Lonnie Donegan

[pogofish]

This is starting to pee me off. A one year bump, maybe two at a push but more is just stoopid. It makes people think old posters may have popped in and then they get sad coz they haven't!
I like Lonnie too

Why GS?

Is an individual poster more important than the thread itself then? Apart from being somewhat against the ethos of U75, it also makes me wonder why we post at all - why not just post a blank then wave at each other?

And IMO, age notwithstanding, Badgers post adds very nicely and appropriately to this thread.

 

[Bakunin]

And here, courtesy of the wonders of Youtube, is the aforementioned Mr. Page aged only 15 on the BBC in 1957:

 

[Badgers]

And here, courtesy of the wonders of Youtube, is the aforementioned Mr. Page aged only 15 on the BBC in 1957:

Marvellous

 

[Kaka Tim]

Just looked this up cos John Peel raves about it in his autobiography.

And its fucking brilliant. Jack White a big fan as well apparently. Its like proto-stummer.

 

[editor]

He's amazing. A real unsung influence.

 

[Citizen66]

Lonnie Donegan is ace.

I play this a lot at Offline.

I still Think he's lying about it being 15 miles from Middlesbrough though.

 

[ringo]

Throughout my childhood my parents' telephone book sat by the phone in the hall and written on the inside cover was written "If You Go Away - Lonnie Donegan". I always wondered about it, I guess my Dad heard it somewhere and made a note of it. Its not on YouTube, but I just found a snippet of it on an ad for a CD compilation. He recorded it the year I was born, sounds pretty good.

Phew, been wondering about that for 40 odd years

 

[Badgers]

Just got this in the post

 

[seeformiles]

My old man loved Lonnie Donegan - I’ve still got his copy of Rock Island Line on Decca “Jazz” 10” 78rpm - and formed a skiffle group in the 50s because of him. I’ve got his old violin somewhere and in the case is one of his hand written “set lists” with covers of “Under the Bridges of Paris”, “Cumberland Gap”, “Christopher Columbus”, etc. but the finisher is “Rock Island Line”

As he played in bars in Belfast of different religious persuasions, at the bottom in brackets is listed (“God Save the Queen”/“The Soldier’s Song”) to indicate the end of the evening

 

[Sprocket.]

Brilliant, the younger of my two sisters was in the audience at the recording of ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’ at Doncaster Gaumont in 1960. She was unaware at the time.
His songs were regularly on the radiogram.

 

[Badgers]

radiogram

You okay there old fella?

 

[blossie33]

I have a Lonnie Doneghan story, he was appearing at a night club in Brum and I was there with two friends as the boyfriend of my one friend was in a supporting band.
We were sitting at a table near the stage and she was chatting away when Lonnie was announced and as he ran past to get to the stage he tapped her on the shoulder - it was very funny at the time as she was quite oblivious as to who had done it
Great performer, he did some acting too, if I remember rightly he played a milkman in an episode of a crime series.