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Lyr Req: Theme from 'The Liver Birds' (BBC sitcom) |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Theme tune to tv shoe 'The Lier birds' From: rhyzla Date: 24 Oct 04 - 02:39 PM Does anyone remember the them to tv prog 'The Liver birds' in uk in 70s(?) and what it was called and if it has lyrics? Barry |
Subject: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: rhyzla Date: 24 Oct 04 - 02:40 PM Bloody 'ell, me spellings up the creak!! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Theme tune to tv shoe 'The Lier birds' From: Mark Dowding Date: 24 Oct 04 - 02:47 PM The words that were used on the TV programme went something like Whats got four legs, walks peculier Talks with all the choicest words What's got four arms, loves to grab you Answer is two Liver Birds If you're standing on the corner All alone and feeling low Liver Birds'll come and grab you Singing ee i ad ee o I think they were sung by the Scaffold (Lily the Pink & Thank u very much) Based on the song: On a mountain stands a lady Where it is I do not know (or Who she is I do not know) All she wants is gold and silver All she wants is a nice young man. Hope this helps Cheers Mark |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Theme tune to tv shoe 'The Lier birds' From: Doug Chadwick Date: 24 Oct 04 - 03:03 PM You beat me to it Mark. By the time I had typed out the words, you had already posted. As I remember the tune was followed by a couple of spoken chat-up lines between a lad and a Liver Bird: Are yer dancin'? Are yer askin' ? I'm askin'. I'm dancin'. Doug C |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: PennyBlack Date: 24 Oct 04 - 08:50 PM "On the Mountain Stands a Lady" sung by The Scaffold, written by Mike McCartney (aka Mike McGear) Paul's Brother. based on a Street/Skipping rhyme:- On the mountain stands a lady, Who she is I do not know. All llshe wants is gold and silver, All she wants is a nice young man, So call in my very best friend, very best friend, very best friend, Call in my very best friend, While I go go out to play. But can't find the words in total although I know they're on a few CDs (TV themes etc.) have sent a couple of emails out to the people who should know! and will pass on any replies I get. good luck PB |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: Little Robyn Date: 25 Oct 04 - 04:42 AM It's a kids chant - for skipping to, I think. It was on the record 1,2,3, and a zing, zing, zing, recorded back in the 50s. Robyn |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: Flash Company Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:21 AM Something about 'Liver Birds will come and get ya, Singin' Ee Aye Addio' FC |
Subject: Lyr Add: LIVER BIRDS - Theme (The Scaffold) From: GUEST,Dave Roberts, Salt Town Poets Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:19 AM Here's the words of the single, as transcribed from 'Thank U Very Much - the Very best Of The Scaffold' (EMI Gold) It's very much a sixties song, as you'll see. Incidentally, I know that the last line in verse 3 doesn't scan. On the record Scaffold get round this by make the word 'go' into two syllables (if you can imagine such a thing). Pigeons, widgeons, seagulls, sparrows, All the birds come here to nest, But of all God's little creatures, Liverpool birds beat all the rest. Luton girls have lovely voices, Sheffield girls make finest cooks, Glasgow girls are good at football, Liverpool girls win out on looks. Golden skin all soft and creamy, Lippiest lips you ever saw Mini skirts and skinny sweaters Legs that make you go cor! (repeat verse 1 twice) Ipswich girls will make you tingle, Stockton girls are nice to kiss, Cardiff girls will love and leave you Liverpool girls they take the (biscuit) There's sexy girls in Copenhagen, Nagasaki, Rome and Paris None compare with Liverpool's, Ask David Bailey or Richard Harris. This is not the same as the TV theme, which went (from memory) something like: What's got four legs, walks peculiar, Talks in all the choicest words, (Something I can't remember) Answer is two Liver birds. And it always had the memorable dialogue exchange: You dancin'? You askin'? I'm askin' I'm dancin' during the closing credits. Dave Roberts |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: rhyzla Date: 25 Oct 04 - 12:14 PM Fantastic response - thank you everybody - I have also google'd it and found a lot of references! Thanks again Barry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: the lemonade lady Date: 25 Oct 04 - 02:17 PM If you wander around Liverpool at night you'll notice the girls haven't changed a bit! "Lippiest lips you ever saw Mini skirts and skinny sweaters" What goes around, comes around! Sal |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: GUEST,Bronxbetty Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:31 AM The song words are: On a mountain stands a lady Who she is I do not know. All she wants is gold and silver, All she wants is a nice young beau. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TV show 'LIVERBIRDS' From: Darowyn Date: 29 May 09 - 02:52 PM From the deepest recesses of my memory, I found myself singing this to my grandson recently. This version is a little more elaborate, and goes to a circle game similar to "The Farmer wants a Wife", rather than skipping. I remember teaching it and playing the game with my class of eight-year-olds when I used to be a Junior School teacher. We got it from a schools music programme on TV. Little Harry confuses a lot of people by wandering round singing "Bread and butter and beetles, and I will have some" especially at meal times. Cheers Dave FROM THE SINGING GAME by IONA & PETER OPIE (pub 1985) Stands a lady on the mountain, Who she is I do not know. All she wants is gold and silver, All she wants is a nice young man. Madam will you walk, Madam will you talk, Madam will you marry me? No! Not if I buy you a nice armchair To sit in the garden when you take the air? No! Not if I buy you a nice silver spoon To feed your baby in the afternoon? No! Not if I buy you a nice straw hat With three coloured ribbons hanging down the back? Yes! Go to church, luv, Go to church, luv, farewell. Go to church, luv, Go to church, luv, farewell. Back from church, luv, Back from church, luv, farewell. Back from church, luv, Back from church, luv, farewell. Whats for breakfast, luv, Whats for breakfast, luv, farewell? Whats for breakfast, luv, Whats for breakfast, luv, farewell? Bread and butter and watercress, Bread and butter and watercress, Bread and butter and watercress, And you shall have some. Whats for dinner, luv, Whats for dinner, luv, farewell? Whats for dinner, luv, Whats for dinner, luv, farewell? Bread and butter and beetles, Bread and butter and beetles, Bread and butter and beetles, And you shall have some. Whats for supper, luv, Whats for supper, luv, farewell? Whats for supper, luv, Whats for supper, luv, farewell? Bread and butter and rats, Bread and butter and rats, Bread and butter and rats, And you shall have some. At the beginning of the 1970s only a few lines of this game-song seem to have been remembered; but in 1975-6 versions such as the above were collected in quick succession from 9 year olds in Salford, from an 8 year old at Wool in Dorset and from 10 year olds in Oxford The words are virtually those of the game. "There stands a lady", published by Cecil Sharp in 1912 and most of the children had learned the song from the TV schools programme "Music Time". .. This extended version belongs to the period 1920-25; but the first four lines have been continuously popular for the skipping rope, as well as forming the basis of a simple ring game first noted in 1913. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Theme from 'The Liver Birds' (BBC sitcom) From: GUEST,Corina Date: 17 Apr 16 - 09:02 AM Mike McCartney brother of Sir Paul, did the all the whistling in the theme tune for the Liver Birds |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Theme from 'The Liver Birds' (BBC sitcom) From: GUEST Date: 24 May 17 - 12:31 PM https://www.shazam.com/track/6013798/liver-birds-theme-from-the-tv-series-the-liver-birds |
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