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Thread #173694 Message #4213298
Posted By: Johnny J
10-Dec-24 - 06:06 AM
Thread Name: “Lamentable Fiddlers” in Sandy Bell's Bar…
Subject: RE: “Lamentable Fiddlers” in Sandy Bell's Bar…
Hi Jim,
I linked to the song "Sandy Bell's Man" in my earlier post but this was one of the tracks on the live Sandy Bell's album recorded in the seventies.
I've got Liz and Maggie's CD too but I'll have to check if it's the same recording of the song(It's the same song, of course).
Jack,
Barbara would surely enjoy "The World's Room" and she was very familiar with The Waverley Bar back in the day too. She did consider it to be a "Music Pub". I think part of her criticism was based around the fact that The Forest Hill Bar(Bell's) wasn't specifically such back in the day although it "happened" sometimes but only under the right circumstances or if invited!
Of course, as we know, all that has changed. Mainly from the seventies onwards but, even then, the music was much more "ancilliary" to the drinking than it is now. ;-))