A Ninian Park Memory from 1970
It was a midweek night game at NP from Feb - Mar 1970 and I can remember coming through the turnstiles at the Grange End with the floodlights on, misty playing surface looking across to the Bob Bank and this song being distorted through the PA system of Radio Ninian https://open.spotify.com/track/4o7pd...Qdek8cenU5JPlw
or another link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxiMb0rITA
Can't remember the match but the song always brings back memories of NP. :thumbup: over 50 years ago.
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My fave that always brings me back to memories of Ninian Park is this one from 1968:
https://youtu.be/hWUJGPBmiLE
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
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Steve the Tea
another classic, those old stands didn't half echo the sounds around :thumbup:
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Steve the Tea
What a song:thumbup:
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Taffy Blue in Berkshire
another classic, those old stands didn't half echo the sounds around :thumbup:
That, 'Three Little Birds,' thingy is tawdry in comparison.
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splott parker
What a song:thumbup:
I can almost taste the Oxo and feel the uneven sleepers going up the Grangetown End as I listen to it.
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Would Jumbo have been the DJ or announcer in those days.
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Taffy Blue in Berkshire
It was a midweek night game at NP from Feb - Mar 1970 and I can remember coming through the turnstiles at the Grange End with the floodlights on, misty playing surface looking across to the Bob Bank and this song being distorted through the PA system of Radio Ninian
https://open.spotify.com/track/4o7pd...Qdek8cenU5JPlw
or another link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxiMb0rITA
Can't remember the match but the song always brings back memories of NP. :thumbup: over 50 years ago.
My dad started taking me down to Ninian Park after 1970 World Cup when I was 8 years old. I somehow remember Elvis Presley “Wonder of You” and Freda Payne “Band of Gold” playing and radio Ninian in the corner of grange and grandstand.I know we sat in Canton Stand near the Bob Bank on the benches
A couple of years later, I know we were in the Bob bank and being passed over head to sit on the wall at the front for Leeds in FACup.
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billy.ronson
My dad started taking me down to Ninian Park after 1970 World Cup when I was 8 years old. I somehow remember Elvis Presley “Wonder of You” and Freda Payne “Band of Gold” playing and radio Ninian in the corner of grange and grandstand.I know we sat in Canton Stand near the Bob Bank on the benches
A couple of years later, I know we were in the Bob bank and being passed over head to sit on the wall at the front for Leeds in FACup.
‘The Wonder Of You’ was given a brilliant rendition by us at Filbert St, first game of the season I think about 1971, better than Elvis, it was:thumbup:
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billy.ronson
My dad started taking me down to Ninian Park after 1970 World Cup when I was 8 years old. I somehow remember Elvis Presley “Wonder of You” and Freda Payne “Band of Gold” playing and radio Ninian in the corner of grange and grandstand.I know we sat in Canton Stand near the Bob Bank on the benches
A couple of years later, I know we were in the Bob bank and being passed over head to sit on the wall at the front for Leeds in FACup.
oooh I do remember band if gold being belting out
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‘The Wonder Of You’ was given a brilliant rendition by us at Filbert St, first game of the season I think about 1971, better than Elvis, it was:thumbup:
Sat Aug 15th 1970
Leicester City 0-1 Cardiff City
Brian Clark (41 mins)
Attendance: 27,578
Referee: Derek Nippard (Bournemouth)
I was there, too.
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Steve the Tea
Sat Aug 15th 1970
Leicester City 0-1 Cardiff City
Brian Clark (41 mins)
Attendance: 27,578
Referee: Derek Nippard (Bournemouth)
I was there, too.
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:thumbup:knew it was first game of season, wasn’t quite sure of the year
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splott parker
:thumbup:knew it was first game of season, wasn’t quite sure of the year
I loved watching Clark score :thumbup:
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Bit later this one, and possibly relative to our ages TBiB, but this one for me evokes memories of the Bob Bank.
A hit in '76 but It could well have been 1980 such was the money being spent on the fan experience back in those days...
https://youtu.be/yHRYYtiIMJY
By the way, what a wanker Button was!
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billy.ronson
My dad started taking me down to Ninian Park after 1970 World Cup when I was 8 years old. I somehow remember Elvis Presley “Wonder of You” and Freda Payne “Band of Gold” playing and radio Ninian in the corner of grange and grandstand.I know we sat in Canton Stand near the Bob Bank on the benches
A couple of years later, I know we were in the Bob bank and being passed over head to sit on the wall at the front for Leeds in FACup.
That particular song brings back early memories for me too. :thumbup:
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A bit more up to date, but when I hear simply the best by Tina Turner it reminds me of the teams coming out of the tunnel during the Eddie May era
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Armitage Shanks
A bit more up to date, but when I hear simply the best by Tina Turner it reminds me of the teams coming out of the tunnel during the Eddie May era
For some reason I remember Chanson D'amour by Manhatton transfer belting out around 1977-78 as the whole of the Bob bank ran towards the back to see the Wolves special pulling in to Ninian halt
Funny how certain songs stick in your mind???
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Armitage Shanks
A bit more up to date, but when I hear simply the best by Tina Turner it reminds me of the teams coming out of the tunnel during the Eddie May era
And ‘Bring out your dead’ during the Durban era:yikes:
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olderblue
For some reason I remember Chanson D'amour by Manhatton transfer belting out around 1977-78 as the whole of the Bob bank ran towards the back to see the Wolves special pulling in to Ninian halt
Funny how certain songs stick in your mind???
This comment just conjures up an image in my head of the City fans chanting “ you’re gonna get your f***ing heads kicked in “ at the train ...
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Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi sticks in my mind
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Steve the Tea
Love the song but my favourite version is by Southside Johnny. Fell in love with this when they performed at the Tramshed last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWaoGFfCAM
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Just played them both. It’s the Four Tops version for me, absolute classic:thumbup:
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Garth Blue
Hey, ta for posting. I'd not heard it before. They do a really good take on it.
Here's a live version for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TqO9VMPes
Two of the earliest versions of the song from 1966 and 1967:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqBTzfcIk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20icLYvrYwI
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Steve the Tea
Thanks for those Steve, it really is a marvellous song, as I say it’s The Four Tops for me. Listening to it just now, took me and the missus back to our schooldays together, some songs pinpoint times in your life and this is certainly one of them.