Those were the days. Music on vinyl, with liner notes. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Start singing “too ra loo ra too ra loo rye aye” to anyone of a certain age (around about mine), and I suspect many of us will start, if not actually dancing, then at least tapping our toes.
The song is “Come on Eileen” from the 1982 album by Dexy’s Midnight Runners. I found it impossible not to dance then, and nothing much has changed.
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Oh yes, I definitely remember this! Mind you, I knew an Eileen at the time who definitely didn’t make me want to dance …
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😂😂 I’m retrying g to imagine this girl and her dance-curbing personality.
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I worked with her. Not a happy experience. Fortunately she left soon after I arrived – not cause and effect of course! I worked with another Eileen before that and another one afterwards. Both became friends.
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☹️ the only Eileen I know is a librarian in Melbourne. She is lovely — and seriously into steampunk and cosplay — so can be relied on to have fabulous costumes on dress-up days.
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I’ve done a fair bit of dancing to that song in my time, Su. 🙂
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I remember this song…..I never knew what they were saying, though! 😀 Definitely a dance number!
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I bought the album and studied the liner notes. That’s all that stood between me and daft-lyric embarrassment on many songs in those distant pre-Google days. 😂😂
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Love love 💕 that one!
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That’s a new one for me Su. Lovely scenes in the video.
Leslie
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Yay! Yay! Yay! Still dancing and singing!! This is such an awesome song! ‘We’re far too young and clever!’ 😄
Really – I can’t stop patting myself on the shoulder for thinking of this challenge! 😄
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It is an excellent challenge; I’m so glad you thought of it.
I was going to use the “far too young and clever” line as my post title, but I couldn’t find the photo I wanted to go with it. 😬
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That song is not familiar to me, but that lyric is—from an old folk song, no??
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I think so. The song (in some versions) opens with an a cappella bit from the Irish folk song “Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms”. It’s played on the fiddle in the song too.
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