The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97013   Message #1912533
Posted By: Teribus
18-Dec-06 - 08:15 AM
Thread Name: Definitive Versions
Subject: RE: Definitive Versions
"Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice" - Hamish Imlach
"Black is the Colour" - Hamish Imlach

I don't think I could ever imagine any female artist singing "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" convincingly (First line - When I was a young man I carried a pack)

As to Arthur McBride - there is a guy from Derry, Seamus "Skirm" Curley, fantastic musician with an even better voice, who is based in Manchester now, who sings this and puts some real guts behind it, knocks spots of Brady's rendering of the song. I don't believe he has recorded it unfortunately.