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Date Posted: 22:19:57 07/23/11 Sat
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again
In reply to: B4 's message, "Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again" on 18:36:20 07/23/11 Sat

I've just googled it, as suggested, and played various versions, including John McCormack's version made in 1925, and I would imagine that my grandparents knew it before then, unlessof course that's about when it was written. Did you listen to the guitar man playing it? Some very good guitar picking there!!! Dad was born in 1912, and he wasn't the eldest, but all his older siblings died in childhood, so it could be that the grandparents knew of the song even then. No matter where it comes from, and I admit I had thought it to be of Scots origin, it's still a great old song. Reg Presley was on his own when we saw him, and he was pretty good, he even did Wild Thing with a backing group (so not entirely on his own but no-one claiming to be a Trogg) and it was pretty good and he sang what he called his pension song, Love is all around. I remember Rachel buying Wet Wet Wet's version of that, and nearly falling off the chair when I blythely started singing along with it, very indignent that her mother knew a new song before she did. I just laughed and told her it was years old. I think the best show we saw in Norwich though was Tommy Steele, who was absolutely superb and who did a piece out of his Man from La Mancha. I saw him back in the early 60s at the London Palladium with my mother and an uncle (uncle's treat) and also Harry Secombe at a show at the Palladium, and Joe Brown & the Brothers in Staines. We went to see the Swiming Blue Jeans in Windso but it was at the time that electricity was being changed from two pin to three pin and the club they were going to play at still had two pin and they couldn't plug any of their gear in so we never did hear them live. Shame, as we were great fans. And you were right, it was Andy Stewart, I didn't think it was right when I typed it but couldn't think of the proper name.

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Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again -- BB, 00:28:41 07/24/11 Sun
- Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again -- thingmy, 01:10:47 07/24/11 Sun