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Post by fishlovesoatcakes on Jun 8, 2019 7:37:45 GMT
Can anyone else remember singing the theme tune to the Hovis bread advert at Stoke in the 80's? I had a dream that I was standing on the Boothen end last night and we were singing it 😂
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jun 8, 2019 7:52:08 GMT
No I don't I am afraid.
But on a related theme, in the mid 70s when the opposition came out first at home games (as seemed almost invariably to be the case), we often chanted "Bring on the Champions".
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 8, 2019 8:39:06 GMT
Who will buy my Bread?
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Post by chrisgal on Jun 8, 2019 8:47:49 GMT
I remember the Sutherland Brothers first band doing this
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Post by Scouse on Jun 8, 2019 8:49:41 GMT
Hum , or la la it ... usually away against perceived small town provincial teams ( a little ironic I always thought) likes of Barnsley / Huddersfield etc
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Post by Gods on Jun 8, 2019 8:52:13 GMT
I thought we sang it when 'ee-ba-gum' northern teams like Burnley and Blackburn were in town.
Just as we would sing 'Come and get your peanuts' in the fashion of an East End peanut seller when we played West Ham.
But cheap parody of simple Northern and East End folk is rather frowned upon these days :-)
Doh ! Scouse beat me to it, we can't both be wrong !
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Post by Gods on Jun 8, 2019 9:03:05 GMT
Hum , or la la it ... usually away against perceived small town provincial teams ( a little ironic I always thought) likes of Barnsley / Huddersfield etc Excellent examples. I wonder as well, in those days at Barnsley or Huddersfield you could look out of the stadium and at the narrow, steep, terraced streets and it did put you in mind of the Hovis advertisement. These days you're in a nasty, lego built, all-seater, in the arse end of a business park 5 miles from the town so the thought never enters your head. You notionally visit the town, but you don't really any more. |
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Post by southcoaststokie on Jun 8, 2019 9:08:44 GMT
I thought we sang it when 'ee-by-gum' northern teams like Burnley and Blackburn were in town. Just as we would sing 'Come and get your peanuts' in the fashion of an East End peanut seller when we played West Ham. But cheap parody of simple Northern and East End folk is rather frowned upon these days :-) Doh ! Scouse beat me to it, we can't both be wrong ! The irony in that is it was filmed in a a nice town down south in Shaftesbury, Gold hill was the name of the hill of I remember right, and there used to be a big hovis statue at the top that is no longer there. |
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Post by Gods on Jun 8, 2019 9:29:31 GMT
No I don't I am afraid. But on a related theme, in the mid 70s when the opposition came out first at home games (as seemed almost invariably to be the case), we often chanted "Bring on the Champions". Yes was it sung without a trace of irony, with no knowing smile on our faces, I don't remember ?! |
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jun 8, 2019 9:57:50 GMT
No I don't I am afraid. But on a related theme, in the mid 70s when the opposition came out first at home games (as seemed almost invariably to be the case), we often chanted "Bring on the Champions". Yes was it sung without a trace of irony, with no knowing smile on our faces, I don't remember ?! No irony, correct. In fairness it was at a time when we had a team that could and did compete at the very top. Incidentally, to develop the theme slightly, we have also routinely sung "Oh Staffordshire - is wonderful". A little crude for my taste. But based on a Wonderloaf advert, albeit to the tune of "When the Saints". |
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 8, 2019 10:01:30 GMT
Is this the one?
New World Symphony
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Post by kidcrewbob on Jun 8, 2019 10:54:25 GMT
Eeeeeh you could smell it all round the 'ouse - all hot an brown an steaming......
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Post by northstaffycher on Jun 8, 2019 11:53:35 GMT
Eeeeh, he used to leave a hot brown steaming one on me doorstep every morning...
