Cup Song

[docker-p]

Up until a few years ago (10 maybe) a club the reached the FA cup final would take an afternoon off during the build up to the big game and de-camp to a local sound studio and record a 'cup song'.

 

I don't remember us doing this in '76. Was our attempt at troubling the record charts so bad as I've blocked it from memory, or did we not take the chance to add melodious glory to footballing success ?

[Colinjb]

Well, we did have that really quite bad 'Southampton Boys' song back in 2003. That made the Singles Top 20.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Well, we did have that really quite bad 'Southampton Boys' song back in 2003. That made the Singles Top 20.

 

Did it really!?

 

I expect with the way we rig votes these days we could get a song to top 3!

[Colinjb]

Did it really!?

 

I expect with the way we rig votes these days we could get a song to top 3!

 

It really did. I was at my then-girlfriends place watching top of the pops and nearly spat my beer at the TV when I saw it had got to #17 or something.

[Hatch]

Brotherhood of Man - 'Save Your kisses for me' was number One that week I believe.

 

I'm sure we couldn't have had a single out or it would have trounced that!

[trousers]

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/super-saints/id202172860

 

Edited 30 July, 2010 by trousers

[Thedelldays]

[spyinthesky]

I think the Saints 76 Cup Final song was penned by a local lad, Duncan Campbell, who once played in the Mojos.

 

Duncan was a keen Saints fan, last heard of living in Tenerife

[trousers]

I think the Saints 76 Cup Final song was penned by a local lad, Duncan Campbell, who once played in the Mojos.

 

Duncan was a keen Saints fan, last heard of living in Tenerife

 

Here's another amusing anecdote concerning the Southampton FC song/record from 1973. It was first written - at Bob James of Avenue Artistes suggestion - as: "We're All Off To Munich (To Take Part In The Games)" the idea being that the Olympic athletes would sing it and it would be on Top Of he Pops and we'd all make loads of money. Ho! Ho! Ho! The A.A.A., which was very amateur in those days, wanted nothing to do with it. So we were stuck with a backing track that had cost a good deal of money. It was Bob who suggested re-writing the words for Soton FC. which I subsequently did.

The club agreed to make the record, and acetates (remember them?) with me singing the song, were sent to all the players so they could learn the ditty. On the big day I went up to London in a car with Bob James, a producer from Southern TV and ‘Saints’ legend Mick Channon - one of my footballing heroes. A lovely guy but let’s just say that his academic level didn’t quite match his skills on the pitch during his glory days………

At the studio, we discovered that none of the players knew the song. The only player who had a record player (?) was Terry Paine and he didn't bother to turn up. He was too busy practising his dribbling - you should have seen the state of his shirt afterwards.

So, there I was, hair halfway down my back, the scruffiest person for miles around, teaching the players the song by playing it on the huge grand piano in Phillips studio. The recording completed, Dave Dee walked into the studio and commented "Who wrote this f******g crap?" I had to own up. I mean, I knew it was f****g crap, but I didn't need him telling me, did I? I was just glad he didn't have his whip with him!

 

Anyway, I made a bit of dosh out of that "f*****g crap" and became fairly friendly with several of the players, Hugh Fisher in particular. Just to end a truly wonderful day, Bob James was staying the night in London, he hadn't told me this earlier, so, being broke, as always, I had to get him to lend me the train fare home. Back to reality as it were... Oh, and if it helps, The Wallabees single came out in 1972.

 

Anyway- to the present. I now teach English, and am writing a lot of stories, not songs. Stuff for older children mostly, but a bit cutting edge, and I'm crossing my fingers that a literary agent a friend of mine knows will be able to help me to get some of these stories published. I have in fact written five books. You have to, to learn how to write.

 

Well, that's enough for now, except to say that if you go on the Internet and punch in The Sh*t Song, you'll be able to hear the song and watch the video, which a friend of mine in the UK made initially without my knowledge. (The * in the title of the ditty on Internet is actually an "i"). This was another ditty recorded on my small, four-track Tascam. I hope some of these memories are of interest to you, there are of course many more

Regards,

Duncan Campbell

 

http://www.davidstjohn.co.uk/groups9.html

[spyinthesky]

Interesting background

 

Not sure\what to make of this.

 

Do you have contact details for Duncan or is this a repro of an earlier piece?

[Colinjb]

Did it really!?

 

I expect with the way we rig votes these days we could get a song to top 3!

 

A complete sidetrack, but the look of fear when my housemate caught me typing 'Southampton Boys Single' into Google as an attempt to check the song's chart position was priceless!

[Saint Stimp]

[Paul Chuckle]

I wish Southampton had a tune like Leeds do with 'Marching on together' I know we have 'oh when the Saints' but it wasn't written for us, s nice if we had a rousing song before the games. I seem to remember Derby had a song they played when was at Pride Park for play-offs

[Channon's Sideburns]

I have a 7" single from the '84 Cup Run. I seem to remember Danny Wallace being one of the players banging on a saucepan in the studio to create sound effects.