Jordan Posted 2 May 2010 Posted 2 May 2010 Reckon we should do it in a Louis Armstrong style. Complete with a little scat between the lines?
Dan Posted 2 May 2010 Posted 2 May 2010 IMO a good version, but how many joined in? About 300 if that.
Guest Posted 3 May 2010 Posted 3 May 2010 IMO a good version, but how many joined in? About 300 if that. Well being as the majority probably hadn't heard the track it's not really surprising. Hardly identical to the chant is it?. If they keep playing it before matches I'm sure people will pick it up.
ArnarGunnlaugsson Posted 3 May 2010 Posted 3 May 2010 Well being as the majority probably hadn't heard the track it's not really surprising. Hardly identical to the chant is it?. If they keep playing it before matches I'm sure people will pick it up. Got played too early before ko in my opinion, agree needs to be played before the PHG, and with consistently so that people are prepared. I think even if it doesn't get 30,000 singing along, it gives us more indentity and it's decent to listen to in it's own right. Needs more of a push from the club tho if they really want it to catch on... lyrics in the programme, video campaign, ringtones and all that.
MATLCFC Posted 3 May 2010 Posted 3 May 2010 Well I think the song was fine ,obviously its different to the poor version I think we already sing. But as posted earlier the lyrics as follows Original lyrics When you're smilin' When you're smilin' The whole world smiles with you. And when you're laughin' When you're laughin' The sun comes shinin' through. When you're cryin', You bring on the rain, So, stop your sighin', Won't you be happy again! When you're smiling, Keep on smilin' And the whole world smiles with you. Would sound great if it was sung at a nice slow pace , 80% in the ground haven't got a clue what the words are but if the song was sung (the lyrcis posted) would be a great anthem I think and would last about 30-40 secs? Not like the very fast version we currently sing? I think it would catch on!
Edmund Posted 3 May 2010 Posted 3 May 2010 Needs more of a push from the club tho if they really want it to catch on... lyrics in the programme, video campaign, ringtones and all that. I'm surprised LCFC haven't put the full song up on the O.S yet. They should make it available to download for free or at a small price with profits going to LOROS.
MATLCFC Posted 3 May 2010 Posted 3 May 2010 I'm surprised LCFC haven't put the full song up on the O.S yet. They should make it available to download for free or at a small price with profits going to LOROS. I totally agree. I mean if they do want people to know it instantly, its not always the fact that the crowd are quiet etc etc, if people dont know the song they cant sing it. Its not a hard thing to get why not put a copy of lyrics on every seat? Sounds stupid but bam instantly every one will know the song or include it in the programme. Everyone sings e i e i e i o because every one knows it simple. The same would happen if a bigger effort was made by everyone to adopt this as our anthem.
Edmund Posted 5 May 2010 Posted 5 May 2010 I'm surprised LCFC haven't put the full song up on the O.S yet. They should make it available to download for free or at a small price with profits going to LOROS. Full track
davieG Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 How it all started. It started in a pokey little boozer one Saturday night in 1967. The Three Cranes, at the corner of Humberstone Gate and Wharf Street, was a proper, old-fashioned city pub, where groups of young lads from the estates would mingle quite merrily with small groups of old dears drinking halves of stout and playing dominoes. It was the kind of traditional pub you don’t really see any more, remembers John Regan. John, 57, and now an expat living in Vietnam, was a Three Cranes regular. “We used to go there most nights,” he says. “I lived in Northfields and I’d meet up with mates from Northfields, from the estates. “We’d all get together and have a good drink and laugh.” The pub didn’t have a jukebox. But it didn’t need one. By 9pm – when the dominoes had petered out – the old ladies, fuelled by a few bottles of stout, would frequently break into random song. They were usually led by “Ma” Barnett, an elderly woman from Northfields. She’d start the singing, remembers John, and then everyone – the other old dears, the young lads, all of them – would pitch in. “It was the same every Saturday night,” he says. “Old Ma Barnett would have a few drinks and then she’d start reeling off all these old tunes. “They were so old, some of these songs, that us young lads didn’t really know them. But Old Ma, she used to belt them out.” Her favourite was this slow, lilting ballad called When You’re Smiling, an old Louis Armstrong number. Stuart Marvell, 58, of Saffron Lane, was another Three Cranes regular. “None of us really knew these old songs, of course, but we used to sit there and listen in, joining in now and then,” he says. “The more we all heard When You’re Smiling, the more we all got to like it. “We used to have organised Leicester City away trips from the Three Cranes and I remember some of the lads singing it on the coach.” That’s how it started. It didn’t take long for the song to make it from the Three Cranes to the supporters’ bus – and, eventually, on to the terraces. When You’re Smiling made its debut City appearance at an away game sometime in 1967. “Then we started to sing it at home games. We all used to stand on the old Spion Kop at Filbert Street and we started to sing it there,” says Stuart. A terrace anthem was born. “I think people used to think we were mad for a start,” says John. “You know – ‘What are those young lads doing singing an old song like that? What does this have to do with Leicester City?’ – but it took off.” Suddenly, everyone was singing it. One of those from the Three Cranes who used to sing it was a young lad from Blaby called Tom Meighan, father of Kasabian lead singer Tom. “He was a good lad, Tom,” says John. The song has dipped in and out of popularity at City over the past 40 years. “I remember hearing it at the Walkers Stadium a few years ago, which made me smile,” says John. “So I just hope this new version will get the City fans singing it again.”