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Post by stokemark on Jun 8, 2019 17:02:25 GMT
Away from home and up north as Scouse references
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Post by lurcherman on Jun 8, 2019 18:53:56 GMT
Going home going home I am going home Going home going home I am going home Mother's there father's there I am going home Going home going home I am going home  |
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Post by OldStokie on Jun 8, 2019 23:09:36 GMT
I think it was this one... OS. |
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Post by loosestools on Jun 9, 2019 5:26:15 GMT
Bet you cant recall the name of the original narrator!!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 9, 2019 5:44:28 GMT
Bet you cant recall the name of the original narrator!! Ridley Scott directed it of that's any use😁 |
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Post by loosestools on Jun 9, 2019 6:10:00 GMT
It was Joe Gladwin. He also appeared as 'our Eli, in 'Nearest and Dearest' with Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker, all about work in a northern pickle factory. Christ, I amaze myself at the amount of useless trivia that I can recall
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Post by wagsastokie on Jun 9, 2019 7:00:28 GMT
It was Joe Gladwin. He also appeared as 'our Eli, in 'Nearest and Dearest' with Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker, all about work in a northern pickle factory. Christ, I amaze myself at the amount of useless trivia that I can recall Also as Wally the pigeon man / Nora Battys husband in last of the summer wine |
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Post by walton corner on Jun 9, 2019 12:48:43 GMT
Yes I remember singing it ......big ooooooo at the end
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Post by fishlovesoatcakes on Jun 9, 2019 22:03:56 GMT
Yes I remember singing it ......big ooooooo at the end Thank God you remembered it. I thought I was going mad 😂 |
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Post by nott1 on Jun 10, 2019 5:29:27 GMT
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Post by suck_the_mop. on Jun 10, 2019 16:39:25 GMT
Yes remember singing it especially up north and Yorkshire teams etc,like a bit of a pisstake, seem to remember it going like der der der, der der der,der der der der der, big DER then same repeated until we got fed up or a reaction from the opposition fans..
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Post by Linx on Jun 10, 2019 18:28:27 GMT
The ‘Hovis theme tune’ is actually an arrangement for brass band (eeh, bah gum!) of the main theme from Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 (The New World), originally written as an evocation of the mysterious beauty of the forests of North America and its frontier. I’m not sure that Dvorak, a Czech who was inspired by his tour of the USA in the late 19th Century, would have appreciated it being better known in the UK for its association with cobbled streets in industrial northern England.
Good though, innit?🤓
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 10, 2019 22:30:29 GMT
I remember the Sutherland Brothers first band doing this I love that cat.  |
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Post by nott1 on Jun 11, 2019 6:01:16 GMT
Yes remember singing it especially up north and Yorkshire teams etc,like a bit of a pisstake, seem to remember it going like der der der, der der der,der der der der der, big DER then same repeated until we got fed up or a reaction from the opposition fans.. I think you have one der too many! |
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Post by suck_the_mop. on Jun 11, 2019 8:32:59 GMT
Yes remember singing it especially up north and Yorkshire teams etc,like a bit of a pisstake, seem to remember it going like der der der, der der der,der der der der der, big DER then same repeated until we got fed up or a reaction from the opposition fans.. I think you have one der too many! more than likely 😁😁 |
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Post by broadwayroundabout on Jun 11, 2019 18:41:14 GMT
The ‘Hovis theme tune’ is actually an arrangement for brass band (eeh, bah gum!) of the main theme from Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 (The New World), originally written as an evocation of the mysterious beauty of the forests of North America and its frontier. I’m not sure that Dvorak, a Czech who was inspired by his tour of the USA in the late 19th Century, would have appreciated it being better known in the UK for its association with cobbled streets in industrial northern England. Good though, innit?🤓 I used to play it on 2nd cornet in the city youth orchestra 😄 |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jun 12, 2019 12:46:24 GMT
Bet you cant recall the name of the original narrator!! Ridley Scott directed it of that's any use😁 Now that's a bit of trivia! Never knew that! |
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