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Does anybody know which Bangor fiddlers dram sang about in there song day trip to bangor?
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Jimnast
Cider ? If i understand the question correctly |
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It has been claimed that "Day Trip to Bangor" was actually inspired by a day trip to Rhyl, a seaside resort 35 miles east of Bangor, North Wales, but Bangor had an extra syllable and slipped off the tongue more easily, so it was used instead of Rhyl. That caused an outcry from councillors and businesses in Rhyl, who complained that the publicity would have boosted the resort's tourist economy.[citation needed] Songwriter Cook has unconditionally denied this, however. Interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast on 29 September 2011, Cook said the song was "absolutely yes" about the Bangor in Wales. She said: "I was so ignorant at the time that I didn't know that any other Bangor existed, so it was categorically this Bangor, and it was Bangor because it scanned and for no other reason than that. And it was the only place I knew along the north Wales coast." In the documentary, when interviewer Jonathan Maitland reminded Cook that there was a furore about the song really being about Rhyl, Cook laughed and called it "a great piece of nonsense".
A favourite song of mine but the information is from wikipedia. |
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I guess i didn't
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Remember reading a tale about Fred Winter horses travelling to Bangor before realizing they should be at Bangor on Dee 74 miles away
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMzopjiMRg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5v83WGLo8
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This was a question on Radio 2 pop quiz this morning... the bloke got every question right apart from this one
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Mecca that’s what reminded me of the song
Plenty of cider in the song Andrew Cheers sparrow that clears it up Many have done what Fred winter did Hayden ,I almost did |
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I wanted to have my honeymoon in Wales...
My wife suggested I take her to Bangor... I said, no, Prestatyn, Caerphilly... You have to say it to get the joke Although, it's not that funny anyway, so I wouldn't bother |
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Here they are on TOTP...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wm_JzxrD-U |
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Reg, that joke is terrible even said slowly.
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I know stewy, but I brought up from the memory bank a joke about Bangor, so I impressed myself with that bit
A better Welsh joke to make up for it... What do you call 2 sheep tied to a lamp post in Abergavenny? The Leisure Centre |