Z Cars replaced by Elton's I'm still standing?

Most the time...(good link as it's also got a further link to him reading the classified scores)

 

'When I started supporting them in 1965, they were bottom of the Second Division. But these kids think City’s history began with Colin Bell.'

Interview must have been a few years ago.

How many Citeh fans will have heard of Colin Bell?

 

Given his massive record sales, its probably quite diverse.

 

It's actually just 7 people but they've been led by the nose into buying the single, then the album, then the cd, just before the deluxe cd with outtakes, at which point downloads started (the 99p's mount up). And then streaming.

Keeps you in flowers.

 

In my first year at Liverpool ('88-'89) a group of us from my course would regularly meet up to hear the trad. Irish (diddly-dee) band 'Cream of the Barley' in Flanagan's Apple on Sunday nights. Their 'guest' singer Stan Ambrose (bloke with the tin whistle below) would sing quite a bawdy version (possibly the original looking at these sanitized lyrics) of it as an encore (or a old Stanley Holloway number of "I live in Trafalgar Square...").

 

Regardless of who started using it regularly first, it's still a Scouse sea shanty adapted into a theme tune for a show based around a police department in a fictional area of Liverpool.

They've definitely got the stronger ties, and there isn't much in the "who did it first" side of things no matter which way you slice it.

 

We had it because it was Bill McGarry's favourite TV show!

 

Yeah - seems a pretty odd way to choose something in hindsight!

 

Lucky that he wasn’t a fan of, for instance, Are You Being Served?

 

Allowing for a time warp not unfeasible as was according to legend based on Clements.

 

I was thinking Muffin the Mule myself, but the point is the same regardless.

 

With the Goon Show played after home victories.

Let’s be careful what we wish for.

 

If we win the Cup, surely Javi can choose.

And if he goes for Rod Stewart, Elton will just have to suck it up.

 

I think the general feeling here is that we need Elton to write lyrics to the z cars theme. Then it needs to get remixed into a jungle drum and bass dance version that we use for the next 100 years until my great great grandson finds yellow by yawnmongers on an old Now88 record and posts it on wfcforums.com.

 

Yes I know it well. Great album IMO.

 

Bernie Taupin, surely?

 

Don’t you think Elton has earnt the chance to have a go with some lyrics?

After 50 odd years in the business he must have picked up the basics.

 

If it ain’t broke...

 

Say in like 30 years or however long, your grandchildren will hear the song at the Vic and you can tell them about Elton and the Graham Taylor error. I just feel any Elton song says more about the club and our journey than what Z cars does.

 

I heard it was GT's favourite TV show, I mean he's got a stand named after him and a statue, what more does he want?

 

Agree with these sentiments . I can’t say I really like z cars as a tune, but for me it represents the team coming out and the anticipation that brings . Will always associate that song with Watford and there is an emotional connection there for me .

Didn’t they change it in the 90s at some point ? Might have been the perched era . I have a vague memory of chariots of fire being played . Anyone else remember that or did I just imagine it ?

 

Chariots would play after Z Cars once the teams were on the pitch. #emotional

 

I still love Chariots.

 

If I was picking an SEJ tune I’d go with Rocket Man personally.
Z Cars still get me in the mood for the game as it means something to me having first gone to the Vic in 1981.

 

“The perched era”. Was that when we were perched on the edge of relegation?

 

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sorry Meant the petchey era , though that would also describe it well ...

 

Oh yes thats right !

 

I'm sure Chariots was used in the 80s, before Petchey, but, as unlikey as ever, I could be wrong.

As was said it was played twixt Z Cars and KO but since Z Cars has had to be truncated to make way for all the PL palaver I guess there's no chance to reintroduce it now (unless the teams walk out at 2:45).

 

Let me remove my false teeth to tell an anecdote from primary school. We had music lessons that involved us learning folk songs and, one day,' Johnny Todd' came up. Cue enthusiastic cheering in one South Oxhey Classroom, angry teacher trying to regain control, visits to the headmaster to explain behaviour.

Z-Cars had resonance for me before I knew what the word meant.

 

Yellow by yawnmongers

 

Chariots was used in the 80s. It was the gap between the players taking the field, Zcars finishing and kick off. Obviously this was before the days of the Premier League line up and shake hands tosh.

 

As z-cars was the theme tune of the favourite TV show of the then manager, we should ask Javi what his favourite programme is.

 

Hopefully Eastenders and not Corrie, as at least we would have some tenuous claim to Eastenders.

 

It’s almost like we were following a trend set by other clubs but couldn’t be bothered to put any effort into the selection process.

Letting the current coach choose isn’t such a bad idea, it should keep it fresh with the amount of coaches we get through.
I have heard that as he sips his Sangria, and to remind him of home, Javi likes nothing better than to watch re-runs of El Dorado.