Saturday, 31 March 2012

SONG OF CRICKET - HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?


The London Quartet have provided this list - Songs of Cricket - they thought will be of interest. Thanks to Ann Boulton for emailing it to Lincs Cricket Latest

TRACK LIST
www.songsofcricket.com

1.   Cricket TV theme medley – five modern classics… Test Match Special, Channels 9 and 4, 2011 World Cup theme plus Dreadlock Holiday

2.   The Cricketers of Hambledon by Peter Warlock

3.   Schools Song medley – five schools cricket songs

4.   The Summer Game from Cricket by Tim Rice/ Andrew Lloyd-Webber [with T Rice singing! – a bit]

5.   Lillian Thompson – performed by Richard Stilgoe

6.   Radnage Cricket Song – oldest known cricket song extant

7.   Four Jolly Bowlers – the Yetties

8.   The Rules of Cricket - Psalm chant

9.   You’ve got to be a cricket hero (to get along with beautiful girls) – performed by Eliza Lumley

10.  Jiggery Pokery – from Duckworth Lewis Method - TLQ & Eliza Lumley

11.  Village Rondo – Chris Hatt piano solo [first pictorial reference to cricket on title page]

12.  Eton & Winchester

13.  I made a 100 in the backyard at Mum’s by Greg Champion

14.  Australian Cricket medley – including a song written by Sir Donald Bradman, Every day is a Rainbow Day for Me

15.  Barmy Army – performed by Richard Stilgoe & TLQ

16.  That’s Not Cricket – performed by Eliza Lumley

18.  Cricket Tea Towel – The Ins and Outs of Cricket

17.  Andy Flower duet – performed by Richard Bryan & Eliza Lumley [Stilgoe, after Delibes]

18.  Jerusalem – Cricket ‘choir’ – more Stilgoe wit

20.  When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease by Roy Harper

21.  Rory Bremner -  ‘Stop it, Aggers’

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