Mudcat Café message #1109300

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Thread #66701 Message #1109300
Posted By: ard mhacha
04-Feb-04 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?
Subject: RE: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?

Salford, I heard Dominick Behan singing this song on a Third Programme broadcast as long ago as 1957, and dear old sunny Salford was stated to be the town.