Chart Music

[Alderman Barnes]

I'm with you on Mk 1 Bee Gees, there, and was outraged at their shoddy treatment until I thought about it, but I'm very much a Mk. 0 man, when they were still in Australia. I love that stuff.

[Satchmo Distel]

I think we can agree with them that the Stevie song was on a different level to everything else on the show, but I feel it's a stretch to say Stevie 1968-1969 is on a par with 1971-76. His late 60s work is enjoyable partly because it's less familiar (at least to me) but if you could only keep one period, this isn't it, surely? It's produced by a team of writers rather than being Stevie's most personal and individual work.

[Sporting]

I can never listen to Seasons in the Sun without being reminded of the football chant "We had joy, we had fun, we had [scousers] on the run, but the joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast".

Is this still sung?

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I can never listen to Seasons in the Sun without being reminded of the football chant "We had joy, we had fun, we had [scousers] on the run, but the joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast".

Is this still sung?

Still hear it occasionally, and its festive companion piece "Hark now hear".

Most of those singing it would have little clue of the original song, much like 'Son of My Father', 'Sloop John B', 'Tom Hark', and 'Pigbag', and probably few of them would have known 'Free From Desire' before it was adapted.

[Jah Womble]

Add ‘Hello! Hello! (Arsenal) reject! (Arsenal) reject!’ to the above list.

(Gary Glitter, obvs.)

[Sporting]

How about chants to the tune of The Mighty Quinn (maybe invented by Liverpool fans for E. Hughes)?

[hobbes]

I can never listen to Seasons in the Sun without being reminded of the football chant "We had joy, we had fun, we had [scousers] on the run, but the joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast".

Is this still sung?

For me it'll always be:-

We had joy, we had fun
Flicking bogies at the sun
But the sun got too hot
So the bogies turned to snot

[Satchmo Distel]

Circa 1973:

Georgie Best, superstar
Wears frilly* knickers and he wears a bra

*We sang it as "funny knickers" due to mishearing. And we had no idea this was from a musical about Jesus

[Sporting]

At the time it was (what I heard) "...walks like a woman and he wears a bra".

[hobbes]

Jesus Christ,
Superstar
Shot round the corner on his Yamaha
Did a skid,
Killed a kid
Paralysed his bollocks on a dustbin lid

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Is tom hark the most famous black south african piece of music that isn't the Lion sleeps tonight? Anyone who has ever heard tom Hark once, knows the melody.

[G-Man]

Still hear it occasionally, and its festive companion piece "Hark now hear".

Most of those singing it would have little clue of the original song, much like 'Son of My Father', 'Sloop John B', 'Tom Hark', and 'Pigbag', and probably few of them would have known 'Free From Desire' before it was adapted.

I submit that very few people even here know the original "Son Of My Father". A German song by Michael Holm. And if you are about to object that you mean the English version, it's by Giorgio (Moroder), who wrote it with Holm.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

i've never heard that son of my father song before. who uses that in chants?

[hobbes]

Liverpool had a Sami Hyppia song to that tune.

[Satchmo Distel]

"Son Of My Father" was a Lancashire cricket fans favourite

"Ooh, Lancy, Lancy; Lancy Lancy Lancy Lancy Lancashire."

And the Banana Splits song:

"La la la...Lancashire."

Confirmed in Martin Kelner's 'Sit Down In Cheer'.

[jwdd27]

Yorkshire fans also liked to sing the "Lancy, Lancy, Lancy, Lancy Lancashire" song, with a subtle replacement of the L with a W.

[Auntie Beryl]

i've never heard that son of my father song before. who uses that in chants?

"oh, Teddy Teddy
Teddy Teddy Teddy Teddy Sheringham"

[Sporting]

I submit that very few people even here know the original "Son Of My Father". A German song by Michael Holm. And if you are about to object that you mean the English version, it's by Giorgio (Moroder), who wrote it with Holm.

That was news to me at least.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Son of My Father only suits players with five-syllable names. So Frankie Worthington and Teddy Sheringham basically.

I was also surprised that the 60s-era Bee Gees got such a kicking. I'm quite fond of the yellow Best of LP. Odessa too. I like the disco period too.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Son of My Father only suits players with five-syllable names. So Frankie Worthington and Teddy Sheringham basically.

Or three syllables. Like Joey Jones.

[treibeis]

For me it'll always be:-

We had joy, we had fun
Flicking bogies at the sun
But the sun got too hot
So the bogies turned to snot

There was also:

We had joy, we had fun
We had Shirley Bassey's bum
But the things we liked best
Were the big things on her chest

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Retro applause for CM #42 - TotP 27th August 1981. Excellent contributions from all. Probably my favourite so far, possibly because it's 'my' musical era.

[delicatemoth]

How about chants to the tune of The Mighty Quinn (maybe invented by Liverpool fans for E. Hughes)?

"You ain't seen nothing like the Mighty String" (Mike Stringfellow), so that was adapted pretty much straight away, though I've no idea whether Leicester fans originated it or heard it for a different player.

[Gangster Octopus]

How about chants to the tune of The Mighty Quinn (maybe invented by Liverpool fans for E. Hughes)?

We had that song as pre-match music when John Quinn played for us in the late-sixties/early seventies and again when we had Steven Quinn playing for us (briefly) in the mid-noughties, but never when Emlyn was our player-manager...

[Stumpy Pepys]

I'm only part way through this, but I always had a soft spot for Never Ending Story. Not happy with the negativity