Flying Column - Sam Hall

[fluff125]

This version isn't that great.

[fluffyrude]

GREET SONG long before it was hi jacked

[joeygsmom]

that voice gives me the shivers what a shame he cant still be singing today :-(

[grobo11]

Damn. People have already began to celtify this song.

[lreland1]

@grobo11 Already? This song is included in an album from the early 70's.

[grobo11]

@lreland1 It's a very old song. And I'm very old.

[lreland1]

@grobo11 :D :D

[cervusadfontes]

@grobo11 - yup it's an 18th century London song.- & it she should be palyed 2x faster...

[macker33]

@grobo11 far as i know its actually an english song,,i could be wrong

[william20100]

@grobo11 its originally celtic. its an old irish song about an old irish kid who gets hanged.

[grobo11]

@william20100 No it's not. It's a traditional English song about a chimney sweep who gets hanged.

Sam Hall. Not exactly Irish is it?

[ThePatrickUK]

@william20100

It's an English song.

[Tiwaz81]

@william20100 Its about Jack Hall, and English robber, hanged in 1707. Ex Chimney sweep. First recorded as being a popular song in London in the 1720s.

[TONYIRISHPROUD]

FOUR GREEN FIELDS ALBUM

[ArdoyneRepublican]

LONG LIVE THE COLUMN

[bigdex123]

if i remember rifght seamus largey was killed by acar when he was changing apuncture at the corner of kennedway west belfast i stand to be corrected it was that long ago the death of a tue hero god bless seamus go to sleep comrade away with tom williams bobby sands and francie hughes

[TheJoe999joe]

i love this song from blackpool

[paudsIre]

May the workin class men of all unite again......we're living in squailer again because of the bosses and the banks.....God Bless all working people.....

[1978johnboy]

great song i remember singing it in high school thanks for the memories

[mundanewoman]

i had " henrey joy" by this band as a kid. Wonderful. Will have to seek them out on ebay.

[lreland1]

I think you can still get some of their albums in commercial music stores. I've also posted Henry Joy.

[drtwmt]

My favorite version of Sam Hall! The way Eamon spit the words out really sounded like a guy going to the gallows - and daring to damn all the spectators! No soulful ballad here - just a great taunt! Eeamon - wish you were still with us...

[joeygsmom]

I think articulated it well, I can count on one hand the number of other singers Ive ever heard who had such emotion!

Always a fan of this group.

[u3of52]

I would have never noticed the voice :)

Great to know the stories behind the songs. This has got to be the best version of Sam Hall ever. Eamon / Flying Column, really nailed it. Thanks folks for the tunes and stories!

[josparkes]

Very good love the banjo playing !

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

28/12/2008

[joeygsmom]

what a unique voice!

[dilloss]

thanks a million for putting this and other Flying Column songs up,I was brought up with these songs in the background.What a great voice the man had.

[tony10396861]

@dilloss I don't see that he had a great voice. Sings like he's got something large stuck up his nose

[diesundas]

The banjo sounds exactly like Barney McKenna´s on the Dubliners version of that song. Are you sure it isn´t Barney himself?

[Ismaithsin]

That's Benny on the bango, the best bango player in the country.(Well, I have to say that!!) Tony, (The Flying Column)

[machree01]

It's Benny playing.

[aglennane]

brilliant version, well done the flying column.

[weephil]

excellent song. thx

[boldfenianlad]

Oh by the way Benny, i'm Tony's son.

[boldfenianlad]

To think that the music that the Column played was illegal still makes me laugh even though there were those who wanted the group silenced they ended up without a voice. To this day as we can see the songs of a few can endure not only time but the might of an empire! Only two words are neeeded......

......... Bloody brilliant!

[RepublicOf32]

@boldfenianlad

We used to listen to the Flying Column when we were coming through the brit barracks (getting our car searched) on our way back to the north years ago! My da always made sure they heard it too.

[djsmurfie]

@RepublicOf32 Ironic considering this is an English folk song from London...

[Teddyb1939]

@boldfenianlad I have just come to this great group & love the sound but don`t know what you mean, why were they illegal,? I can guess but please inform me. Many thanks. I am english, not that that matters by the way.

[mckee46]

Sorry machree01,my thanks is for Ireland1.

By the way Ireland1,Our lads in Crumlin jail is a good song writen by Dessie Gillespi the owner of the old Golden Jublie in Cromac st,he handed it to us one night on a auld bit of paper and after going over it a few times Cathleen sung it on stage,wee played there for years every Wedensday night.  Benny.

[lreland1]

Thanks to Tony and Benny for that info. Those are the type of stories that make a song (and album) even better. Keep 'em coming, I'll post Crumlin Jail soon but I'm busy watching the greatest team in the world getting beat at the minute :-(

[mckee46]

Hi, I'm Benny, Banjo,Mandolin,player,Flying Column.My mate Tony Lynch rang me up to tell me about,ANYBODY AT THE DOOR,well your lucky you never heard the bits we took off.

That LP was recorded in two nights, Thursday for side one, and Friday night for side two.

What our young people don't know is,singing rebel songs in those days was breaking the (LAW) LOL.

Good job machree01 good to see people pushing Irish music without trying to make money out of it. mni tks Benny.

[lreland1]

lol I know, shame on me. I'm a bit busy these days, plus there's nowt I want to put on. A few more Kathleen Largey ones maybe.

[machree01]

When Eamon sings he puts everything into it, as if he where the person in the song, any song. When you listen to the song you will hear a person say "anybody at the door" at 18-19 seconds

[lreland1]

My word Decky, how in the name of God did you notice that???!!!! I must have listened to that song 1000 times and never would have noticed that. LOL

[machree01]

I have the album that was bought in the 70s, and i listen to it every so often, i think he talks on, but you cannot make him out because of Eamon singing. Maybe Tony would know more about.

[Ismaithsin]

Hi, that voice on the Sam Hall track is the studio producer. He heard banging on the main door of the studio and he thought it was the brits coming to arrest the group again!!!

[machree01]

It was the producer all along, a great LP from The Flying Column, thanks Tony.

[macker33]

thank fvck for the internet