Confused by all the Bears and the Birds on Wolverton Mountain - watch out for Clifton Clowers
Playlist and Digital Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjisfbL8_E
Little Boy Lost, Johnny Ashcroft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLoQS0GnhWk
Wolverton Mountain, Claude King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU
Sink The Bismarck, Johnny Horton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU
The Man Who Never Returned, The Kington Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoBLGE2cCdU
Tom Dooley, The Kingston Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRx5r32hsF4
The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty, Emmylou Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zFCP1anO4&feature=related
Wheeling West Virginia, Neil Sedaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8AuLUMOUM
Tar and Cement, Verdelle Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPWo38JHuQ4
Blackwater Haddy, Jim Stafford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08083BNaYcA
Ferry Cross The Mersey, Jerry & The Pacemakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3gX47rHGg
Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v–IqqusnNQ&ob=av3e
Life On Mars, David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYymDZtJvgs
Tammy, Debbie Reynolds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2Xa4RUBCk
Old Cape Cod, Patti Page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH2E-AUi7Eo
Smallchange, Tom Waits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBh73L88r0
Late Flowering Lust, Sir John Betjeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42avv3KBCU
The Gambler, Kenny Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s
Hurt, Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1x7AeEogGM
The Saint James Infirmary, Hugh Laurie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXF7U5TYV8
Theme Song from “Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
ASTYAGES: That’s a dog of a description
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Errrrr… sorry Venise… but WHICH description? And why?
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Just played ‘The Man Who Never Returned’… dunn’arf take me back! We used to play it all the time at Matilda’s… I used to make a few bob busking it too… though I may have modified the melody just a tad and played it in a different key…
Poor old Charlie!
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Great list there oh great one. I recall maost of these on the radio when I was a youngun, there are couple I don’t know. Some good listening for a good weekend.
I could throw this one in for the week too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSL2-aHj1lg&feature=fvst
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
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Played along with this one…
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Why do people submit Youtube videos that aren’t videos?? Can anyone explain this?
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Waz, just realised this sounds like I’m criticising you. I mean the people who submit the original track to Youtube!
Good list, BTW, but befor my time.
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I thought that the picture might be of you, Waz, but then you never know as you are such a good story-teller 🙂 …
The beard under the Warrigal mask is a bit reddish though…
Love Tom Waits and Johny Cash…I always start with my favourites, I’ll leave Debbie Reynolds to Gez, he’s humming the song right now. Amazing what a good movie maker Clint Eastwood has turned out be.
Plenty of enjoyment there for a rainy afternoon, many thanks Warrigal.
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Listened to Sir John Betjeman’s beautiful, sad love poem, it’s making me all teary…
I better listen to Tom Dooley to shake the melancholy mood, the lovely Betjeman poem put me in…
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..oops, I meant the other Tom, Tom Dooley’s hanging is hardly cheering me up…
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Randy old devil, Betjeman. Well maybe not randy, but able to write what many thought.
Myfanwy, read by him is an example.
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That’s not a ‘warrigal’ mask, Helvi… it’s an alsatian! Or, as the Americans call them, a ‘german shepherd’…
So many classics on this list! Thanks Wazza!
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Sorry, asty, it is Warrigal’s mask….what happened to your pic? If you had a cat as your gravatar, I would call it your ‘cat-mask’… 🙂
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Are you sure Helvi? I thought Warrigal’s avatar was a pic of a dingo… not an alsatian…
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Tammy is the one for me. It was utterly romantic and the fact that everyone would break into a song at the drop of a hat did not seem to matter at that period. “If I knew what he knew”, I would be so much in love, Taaammy Taaaammyyy, I am so in lurveeooveee.
I can still see her sitting at the edge of a pond, her face reflected in the water, singing away to herself in that nostalgic manner. Was she wearing a little bonnet surrounded by Bearded Irises.? Of course, now we are all into realism and love is something within 2 minutes with hair on it or totally shaven and with rapid machine gun like going up and down movements amongst sky-scrapers.
