Talk:The Wurzels

Opener
The opening sentence doesn't really make sense... ntnon (talk) 19:13, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Hopefully it does now! Additions/corrections being made with information from Professor Wurzel of 'wurzelworld'...Wurzelpedia (talk) 17:07, 15 April 2009 (UTC)wurzelpedia

Previous group names
Think they might have been called 'Adge Cutler and the Carrot Crunchers' before they became the Wurzels? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.107.17 (talk) 19:32, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 86.140.107.17 seems to be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.37.70 (talk) 10:11, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Wurzel/worzel as slang for yokel?
I've just edited the phrase "and wurzel is also sometimes used in the UK (perhaps only as a result of the band's name) as a synonym for yokel", allegedly supported by http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2006/08/24/somerset_sounds_the_mangledwurzels_feature.shtml. I've deleted the words "perhaps only as a result of the band's name" and added a "citation needed" tag. The reference says that Wurzel is German slang for vagabond or tramp, but doesn't mention UK usage. It's possible that it's used this way in the UK too, although a quick google search doesn't throw up anything relevant. In any case, I doubt that it originates with the band's name. A generation of brits is familiar with the spelling Worzel from the TV series Worzel Gummidge, based on a children's book published in 1936, some time before The Wurzels got together. Jowa fan (talk) 23:25, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

"Drink Up Thy Zider"
There was supposedly much unfairness in how the British pop charts were compiled especially back in the days before an official British chart came into existence at the start of 1969 and I believe for a long time after the West Country of England was the most severely under-represented region in chart return shops in Britain with the Adge Cutler and the Wurzels single 'Drink Up Thy Zider" managing a solitary week in the official British Top 50 on its initial 1966 release while over a few years managing some reputedly ridiculous sales of about 250,000 virtually all in the Wsst (Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall) although these were catalogue sales over quite a few years; If the south west had been fairly and proportionately represented the official British singles chart it surely would have in its early days made at least a few weeks in the lower reaches of the Top 40 - it's almost your national anthem down there. I'm from north west England myself but have holidayed down there since a kid and as I got older enough to go in the pubs you would never hear it off the pub jukeboxes and that still continues to a certain extent even to the present day 54 years after its original 1967 release..The last truly folk as in a working-class phenomenon, rather than the middle class revival movement, hit in Britain I wonder? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.199.53 (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

"Cider Drinker" listed at Redirects for discussion
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