Posted on 08/26/2016 6:10:12 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. Ferry Cross The Mersey
music *ping*
Occasionally I get up with a couple of other musicians and play a few dining spots in town. One night we broke into s very soulful rendition of this. The lighting was low and we had this jam going for about 20 minutes. Itvwad the only time we got a standing O at a restaurant.
It’s on my MP3 player..............
Like Brit rivers generally, the Mersey is very small until it gets close to the coast and becomes a tidal inlet. The ferry crosses to Liverpool where a few other musicians are from as well.
That song transcends me back to memories of my early boyhood days.
That’s terrific. Sounds like one of those times a musician always remembers.
“Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Oo7nCF6Iw
LOL believe these guys were seen on stage with many other British groups during those years....those year too long ago to remember all the details. And no ticket stubs kept in a lock box to jar the memory.
There were hundreds...and hundreds...and hundreds of true classics from the British Invasion,and this is just about the best.Having been to Liverpool I found it a dirty,dank and depressing place but to some,it’s home.And “home” is important.
I had just reached teenhood when the British Invasion hit, and these guys were really pretty big.
I recall going to the theater and seeing a motion picture entitled "Ferry Cross the Mersey", featuring the group.
I wonder if any of them ended up with pacemakers ?
Oh no no no.
Nostalgia
Ditto that.
Through my maternal grandmother, I am probably related to Gerry Marsden.
It would be through the region around Liverpool, and the people recruited and converted by the Mormons beginning in the 1840s, in England.
My Marsden ancestor was among those folks, transported to America on wood ships, sailed up the Mississippi, grouped with the Mormons before walking across part of the country, to wind up in Southern Utah.
I have never been a Mormon, but m family history includes these people, and they kept good records.
And it was a good little music group, too.
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