Have I discovered who Tree is?

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:01 pm

Singing about Pools, his first love!!

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:40 pm

You're not implying ... no, it couldn't be ... :shock:

thornleypoolie · **Joined:** Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:10 pm **Posts:** 1101

Is that Mike Elliott who used to do the talk in on century?

Splod · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:51 am

It certainly is Mike Elliott. Before he gave up his school teaching job he was in a folk band called Northern Front with Nick Fenwick and Ed Pickford. They used to appear regularly at the Nursery Inn. Ed Pickford wrote the classic "The Oldest Swinger In Town" which I have a feeling might be appropriate for quite a few on here :grin:

grabec · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:09 pm

No, you're wrong, BP...I know Mike Elliott and I don't know Tree :wink:

Mr Splod, I would pay a lot of money to hear Nick Fenwick sing 'Shores of Old Blighty' again. Also his 'Blues are all the same ' (song whose proper name I forget).
I think I must know you if you were around in the Nursery in those days

Splod · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:25 pm

Ms Grabec, I certainly enjoyed many a happy night at the Nursey, even tried floor singing a couple of times but lousy guitar technique and poor voice proved an unsurmountable obstacle to my career as a singer/songwriter.

You can get hold of Nick Fenwicks album 'Looks a Lot Like Me' on e-bay which doesn't include 'Shores of Old Blighty' but does include my favourite 'John O'Dream' and a few blues. Well worth a listen.

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:38 pm

grabec wrote:

No, you're wrong, BP...I know Mike Elliott and I don't know Tree :wink:

Mr Splod, I would pay a lot of money to hear Nick Fenwick sing 'Shores of Old Blighty' again. Also his 'Blues are all the same ' (song whose proper name I forget).
I think I must know you if you were around in the Nursery in those days

Are you thinking of Jackson C. Frank's 'Blues Run The Game' Grabec?

grabec · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:56 pm

Right, thanks, Mr Splod, will look up the album. I already have Old Blighty by Bob Fox but I prefer NF singing it. Can you, erm, divulge what you used to sing and I'll probably remember.

Kolley, I'm not sure what the song was called but the chorus went something like:

Take a trip to England, baby,
take a trip to Spain;
wherever I have been,
wherever I've been and gone,
the blues are all the same

Splod · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:41 pm

Grabec, probably Ralph McTell's Maginot Waltz or Nettle Wine - but there was another guy who sang a lot of Ralph McTell stuff.

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:49 pm

grabec wrote:

Right, thanks, Mr Splod, will look up the album. I already have Old Blighty by Bob Fox but I prefer NF singing it. Can you, erm, divulge what you used to sing and I'll probably remember.

Kolley, I'm not sure what the song was called but the chorus went something like:

Take a trip to England, baby,
take a trip to Spain;
wherever I have been,
wherever I've been and gone,
the blues are all the same

Yeah, that's the one. An American folk singer called Jackson C. Frank wrote it. He ended up homeless on the streets of New York and died a few years ago. Pretty sad really.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:22 am

grabec wrote:

No, you're wrong, BP...I know Mike Elliott and I don't know Tree :wink:

Mr Splod, I would pay a lot of money to hear Nick Fenwick sing 'Shores of Old Blighty' again. Also his 'Blues are all the same ' (song whose proper name I forget).
I think I must know you if you were around in the Nursery in those days

I know Mike Elliott as well, or at least I have seen him, PC and I went up to Tyne Tees studios to watch the recording of a couple of programmes he did for Channel 4. That doesn't stop him being Tree as well, after all his 'geordieness' is only an act you know, he is really a Poolie. :wink:

My best memory of the Nursery Folk Club was seeing Dave Cousins of Strawbs fame do a solo act there. He was working for Radio Tees or whatever it was called at the time.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

The game is up!! sadx

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:00 am

That "Oldest Swinger in Town" is a bit dire innit. If the bloke had a voice it might be better ... but only just.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:03 am

Tree_With_Hamster wrote:

The game is up!! sadx

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:21 pm

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

I know Mike Elliott as well, or at least I have seen him, PC and I went up to Tyne Tees studios to watch the recording of a couple of programmes he did for Channel 4. That doesn't stop him being Tree as well, after all his 'geordieness' is only an act you know, he is really a Poolie. :wink:

Good defence.

OK then, I know Mick Elliott AND I know Tree, and they are not the same person :coool:

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:29 pm

grabec wrote:

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

I know Mike Elliott as well, or at least I have seen him, PC and I went up to Tyne Tees studios to watch the recording of a couple of programmes he did for Channel 4. That doesn't stop him being Tree as well, after all his 'geordieness' is only an act you know, he is really a Poolie. :wink:

Good defence.

OK then, I know Mick Elliott AND I know Tree, and they are not the same person :coool:

I must be right. He's even got his picture as his Avatar now. :grin:

Have I discovered who Tree is?

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