Birmingham songs

[Pedrocut]

Do you do the Slap Bum Tailor ?

 

[The Rotundas]

Do you do the Slap Bum Tailor ?

Can't do it better than Roy Palmer's version here

 

[I Am Nico]

Here's a couple of links to our songs about Brum and the Black Country

https://soundcloud.com/therotundas%2Fsets%2Fbrumpunch

and

https://soundcloud.com/therotundas%2Fsets%2Fsimple-songs-from-simple-men

hope you enjoy them! Nick, Ian and Matt The Rotundas

I know the Bromsgrove Nailers as Jack of All Trades, a Dublin song, with different streets obviously. Lovely stuff. I used to go to folk pubs in Coventry and followed 3 Brummie Bands, Slip Jig and the Tommy Dempsey Band, both mainly Irish bands, and Fish and Chips. Then Rocky Road, Scartaglen and Mulliners Rough. They were Irish and one, the last one I think had a fiddler who wore a little multi coloured hat to play. I think he was of European descent. A chap calle Anthony Round played with Slip Jig.

 

[I Am Nico]

Here's a couple of links to our songs about Brum and the Black Country

https://soundcloud.com/therotundas%2Fsets%2Fbrumpunch

and

https://soundcloud.com/therotundas%2Fsets%2Fsimple-songs-from-simple-men

hope you enjoy them! Nick, Ian and Matt The Rotundas

Great thanks, can't beat folk music.

A couple sang your When Shall We Get Married, John? At my Nan's second wedding. It was about the only good thing about it as I couldn't stand her 2nd husband.They were both from Coventry, he was an ex comedian, but they called it, Where Shall we Go For The Wedding John? It was a slightly different tune, ending in Johnny, my own true Lover. I remember his reply sang in an ooo arrrr farming accent, something after the muck spreadin' Mary. She put on an old poke bonnet and cape for the rendition.

We used to sing in the office we shared with 2 other teams when the Newspaper Offices were getting whittled down. The boss of one of the other depts, Readers' Offers, used to tell us off. We sang anything and everything but folk wise it was Danny Boy. You Take the High Road and Comin Through The Rye. I used to go upstairs and Sing with a lady that Managed the Agricultural papers, Kevin Barry, in memory of her late brother of the same name.

 

[carolina]

I cant find Brummagem.

 

[Down Memory Lane]

This is one I played regularly in a previous life and still play it now and again today, The Hoochie Coochie Man From Kingstanding...

There is an actual video showing scenes around Kingstanding Shopping Centre here, but the sound quality is poor...

 

[Down Memory Lane]

This was the “B” side to the above, all about his partner “Trace”...