your favourite chorus songs?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 04:08 PM

One song I like to sing in a group setting is the gospel song, 'Never Grow Old'. The longer it goes the more people join in the chorus.

Never grow old, never grow old
In a land where we'll never grow old
Never grow old, (oh, no) never grow old
There's a land where we'll never grow old.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:11 PM

Snuffy, thanks. Didn't know it was in there. Kevin sings the song just a tad differently. He probably learned from another source, but the line "Put the big ship Lusitania on his chest" being changed to "Shoved the big ship Lusitania up his dress" is his own idea.

Morti, maybe some USians aren't joiny-inny, but if it's got a chorus, I'm singin' it!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Morticia
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 01:31 PM

I think they are Jerry, given what I have seen at Brit gatherings and at the Getaway.We are much more joiny-inny....in fact, just try and stop us, half the time.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:55 AM

Interesting... maybe just coincidental.. Seems like almost all the responses here are from Brits. Does that mean anything? My favorite? Angel Band.

Are Brits more chorus sing-along oriented than Amuricans?

Just Wondering... don't have any strong opinions on that, myself..

Jerry

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 09:15 AM

We added John Kirkpatricks "Eddie Baker" and Tom Paxtons "Home for me" at our club last night.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:24 PM

The LAST chorus?

There is only one...

The Parting Glass.

End of Thread!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:20 PM

Jeri,

That's MY BROTHER SYLVESTE in the DT.

BTW - it's the only song that we Shellbacks have ever heard Col K singing on his own!!!!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 01:18 PM

Alison, yes! (and 'me too'.)
Ask me for a visit or meet me somewhere, and I shall be there, no 'event' required. Mind you, I haven't learned many of the chorus songs I like because somebody already does them. (Writing songs is about 50% self-defense.)

There is a silly song we do here (the Press Room in Portsmouth, NH), and I don't even know the name. It goes "Have you heard about the big strong man, he lives in a caravan..." We all sing the whole darned thing and can knock the plaster off the walls when everything goes well. I wonder if this happens elsewhere - are there any other songs people sing ALL of?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 01:04 PM

Jeri, we have got to get together to sing again sometime! I love your choices!
Also,
Time has made a change in me
Blessed Quietness
Drive Dull Care Away

I could go on and on....

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:57 PM

You're right.
I also like Normandy Orchards and Idlers and Scivers, but you have to be in the right setting to do those, and the chorus to the former can be a bit tough to pick up during the singing.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:47 PM

Morticia, it's another Keith Marsden one (I think - Sooz will kick me soundly in the canticles if I'm wrong!).

Ten Pints o' Tetleys an' a gurt bag o' chips
A gurt juicy woman wi' gurt juicy lips.........

Etc. Etc.

:-)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:42 PM

good choices....Strollin Johnny, what's 10 pints of Tetleys? I don't think I know that one?

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:42 PM

Well, I just had an inexplicable, overwhelming urge to search through my CD collection. Now and Then, that happens. Add Dave Webber's "Parting Song."

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: MickyMan
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:35 PM

There's such a rousing chorus on Stan Roger's "Rolling Down To Old Maui" I don't know if I'd stay on a burning ship to sing it, though.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:30 PM

jeri - there are people who AREN'T Keith Marsden fans?

yeah - actually almost ANY chorus song would keep me around.

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: breezy
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:29 PM

So, Bodmin are repatriating J C at last.

No he's got others, he doesnt have to scrape the barrell

will it be the wild rover!!!!!!

Try a night with john and george papavgeris on Sunday 15th Feb at moorland folk club ,wotter, have we got some choruses for you?
Have you got what it takes to pick em up and sing em back?
Bit 'A' levelish.

No photographers please, especially big ones who block out the sun!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:26 PM

Oh yes, almost forgot me current favourite - 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune'. Don't know if its a 'Chorus Song', but it's got a neat chorus and you can sing it!
Johnny

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:24 PM

Sooz, me throat's like a rasp and me head feels as though it's full of summat very unpleasant, but you never know - might do a couple on 'em! :-)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sooz
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:24 PM

oops - forgot to vote!
Prospect providence (or almost anything by Keith Marsden)
Black clothes - it makes me feel all warm when everyone joins in!

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Sooz
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:21 PM

Is that tonights set list Johnny? (Could do worse!)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:19 PM

Somebody's a Keith Marsden fan!

I'd second a lot of others' choices, and add "Row On" (...row on, another day...) and "
Drink and Push About the Pitcher" AKA "It's Not Yet Day"

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 12:08 PM

Pleasant And Delightful
The Sprig Of Thyme
Bring Us A Barrel
Ten Pints of Tetleys
Old Peculier
Rollin' Down to Old Maui

And lots more..................

:-)

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: mg
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:59 AM

when we go rolling home.. mg

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,old head
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:53 AM

the wild rover and black velvet band have been my most requested songs during the last 40 years. wish i'd a penny for everytime i've sung them

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:49 AM

I've got two!

Wild Mountain Thyme

and

Here I am Lord

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: johnfitz.com
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:42 AM

I'm a big fan of Barrett's Privateers

Subject: RE: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Moses
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:15 AM

"When all Men Sing" (sung by the wonderful Johnny Collins) is one of them.

Herga's "wall of sound" makes almost any chorus song worth getting a bit singed for (but then, we have had 41 years of practice at the Royal Oak).

41st Birthday party on St David's day. Glad to see anyone who would like to pop in.

Subject: what is your favourite chorus song?
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 09:19 AM

By which I mean, the songs that even, if the venue was burning down, you'd stay until the last chorus, just to sing those harmonies?

I would have to include Blessed Quietness and probably any sea shanty.