Nostalgia is what it used to be after all

Leo Maguire
(1903 – 17 December 1985)

As we expected, last week's Dragon Folk Club session was down to a kernel of two singers, but sing they did. You may think a lot of the songs are not folk, but when you get two men of a similar age sat down and singing these things can happen. Don't get me wrong, I'm a bit younger and I can go happily along with the same mix. So, it was quite a sixties and seventies evening, but I hope you will agree it was a good selection, even with a bit of folk and near folk mixed in.

Colin started off the evening with Hotel California (Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey). Geoff followed on with The Whistling Gypsy (roud 1, child 200), which is obviously traditional but I suspect the version Geoff sang was based on this one copyrighted in the 1950s by Leo Maguire.

Despite there being only two singers they managed to get through several songs (including the two mentioned above) not previously on the Dragon Folk Club song database, so I will list the rest of them:

• Colin - Across the universe (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 
• Colin - Vincent (Don McLean)
• Colin - Lady Madonna (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
• Colin - Hey Jude (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

It was also Colin who finished off the evening fittingly with George Papavgeris' Friends Like These.

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 2 of whom 2 performed)