ArnarGunnlaugsson Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 “I remember hearing it at the Walkers Stadium a few years ago, which made me smile,” says John. “So I just hope this new version will get the City fans singing it again.” Here, here. Let's get behind it. If we blitz the playoffs, how good would "When You're Smiling" sound sung by 30,000+ like this:
Craig Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 Here's the full track in .mp3 Not great quality, but the best I could get from the website. WYS
kirkwood Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 I don't want to appear a spoilsport here but this is a terrible version of "When your smiling". When I first heard it I didn't even recognise the melody. It is typical of trying to rehash something that never needed changing in the first place. Sorry, but I bet many others feel the same way.
Granno Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 I don't want to appear a spoilsport here but this is a terrible version of "When your smiling". When I first heard it I didn't even recognise the melody. It is typical of trying to rehash something that never needed changing in the first place. Sorry, but I bet many others feel the same way. Some people are never happy.
Narborough_fox Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 Love it been listening to try and get it right for Sunday going to be awesome if 30,000 are singing it!
Simi Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 It's decent enough but seems like the club are expecting it to be like YNWA, no chance. Doesn't have the same sing-a-long qualities that YNWA has, plus the fans are a tad different as well.
iBleedLeicesterColours Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 http://www.myspace.com/jerseybuddmusic Full version. It would be good to get it going before the game and make it a ritual like 'You'll Never Walk Alone'
LCFC-ARAB Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 I fell in love with this song in Germany I want a cheesy German song for Leicester
Cat Burger Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 I fell in love iwth this song in Germany I want a cheesy German song for Leicester Haha I have that on CD. Have you heard this one? It's their Heroes in Blue and White basically. Billy Joel cover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0dWDuXLL7g Hughes and Mcinally are in their comically.
Fosse Boy Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 Love the origin story. Always wondered why we sing WYS.
AndyBrew Posted 6 May 2010 Posted 6 May 2010 I love WYS but very rarely does it get sung, so hope this kick starts it fantastic song
taffyfox Posted 7 May 2010 Posted 7 May 2010 So fooking excited!!!!!!!! Lets all belt this out together!!!!! I know they are planning to play it at half time (why?) But really hope they play it just before Kick Off Nah Nah Nah Nahhh!!!! COME ON CITY!!!!!!!
Aeropars Posted 7 May 2010 Posted 7 May 2010 Its a fooking joke. This chat isnt bothered about getting fans singing. Its a lame attempt at amaking an impact on the music industry and getting noticed. I absolutly hate this kind of crap Its titally cringeworthy. Not just our club but a lot of others too. Nothing better than group karaoke with a pants backing track.
Unit Posted 7 May 2010 Posted 7 May 2010 Its a fooking joke. This chat isnt bothered about getting fans singing. Its a lame attempt at amaking an impact on the music industry and getting noticed. I absolutly hate this kind of crap Its titally cringeworthy. Not just our club but a lot of others too. Nothing better than group karaoke with a pants backing track. Then why is it not being released? And even if it is, there are much bigger target audiences than Lcfc fans... (e.g... teenage girls, 45 year old women, mid twenties lads, blah blah blah)
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