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Thread #170145   Message #4207041
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
15-Aug-24 - 01:51 AM
Thread Name: Any August Songs?
Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
On 15 August 1960 Britain’s first motorway restaurant was opened on the M1 at Newport Pagnell.

Decameron, formed in 1968 in Cheltenham by Johnny Coppin and Dave Bell, had a Motorway Song with a chorus based on the motorway sign;

A petrol pump
A knife and fork
A cup of tea
And a P

I don't think that they ever recorded it.

THE MOTORWAY SONG (Rosselson)   - The Black Family       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmIFNvIxvbk
2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY   - Tom Robinson Band       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo

ENGLAND’S MOTORWAYS   (Ewan MacColl)   - Thomas Doran       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1JqBy6lHK0
England's Motorway · Blackwater Céilí Band · Emmet Mulholland · Dermot Mulholland    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHj2R4EhdE
England's Motorway (My Little Son) · Philomena Begley    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOS6ckdSIo