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Thread #129632   Message #3094218
Posted By: MGM·Lion
13-Feb-11 - 04:47 AM
Thread Name: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
Subject: RE: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
BTW, Jim. Have you ever been to the Last Night Of The Proms? I was a regular prommer in my mid-teens. I went to Last Night several years running in late 40s, from about age 14-17. Even back then, the student element regarded the singing of LOHAG as a big joke, a demonstration of their don't·give·a·toss studently insouciance. It really did bear no resemblance to all those oh-so-earnest Scouse faces on tv singing YNWA, heartily or as if their ♥♥ would break, in triumph or despair dependent on how the 'Pool are doing. I daresay some people reverted atavistically to a former mode at Falklands time; but that wasn't at the Proms, was it?

~M~