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Posted By: GUEST
05-Apr-07 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Harry Boardman Documentary - memories please
Subject: RE: Harry Boardman Documentary - memories please
Clubs,
Waggon and Horses - 'Wayfarers'. (with Terry Whelan, Terry Griffiths, Tom Gilfellon, Dave Hillary
Pack Horse (I think still Wayfarers, with most of the above + elderly Irish singer Eddie Lenihan)
Blue Anchor (somewhere off Deansgate) with Barry Taylor and me.
He also ran a club in Droylsden (with 'The Beggarmen'???).
Anybody knew and admired Harry will remember that in unaccompanied songs he had a tendency to rise in pitch.
In the latter half of the sixties (at the height of 'Flower Power' he was booked to sing at the students Folk Club at M/c University. He launched into the extremely rangy version of 'Flying Cloud' and began to rise steadily in pitch.
During the performance, two students were squatting down at the back of the stage attempting to light a joint and in doing so, managed to set alight to the curtains.
Totally unaware, Harry finished the song, red about the gills, straining for the top notes, against a magnificent backdrop of blazing floor-to-ceiling curtains - good days!
Jim Carroll