Best loved songs from your childhood???

"When you were sweet sixteen" always reminds me of my Gran and I can still cry when I hear it .

pensionpat Dance of the Hours is in the piano syllabus I teach. I sing the words as the pupils play.

Getting on a bit. I didn't know that was the original title. I think he also sang one to the Mexican Hat Dance. Your pupils must be greatly amused.

It features in Fantasia too (the Disney film). Hippos dance to it.

I love Fantasia...saw this in an auction house and wanted to buy it..

Nymphs and shepherds' take me back to Sunday mornings

Wow! I didn't realise this thread has been reinstated. There's so many brilliant songs out there. The latest Music Hall song I've learned is 'It Ain't All Honey and It Ain't All Jam' originally sung by Victoria Vesta in 1906, it's similar the 'Don't Dilly Dally' but predates it by quite a few years. Is anyone else on GN interested in Music Hall?

Yes, Bo. My ancestors were "on the stage".

I loved childrens favoutites on the 'wireless' . I remember most of the songs mentioned and loved Sparky and his magic piano' . I also remember something about 'put the ltlle kitty in a basket. Put the lttle basket outside your door and I'll love the little kitty for evermore' . Also the mention of 20 tiny fingers reminded me of ' where will the baby's dimple be? On his cheek or on his chin? Seems to me it would be a sin if it's always covered with a safety pin'. Outdated now of course. My offspring are horrified at the thought of putting a pin anywhere near babies!

I'll take you home again Kathleen was by that lovely Irish tenor. . . Joseph Locke? My Grandad used to sing it to me.
My dear Mum always sang about the house-goodness knows why, times were SO hard. Her dear Mum was born in Leeds after HER Mum had escaped the famine in Ireland.
A few years ago DH and a few friends and I went to Ireland for a visit. I was shocked to see a tea towel with words on of songs I knew all the words to; they must have come down the generations. . .
m loving this posting with all these lovely songs.

An old friend and burst (quietly!) into Sweet Molly Malone in M&S cafe last week. I can't quite remember why!

Does anyone remember " Abdul Abulbul Amir ?" Can't remember anything about it. It just popped into my head

My father used to sing Abdul the Bulbul Amir, too. I've found there are several recordings of it on youtube. Here is one www.youtube.com/watch?v=duXOs0eUY2c

Also "The spaniard who blighted my life" www.youtube.com/watch?v=duXOs0eUY2c

My dad used to sing that!

My dad too. It was in the same book as "A Bold Hippopotamus" aka "Mud", and "The Road to Mandalay".

God it seems,like yesterday.

My grandfather used to sing old music hall songs - She is Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage was one of them. Here is a 1904 recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFruHQJeaRg

For my sixth birthday, my mum and dad bought me a wind up grammphone! I loved it and we used to get 78,s from the junk shops . One of the records was Paul Robson and ,Old Man River" there was a song which went ,she was only a farmer's daughter but knew how to sow wild oats which I thought was a bit cheeky. We used to put a rag down the trumpet th I g to make it quieter. Like all my other things, it ended its life when I had an uncontrollable urge to see how it worked. I love being old enough to remember things from the fifties.p I

My Dad had one of those wind up gramophones, wot, plus quite a few 78s.

'Hugh, hush, hush, here comes the Bogeyman' was one that gave me the creeps a bit, but I think the B side was 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic', which I loved!

Saturday morning children's' favourites. How times have changed because instead of things like Peter and the Wolf the choice would be boy bands I guess.

We had a lot of old 78s and a wind up gramophone when I was growing up and my favourite was "With her head tucked underneath her arm, she walks the Bloody Tower". It was about Anne Boleyn I think. I also liked "In a Monastery Garden".

We are the A B C minors...la la la .....Saturday morning pictures. Cowboys and Indians, the three stooge, Old muvver Riley, laurel and hardy, robin hood ...... champion the wonder horse

Wasn't it awful when you broke a 78. Or made a fruit bowl from one.

Oh, no, fruit bowl from vinyl records!

Red Sails in the Sunset. (Sad)

Yes, never tried that - they didn't look very nice...