Celebrity Jukebox #70: Roy Walker

I still haven't had time to get to Burt, but with everyone dying lately, I started to wonder if I should still feature living celebrities in this series. I started to feel bad for them, being lumped in with all the RIPs. What do you think? Should the jukebox be posthumous only? 

While I await the decision of the jury, here's one I prepared earlier...

Roy Walker was the soft spoken Irish comedian who made it big as the host of ITV's nonsensical quiz show, Catchphrase. The object of the game was to watch a slowly revealed image created by primitive computer graphics and try to "say what you see", thus identifying the "catchphrase". Which often wasn't actually a catchphrase, but more a random collection of words you'd rarely heard used together. Well, it did run for almost 15 years, so I guess they soon ran out of actual catchphrases. You could say it was a precursor to Saturday Snapshots, except the clues were slightly better.

You wouldn't expect Roy Walker to feature in many pop songs, but you might be surprised. I was particularly pleased to discover this little gem from rapping young person Lejitt...

Improving my work ethic you should take some notes, chump

If the homies do some dumb shit, do you go jump?

Roy Walker with the way that I catch phrase

Never truant to the rap game like the past name

Lejitt - Just The Beginning

Meanwhile, from Manchester, here's a band that have listened to quite a lot of early Pulp albums...

A Boy Called Doris - Roy Walker

And how about a bit of "authentic indie guitar music from the Scottish borders"? Extra points for also getting Lionel Blair into the lyrics...

Ordinaryson - Roy Walker

However, they're not what brought me to Roy. Instead, here's a track from my favourite Belle & Sebastian album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress. I'm not sure why they named it after the Catchphrase King, other than the guy in the song is walking around quite a lot. Say what you see...