My parents were born 1921 & 1922.Between about 1950 and 1955 they often had social evenings with friends and neighbours at which there was lots of "community singing" where everyone joined in with the bits they thought they might know. My father ran the local football team, and often took me with him (to give my mum some respite!). At away matches there was always singing on the coach journeys there and back, so many songs were burned into my consciousness at an early age. About 10/15 years ago I made a list of all the "oldies" I might still remember:
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