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Sean Thornton said:
"Casino Classics" :(

Winstanley Minshull and Evisons pop period. Bad times.
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"Lenny Gamble"......hmmmm, weird, I could swear that sounds just like Tony Blackburn singing?

By the way, have you read "Young Soul Rebels" by Stuart Cosgrove?, I am half way through it, an excellent, well written book on his experiences on the scene.
 

Grappler said:
Sang in band called "Tomorrow" who had a load of promotion (like billboard posters all over the place) and not much to back it up. They did the original "My White Bicycle", which I have on a compilation album of obscure British Psychedelic Music.

The bloke who wrote the music for Grocer Jack also wrote, "A Touch of Velvet, a Sting of Brass", which was the theme tune to Musikladen, the German "Top of the Pops" and appeared on one of those "Casino Classics" compilation albums.
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Just correcting myself here, just sat and thought about it and remember seeing posters all over, on Chesterfield Road, in town, etc., and in fact it was for a film about a fictional band called "Toomorrow", (Olivia Newton John vehicle), which sank without a trace.

So I was getting obscure band (Tomorrow) and obscure film (Toomorrow) mixed up, but then again, we are talking about a long time ago, and I was still in short trousers.
 
We hate Nottingham Forest (or any other team whose name scans) to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory. -
Edward Elgar 1904.
He was an Arsenal fan so would have been quite happy with We hate Tottenham Hotspur.
 
Costs, there it is!

Must be the 90's

There's not many newer as music has been shite since the turn of the millennium
 
The main issue here is that the importance of "the charts" has declined so much, that the vast majority of people could not name the "number one" song, let alone the top 5 or 10. That was never the case back in the 60's, 70's, 80's, when just about everyone knew the songs in the charts. In the 1970's, you could sell a million copies of a single in a week and only get into the top 10, these days, a few thousand gets you to number one.

The other thing, that goes hand-in-hand with the charts, was Top of the Pops. That finished in 2005/2006, so no weekly TV show, with chart hits.

So the vast majority of people of a certain age will remember the songs of 60's to 90's, easier to use as football chants.
 
Some 90/00’s track that I never know the name of for Caolan Lavery
 
Land of hope and glory ( We've got Hope and Currie) 1902
 

Here's a clip of Judy Garland singing 'Glory Glory Sheff United' from Look North back in the 60s. Unfortunately she got all flustered, forgot the words and started babbling on about the war.

 
Cerberus Blade said:
What I find interesting is that the majority of these "football" anthems are based on British pop songs from the 1960's and 70's. This is a case in point. The song, "Daydream Believer" was written in 1967 by John Stewart and recorded by The Monkees. It became a number 1 hit in America, although only got as far as number 5 in the UK charts. It has become a lot more popular since football fans adopted it and changed the lyrics obviously.

What I would like to know is this...

Where are the songs from the 80's and onwards that have become football anthems? There are very few. Which maybe suggests that tunes were better back then, or we have raised a generation or two of folks since then who have not the faintest clue how to make good tunes or write lyrics, but instead spend inordinate amounts of time on football messageboards trying to be the first to make a new song about the latest signing.;)
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Not having the faintest clue seems fairly accurate given arguably the majority of appalling attempts on here. Bless em.
There seems little understanding of meter and rhyme.
Our famous Chip Butty song to my mind is delivered with the haste of a pubescent teenager, having experienced his first caress of the knicker elastic and cannot wait to reach the intended destination.
Patience it seems has long left the room and only the beer fumes remain.
Personally I believe it could be as anthemic as it's original source. With room perhaps for a second verse.
I might be wrong about the beer. Other recreational experiences are allegedly readily available. It may explain why from other stands it sounds so rushed.
Whatever the answer you make a valid point about musical decades affording more usable starting points.
I might well have a go at more recent tunes aligned to some of our footballing talent.
And perhaps a more organised group of willing vocalists would help.How that would be achieved is up for suggestionCheers and UTB
 
Yoonited said:
Not having the faintest clue seems fairly accurate given arguably the majority of appalling attempts on here. Bless em.
There seems little understanding of meter and rhyme.
Our famous Chip Butty song to my mind is delivered with the haste of a pubescent teenager, having experienced his first caress of the knicker elastic and cannot wait to reach the intended destination.
Patience it seems has long left the room and only the beer fumes remain.
Personally I believe it could be as anthemic as it's original source. With room perhaps for a second verse.
I might be wrong about the beer. Other recreational experiences are allegedly readily available. It may explain why from other stands it sounds so rushed.
Whatever the answer you make a valid point about musical decades affording more usable starting points.
I might well have a go at more recent tunes aligned to some of our footballing talent.
And perhaps a more organised group of willing vocalists would help.How that would be achieved is up for suggestionCheers and
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Yoonited said:
Not having the faintest clue seems fairly accurate given arguably the majority of appalling attempts on here. Bless em.
There seems little understanding of meter and rhyme.
Our famous Chip Butty song to my mind is delivered with the haste of a pubescent teenager, having experienced his first caress of the knicker elastic and cannot wait to reach the intended destination.
Patience it seems has long left the room and only the beer fumes remain.
Personally I believe it could be as anthemic as it's original source. With room perhaps for a second verse.
I might be wrong about the beer. Other recreational experiences are allegedly readily available. It may explain why from other stands it sounds so rushed.
Whatever the answer you make a valid point about musical decades affording more usable starting points.
I might well have a go at more recent tunes aligned to some of our footballing talent.
And perhaps a more organised group of willing vocalists would help.How that would be achieved is up for suggestionCheers and UTB
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Think I remember this being to status quo at a last home match at the end of season when the rust got relegated once
"downnnn....downnnnn....the piggies are down...."
 
Billy Boys, adapted by us as Shoreham Boys (the original, not the "shag your beer" version! ). 1930's Glasgow Rangers sectarian song. I don't like the Rangers words but I like ours, and I don't think we sing it enough. It's much better than"shag your beer"!!
 
We must be the only team that sung a song to the tune of Little Arrows by Leapy Lee. :)
 
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but didn't we have a tune to "Death of a Clown" by the Kinks. Deriding an old Wendy manager?


 
We used to sing "On Ilkley Moor bah taht" but havent a clue when it was written - guessing the 1800's ?
 
nopigfansintown said:
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but didn't we have a tune to "Death of a Clown" by the Kinks. Deriding an old Wendy manager?


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The words were something like this ..
"Their fans are all plastic, their ground's made of tin ,,,,,we'll drown all those bastards in bottles of gin.
10,000 Wednesdayites dead on the floor .. they wont come on Shoreham Street Kop any more "
Might have been another verse but cant remember it now
 

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