Tiger Rag

Here we go again. Definitely not the Mills Brothers from the recording I have just listened to on FB.

 

That was a hit version by Les Paul/Mary Ford recorded in 1952. So which version was played from 1946?

 

As you were there in the '40's YT which version do you think it was?

 

I think a distant relative of Garbo wrote that. Maybe he'll know?

 

From 1947 my favourite vantage point was at the the very back of of the North Stand behind the goal, stood on a metal bar about a metre from the floor and hanging on to a roof girder. A speaker was positioned not too far away and prior to the song being played one could clearly hear the sound of the needle being placed on the record. As I recall the whole version was not played and only the last 30 or so seconds of the Mills Bros recording was used.

At that time my dad had the Mills Bros. version on a 78rpm record which I regularly played.

 

Maybe I was too far from the speakers in the south stand but I don't remember any singing on the record played at BP. Is my memory totally wrong?

 

I thought it was just an instrumental piece?

 

I certainly remember it being instrumental only when I started going to BP in the early 70s.

 

Can you recall when it stopped being played?

 

When they lifted the needle off, probably.

 

That is the problem. I have listened to all the versions on YouTube for another thread some time ago (I think there are about 43 of them!) and can't really say I heard the version played at BP in the 40s. It just seemed to me that it was only part of a recording, was instrumental in the main and was a much faster tempo than the Mills Brothers version posted above. I think the nearest was the Les Paul version but as you pointed out before, it was not recorded until later in the 1950s.

 

Mills Brothers

 

any version has to be better than that vilest of vile eye of the tiger.
i heard tiger feet being played on telly after one of the home games

 

I like this version.

 

It was an instrumental-only part that was played from when I started going in the early 1960's.