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Every town should have a song
Posted by DogFacedBoy on 3 September 2010 - 10:15pm.
Stumbled across this little beauty
and tried to think of other unlikely places praised in song. Yes London, Paris and New York New York but how about
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I'm just getting over
Joe Brown's 'Barnet', Lawks a-Lawdy!!!
Three hats for Lisa
I was once in the middle of a near riot caused by this film.Danny baker read it out on his show. I'll post it tomorrow.
I remember someone put
I remember someone put musicals into Room 101 and they showed a clip from it.
Pfft. Time for some quality...
Is there any
footage from the 60's that doesn't contain Una Stubbs?
Elton John - Grimsby
(before anyone gets in first with it)
You could make a claim for Wantage or Broadstairs...
but Half Man Half Biscuit have only really lauded Chatteris
The Only
Living Boy in New Cross
Carter USM
Also
Only 24 hours from Tulse Hill.
And this. A song taken to people's hearts:
Unfortunately
My hometown of Hucknall, Notts got a knob instead.
But we do have Byron's body, as well as Byron Travel, Byron Carpets and the Byron Cinema and Bingo Hall.
mad
mad, bad and dangerous to buy axminster from.
Warrington
Oh Warrington (Oh Warrington)
Is wonderful (is wonderful)
Oh Warrington is wonderful
With all the tits, the fanny and the wire
Oh Warrington is wonderful
Well you asked for it, to be fair.
Northampton…
… of course Northampton!
Both Badly Drawn Boy and
Both Badly Drawn Boy and Frankie Vaughan (winner of the 1991 Best Name As Euphemism For Pornography award) have sung about Stockport.
I've got one.
What relevance it has to Portsmouth is anyone's guess. Doesn't look much like where I live.
Turnham Green
from the very lovely Colorama.
Unlikely towns in song
Woking is apparently the "town called malice", although Weller couldn't bring himself to mention it by name.
Captain Sensible also had a song called Croydon.
Blackpool
Jethro Tull's tribute to the delights of Blackpool (the only lyric to mention 'sarnies'?):
Broadford
And here's a song about Broadford on the Isle of Skye:
Unable to embed
but here's Frankie Vaughan's moving tribute to Stockport
When I say "moving" I am of course referring to bowels.
My mum is from Palmer's Green
... which is of course the setting for one of the verses of Jona Lewie's "You'll always find me in the Kitchen at Parties"
"I met this sexy thing, she laughed and talked with me
She was into French cuisine, but I aint no cordon bleu
This was at some do in Palmer’s Green... I had no luck with her"
Outstanding verse, there, Mr Lewie.
You're like Manchester...
you've got Strangeways. Marvellous.
John Shuttleworth - Manchester I Love You
My home town - Bolton
Bloody 'ell! Just watched this video all the way through for the first time. It features our friend Marie from Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe.
Lest Ye Forget...
How pleased I am
that my hometown has been commemorated with such a comparison...
My home town(?) of Rock Ferry
So good they sang about it twice.
Deaf School
("Hand me my coat and my beret...I'm goin' home, to Rock Ferry")
and Duffy
("I’d move to Rock Ferry, to my road (tomorrow?)...and I’d build my house baby, with sorrow")
Rock Ferry is of course, part of Birkenhead, itself immortalised in song by the Moz ("(it took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead to really really open her eyes") in 'What She Said'.
Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire
more commonly known in it's misspelt form of Fotheringay
Fairport's haunting pean to the site of the former castle and place of Mary, Queen of Scots execution
Don't Live there, but:
Croydon immortalised in song by Captain Sensible:
Can't think of anything for my own hometown of Reading
Not really a song...
But Hank and the boys referenced my hometown on this B-side to Wonderful Land.
Banbury - place of my birth...
The Wiggles say it best... Although they couldn't even spell it right...
The utter shiteness of 80s Banbury... in Indie song...