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Thread #119075   Message #2588599
Posted By: eddie1
14-Mar-09 - 06:10 AM
Thread Name: Best song Lonnie Donegan ever performed
Subject: RE: Best song Lonnie Donegan ever performed
While contributing to another thread, I was reminded that I was given a cassette of Lonnie which included "Sammy's Bar" written by Cyril Tawney and produced by a label called, I think, Shamrock Records.
Unlike Cyril's version, fairly slow and with feeling, Lonnie had speeded it up to a kind of country waltz rhythm which gave the song a whole new emphasis.
I later played it to Cyril who loved it and finally gave him the cassette to pass on to his wife/Private Investigator, Rosemary, to track Shamrock down as they had never been paid any royalties.

Eddie