Hope you all are planning to see ‘The Artist’. Bonzer movie and romantic like buggery.
Glad not to hear Pat Boone. Thanks WAZ
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I didn’t realise that buggery was quite so romantic, Gerard… but whatever ‘floats your boat’…
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Tie Waz down to a revolving table and poke him with old phonograph needles until he delivers an intro. I want the perspective behind the pick, the context behind the collection, the attitude behind the alternatives.
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I start somewhere and finish somewhere else. I was making a “story” collection and started with songs often played on the gramophone at home when I was young, but that lost focus so I don’t really know why the last songs were chosen except that I particularly like them all. So sadly no perspective, no context or attitude, at least none that I was aware of at the time.
They just fit for me, though I admit in a rather confused way.
The picture is obviously of me, also in a confused state. I hadn’t shaved that day.
You can draw what conclusions you like. I wouldn’t want to constrain your thinking on the
matter.
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Don’t pull that post-modern “find your own meaning” bumf on me, Thank You Very Much. I want to perv on someone else’s meaning.
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But thank you for the rest. And if I may throw in the traditional “technically unsolicited but in fact subliminally solicited by the mere mention of shaving by a male to a female” comment : Good decision not to shave in your case.
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Hear, hear! I second that motion, Voice! Well said!
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Asty, don’t you think that your learn a lot about people by finding out what books they read, the music they listen to, the things they write about but also what the don’t talk or write about…
You learn even more when you find out what kind of company they keep, who they like and look up to…
Their manners say a lot, their political sidings…
Why would you want any ‘confessions’…listen to the music here and learn 🙂
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I agree Helvi… but ‘taste’ though an wonderful indicator of intelligence (among other things) is not always a guarantee of ‘character’… merely of potentially convivial company.
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We sang it until the dogs bayed. Hang down yrrr hedd Tom Dooooeyley. Around the piano. Out the back yard.
Tammy was a little girl’s favourite. I hear the whippoerwills… Tammmmmmeeee, Tammmmmmmeeee, Tammmmmmmeee’s in love…the ole hooty owl hooty hoots from above…
Look forward to listnin’ all these Warrigal. Hugh Laurie playing St James Infirmary, the man’s a legend. I think he would like the label ‘instrumentalist’. Interesting he is so passionate to learn as many instruments as he can.
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Wow, I’ll have to read this later. I’ve, gotta spend the morning in Southport.
First impression: Quiz: Genesis album cover?
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T2, it’s up to you? The photo is the clue.
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Beats me Vectis Lad; I was never really into Genesis… the only album of theirs that I remember the title of is, “Selling England by the Pound”, which wasn’t too bad; I liked the ‘lawnmower’ song; I call it that ’cause the only lyric I can remember was, “… But me I’m just a lawnmower; You can tell me by the way I walk…” Funny thing is, at the time I had a girlfriend in Saffron Waldon whom I met at a Thin Lizzy gig in Cambridge City Hall, called Jane, whose mum used to let me stay over at weekends, in return for which I mowed their lawn, while Jane played albums at me through the French windows… (actually her name wasn’t ‘Jane’, but perhaps it’s best to change the identities of old girlfriends, to protect the innocent, eh?) “Selling England by the Pound” was one of her faves at the time, along with Crosby, Stills Nash and Young’s album; not sure of the title but it’s the one with ‘Our House’ on it…
Fun times… what it was to be young and free!
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I remember Jane 😉
Del Shannon’s performance in Sydney 1989, is on Austar. He died soon after. You bloody Ockers!
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I’ve still got Thin Lizzy on vinyl.
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I don’t suppose the Ozzies deliberately killed him, Vectis Lad… not deliberately anyway!
Ah yes, I remember ‘Foxtrot’ now too! (Now that I’ve chased up the link to said album cover!) I think I may even have heard at least parts of it; people were always playing Genesis at you back then! (It’s my main reason for not getting ‘into’ them!)
