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Hearing the Kop singing this is a sight to be hold they sing their hearts out you can't take this song away from Liverpool .

Barbra .........

I don't deny that Liverpool has "acquired it, but it was actually sung as a negro spiritual originally.


JoyL ............. I went to see almost all the musical movies in the 1950s and up to 1967 ................. South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and other very memorable movies like Gigi.

OHMG, there were so many really good ones around back then.

Mind you, some of them aren't as good when you see them now as they seemed back then (or still seem in the memory bank).

I remember seeing White Christmas when it came out, have always sort of remembered it as good. Then we watched it on TV on Christmas Day about 3 years ago ....... OH had never seen it before, and he kept saying "you liked this???"

I have to say it was nowhere near as good as I remembered, and in addition you had two men in their late 50s/early 60s getting together with young women in their 20s!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a channel on cable here which shows old movies in the evenings from the early 1930s up to the 1960s ...... Casablanca was on the other night, I saw that once when I was a member of an old movies club in the late 1950s.

Psycho was also on there recently .............. my then-boyfriend went to see it before he took me so that he would know when I might grab him in fear, and so that HE wouldn't be frightened :-D . He admitted that as we walked out of the cinema :-D :-D

Unfortunately (or maybe not!), we don't pay for the level of cable that carries that channel!!

Why shouldn't Liverpool aquire it thousands singing makes it a fitting tribute to Gerry & his version of the song he will be remembered for a long time to come Barbara

Barbra ..................

yes, I did pick you up Gerry/Jerry. I believe in always getting people's names correct.

As far as the song goes, I've never heard the song sung by the soccer club, so it means nothing to me.

I do very clearly remember hearing it sung as the spiritual it was, and the shivers up my spine.

Sorry, I got the "negro" spiritual wrong ................... it is really sung to a griving widow.

I also remember hearing Gerry and the Pacemakers singing it, way back when.


To reiterate, as I have done more than once ............. I'm not policing, and I most certainly am not GR police, whatever you mean by that stigma!

If you are not a football fan that explains your remarks but I believe a lot of none fans will have seen The Kop singing their hearts out on the news I am entitled to my opinion 're the song ..nothing else to say this was to remember Gerry & his song which is still sung with much feeling gusto RIP <3

On match day the city rings out with it and they can be heard the other side of the Mersey :-D
I avidly follow the football (not the Kop though) as you can probably notice :-D :-D :-D

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:-D :-D. My daughter and family live up there but they are all Gooners too.Such a well bred lot ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Barbra ....... you may have noticed that I live in Canada.

I don't watch UK tv .............. can't really get it except on special cable.

I used to follow some UK football when I lived over there, Manchester City in particular (remember the Busby babes??), but mainly rugby league, as that was the sport in my area.

Now I follow our local soccer team here.

We had a dilemma when I was younger.

One uncle was a Liverpool supporter and one was an Everton supporter. One was not a footy fan at all.

As I am not a football fan I couldn't care less at the time but now when I live on the other side of the country I find that one grandson is a Newcastle supporter and the other a Sunderland supporter.

LaG - my Dad was a Gunners supporter. :-D

Strangely Although I am/was aware of the song being sung by Gerry and the Pacemakers and also that it is sung by Liverpool fans. to me it has different )romantic?) memories as it was sung in one of the first couple of films I went to with my now OH in 1956. (we had been 'going out' only a few weeks at the time). When you walk through a storm and If I Loved You from Carousel always bring back lovely memories from that time. B ut R>I>P> Gerry for keeping the song from maybe fading into oblivion

Joy, a man of very good taste may I say. ;-). I was born and grew up in the North London area and went to my first match at Highbury aged 4 :-D

I don't know when the Kop adopted this tune but I never heard it until I was at a match Liverpool playing (A) at Highbury. The Gooners had another set lyrics for it ... not PC. Parent's musical LPs were of zero interest back then.

Father had a curious device called a "radiogram" which I was not allowed to touch under pain of death.

As long as there is the Kop.there will be this one song in loving memory of Gerry my Mum was from ST Helens. Rugby league was her game she followed them for years .My Dad Wigan there was some .rivalry in our household x Thank you for your comments Barbara x just this week s City player passed away Colin Bell was 74 years old a legend at City RIP <3

And he was born in a village not a million miles from where I now live, Barbara.

Years ago, I had a cousin who lived there after her marriage. The village is small enough for everyone to have known Colin Bell. Some happy memories to mull over at such a sad time.