Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)

Subject: Origins: "The Cotswolds" by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Keith from Melville WEstern Australia
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 07:42 PM

I would like to be able to get the song as i can find no mention on the internet of it at all.
It was played on the radio in Western Australia in the 70/80's.
I would be delighted to receive any help in this regard.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: nutty
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 08:47 AM

Can you give any words - verse or chorus?

That might help

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 10:32 AM

Keith, I suggest that you contact Brian Corr when he's doing his 'Reminiscing' show on Curtin Radio on Sunday evenings (Curtin FM 100.1). Between Brian's own collection of records and Curtin's record library he should be able to come up with the song.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: Brakn
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:08 PM

I know that Brendan Shine did it.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,keith from Melville WEstern Australia
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 12:42 AM

Thanks for the info. I will see if I can find a copy of Brendan sing the song.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Keith from Melville Western Australia
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 12:17 AM

Brakn,Thanks for the Brendan shine tip. I have found a copy of Brendan singing Cotswolds on Ebay and am having a bid for it. I don't know anything about him but I will be interested to hear the song, if I get it. Preferably I would like to get a copy of Mick's rendition.
I will contact Brian Corr too.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: Brakn
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 04:26 AM

If you don't win it on eBay I might have a copy somewhere.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 05:54 AM

can anyone supply a copy of the cotswolds by mick connors? ta rob

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,alan
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 01:32 AM

did you find a copy of mick connors version? I have the single at home somewhere.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 12:59 AM

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Terry Larkin, Northam
Date: 27 Aug 11 - 12:01 PM

I have the original 1982 version on a cd which was burned for me by the ABC in Geraldton. It is by Mick Connor. If you would like me to burn it for you just call York FM, which is our community radio station, on 9641-2422 on Saturdays between 6am and 10 am when I am on air or just call ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt and they should be able to provide you with a copy. This song has been the hardest by far to track down.....good luck!

Terry Larkin, Northam

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Donal
Date: 27 Aug 11 - 07:08 PM

Try this

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Beth
Date: 01 Sep 11 - 06:55 AM

hi Allan if you have the copy of Mick Connor ....The Cotswolds please could I get a copy from you .Regards Beth

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Holly Pinner
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 11:38 PM

Is it possible for me to also get a copy of the Mick Connors version?
Holly Pinner
Po box 42
Longford, TAS 7301
I can send you money for postage if you would like?

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Sybil
Date: 03 Jan 12 - 11:41 PM

Hi I would also like a copy of The Cotswolds - by Mick Connor. I have been searching for ages.

Happy to send mondy for the cd copy and postage.

33 Atkinson Road
BLI BLI 4560 Qld.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: Brakn
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 07:28 AM

eBay

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST,Monika
Date: 19 Jul 12 - 07:25 AM

I was over in England a years ago and have got this record. It is absolutely brilliant..

Subject: Lyr Add: THE COTSWOLDS (from Brendan Shine)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Sep 13 - 08:59 AM

My transcription from the recording on YouTube. (Whoever uploaded it seems to have combined it with a political message that makes no sense to me and seems irrelevant to the original intent of the song.)


THE COTSWOLDS
As sung by Brendan Shine

Are you packing your bag, son, and you're going away?
Can't say that I blame you, but you hear what I say:
Yes, your mother will miss you, but we mustn't complain,
And you'll never come back to the Cotswolds again.

Go up on the hillside; look down through the valley
From Gloucester to Cheltenham, but you've no time to dally.
Are you catching a ship today? And you know we maintain
That you'll never come back to the Cotswolds again.

It was your home, but you like to roam
Anywhere over the sea,
And when you go, we seem to know
You won't come back to your mother and me.

So we wish you farewell son; don't forget that we love you.
Drop a line when you've landed and when you're feeling blue.
But remember the old house stands through the wind and the rain,
And you'll never come back to the Cotswolds again.
No, you'll never come back to the Cotswolds again.


[Note: I have spent several minutes trying to nail down the songwriter's name—that is, verify it from an authoritative source—and failed. Is it Connor or Connors? I have seen it both ways, both in this thread and elsewhere on the internet, including the comments on the YouTube page.

[I have also seen him—that is, possibly the same person, but again, not verified by an authoritative source—referred to as "Shag" Connor, or Connors, or Conner. If this page is to be believed, the name is spelled all three ways on the same album cover!]

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 14 - 03:05 AM

The late Mick Connors was a friend and fellow musician and I can tell you the true origin of Micks song The Cotswolds as Mick told it to me all those years ago.. If you're interested then send me an e-mail to
[e-mail]. I live in Mandurah, Western Australia.. Al

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Feb 14 - 09:17 AM

I believe he was lead singer with 'The Carrot Crunchers' , a group in the same genre as Adge Cutler's 'Wurzels'

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds by Mick Connors
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 14 - 09:31 PM

Mick Connors worked under the name of "Shag Connors" with his band "The Carrot Crunchers" He also did solo gigs with a guitar and doing a kind of "stand-up" comedian/singer as Mick Connors. We both worked a pub in Fishponds (Bristol) one night.. Al

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 14 - 09:04 AM

Happy to help
Mick Connors (Shag) Died of cancer in 1987. His Band the carrot crunchers still existed in one format or another until at least the mid 2000s an EP, SRS 2105 includes the Cotswolds released in 1979

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 14 - 11:36 PM

D.C. Thailand
Brendan Shine does an excellent version of this song and in my opinion as good as Mick Connors version which used to be aired by Curtin University radio and may still be played by them. I wouldn't know now as i've been away from Perth for some years but play Shines version on You Tube.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,vicron
Date: 07 Nov 14 - 01:58 AM

Heard the Mick Connors version of The Cotswolds on Curtin FM this morning (Fri 7 Nov 2014). Like to get a copy but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 14 - 08:48 PM

If you like to contact me at [e-mail] I can help you.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,Harry Newfield
Date: 27 Nov 15 - 03:59 AM

Now on Youtube. NB No 'S' in Connor.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,Gary Oreo
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 03:30 PM

I also recently uploaded to YouTube the version that Mick Connor released under the "Play" label (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywI4hi5Lfyk). Although I prefer the version that was released under the "Logo" label, the Play version is great in its own right.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,keith
Date: 12 Jul 17 - 05:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agt-7w__2XQ

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,Monika
Date: 18 Nov 17 - 06:30 AM

I still have the single which was given to me as a present when I lived in England, blood brilliant son I reckon..

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 03:13 PM

What a beautiful song. Here is Mick Connor (that's what it says on the vinyl record) singing it. The words are the same as those posted by Jim on 23 Sep 13 - 08:59 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agt-7w__2XQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agt-7w__2XQ

Subject: RE: Origins: The Cotswolds (Mick Connors)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 04:06 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywI4hi5Lfyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywI4hi5Lfyk

On this 45 he's credited as Shag Connors.