Editing Charlie Drake (section)

==Discography==

===Singles===
* "[[Splish Splash (song)|Splish Splash]]" / "Hello My Darlings" (1958) [[UK Singles Chart|UK]] No. 7
* "Volare" / "Itchy Twitchy Feeling" (1958) UK No. 28
* "Tom Thumb's Tune" / "Goggle Eye Ghee" (1958)
* "Sea Cruise" / "Starkle Starkle Little Twink" (1959)
* "Naughty" / "Old Mr Shadow" (1960)
* "[[Mr. Custer]]" / "Glow Worm" (1960) UK No. 12
* "[[My Boomerang Won't Come Back]]" / "She's My Girl" (1961) UK No. 14 ; US #21; Australia No. 1
* "Tanglefoot" / "Drake's Progress" (1962)
* "I Bent My Assegai" / "Sweet Freddy Green" (1962)
* "I've Lost The End of My Yodel" / "I Can, Can't I" (1963)
* "I'm Too Heavy for the Light Brigade" / "The Reluctant Tight-Rope Walker" (1964)
* "Charles Drake 007" / "Bumpanology" (1964)
* "Only A Working Man" / "I'm A Boy" (1965)
* "Don't Trim My Wick" / "Birds" (1966)
* "Who Is Sylvia" / "I Wanna Be a Group" (1967)
* "Puckwudgie" / "Toffee and Tears" (1972) UK No. 47
* "Someone opened the Watergate and they all got wet" / "'Ello Erf" (1973)
* "You Never Know" / "I'm Big Enough for Me" (1976) (produced by Peter Gabriel)
* "Super Punk" (1976) ([[Parody|spoof]] record)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/><ref>[http://www.davegoodman.co.uk/Dave%20Goodman/Daves%20Book/1976/dec_1976.htm Davegoodman.co.uk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928013907/http://www.davegoodman.co.uk/Dave%20Goodman/Daves%20Book/1976/dec_1976.htm |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref><ref group="Note">Some sources claim that Drake was responsible for the spoof "Gimme That Punk Junk" (1976), recorded under the name [[The Water Pistols]], but this may be due to confusion with his "Super Punk" (1976) ([[Parody|spoof]]). Dave Goodman's website refers to the two titles as separate entities.</ref>

===Theme tune from ''The Worker''===
Drake sang the theme song himself, based upon an old [[music hall]] song
:''I gets up every mornin' when the clock strikes eight''
:''I'm always punctual, never never late''
:''With a nice cup of tea, a little round of toast''
:''The Sporting Life and the Winning Post.''
:''I gets all nice and tidy, then I toddles off to work''
:''I do the best I can''
:''Cos I'm only a-doin' what a bloke should do''
:''Cos I'm only a workin' man!''

The song, "Only A Working Man", [[songwriter|written]] by Herbert Rule and Fred Holt in 1923, was featured by [[Lily Morris]] on the music hall stage, and in the 1930 film, ''[[Elstree Calling]]'', the original lyric being "He's only a workin' man".