 | Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's a Dustman
Tags: great, song
Description:
cool song
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 | Lonnie Donegan- The battle of New Orleans
Tags: 50, battle, country, Donegan-, Lonnie, new, orleans, rockabilly
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Fallecido en 2002, The King of skiffle.
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 | Lonnie Donegan - Grand Coulee Dam
Tags: Coulee, Dam, Donegan, Grand, Lonnie, Skiffle
Description:
Skiffle King Lonnie Donegan and his group play the Woody Guthrie song Grand Coulee Dam in 1957. Who said that folk-rock began in the late-1960s?
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 | Pick a Bale of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan
Tags: blues, donegan, jazz, lonnie, skiffle, trad, traditional
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Lonnie Donegan's version of this Leadbelly classic.
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 | HAVE A DRINK ON ME - Lonnie Donegan
Tags: alcohol, beer, blues, donegan, drinking, jazz, lonnie, maenclochog, pembrokeshire, preseli, pub, pubs, skiffle, song, trad, traditional
Description:
Too late the bars shut. You can buy the next one.
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 | Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line
Tags: 1950s, Donegan, Island, Line, Lonnie, Rock
Description:
Apologies for the sound quality.. I recently converted this to digital from a homemade cassette recording done about 20 years ago.
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 | Lonnie Donegan - Hard Travelling
Tags: Donegan, Lonnie, Skiffle
Description:
Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group performing the Woody Guthrie song Hard Travelling in 1958. Who said that folk-rock began in the late-1960s?
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 | Lonnie Donegan - Gamblin' Man
Tags: Donegan, Gamblin', Lonnie, Man
Description:
Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group performing the Woody Guthrie song Gamblin' Man in 1958.
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 | Lonnie Donegan - I Shall Not Be Moved
Tags: barber, be, chris, donegan, fifties, lonnie, morrison, moved, not, shall, skiffle, van
Description:
Born Anthony James Donegan in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a professional violinist. He moved with his mother to East Ham, Essex (now Greater London), at an early age, after his parents divorced. Inspired by blues music and New Orleans jazz bands he heard on the radio, he resolved to learn the guitar, and bought his first at the age of fourteen.
The first band he played in was the trad jazz band led by Chris Barber, who approached him on a train asking him if he wanted to audition for his group. Barber had heard that Donegan was a good banjo player; in fact, Donegan had never played the banjo at this point, but he bought one and managed to bluff his way through the audition. His stint in this group was interrupted, however, when he was called up for National Service in 1949.
In 1952 he formed his first group, the Tony Donegan Jazzband, which found some work around London. On one occasion they opened for the blues musician Lonnie Johnson at the Royal Festival Hall. Donegan was a big fan of Johnson, and took his first name as a tribute to him. The story goes that the host at the concert got the musicians' names confused, calling them "Tony Johnson" and "Lonnie Donegan", and Donegan was happy to keep the name.
Lonnie's skiffle style encouraged amateurs to get started, and one of the many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by John Lennon. Donegan's Putting On The Style/Gamblin' Man single was number one on the British charts in July 1957, when Lennon first met Paul McCartney...
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 | The Rock Island Line. Donegan
Tags: america, american, donegan, jazz, pembrokeshire, railroad, railway, revival, skiffle, trad, traditional, trains, vipers, wales
Description:
Early Lonnie Donegan 1957.....
The concealed 'pig iron' might be referring to smuggling slaves to freedom.
"Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song, which was performed and first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s. Versions of the song have been recorded by many other artists. While the song is ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, from the lyrics there is evidence to suggest that the "railroad" referred-to is actually the Underground Railroad, a slave escape route
Wikipedia
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 | Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - London Conway Hall 1957
Tags: Donegan, Ella, Lonnie, Skiffle, Speed, UK
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Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - London Conway Hall 25.01.1957
Precious Memories & Ella Speed
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