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Thread #110621 Message #2322525
Posted By: Dave Sutherland
22-Apr-08 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Bertsongs? (songs of A. L. 'Bert' Lloyd)
Subject: RE: Bertsongs?
In several of the sleeve notes to various albums, even ones that he did not feature upon, Lloyd admitted that he "devised","cobbled"or set words to a tune of his own fancy. So he wasn't entirely hiding everything.
Anyway there has always been plenty of speculation over many of Bert's songs. I have heard several recordings of "When A Man's in Love" but only Bert seems to have his particular vesion which is remarkably different to the others.
In one of the last conversations that I had with the late Pete Elliott of Birtley, who would have gone to the wall for Bert, over his version of "Celebrated Working Man" which appears on "The Iron Muse" and is so different to the form that Jack Elliott sang, Pete smiled and offered the opinion that on that occasion he suspected Bert of "wangling"