Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Desontheholte on September 09, 2013, 09:49:35 PM
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Does anybody remember the villa coming out to this song every game in the early to mid 80s? I can always remember it being on when Nigel Spink was warming up! I dont no if it was played in the 70s as i only started going about 82 83 when i was 5 or 6. I think it would be a good idea to get them coming out to it again.It still sends shivers down my spine listening to it now! Be interesting to see what anyone else thinks?
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Is this the song Tony Butler on brmb used to use to summon a villa goal ? Love this tune.
Always remember he played it in 78 when we are at the Nou Camp and sure enough Brian Little did the honours.
Great idea.
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Ye on ya bike butler and George gavin and he was crackers! We need to get this tune back down villa park!
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I've heard it played sporadically at Villa Park over the past few seasons, but not as the song the players come out to. Would be much better than that bland FM rock song (think it is the Foo Fighters) that has been used recently.
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Gerron yer prayer mats and pray for the Villa.
I can't imagine Free Radio being that arsed these days.
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where's Peen gone?
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Hail Saunders of the Villa!
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fantastic memories of this being played down the Villa and on BRMB..... I have this tune on my IPOD, if i had a mobile phone this would be my ringtone!
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Its a great ringtone, and speaking of Tone, I still keep a cassette of Butler demanding we get down on our prayer mat, [apol if not PC], chanting 'Hail Saunders, King of the Villa'',, as we payed away in Turkey, with the best ever Villa theme blasting out. Golden days, before kids, pre Ozzjim, Capri on the drive, Dennis, Sid et al on the pitch. Never replaced Saunders, maybe Lambert is nearest, so time to renew the 'Theme from an unmade silent movie'.
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Remember getting up at 3 am for the world club final in Tokyo on brmb with butler in full flow - great times , and the European away nights were great on brmb - butler and George Gavin were at their peak - great days.
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I taped all the BRMB European Cup away nights and the games in Barcelona and Tokyo. My dad wasn't impressed. Firstly he is a bluenose and secondly I took advantage of the fact that whoever had recorded their Dr Hook album collection onto blank cassettes for him didn't remove the tabs.
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A shedload of old BRMB stuff here:-
http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/brmb-audio.html
Includes the theme in mp3 format:
http://www.mds975.co.uk/audio/tony_butler_brmb_theme-128k.mp3
Also an Adrian Juste spoof of Thriller at the Villa
http://www.mds975.co.uk/audio/BRMB_Thriller_At_The_Villa_John_Slater.MP3
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A very evocative tune.
Great memories of a brilliant decade to be a Villa fan 1972-1982. Third Division Champions to European Champions, a feat criminally overlooked then and still now. It will never be repeated.
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To any of our fans from that time, Hurricaine Smith's tune is evocative of one of the greatest periods in the history of our club.
I've got a cassette tape featuring the highlights of Tony Butler's 1982 European Cup Final show, including George Gavin's commentary when we scored the winning goal and at the final whistle. I'd digitalise it and share it if I had the technological wherewithal.
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wow
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To any of our fans from that time, Hurricaine Smith's tune is evocative of one of the greatest periods in the history of our club.
I've got a cassette tape featuring the highlights of Tony Butler's 1982 European Cup Final show, including George Gavin's commentary when we scored the winning goal and at the final whistle. I'd digitalise it and share it if I had the technological wherewithal.
Does anyone else remember them trying to keep people hooked/awake for the game in Tokyo by promising to replay George Gavin's commentary on Peter Withe's winner?
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I'm too young for this but I do miss us playing Escape as our entrance music. I think that sets the scene like no other song.
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I am sure its been asked before but how did the "Theme from..." become to be played as the team ran out. Whats the link?
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(http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/s532/villajk/518f5ee01fe464e8aa3e26ec60ff5c6e_zps934f7b33.jpg)
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I am sure its been asked before but how did the "Theme from..." become to be played as the team ran out. Whats the link?
Butler reckons he played it first. Why, he never says.
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If you listen to this music loud after a great Villa win, you go all funny. Goose bumps and welled up eyes. Or is that just me?
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If you listen to this music loud after a great Villa win, you go all funny. Goose bumps and welled up eyes. Or is that just me?
Same here, Pete.
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If you listen to this music loud after a great Villa win, you go all funny. Goose bumps and welled up eyes. Or is that just me?
I prefer to hear it before a game. My eyes go a bit blurry and I see Gordon Cowans and Peter Withe running out to play for us. Oh, and I'm twelve again and we are champions of Europe.
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If you listen to this music loud after a great Villa win, you go all funny. Goose bumps and welled up eyes. Or is that just me?
No, but then it has pretty much the same effect on me whenever it's played.
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A group of us wrote separate letters to the club years ago to ask if they could reinstate it as the music we run out to (I think it was Graham Taylor and Steve Stride that we wrote to).
Alas, no reply or acknowledgment.
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Does anybody remember the villa coming out to this song every game in the early to mid 80s? I can always remember it being on when Nigel Spink was warming up! I dont no if it was played in the 70s as i only started going about 82 83 when i was 5 or 6. I think it would be a good idea to get them coming out to it again.It still sends shivers down my spine listening to it now! Be interesting to see what anyone else thinks?
I used to have it as a ring tone.
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Does anybody remember the villa coming out to this song every game in the early to mid 80s? I can always remember it being on when Nigel Spink was warming up! I dont no if it was played in the 70s as i only started going about 82 83 when i was 5 or 6. I think it would be a good idea to get them coming out to it again.It still sends shivers down my spine listening to it now! Be interesting to see what anyone else thinks?
I used to have it as a ring tone.
I still do.
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Does anybody remember the villa coming out to this song every game in the early to mid 80s? I can always remember it being on when Nigel Spink was warming up! I dont no if it was played in the 70s as i only started going about 82 83 when i was 5 or 6. I think it would be a good idea to get them coming out to it again.It still sends shivers down my spine listening to it now! Be interesting to see what anyone else thinks?
I used to have it as a ring tone.
I still do.
I need to see if I can get it for my iphone.
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remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days
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remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days
That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.
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remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days
That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.
Didn't we get something like a half hour ITV 'special' at some point on the Sunday afternoon?
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remember stoping my motor on way back from snobs in the outside lane of the bristol road when butler told us to "get on ya knees and pray for the villa" when we was 1-0 down to penarol. there we was 5 of us praying on the grass. ah happy days
That would be right. I remember it kicked off in the early hours of a Sunday morning.
Didn't we get something like a half hour ITV 'special' at some point on the Sunday afternoon?
Yes - which was probably the equivalent to a normal main match on Star Soccer or MOTD.
What really annoyed me about that game was that either that weekend or the following Saturday on Football Focus there was a report on Liverpool playing somewhere in Africa. Villa playing in Tokyo was obviously a far bigger game but the BBC decided to follow Liverpool on safari (IIRC lots of air time to Grobbelaar with shots of big game in the background).
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I tend to have a good memory when it comes to football, but for the life of me the only two of those finals I can remember is our game and Liverpool losing 3-0 to Zico's team Flamengo the year before. I know Forest lost one and Cloughie made a comment along the lines of the Japanese being able to make a radio or TV the size of a button but not being able to grow grass on a football pitch.
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"La la la la
La la la la
Drrrr ump
La la la la la la la la"
"Goooooal at Villa Park"