The music man

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If you didn't grow up in England... do you know the music man song?

Or is there anyone who did grow up in England and doesn't know this song?

There's a good reason why I really need to know this, I promise.

I know the bloke who sang it, he came to my wedding…..

I feel like I’ve crossed into a different dimension (foreign, 30-something). Should I be googling?

I grew up in Wales, I know it and sang it at school.

I do know it (29) my husband doesn’t (35). To be fair we come very different backgrounds and he never attended a disco for a birthday party as a child. He only heard Superman by Black Lace for the first time this week.

Not British , but learned at baby sign language with DD.

I'd say second reaction even In the UK or England.
More likely to get a hit with Boom boom boom boom .

My kids sang it at preschool in the USA

It’s one of my favourite children songs. I’m from Canada and only heard it for the first time after moving to the U.K.

Could also be because I had kids in the U.K. though 😆

English and born in thr 80s so definitely know this song. I used to sing it to ds when he was a baby to stop him crying

God I loathe that song. Used to give me The Rage at rhyme time with the DC. Don’t remember singing it a primary school though or maybe I’ve blocked it out . Born and raised in SE England.

I'm English, in my mid-40s and only came across in the early 90s, when the Black Lace version started getting played at wedding receptions, 18th birthday parties, etc. I think it dates from at least the 70s, though, if not before!

Oh that's a bugger. I have it it on reasonable authority that this was this exact song that Cliff had chosen for this year's Christmas single/hit...with the sole remaining Chuckle Brother (Paul) doing the actions in the background.
Oh well, it's back to the drawing board then, although Sparky's Magic Piano is due a comeback...
Remember you heard it here first. 🤫

Up and down the country there are now MNetters belting out The Music Man and saying well its better than Agadoo

We used to sing this at my English primary school in the 1980s.

We thought we were real rebels if we could get away with changing the words to "Big bass big bass big bass bum" without the teacher noticing.

Rebels, I tell you. :o

I know it but would never audience participate in any karaoke!

Sorry to disappoint but it hasn't flopped yet.

In 2020, just before Covid really was a thing in Europe, my dh and I totally forgot my birthday. Like obviously we knew what day it was (it's my dds bday too) but it just slipped our minds to plan anything and dh hadn't even had time to get me a card. We had a shit load on our plate. Mil was seriously I'll in hospital. We were run ragged with work. Dd had just been diagnosed with asthma and was waking up in the night with attacks. We'd been arguing a lot. Then we'd spent the day hosting a kids bday party and had argued about the cake.
When dh realized he hadn't even said happy bday to me, he tried to muster up some motivation to go out, and asked our neighbour to babysit - but they could only do until 11. I wasn't in the mood and looked totally rough but said I wouldn't mind getting some fish n chips at the Irish pub, so off we went.
But it was a Friday night, the pub was heaving. Squashed up at a busy bar I was just trying to get enough elbow room to use a knife and fork and everyone was up and swaying around already at 9:30 singing to can you feel the love tonight. By the time I finished my food and had one Guinness we had to walk back to free the neighbour because dd was having shortness of breath and she was worried.
On the walk home I just burst into tears about how miserable I was with life and how we used to go out partying until the early morning and now I was the miserable old cow at the bar eating a meal on karaoke night when it was my birthday and I should be up there singing.
So dh said, that's it, as soon as we get dd sorted through the night, we're getting a proper babysitter, you're getting dressed up, we're going back to karaoke night, we're eating our fish n chips at 5pm and after that we are drinking every whiskey on the menu and I'm going to get up on stage and sing. I told him don't be daft and he said no you are doing it and then for the rest of the way home he was nagging at me to tell him what song and I just said well I dunno, the music man, because it was what popped into my head. And being not from the uk, he didn't know the song, so he made me sing it. And he just found it hilarious and YouTubed it when we got home and has teased me with it ever since. At home Dd was not having an asthma attack. She just had some sniffles and the neighbour was worried and wasn't sure how to give the inhaler. Not that it would have made much difference because we were both dead anyway.
Well the music man never happened because lockdown came a few weeks later. Another bday came and went and dh played the music man as he served me my birthday cake. Things were much better - mil recovered, dd asthma under control, on furlough so less stress, more time together as a family so happier.
Now I'm super unwell, don't want to go into details but had some very bad news. Will be out of shape for at least the next few months. Laid here feeling sorry for myself, in tears, and dh is trying to comfort me. He says "remember the music man".
And the thought of just getting better, putting on some makeup, blowing 100 euros on whiskeys and doing the piano and trombone is keeping me going.
But I am imagining the black lace version with everyone up dancing (except drunken adult expats not kids) and going down in history as the karaoke queen. But in reality the bar is mostly visited by Australians and Americans who have probably never heard of the music man and he definitely doesn't come from down their way. And I'll just sing to an dead crowd before throwing up behind a bin outside.
So yeah if anyone wants to try it out in their local for me and let me know about the response, it would be greatly appreciated!

Yes I remember the music man pia-pia-piano I’m English in my 30s I remember it being sung in pontine and butlins and also in some hotels in Spain along with the birdy song. Ahhh good memories 🙂

Well, I come from down your way and the 1st "proper" action song I taught my 4y/o: music man
2nd: superman
3rd: time warp
4th: macarena
5th: whigfield

Giving myself a bonus point for Gina G

I'm 34. They're the songs I loved at her age (and still do now lol) so yanbu!!

Also, dam busters is wings 😁

Oh, and if there was ever any doubt.... The lovely peach in the sky, the moon in your eye"

Dh is Scottish and sings slightly different words...although these were possibly made up by his Grandpa who was a great one for all that

OP. It won't matter if anyone sings it with you when you go up and sing it. I'm sure DH will anyway.

Know it. Hate it. Grew up in cornwall. Thought the music man came from Daniel way....

No

I have never heard of this and have spent more than half a century in England.

I'm 51 and English, and had no idea what you were talking about until I watched the video, and suddenly found myself singing along. I have no idea how I know that song....