Lonnie Donegan - Hard Travelling

you know smoething,,,,,..............he kind of looks a little like woody a bit.

I know: to Americans this is corny and sounds like a parody of Woody and Lead Belly but this is THE guy who influenced Van Morrison and The Beatles and other Brits/irish.

Awesome. Love it.

And all this before the Beatles.

This Lonnie pop style for TV. The Donegan that inspired rock/blues groups was before fame. Most great blues/jazz performances never recorded

Donegan in full flight. Great stuff. A man slightly ouf of control, dont we love it!

thats micki & griff doin backing vocals, lovely couple

No disrespect to Lonnie Donegan, but his Hard Travelin' sounds like a parody of the King of Folk Woody Guthrie! I know many Brits are fans of skiffle, but it's British interpretation of American roots music just doesn't cut it!! Now, if we're talking traditional Irish or Scottish music that is a diff. story.

def not his intention to do parody. Lonnie just loved playing all kind of folk music whether english, scottish, irish american. He was a cockney from london - it's just his london character coming through!

But Lonnie was Scottish, born in Glasgow.