And I too have some ‘Thin Lizzy’ on vynil… one o’ these days I’m gunna fix up the ol’ vynil-spinner I think…
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Does anyone like Genesis?
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Who? (directed at Big M, just in case it doesn’t get posted where I think it’s gonna get posted!)
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I don’t mind Genesis, Big M. Lamb lies down on Broadway was a favourite of mine.
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I find all of Genesis, and the members who went on to solo careers all a bit boring, all the same, much like a lot of 80’s music.
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Peter Gabriel: After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album’s biggest hit, “Sledgehammer”, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
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Although my favorites are, ‘Don’t give up’, with Kate Bush. And Solisbury Hill.
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Agree with the favourites there VL. Genesis themeselves had been producing since 1967 and produces most their work in the ’70s.
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and, “In your eyes”. Bwilliant.
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BTW, Warrigal, I am working my way through your loooong list. Having a bit of fun, posting, in between.
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Of course Gabriel was ‘very’ visual, from the start. That was one of the things that set Genesis apart.
I saw Genesis at The Drury Lane Theatre, many moons ago. A knockout!
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I saw something with Gabriel doing Solisbury Hill I think with his daughter. From memory he was riding a bike or was it a unicycle, no it was a bike. Have a butchers.
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Yeah, I’ve seen that a few times. It was a signature thing; the bike thing.
Actually, I can play this while I’m typing into the comment box. That’s cool!
Just had 1/2 an hour channel surfing, between UB40 with Chrissie Hynde as a guest and Tommy Emmanuel live at The Majesty. Ovation and STUDIO. Bwill.
God you would think that Tommy had three hands the way he plays.
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I thought that Peter Gabriel was the weakest link, then, of course Phil Collins was worse!
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Mrs M sometimes plays Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins to drive me crazy. One of the few things on which we disagree!
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Here’s love and dedication. Took Mrs M to the Ronan Keating concert, here in Newcastle. It was sooo, bloody aweful that I went and stood outside for 20 minutes. Mrs M eventually joined me as she too was sick of it.!
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Of course Warrigal, or I, tabled one of Rutherford’s songs here, some months ago. Always a tear jerker.
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I remember most of these. Wolverton Mountain must have been played on the radio every 10 minutes day in and day out for a couple of years.
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Accurate call likely, Viv. Possibly the 4 corners of the ‘Western’ world.
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Wazzer, you legend !
When I read the first three on the list I could have sworn that my Dad (rest his soul) made the list. The Little Boy Lost was a massive hit – I think in 1957 or 58. We had a new Pye Radiogram and that was one of the first 45s that appeared. And Dad used to hum and sort of sing Tom Dooley and Wolverton Mountain tinkering on his car (in the yard because that was before we got the shed before we got the garage – boy heaven). I remember how we used to sing the do wop bit when the song went …… on Wolverton Mountain – Whoo hoooo ! Others on short rotation were The Yellow Rose of Texas (from Aunt Mag) and some 78s including “The Ballad of the Martins and the Coys”, – they was restless mountain boys …..
Then Mom joined the HMI Record club and every month we’d await the latest random selection (which was probably all we could afford) and LPs like South Pacific and Andy Williams and Andre Kostalanetz and Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass showed up. So did Horst Jangkowski’s “Walk in the Black Forest”.
I bought my first single – “I live for the Sun” by the Sunray’s – one hit wonders – Brian Wilson’s Dad’s replacement band when the Beach Boys gave him the flick as their manager. After that came Manfred Mann’s “Do Wha Diddy Diddy” and the Mommas and the Poppas LP – that was knocked off at a party at Lindsay Drummond’s place. After a couple of bottles of Bulmer’s Cider, I wasn’t paying a great deal of attention.
And – the Hugh Laurie album that I bought on iTunes last month – interesting – but on reflection I’m more enthusiastic about his piano playing than his singing.
Great Memories, Waz. Thanks.
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