A Ninian Park Memory from 1970

[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. over 50 years ago.

[Steve the Tea]

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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[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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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another classic, those old stands didn't half echo the sounds around

[splott parker]

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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What a song

[Steve the Tea]

another classic, those old stands didn't half echo the sounds around

That, 'Three Little Birds,' thingy is tawdry in comparison.

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[Steve the Tea]

What a song

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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[BLUETIT]

This one for me, early 60's

[Majorblue]

Would Jumbo have been the DJ or announcer in those days.

[billy.ronson]

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. 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.

[splott parker]

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

[life on mars]

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

[Steve the Tea]

‘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

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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[splott parker]

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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knew it was first game of season, wasn’t quite sure of the year

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

knew it was first game of season, wasn’t quite sure of the year

I loved watching Clark score

[MacAdder]

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!

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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.

[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

[olderblue]

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???

[splott parker]

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

[billy.ronson]

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 ...

[light up the darkness]

Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi sticks in my mind

[Garth Blue]

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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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

[splott parker]

Just played them both. It’s the Four Tops version for me, absolute classic

[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

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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[splott parker]

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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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.