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Thread #66701 Message #3078508
Posted By: Rob Naylor
20-Jan-11 - 06:27 AM
Thread Name: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?
Subject: RE: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?
Mind you if those two acts hadn't covered it, then it would probably have remained unknown outside of the small folk community in england.
Not sure I agree with that...it was certainly in the songbook we used at school in music lessons. Can't remember the name of the book but it had a lot of British and American "standards" in it and was very widely used in schools at the time (late 1960s). Everyone who passed through my secondary school between 1965 and 1975 would have sung it!