Looking for Boozing

Subject: Looking for Boozing
From:
Date: 20 Nov 97 - 10:51 AM

Hello. I've been searching for about three years for a recording of "Boozing Bloody Well Boozing" (listed in the DTF db). And then last week I discovered this site so I thought I post a request here. Has anyone seen a recording of ths song or know where I could get one? I'd be very grateful for any info... Thanks. --Daivd Nanasi [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: Nonie Rider
Date: 20 Nov 97 - 01:15 PM

Unfortunately, the one I have is by Clam Chowder, whose tapes have been out of print for over a decade.

--Nonie Rider

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: Barry
Date: 20 Nov 97 - 09:51 PM

Search the DT, enter Boozing, it's in there. Barry

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 97 - 10:25 PM

after hearing this for several years, I decided it needed at least one more verse....so.....

What are the joys of the whole laboring class
Why boozing, bloody well boozing
What is it robs a poor man of his brass
Why.....etc
It ruins the liver, it addles the brain
It inspires our singing, again and again
What gives such fair measure of pleasure and pain
Why boozing, bloody well boozing.

feel free to use it and play with it...it's the 'folk process'...

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Nov 97 - 03:54 PM

Anyone know the parody Mike Agranoff sings about the aging of the folkies? Titled: Snoozing, Bloody Well Snoozing.

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: Anne Cormack
Date: 23 Nov 97 - 12:37 AM

David, the recording I have of "Boozing" was made by
Cyril Tawney on a CD entitled "Down the Hatch"
~ songs about Drink and Drinkers produced by
Neptune Records,
521 Meanwood Road,
LEEDS,
LS6 4AW,
ENGLAND.

I sing in an unaccompanied, three-part harmony group
called "Brimstone & Treacle" and we sing this. We've
also added a verse (for use in Folk Clubs)

Why do those folkies all stand at the back?
Boozing etc
They don't want to listen, they're here for the crack!
Boozing etc
Some are on Guinness and some are on beer,
They're grand company and they're full of good cheer,
But when they start singing, we wish they weren't here!!!
Boozing,etc.

Hope the CD is still available.....it was recorded
betwee May 1993 and February 1994.

Regards

Anne Cormack

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 23 Nov 97 - 02:18 PM

The recording I have is by John Roberts & Tony Barrand.

Record "Live at Holstein's" (Eat Bertha's Mussels) It's a Front Hall LP FHR-031. Don't know if it still available. It is a really nice record, with John Barleycorn, Three Drunken Maidens, & The Man that Waters the Workers Beer also on the disc.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: David Nanasi
Date: 24 Nov 97 - 11:40 AM

Thanks, everybody, for all your help. I've written to Neptune Records (thanks Anne), and I'd like to write to the Front Hall people to see if they have a copy of the "Live at Holstein's" record lying around--Bob, do you have any address/e-mail/phone contact for the record company in question? I'd be most appreciative... Many thanks already! --David Nanasi. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Looking for Boozing
From: LaMarca
Date: 24 Nov 97 - 06:22 PM

David, Andy's Front Hall has a web site here; their phone is:
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