thought this band was only a fictional group mentioned by Fred Willard's character in This Is Spinal Tap

That movie is more smarter to me than ever now.

 

[CP/M User]

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METALPRIEST wrote:

This is cool and too wierd..I thought this band was only a fictional group mentioned by Fred Willard's character in This Is Spinal Tap



Not sure what you mean cause I don't know Spinal Tap - but "Master Jack" sounds real enough! Some critics were suggesting this being a Folk-Rock group, but I thought "Master Jack" had a harder edge to it - even if Jill is the lead singer!

 

[METALPRIEST]

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It's not important to this thread but Spinal Tap was a fictional documentary comedy of a 60's band gone Heavy Metal by the 70's and the 80's written starred and directed by Rob Rieiner along with Christopher Guest,Harry Sheerer and Michael Mckean, who not only played the band but played the music and composed it also.

Funny flick.

There is a scene where the band is hitting rock bottom and are forced to play an Air Force base hangar and Fred Willard's character (the Colonel) is showing them around and mentions, "Did you ever run into a musical group, works out of Kansas City, calls themselves Four Jacks and a Jill? They've been at a Ramada Inn there for about eighteen months. If you're ever in Kansas City and you want to hear some good music you might want to, uh, drop by."

Quite funny.

 

[snakes&ladders]

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WOW, CP....you made me a happier person today....I've been tryin' to identify this tune for eons and eons...thank you very much.....I must've been 10 or something when it got stuck in my head

 

[snakes&ladders]

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Very hard finding any other songs, but I've got "Mr. Nico" which was a followup single to "Master Jack" peaking at #98 in America in 1969.

Now I know where bands like Hooverphonic got their inspiration from

 

[Soot and Stars]

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I liked the first song. It had an eerie trippy feel to it!