So Tell Me About 'John'.

[Pauline Walnuts]

I was watching one of those worst songs in the world eva things, full of harmless novelty and comedy songs, and John Paul Joans - The Man From Nazareth came up, I'd never heard of it before, https://youtu.be/7f_A_frJKP4?t=1087

Full version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc9hmoRFvAg

Obviously it was bril. A bit more digging bought this up:

John Paul Joans was a northern comedian (real name John Davidge). He wrote and produced two records - The man from Nazareth and The Miners Song a charity song raising money for miners dependents during the coal miners strikes in the late 60's early 70's. The record was banned by the BBC because they felt they would be accused of taking sides. All copies of the record except three where destroyed. I still have my copy and have uploaded it to 'youtube'. He initially released 'The man from Nazareth' under the name of John Paul JONES. It was tipped as the #1 Christmas single for 1970 but after it reached only #40 it was taken off the shelves because John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame threatened RAK Records with legal action because their artist was using his name. All the unsold copies were recalled and the surname on the re-issued single was changed to JOANS. It missed the #1 slot and only reached #25 in the new year. Bob Monkhouse described him as Britans answer to Lenny Bruce. The last I heard about him was many years ago when he had been involved in a hit and run accident in (I think)Birmingham. After the accident he could no longer work.

I found the There  Was This Fella clip,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRi_4xlnX0

Tell me more about this 'Post Max Miller' comedian.

[Phil_A]

A notable detail about "The Man From Nazareth" was that the music was co-written and performed by none other than 10CC(but not yet called that), it was the first recording the full line-up did together.