Back in the late sixties l sang song at the Grove theatre in the Stairway to Stardom show produced by Derek Marsdon. The first half were local entertainers, the second half starred Brendan O' Dowda. What a voice. I never did become a star but will always remember meeting this lovely gentleman.
This is the first published song by Percy French. He wrote it while a student at Trinity College in Dublin in 1877, and sold it for 5 pounds when short of money. Anyone interested should go to Wikipedia, enter the song title for all the lyrics and Percy French for his story.
My dad had all his records . I played them wen he went to work. As a kid . Was introlled by the record player , to see a needle on a thing that spun and produced a sound . That's an awareness
Many thanks machree01 for posting this famous old song. It was probably one of the first songs I remember from my childhood. It was one of my late fathre's favourites. Brings back some great memories! Terry
This brings back wonderful memories. During the 50's my Father worked building the interstate highways in Oregon and Washington. We would travel all over and sing songs as there were very few radio stations; and none at night. My older sister (may she rest in peace) would sing this to me at night when Dad was away.
When I was very young and we traveled around the country as my dad was employed in building the interstate highway system he would sing this and many other songs that are now lost to time. What a wonderful time it was, when I started school and my older sister was already in school, we had to stay home. We would wait for dad to get home late Friday night, mom would let us stay up to see dad. He would have to leave early Sunday afternoon to get some sleep and work the next week. To this day I don't enjoy doing things on Sunday because I feel it will end too soon,,,, and I am 60 years old????
I remember the animated cartoon set to this song. I watched it in the 1950's. It has since been banned as being too anti-racial toward Mohammaden people.
I love this song. I remember this from when I was younger. I'm 24 and i think no one my age understand my love for this. I'm so excited!!! So happy i've found this, thanks for posting!!
Thanks for sharing. It's such a long time since I heard Brendan sing. I really enjoyed it and I shall be returning quiet often to hear his lovely voice. R.I.P.
Thank you, Machree01, for posting this lovely rendition. I've been wanting to hear it ever since I read P. C. Wren's BEAU SABREUR many years ago (it was mentioned therein, with slightly different lyrics..but is definitely the same tune). Mr. O'Dowda is a new name to me, but he has a lovely voice, splendid diction and a light, carefree style. Suits the song perfectly!
My stepfather sang this song with his great baritone voice and none that have heard compares, Yes Curly Woods sang it best by far, Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar
There was also a vulgar but extremely funny version of this, sung by sailors until WWII and probably after. It was still surviving in some folk clubs and at traditional sail festivals until the 1960s, when I heard it.
A lone time ago. The music master would have us sings songs that we could reach the notes of, 16 years. Voices were breaking. This song remains firmly set in my memory. The headmaster would arrive, anticipated, when we would sing Onward Christian Soldiers etc John Redhill Tech
This is a spoof on the Russian-Turkish conflict. Actually it had another 6 or seven verses but as Brendan said one time, it had to be trimmed down for the sake of Brevity with out losing the heart of the story. Resi In Peace Brendan,
Star Trek brought me here. TNG s4e3 Brothers. When both Data and evil brother Lore are summoned home by Cybernetist Dr.Noonian Soong their father. Soong is unaware Lore has been reassembled and shows up just after Data arrives home. Soong is in the process of giving Data his emotion chip, when Lore kills father and steals the chip and beams out. Lore sings this tale as he is installing Data’s chip into his thumbnail. Proving Lore is truly evil. Lore goes on his merry way of evil until Picard catches up to him and decides to take him apart once again.
It should be noted that Percy French's original lyrics have been modified repeatedly over the years, especially since they have been in the public domain almost since their inception. Even the lyrics used here are a slight modification of the original text from 1877. Consult Wikipedia for further information.
The song came out in1877; it's long since fallen into the public domain. i'm not at all sure about the legal status of a specific performance of a public domain song.
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Shout out to all the Trekies that came here!
See you at blue skies
Datas Brother
You know the things that we'll track down!
I came here because I could never get the cadence quite right.
I’ve always loved that ditty
What a voice! My father loved this and 30 years since he died I still love to hear it. Wonderful
Your da had good taste 👍
My Dad always sang this song. He is now 92
Back in the late sixties l sang song at the Grove theatre in the Stairway to Stardom show produced by Derek Marsdon. The first half were local entertainers, the second half starred Brendan O' Dowda. What a voice.
