your favourite chorus songs?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 11:09 PM

Good one, AlanWW... wish I'd thought of it!

Snuffy, thanks for clearing that up for me -- I thought it was odd it wasn't in the DT.

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Sandy Andina
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 01:01 AM

Some not mentioned:
Streets of London
Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms
City of New Orleans
Thanksgiving Eve
Circle Game
Werewolves of London (yeah, it's a rock song, but everyone in the audience loves to go "Ah-WOO!" whenever I play it)
The Last Thing On My Mind
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
The Boxer
The Weight
and, of course, The Dutchman

Not to get morbid or weepy here, but the first time I ever heard Streets of London was when Fred Holstein did it live at the Barbarossa in 1979.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,crooner
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 02:33 AM

tell me baby why you been gone so long, a surefire hit!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 05:09 PM

Leave Her, Johnny
We're On the One Road
Uist Tramping Song

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: plum
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 06:51 PM

caledonia - anyone at fylde last year?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Schantieman
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 02:09 PM

Streets of London?

STREETS OF LONDON?

STREETS OF LONDON?

It's not quite that bad sung to the tune of Wild Rover but...I ask you....   Streets of London?!!

S

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Schantieman
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 02:54 PM

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: muppitz
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 05:43 PM

It would very much depend, was I at a specific Shanty session, it would have to be "Rolling Down to Old Maui", and for the general free for alls, there is the classic, "They don't write 'em like that anymore".

However were I to be at a Padgett & Booker run singaround, there would be no way of getting out without a Holmfirth Anthem! After Auld Lang Syne(?), it was the first song sung after Big Ben at the Tap & Spile at Whitby on New Year's Eve, though, I must admit, I don't remember an awful lot about it!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 07:19 PM

I like to hear Streets of London once in awhile but I can't say I'd sing it as an anthem. But I do like the chorus of Thanksgiving Eve:

What can you do with your days
But work and hope
Let your dreams bind your work to your play
What can you do with each moment of your life
But love 'till you've loved it away
Love 'till you've loved it away.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:55 PM

"Streets of LONDON??" (is there an echo in here?)

"C'mon, everyone...mumble the chorus with me...let's show 'em what saccherine IS!"

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sandina
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 01:54 AM

Hey, gimme a break re: Streets of London---it doesn't get played very often Stateside. I understand though, that it's the "Macarena" or "Celebration" of the European folk world, and I promise never to sing or request it on the east side of the pond.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,bugsy
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 03:46 AM

Well said Alanww!

It's "Country Life" for me too.



Cheers



Bugsy

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sooz
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 04:08 AM

Thanks for the memory, Plum - Caledonia indeed. (Mike and I were at Fylde!)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 07:35 AM

Then I shall expect your voice to be dominant amongst the choruseers when I do it tonight at Bingham, Sooz.
Curly Bin Lowden

Subject: RE: Longer choruses feel the best?
From: MickyMan
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 07:48 AM

Wow... Country Life. That one also sticks in my head as #1 after reading down the thread through about a hundred. How about Five Foot Flirt. I believe it's by Cyril Tawney[sic]? I don't know about the rest of you, but there seems to be a strange dynamic that exhibits itself in the singing of chorus songs....People like LONG CHORUSES BEST, but they need to have people around who can sing with them. There's a great feeling of accomplishment when you've learned the words and tune to a real long one, and a real charge when you find out that other people know it too. I'll bet that in the days before recordings and general literacy this must have been a compounded charm. All the learning had to happen in groups of at least two. Anyway, there seem to be lots of long choruses in older songs.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 07:56 AM

I love Five Foot Flirt.....and no-one mentioned Sammy's Bar I noticed, although I guess that isn't a chorus per se....( who is this Percy person and what has he to do with it all?). I love Byker Hill too, especially the way our own Cllr sings it.....Pixie calls it Combat Folk Singing.....plenty of ooomph.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Trevor
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 08:13 AM

Good Old Way
Follow On
John Barleycorn
One of the Rakish Kind
Constant Lovers

...so there!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 09:08 AM

Long Choruses and short verses are always popular

Cadgwith Anthem
Funeral Song (All his other wives came in)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sooz
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 08:33 AM

Well, Curly, it was a shame Caledonia got squeezed out but I enjoyed giving vent in Roll on the Day!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 09:35 AM

I've thought of a couple more, after going to Almost Acoustic tonight - "Stand by the shore" - the Fagans raised the roof with it - and "Poison Train".

Jenny

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 09:13 PM

Orphan Child
Anchored in Love
Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 07:08 AM

John Ball!!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 07:41 AM

There are so many good choruses to sing, my old shipmate Les
Sullivan has knocked out one or two as has El Greko. But, it is
sometimes where you sing them that matters.Wareham Wail always
brings out the best in a chorus as does a Dave Guest gents toilet
singaround. Time for another thread perhaps?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:20 PM

I don't think it matters what the song is, as long as there is a really rude version which the less reputable audience members can yell at the top of their lungs ;-)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:39 PM

But then that's not singing, GUEST.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:57 PM

True, but they usually THINK it is. It a singing style popular amoung football crowds, coach tours and primary school assembalies.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 06:13 PM

True- been there, played the piano for primary school assemblies... but I was thinking more along the lines of the chorus singing outside the Moor and Coast tent at Warwick festival at 1am last Monday... wow.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 03:37 PM

True, that is the best type of singing (especially when done at 1, 2, 3am) a truly transendental experience.
Unfortunatly a relitivly small number of people in this country ever get to enjoy it!