Terry Wogan plays folk!

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: SunrayFC
Date: 22 Sep 09 - 02:20 PM

P L E A S E someone put this to bed. This is not what mudcat is about surely???? and if it is I am leaving... NOW!

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 22 Sep 09 - 07:28 PM

And the whole membership of Mudcat, UK and US, should comply with YOUR wishes because.....?

Don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out!

Goodbye!
Don T.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Dennis the Elder
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 01:36 PM

Life should not be difficult.
I agree with the thought behind your message Don T. to which I add the following.
If something is there you can choose to look at it, if it is not there, you can not! The latter leaves you with no choice.
Choice is important and is one of the reasons (please correct me if I am wrong) Mudcat exists and is successful.
It is also a way to assist people to grow up and mature.
True freedom can only follow choice.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 02:13 PM

Unsure if the objection was based on a) a 'personal' issue with Tezza, b) Just how sickly can can SMTtF be sung? c) General comments about crap folk programming on UK Radio, or d) The light banter which ensued from the above. Otherwise, this thread has clearly been most valuable, in as much as we may conclude that: a) Opera birds should probably stick to Opera songs, and b) Melodeonboy's shirts are probably best worn on the Radio.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: longboat (inactive)
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 02:14 PM

who died and made SunrayFC god?

If Sunray FC doesn't like the thread, the Sunray FC doesn't have to read the thread. Easy enough

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 03:46 PM

Suddenly the urge to refresh this thread has come upon me! No idea why.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Surreysinger
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 06:21 PM

Nor me ... what the dickens does Dee Lite have to do with any of this?? Or have I missed the point somewhat?

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 08:18 AM

This thread is definitely above the line IMHO.
My only point being to clarify what actually goes on within Broadcasting House re Folk (add definition here!) music.
As has been stated. If you're not interested, why read?
There are plenty of threads I wouldn't go near with a bargepole. But this one was more personal, and I chose to put my perspective on it. Anybody got a problem with that?
Ok. Carry on chaps...

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 08:25 AM

No problem at all Ralphie.

I for one am quite happy to be corrected, and it is always useful to know the real story.

My problem was with another poster, who thinks that threads which don't interest him, should be closed.

If he feels that Mudcat, as is, is not for him, then we'll try to contain our disappointment over his departure.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 01:28 PM

davy grahams version the best;
so heralded The Borchester Echo,resonating through the valleys of Highgate.
Could you elucidate,are you referring to his playing or singing ?

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 02:02 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVsLcawHwQ

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 02:05 PM

Highgate is way up high on a hill and right down at the foot is Camden Town where Davy Graham lived, by the Grand Union Canal. That what you mean?
Here he is, playing his oriental-influenced arrangement of SMTtF. He doesn't sing it.

Subject: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 04:55 PM

These petty slights on what is a beautiful version of the Fair song are bizzarre to me. You're showing yourselves to be the cliched, narrow-minded Folkers those outside of yout genre see you as. Surely a beautiful voice is a beautiful voice? If Camilla's style is not yours, how about just not listening to or commenting on her? She is about to launch a career that will see her achieve success none of you could ever aspire to - maybe that's where this bitchy nonsense is coming from. Phil (opened minded student of all music)

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 05:08 PM

Not really, I've listened to some bloody brilliant voices in Opera, and Early English music. I just think this (irrespective of her voice) is gross shmalttzy puppy sick.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 05:55 PM

hi, Borchester ,thanks,your version is better than the one i put up,very good

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 06:07 PM

And "Phil" - as a student, I'm guessing you're a fairly young guy? Some of these old bastards are actually pretty sound. How about getting shot of some of your own "petty" little prejudices about "Folkers" hey? The world isn't all about the student uni bar. Yes, every generation will come with its assumptions (young or old), same as every culture does - but that's what make's it worth exploring.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 01 Oct 09 - 04:26 AM

He's at it again.

I just heard him play a track by an Australian aboriginal singer called (I think) Guru Mul. I think the name of the track was 'Bapa'. Absolutely gorgeous stuff. Such a shame he's retiring. Why can't they just give him Mike Harding's show instead?

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Terry McDonald
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 04:52 AM

Did no one else hear Wogan's stand-in, Johnny Walker, play 'Waiting for the Day' by the 'Fisherman's Friends' this morning? He said that he'd been staying at a B&B in Port Isaac, Cornwall, and someone had given him a CD of a local shanty group, so he played a track from it this morning. Unacompanied lead singer and harmony chorus - real folk club feel about it.

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 05:31 AM

You beat me to it Terry - Any of Fisherman's Friends members here ?

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: melodeonboy
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 05:52 AM

What a great name for a band!

Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
From: breezy
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 06:55 AM

Every Friday night on the Platt, at least during the summer you could hear see em, that may have been in Polzeath.

Thought I had a CD playing in the car when I switched it on this morning, had to do a visual check.