07/12/2024
For your entertainment this coming tuesday is another of our world famous singers nights which will be the last club event until January 21st when it will be another singers night then on January 28th it will be our Burns night - not the type where you get 1st or 3rd degree burns and then sit for 10 hours in A&E but where you can if you want get to eat one of the haggis from the last three weeks or so posts, or should it be haggii, with neaps and tatties
There's a possibility there may be some Christmas songs this Tuesday which may include The Little Drummer boy. After hours researching this song I discovered in those days banjos existed and were, just like today an instrument of ridicule and liked as much as cyclists dressed in lycra in a group of 20 hogging the road and going up a hill at 2mph while you are behind them with a car full of kids with them shouting are we there yet every 10 seconds.
Anyway back to the little drummer boy who was actually little banjo boy until a camel broke it in two and there weren't any music shops in Bethlehem and he couldn't ask Ian Walker to borrow his as he was doing a gig at the Boolin club. Being an intelligent lad he then invented the drum with what was left over from his banjo. I never thought of that while I was doing my instruments on a budget posts.
Now for the serious stuff. In the song the Magi summoned him to the nativity of Jesus but he didn't have a gift so instead of playing his banjo he played his drum with the approval of Mary who actually fell out with Joseph for the reason in the second picture which in actual fact is where the song Silent Night came from, Jesus apparently smiled at him. It's all true!!! I,ve researched it on Facebook so it must be true.
Anyway the song was written by the well known American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.
Now for another amazing fact it was first recorded in 1951 by the Austrian Trapp family who were in the Sound of Music which will probably be repeated again somewhere over the Christmas period. The song has been recorded many times since.
Anyway did I say this Tuesday is the last event until January 21st next year?
Come on down sing a song, (possibly the little drummer boy but don't all come and sing it as it would be a bit monotonous), recite a poem dance a jig or just sit and be entertained and don't forget there will be another of our world famous raffles at the Boolin club Limekilnburn Road Quarter ML3 7XA doors open 7.30 for 8pm start