Cover Versions.

Started by Denn Forever, May 30, 2013, 01:19:32 PM

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Milltown Row2

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Over the Bar

Liverpool fans copying Celtic fans YNWA and the Fields or Athenry. Charlatans.

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Quote from: Over the Bar on June 15, 2019, 12:31:06 AM
Liverpool fans copying Celtic fans YNWA and the Fields or Athenry. Charlatans.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/mar/12/theknowledge.sport


''After all, the song, originally written by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1945 for the Broadway musical Carousel, only became a terrace favourite after it was covered by Gerry and the Pacemakers in November 1963. Almost immediately - as footage from Panorama in 1964 shows - Liverpool supporters adopted it.

As Paul Fields points out: "Before the early 60s football fans made noise and occasionally chanted something brief (like Play Up Pompey!) but it was the Kop that started singing popular songs of the day (mainly Merseybeat songs such as Gerry and the Pacemakers' You'll Never Walk Alone) and later started to adapt the lyrics of songs to celebrate the team and its players.

"If any Celtic fans still claim that they sang it first, it would have to predate Gerry's version. Now can you really see thousands of working class Glaswegians in the 50s/early 60s spontaneously joining in a sing-along from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?" No, us neither.''

Jell 0 Biafra

Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that football crowds singing don't count as cover versions.

Ambrose

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