I never did become a star but will always remember meeting this lovely gentleman.
An altered version was used in adverts starring Stephen Fry for Whitbread bitter.
Back in much happier days, my dad used to sing this in the car in England to us three kids. Happy memories of the earlier 1960,s.
This is the first published song by Percy French. He wrote it while a student
at Trinity College in Dublin in 1877, and sold it for 5 pounds when short of money.
Anyone interested should go to Wikipedia, enter the song title for all the lyrics
and Percy French for his story.
I've always loved that ditty...
How's your cadence?
My dad had all his records . I played them wen he went to work. As a kid . Was introlled by the record player , to see a needle on a thing that spun and produced a sound . That's an awareness
Many thanks machree01 for posting this famous old song. It was probably one of the first songs I remember from my childhood. It was one of my late fathre's favourites. Brings back some great memories!
Terry
simply a magnificent Irish Tenor, one of the best of the best !!
U still alive
This brings back wonderful memories. During the 50's my Father worked building the interstate highways in Oregon and Washington. We would travel all over and sing songs as there were very few radio stations; and none at night. My older sister (may she rest in peace) would sing this to me at night when Dad was away.
When I was very young and we traveled around the country as my dad was employed in building the interstate highway system he would sing this and many other songs that are now lost to time. What a wonderful time it was, when I started school and my older sister was already in school, we had to stay home. We would wait for dad to get home late Friday night, mom would let us stay up to see dad.
He would have to leave early Sunday afternoon to get some sleep and work the next week. To this day I don't enjoy doing things on Sunday because I feel it will end too soon,,,, and I am 60 years old????
I remember the animated cartoon set to this song. I watched it in the 1950's. It has since been banned as being too anti-racial toward Mohammaden people.
I remember my Dad singing this song to me in the 1950's. Thrilled to have come across this post. Thank you Machree01.
I love this song. I remember this from when I was younger. I'm 24 and i think no one my age understand my love for this. I'm so excited!!! So happy i've found this, thanks for posting!!
Here’s a thought - 40 is looming :). Doesn’t time fly?
@@SlowBloke123 it sure does
Star Trek brought me here. Great Song 👍
He left quite a few verses out, but in terms of his singing this is the best version I've yet found of this song. Delightful!
This is basically the radio version made popular by Frank Crumit
I love his performance of the song. He really tells the story and brings it to life. That is lacking with some renditions of this song.
Lee Bee .. I agree ...thank you.
I like so many here learned this song from my father in the 60’s.
Thanks for sharing. It's such a long time since I heard Brendan sing. I really enjoyed it and I shall be returning quiet often to hear his lovely voice. R.I.P.
Wonderful voice he had indeed, bright and light. Thank you for yet another gem machree01!
I remember this song from a while back in a banned MGM cartoon. They don't show it anymore. But the song still lives on, despite the ban.
When I named my son Ivan my grandfather told me about this old song about a man named Ivan Skavinsky Skavar and I've loved this song ever since.
Great song--thanks for posting!
Truly a banger
My grandpa used to sing this to me when I was a lot younger. Real epic song!
my grandad used to sing this too me aswel,I never knew the name of the poem and I he vent heard it in over 35 years,brilliant but sad memories :-)
Thank you, Machree01, for posting this lovely rendition. I've been wanting to hear it ever since I read P. C. Wren's BEAU SABREUR many years ago (it was mentioned therein, with slightly different lyrics..but is definitely the same tune). Mr. O'Dowda is a new name to me, but he has a lovely voice, splendid diction and a light, carefree style. Suits the song perfectly!
Nicely Done! My father used to sing this one too.. drove my mother nuts - ha!
Love it, thanks!
This song was sung by a Christian missionary who used to visit Vestry school in Trichy Southern India in the nineteen fifties. Great memories👍🏻
I always loved that ditty
My stepfather sang this song with his great baritone voice and none that have heard compares,
Yes Curly Woods sang it best by far, Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar
Fabulous
I recall my sainted Mummy singing this song to the wee 5 off spring. We thought it hilarious.
