Rick Jones (television presenter)

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Rick Jones was one of the best-known faces on BBC children's television programmes during the 1960s and 1970s.

Canadian by birth, he began his TV career as a presenter of Playschool, a daily programme for pre-school children, in which he played guitar and sang. In 1972, he became the star of Fingerbobs another popular show for younger children, in which Jones created characters from finger puppets made of paper.

He went to have success as a musician (keyboards/vocals) fronting the British country rock band Meal Ticket. Jones had a superb emotive voice and some of his songs recorded with Meal Ticket (Snow, Last port of call, Laughing Daughter) are wonderful. The song "Better Believe it Babe" featured as the theme for the BBC television Play for Today "The Flipside of Dominick Hide". After Meal Ticket broke up he wrote and appeared in the musical "Flash Fearless vs The Zorg Women" in Los Angeles. In 2001 he reunited with Meal Ticket for a one off gig at a london pub. It is believed he is now based in California near San Francisco however this is based on second hand information.


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