Lord Sutch and Peter Robinson

[DVV]

Hi all,
reading this week a Peter Robinson's novel, "Gallows view", I found this, about JtR (forgive my clumsy translation):

"Don't you think that he is rather looking for someone?
- Looking for someone? What do you mean?
- Someone in particular. You know, just like Jack the Ripper, who was always uttering the name of this girl.
- Mary Kelly?......"

That reminded me Lord Sutch's song: "When he walks down the street, every girl he meets he says: Is your name mary Kelly..."

Do you know the exact source for such a "theory"?

Amitiés,
David

[George Hutchinson]

Hi David

On a tangent, I've discussed the 1963 Sutch recording with his official biographer and we're both in agreement that he doesn't actually say 'Mary Kelly' in it. In live concert footage from the time and later recordings he does, but in the original Decca pressing you hear a mumble sounding like 'red blood' and definitely nothing approaching 'Mary Kelly'.

PHILIP

[DVV]

Hi GH,
I've got 'Jack the Ripper' in a CD called "Rock and Horror", it's a studio recording, and he clearly says Mary Kelly and the sentence I've quoted more than once. Indeed, it's almost a chorus, extended at the end into a sinister "Oh yes Mary, I love you Mary, where are you Mary, Oh my nice Mary, ah ah ah ..."
Not the original, as you have pointed out, but a good version though.

Amitiés,
David

[Robert]

In the 1959 film "Jack the Ripper" the murderer does go around asking for a particular Mary, but it's Mary Clarke, if memory serves.

[DVV]

Hi Robert,
and thanks.
You mean the Baker and Berman's movie, with Le Mesurier, Eddie Byrne and Lee Paterson?
I ordered it months ago but it never came.
Seems a very good movie.

Amitiés,
David

[Robert]

David, yes, dear old John Le Mesurier - Sgt Wilson from Dad's Army - is among the suspects :

"I wonder would you mind awfully if I disembowel you?"