“And here’s Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news”
– When The Evening Sun Goes Down
So… what do we know about Judie Tzuke?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“And here’s Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news”
– When The Evening Sun Goes Down
So… what do we know about Judie Tzuke?
gok wan acolyte
Saw her 3-4 times in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Some decent songs and far “rockier” than the hit ballads made her appear. If I remember correctly, she married her bass player and their daughter had a number one single as the vocalist on a house music track a few years ago. If you want to check out her records then a Best Of purchase in your local store would be a good place to start
8 July 2015
EXXO
In one of the worst mis-hearings of my pre-Lyrics Project career (I didn’t use to think that it mattered), I thought it was “some didgeridoo to take us up to the news”. You make it sound like Judy is better than some random didger,, but I’ll take your word for it.
8 July 2015
peter mcornithologist
Fascinating surname. Apparently her family moved to the U.K. in the 1920’s from Poland but I can find no reference to Tzuke. It is as rare as Toastkid, Exxo,Bananayogi , Brumbiscuit ,Svarc et al.
8 July 2015
gok wan acolyte
According to Wikipedia, the family changed their name to Myers and she then adopted the original Polish name at the start of her career.
Nigel Farage is not a fan.
8 July 2015
Chris quinn
She appeared on the Liverpool Empire in the 70’s and had her nose broken when her guitarist held out his arms (one holding his guitar) to take the applause during the encore. Spent the rest of the night at the Liverpool Royal.
12 July 2015
Eugene C
It’s not a particularly typically Polish surname. The only thing I can think of is the Polish word ‘suka’ which means bitch. Can’t be that then.
13 July 2015
Nick Marks
Tzuke is a variation on a more Germanic name Tzucker, Tzukerman or even zuker, which have several derivatives across Europe and comes mainly from people with Jewish heritage (as she does). Its translation is literally Sugar, which many Poles, German and even Italian immigrants changed their name to or more commonly took a more ‘traditional’ sounding English name to bend in.
28 August 2015
Tom
Tzuke has NEVER been a Polish surname…sounds more German or Jewish. In Polish you would rather spell it ‘Cuk’ or ‘Cug’…that does not mean anything at all and itself it is not Polish surname. Very strange…
16 June 2018
Brumbsicuit
On Radio 2 (which is inflicted on me at work every feckin’ day!) she was interviewed by Ken Bruce and pronounced the first name as with a German ‘Z’ or a Hungarian ‘C’. I don’t have a phonemic keyboard, but it’s like the ‘ts’ in ‘Its’. Not a Magyar name, thobut.
21 June 2018