Danny Boy

[brum]

but Gigi...the pipes are calling....

[SimonM]

has Gigi been growing up before our very eyes then? B)

[JetSetWilly]

Josef Locke

[????]

I have visions of PGC emerging from a flu sleep with red wine hangover and a touch of boozers gloom, Danny Boy ringing round her head and this doubt....."I didn't start a thread on Danny boy did I? No, just a dream"

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Alas, the red wine was to induce sleep. It failed. Two hours is the longest I've managed before a hacking cough wakes me up. I'm not ashamed of last night's thread - it's obviously due to hallucinatory effects of no sleep for a week.

Right, off to check out Maestro Locke.

[giggirl]

My mother adored Josef Locke.

Sorry that all that red wine was to no avail PGC. Night Nurse perhaps?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I might try a scotch concotion tonight. Night Nurse would be like drinking Benedictine and I'd have to move to Burnley.

[SimonM]

Josef Locke! Yes! "Hear My Song" was a wonderful film and, if memory serves, featured an early (first?) role for local hero James Nesbitt...B)

[Jah Lush]

I'm pretty sure The Dubliners did a cracking version. My dad used to sing it to me when I was a little-un. Lovely song.

[giggirl]

Hear My Song is indeed a marvellous film. Just the thing for when you've got the flu. Recommended.

[Ted Max]

Surely it can't be preferable to thrashing around in a tannin-induced waking nightmare, whilst 20 different versions of Danny Boy swim through your head?

[giggirl]

Which one of Dante's inner circles do you think that one belongs in then Ted Max?

[annaj]

Jah, just for you I've had a good look, but I can't find a version by The Dubliners anywhere online.

I did have my own trip down memory lane though, with Whiskey on a Sunday which my mum used to sing.

[Ted Max]

Giggirl, I think even Bosch would have shaken his head and put the brush down.

[Jah Lush]

Probably only on vinyl Anna. My dad loved the Dubliners and once sang with them backstage at the Albert Hall.

[annaj]

Ace!

Ok, Jah, next time I see you I insist that you serenade me with Danny Boy and Whiskey on a Sunday.

[Atila Reincarnate]

I've always hated this song, and my hatred of it was made all the worse when some noodle decided to sing before Barry McGuigans fights in the 80's.

[Jah Lush]

Atila, it was Barry McGuigan's dad who sang the song before his fights. Try and cheer up you miserable old sod.

Annaj - how about The Holy Ground?

[Atila Reincarnate]

Crap song, sorry.

[annaj]

Atila, you're just a little ray of sunshine aren't you?

Jah, you can serenade me with whatever you like.

[Jah Lush]

How about Strangled In The Night? Sorry, I meant Strangers In The Night. Nah! Forget it I hate Frank Sinatra. Oh! I know Anna by Arthur Alexander. Perfect.

[legalbeagle]

Tupply Glossup's version in Jeeves and Wooster?

[Atila Reincarnate]

annaj Wrote:

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> Atila, you're just a little ray of sunshine aren't

> you?

>

Yes. Still a crap song.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sounds intriguing, legalbeagle, can you find a link?

Emotionally, I'm leaning towards Josef Locke cos my grandpappy was in the Palestinian Police Force too. But, still think ol' Bing has it at the mo.

PS, don't buy a disgusting concotion called Scotsmac costing ?3 from Netto. A blend of British wine and whisky. Yuk, yuk, yuk. But it is 15% proof so this thread might get interesting!

[Moos]

This is exactly the kind of random bollocks for which the lounge was once justly famous. Good work, forumites.

Has anyone posted a link to Josef singing Hear My Song itself yet?0