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Thread #117659   Message #2537594
Posted By: terrier
10-Jan-09 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Which songs are most sung in UK clubs?
Subject: RE: Which songs are most sung in UK clubs?
I've given up singing "Fields of Athenry" after a certain encounter in a Derbyshire Peaks pub and a landlord with a gun! Mr Happy did not warn me! If I ever dare to sing "Rosemary's Sister" at home, Mrs T comes running in flapping her arms about in the manner of angels wings making "ooooooooooo" sounds. Whilst at the Girvan festival I sang "Yellow Rose of Texas" at a singaround and was requested to sing it at every subsequent singaround at the festival yet when I sang it at Jaqui Mcdonalds club in Chester(UK) I was roundly told off and was informed "We don't sing 'those' sort of songs here, love". I also enjoy doing Victorian parlour songs but rarely sing them now at 'folk' sessions after being pointedly asked by a number of people "why do you sing 'those' sort of songs. So, are there any 'safe' songs that a visiting performer can do knowing that they are not going to incur the wrath of the local critics :)