Comments on: LONNIE DONEGAN – “Cumberland Gap”

By: crag

crag — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:24:17 +0000

DESERT ISLAND DISC WATCH

Thora Hird, actress (1989).

By: Mutley

Mutley — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:20:09 +0000

If you want to see how Elvis might have performed Cumberland Gap, see the PJ Proby version on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mIgL51qkg from the Around the Beatles programme.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:26:50 +0000

The only thing that spoils this for me is Lonnie’s burbling all over the neat guitar break. On the other hand it’s great how, along with Blackpool slapstick “two old ladies” line, the coincidence of Cumberland and Middlesbrough being so close that it matches some obscure piece of North American geography makes the record seem even more English. I asked my folks the other week and, yes, they’d always assumed it was about some crevice close to the Yorkshire Dales.

No.2 watch – three weeks of Harry Belafonte’s Banana Boat Song. Or “TRIIIII-OOO!” as it was re-christened in the eighties.

By: flahr

flahr — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:46:49 +0000

crux of the record one: the two points at which lonnie descends into complete incomprehensibility

crux of the record two: the end – quiet bit, bulletlike drum fill, “cumberland GAAAAAAAP”

Surprising what you can get away with if you throw in some cheeky winks to keep Gran happy.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:24:14 +0000

Light Entertainment Watch Part 1: Here are some of the Lonnie Donegan TV appearances which survive – all from after his heyday. Interesting to note that he could be booked as (presumably) a comedian on ‘Joker’s Wild’;

BARRYMORE: with Alan Johnson, Ray Morgan, Richard Courtice, Lonnie Donegan, The Beverly Sisters (1996)

CHAS & DAVE’S KNEES-UP: with Lonnie Donegan, Gary Wilmot (1983)

JOKERS WILD: with Ray Martine, Lonnie Donegan, Ted Ray, Arthur Askey, David Nixon, Les Dawson (1970)

JOKERS WILD: with Norman Collier, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson, Warren Mitchell, Jack Smethurst, Lonnie Donegan (1972)

KNEES-UP: with Jeff Stevenson, Lonnie Donegan, Brian Conley (1983)

LENNIE AND JERRY: with Lonnie Donegan, Chuckle Brothers (1979)

LENNIE AND JERRY: with Lonnie Donegan, Kasatka, Cossacks (1980)

THE LITTLE AND LARGE SHOW: with Bucks Fizz, Lonnie Donegan (1983)

RHYTHM ON TWO: with Lonnie Donegan (1980)

THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE: with Adam and the Ants, Acker Bilk, Patti Boulaye, Lonnie Donegan, Donovan, Anita Harris, Lenny Henry, John Inman, Lulu, Elaine Paige (1981)

THE SATURDAY CROWD: with Leslie Crowther, Anita Harris, Lonnie Donegan, Peter Gordeno, Susan Maughan, Sheila Bernette (1969)

SING COUNTRY: with Vernon Oxford, Terri Hollowell, Floyd Cramer, Lonnie Donegan, Conway Twitty (1979)

SING COUNTRY: with Jeannie C. Riley, Porter Wagoner, Colorado, Lonnie Donegan, Rose Marie, Boxcar Willie (1982)

SIX FIFTY FIVE SPECIAL: with Lonnie Donegan (1982)

THE SOUNDS OF SCOTLAND: with Rod Stewart, Gallagher and Lyle, Lonnie Donegan, The Alex Welsh Band, Stuart Gillies, Sunshine, Kimberley Clarke (1976)

STARBURST: with Leslie Crowther, Lonnie Donegan, Jan Michelle, Judy Carne (1981)

SUNDAY, SUNDAY: with Lonnie Donegan, Faith Brown, Penelope Keith, Beryl Reid (1984)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE: Lonnie Donegan (1991)

WHEELTAPPERS AND SHUNTERS SOCIAL CLUB: with Lonnie Donegan, Stéphane Grappelli (1974)