"Well now Mr Iron, what are your plans for the future"

"Well I don't know Um um"

"What was that?"

"Um Well um I reckon that a I'm gonna stick around doing what I am for a while, and a rockin' and rollin' you know and singing all that sort of stuff. And then a I'd a like to a leave that part of the show business all together and I'd like to branch out in the a straight side you know. I'd lie to 'ave a go at the old a straight acting now and em I wanna throw off this a guitar you know I mean it's a walking round with round yer neck all the time. People get sick and tired of that I mean you know you start to get the new gimmick like the guitar and all the other fella's flog it to death for ya. See they're all at it now"

"Yes I suppose they are. Do you find it's a hinderance, this guitar, for you?"

"Well a i wouldn't say it's a 'inderance I mean you know I mean I can't sort of bite the hand that fed me. Or the a fret board that fred me, no, coin a phrase. Ah no, I' a, I'm a you know jolly grateful and all that
t for a what it's done for me. I mean, you know, it's brought me up from nothin' to a well you know a star of stage, screen and a radio and all that. But a and records of course. But I reckon that a you know, you know i think it's played itself out now

" So what a, what do you intend to do?"

"Well we been a, some friends and I, we been a, a mucking about with  a some of the classics.That the a public don't know about, you know. Some things have been 'id away in the archives for hundreds of years. We come across one the other day um it was eh the trumpet voluntary"

"You mean the Trumpet Voluntary by Purcell?"

"Yeah um, well yeah I think that's the fella yeah that's right Purcell, yeah. Um well take something like that you see and a get in quick with it, into television see. 'Cos that's the place that work them sort of songs. You wanna get in quick with them otherwise, a, you breathe a word, you know, round Charing Cross Road and a, them fella's have done it before you get out ya front door."

"Yes, yes I suppose they have. And what do you intend to do with the Trumpet Voluntary?"

"Well, well first of all were gonna a do a new arrangement of it completely, a get a nice sort of beat going it and a well you know, something for the kids to like to a do  bit of jive to."

"You hope to sell a lot of records?"

"Well yeah I mean I've sold a lot of records as it is anyway I mean a as I was saying I come now to a big star from nuthin'. I mean, my mother, I bought her a big house in Epping Forest, just by the swamp there. And a my  dad, I got him um a new 1932 a ford. Well new I mean, it's done up you know, but it looks new now and all a dun my earnings. You know, I mean when your like a fella like me come from nuthink and
a suddenly sh rock rocketed to stardom. I mean you know you gotta sort of keep ya feet on the ground or people go round saying your bit of a big headed"

"Yes, yes um yes I see I suppose you know that this Trumpet Voluntary has been attributed to um Jeremiah Clarke"

"Who?"

"Jeremiah Clarke"

"Oh well, yeah um I didn't know that as a matter of fact, no. I mean uh, what do you mean attributed to"

"Well some people say it was written by Jeremiah Clarke"

"Oh that yeah, well I mean I don't know whether he wrote it or not, I meam I'm not going to stand here and say he did or he didn't. I mean, I mean it's not my concern is it. I mean all I know it's out of copyright you see that's all were bothered about."

"yes, yes how very drool. yes, yes very good, perhaps we can here some of this Trumpet Volunteer?"

"Yes, yes very very good, very good"

"Well that's nuthin' mate, go on Ron ah, sort of set it off, get it going now"

Blow mate blow your horn real gorn
And rock, rock rock all them blues
Blow mate blow it hot and strong
The trumpet volunteer-ry way

Go go go man go get with it
Spon them valves up and down real gone
Go go go man go cor swing it
Send me with a real gone time

Blow blow till them valves is steamin'
Rock a, sock a, come on cocka
Blow blow they can catch us screaming
Deke plays a last strain on Balls Pond Road

Rock, rock everybody rock
Grab your doll have a ball
Cut a rug have a roll
Rock rock all you cats and chicks
To the trumpet voluntary rock

Don't knock the rock doc
Don't knock the roll moll
Don't put the mockers 
On the rockers and the rolls

You can keep you cha cha's
You can stuff your samba's
Stick them on the cash hatch walls
 (All together)

Rock, rock everybody rock
Grab a hold of your doll 
Have a ball cut a rug

Chicks come and get you kicks
And mix with the Trumpet volunteer
Ree roll (yeah)

"Yes, well thats very interesting.Tell me Mr iron, do you have any plans for any further record of this nature"

"Well yeah um, a matter of fact my um Managers and me are working on a Beethoven's choral symphony. I reckon you know um you can do quite a lot with that and um were doing mn Dronv jacks um a the New World thing by morochanrodak and um several other bits by um Ravel and um some others. But um they're just out of copyright. Imean you got a wait for them the be dead a few years. But a then we're gonna whip in and a have a go at them as I say."

"Well I'm sure a lot of people will be pleased to hear that. I'll try and play that record of yours to Sir thomas Beecham, I'm sure he'll enjoy it"

"I'm uh sure he will"

"Thank you very much"