I knew absolutely nothing about this song until I saw it sung on Star Trek:TNG.
I remember hearing it played on the radio here in Australia when I was a youngster around the mid-1950s.
There was also a vulgar but extremely funny version of this, sung by sailors until WWII and probably after. It was still surviving in some folk clubs and at traditional sail festivals until the 1960s, when I heard it.
I believe there was a rude Rugby version
A lone time ago. The music master would have us sings songs that we could reach the notes of, 16 years. Voices were breaking. This song remains firmly set in my memory. The headmaster would arrive, anticipated, when we would sing Onward Christian Soldiers etc John Redhill Tech
my last dad used to sing this and I can now sing it , and Peter Skellarn did a version of it
My favorite song in Miss Schmidt's third grade class.
We sang this song in grade school in the 1950's. We all loved it but had no idea of its historical sense.
A very fine tenor voice. Sounds like an Irish tenor.
This is a spoof on the Russian-Turkish conflict. Actually it had another 6 or seven verses but as Brendan said one time, it had to be trimmed down for the sake of Brevity with out losing the heart of the story. Resi In Peace Brendan,
Star Trek brought me here. TNG s4e3 Brothers. When both Data and evil brother Lore are summoned home by Cybernetist Dr.Noonian Soong their father.
Soong is unaware Lore has been reassembled and shows up just after Data arrives home. Soong is in the process of giving Data his emotion chip, when Lore kills father and steals the chip and beams out. Lore sings this tale as he is installing Data’s chip into his thumbnail. Proving Lore is truly evil.
Lore goes on his merry way of evil until Picard catches up to him and decides to take him apart once again.
Haha me too
See you at blue skies
Saxonian Steel
Oops 😬 my bad.
It should be noted that Percy French's original lyrics have been modified repeatedly over the years, especially since they have been in the public domain almost since their inception. Even the lyrics used here are a slight modification of the original text from 1877. Consult Wikipedia for further information.
I did consult Wikipedia and the rugby version is hilarious. Thanks for a great laugh.
so noble so beautiful
George Hurlburt Junior did a fine rendition of this may he rest in peace
I can't believe that he blew the very first verse. It didn't faze him though, he just kept right on.
My Dad use too play this long ago.I miss my Dad.:(
My memories are exactly the same as 10leggo but for me it was almost 60 years ago.
I think of all the versions I like this one the best. Wonder if it's available on CD? Thank you for posting this really nice piece!
Data sings this on the Star Trek episode "Brothers"
I did not know this was a song before it was a cartoon...the cartoon is classic and the ending is different
LORE
I just had to know what the hell Lore was talking about.
So sorry! Clicked on thumbs down in error! Don't think I can change it, or do a thumbs up ... really enjoyed listening to your da.
Great to hear this song, but the definitive version is by the great Frank Crumit.
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二十一歳の誕生日
略
「赤ちゃん」は『アブドゥル・アブルブル・アミール』を歌った。
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Abdul ABULBUL AMIR.
Well done, Machree01! Where did you get this, and have you any more? I was beginning to think that there were no videos of this great singer.
They sing at the naval academy
I'd almost forgotten this gem of yesteryear, was it some kind of propaganda from Persia or Russia? I recall my older brother singing it.
It was written during the Russo-Turkish war around 1877ish. I forget exactly. I don't believe it was propaganda from either side though.
No, it wasn't, it was so long before 911 and the Gulags, it was just a bit of fun from a simpler and more easy going time.
I'm Abdul grandson
Sure and I the son of Uranus.
I'm Skavars great grandson, shall we duel?
I came here because I heard Lore sing this song in Star Trek Next Generation.
Turn on sub titles and try following the lyrics 🤣🤣🤣
Fair few verses missing from this.
This isn't the entire song tho
Do you know would i have permission to use this track on a DVD I'm making...could you let me know?
The song came out in1877; it's long since fallen into the public domain. i'm not at all sure about the legal status of a specific performance of a public domain song.
actually Lore sings it
Lore sings it not Data ;)
What a diddy, I could never get the cadence right.
Never be rude to an Arab. Harhar.
Often Wrong Soong.
he missed a bit out.
*Lor* sang it better...
What a derogatory racist stupid song.
how?
cry us a river, "Basim Daoud"