BS: What was that name again?

Subject: What was that name again?
From: Watson
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 06:00 AM

Wouldn't it be great to be a famous folk star (oxymoron alert...) with everybody knowing your name?
Well, maybe, but a few weeks ago I heard Sean Keane introduce Coope Boyes and Simpson as "The Coope boys.... and Simpson", and yesterday, Vin Garbutt's hotel on the phone to Shrewsbury Music Hall asked for "Vinegar Butt".
So, who have you heard to be renamed? Or has it happened to you?

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: John P
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 08:53 AM

I play in a band called Telynor. The MC at a festival once introduced as " . . . ladies and gentlemen, give a big hand for TYLENOL". So the next year at that festival we had friend sitting in with us and we billed ourselves as "Extra-Strength Telynor".

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: SharonA
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 09:47 AM

LOLL! (Laughing Out Loud, Literally!)

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 03:17 PM

I know it's not Folk or Blues orientated but a member of 10c.c said that occasionally in America they were announced as Eye-ock.

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 04:04 PM

Slightly off thread, I have a recording of the announcer introducing the Young Elvis Presley on the (I think it was) Ed Sullivan show or something comparable. The announcer was obviously very much part of the Fifties and a complete square, but he was gamely trying to act enthusiastic --

"Here it comes, ladies and gentleman --Elvis Presley is looking around -- -- he's lifting a leg, leaning back -- and here it is.....HEARTBREAK MOTEL!!!"

I wonder if her ever lived it down?

A

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 02:48 AM

When someone asked me to tape the charts for them I'd only heard the name of 10cc from the DJ's and wrote it as Tanzeezee

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:45 AM

Ralph McTell has a story - he was being interviewed some years ago on a local radio station.
After a few minutes, the interviewer asked him "When did you shave your beard off?"
"I've never had a beard."
A little later... "When did you stop wearing glasses?"
"I've never worn glasses." "...you're not Roger Whittaker at all, are you?"

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:25 AM

An MC of my local club (WAY back in the distant past....) announced the second set of our guests with a huge syrupy build up, leading to a great shout of 'The Kipper Family'. Such a shame it was actually English Tapestry who were appearing......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: Watson
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:42 AM

Sorry, I didn't notice my cookie had gone walkabout - that was me at 08:45.

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: Mac Tattie
Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:38 PM

The great Coope Boyes and Simpson were often refered to as Ind.Coop & Watneys. cheers

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: Scotty
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:51 PM

does anyone have the words of "My Poor Dog Tray"? It starts out "On the green banks of Shannon when Sheelah was nigh . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:49 PM

At the last Haddenham ceilidh Hugh ended the evening by thanking Old Hat. Old Swan promised to pass the thanks on to Katie when they next saw her.

Subject: RE: BS: What was that name again?
From: SharonA
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:59 AM

One of the more famous bloopers of this type occurred at the Democratic party's convention in the US in 1980. Then-President Jimmy Carter gave a speech in glowing tribute to the recently deceased Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The intent was to list the man's attributes and end the speech by shouting his name, so Carter called out the name triumphantly, pausing between each word: "Hubert.... Horatio.... HORNBLOWER!!!!

And, barely heard amid the wild cheers, there was poor Carter trying vainly to correct himself: "Humphrey! Humphrey!"