Richard Hawley

Evening. What does the 'Traditional' writing credit mean for 'Last Orders'? Cheers.

Usually means no-one knows who originally wrote the song as it's been played for many years and handed down from musician to musician.

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I've always wondered, re the 'traditional' credit for 'Last Orders', whether the track number given (track 11) actually was meant to read 'track 10', which is 'Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet', which I always took to be a traditional song, with Richard's arrangement, and thought 'Last Orders' was a Hawley composition. Or is that just me making it up as I go along

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That was my understanding too Lofty.

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Woke this morning and I got myself a beer ............

its a print/typo error i wrote Last orders in my head in a taxi on the way to the studio who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet is a song my Mum taught me and is very very old with no known writer

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now,then!

Thanks all. Makes me appreciate it even more now knowing he/you wrote it.

and with a wierd coincidence of timing, Mike Harding played a song last night that had some lines obviously taken from the same root source as 'who's gonna shoe...'. Didn't catch who it was, but 'twas about 35-40mins into the show, as part of the folk awards feature (best vocalist, I think).

Mike Harding, eh? I've not heard of him for a while. Is he still a woolly-jumpered, curly carrot top with a fanny tickler muzzy? He must be touching 70? Years.......not fannies.

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Jean Oeufs Nouveaux pretentious? I think not.

I saw Mike Harding live doing his comedy show over 30 years ago, I never remember to listen to his radio show.

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Yes we saw him about 20 years ago and he was very funny.
The only down side to his show was the "music". It seems established comedians have to write and sing "serious" music about their upbringing/past or scenic, remote shorelines but, they usually just come across as boring dirges. The Welsh guy Max Boyce - who I didn't find partucularly funny after the millionth "Oggy, Oggy, Oggy, etc - was just the same.

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OMG - Max Boyce! My Dad was a big fan, and we had to suffer listening to 'Hymns and Arias' etc in the car, and even went to see him live, in Andover, in the late 70s. I cringe to think of it!

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Who is it at the piano on Last Orders?
Had this on in the car tonight. Just right for a late night drive home

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I have a nice playlist of Richard's instrumentals....sometimes - it's just the job!

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Adventure before dementia.......so let's all dance like dingledodies!

tis i.....i also play a steel drum on it too

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Ah! Steel drum. That's the sound I've not been able to put my finger on, very subtly done. It all makes sense now.

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