Moind Yar Hid Boy - The Singing Postman
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- This has been taken from one of my old Vinyl 45's. I have the set of Four EP's and will upload all the tracks at some point.
I've cleaned them up as well as I can but they are around 45 years old!
His first record was launched just before Christmas 1964. Prior to this he had broadcast regularly in a BBC Easy Anglian sound program on VHF called 'Wednesday Morning'
So popular was his first record that within five weeks he was appearing on television on both BBC's Look East and ITV's About Anglia.
Allan was born on the 19th November 1927 and spent his boyhood days living near Sheringham in Norfolk
I remember seeing Allan performing at the Flying Services Club in Peterborough in the 60's. What a talent.!Still got a picture of him posing with my little sister. His songs are a social history and hark back to a time when Norfolk was still essentially an agricultural county much unchanged for generations.
I love these songs😀
Hope we never lose music like this , classic folk beautiful ! Blessed be
Bloody superb. Im from Suffolk and remember Allan on About Anglia
This is quite profound. Lots of people would be alive today with his advice.
Many thanks indeed. Had not heard this track. I am a King's Lynn girl! You don't hear a Norfolk accent very often.
SAD BUT TRUE I AM A CAISTER MAN
Thanks Pat. This was the first record we had of him, and as a boy I used to play it a lot. Although my favourite is Hev the Bottum dropped owt! Mainly because it is based around characters from Sheringham, my home town :-)
Thanks Joe, still have a couple of Allan's 45 EP's of my dad's RIP! Great stuff so evocative of simpler times!
live in cov family from bungay.just great
this is the best one of them all, love it
Makes you proud to live in Norfolk dave
I AM ABROAD BUT ALWAYS A CAISTER AND NORFOLK MAN.
alan you made us all proud and how we neglected you
Used to see him on about anglia pity himself and Fred Wedlock couldnt record together
Here are the lyrics, or what I'm able to discern anyway...
Now I was born in Cromer town 30 year ago
It were a real pokey town I think you ought to know
They took me on the promenade, took me on the sand
And that’s when they say to me when I fell out of the pram
Mind your head, boy, mind your head.
Now granny Faulley tooty blue standing on the shore
Granny Faulley tooty blue I’ll never see no more
Just before she passed away, just before she died
She say to me, feablely when you’re in the tide
Mind your head boy, mind your head
There lots of people now never be dead
If they’d only had the sense to mind their head
If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today
Mind your head boy, mind your head
Now when I was a tartie boy when I was still at school
Toby was the clever one and I was just a fool
Teacher used to villeyoff(?) and holla books at me
And all the boys behind me used to holla merrily
Mind your head boy, mind your head
There lots of people now never be dead
If they’d only had the sense to mind their head
If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today
Mind your head boy, mind your head
Now Toby was a friend of mine we always used to be
Together on the Cromer line in 1943
He was neither (any ideas?)
He wouldn’t have been alive today if he hadn’t of heard my claim
Mind your head boy, mind your head
There lots of people now never be dead
If they’d only had the sense to mind their head
If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today
Mind your head boy, mind your head
Now Cromer gal known all my life down along the prom
Now if you’d like to tackle one you can come along
Now should you ever take a gal to be your wedded wife
You’ll be eating nag pie all the rest your life
So mind your head boy, mind your head
There lots of people now never be wed
If they’d only had the sense to mind their head
If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today
Mind your head boy, mind your head
Brilliant.