Soon he had an adoring entourage to rival anything the High Kings had at the Hill of Tara! Glasgow’s immediate post-war years were bleak, with rationing still in force, but Charlie Tully brought much needed smiles and laughter to the city sporting scene.
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Thousands of Celtic fans sing The Celtic Song every week at football matches or in bars, clubs, schools and factories from Turf Lodge to Timbuktu! But if you asked them, how many of the green and white choristers would know the history of the song and realize that it actually originated in Belfast? As the Belfast Celtic Museum prepares to open again on St Patrick’s Day, Terry Dick, son of the famous Scottish musical impresario Glen Daly, who made the song famous, gives full credit to Charlie Tully, Belfast’s Minstrel Bhoy! Amazingly this simple football song was initially viewed as being potentially inflammatory by sections of the establishment and the press.īelfast Celtic’s Minstrel Bhoy and the Roots of the Celtic Song
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It bears some resemblance to Irving Kaufman song above.Ĭlick below to download Glen Daly singing “Hail Hail Celtic”. Glen Daly also released a song called “Hail Hail Celtic” which is another completely original song, obviously inspired by the common “Hail Hail the Celts are Here” terrace chant. The story goes that he sold the rights to the the Celtic Song to Glen Daly for a fiver!Ĭlick below to download the famous Glen Daly version of The Celtic Song: It is also suggested however, that the song was written by a man called Mick McLaughlin, known as “Garngad Mick”, who allegedly also wrote “Hampden in the Sun”. However, nobody seems to know who Liam Mallory is, and it has been suggested that it is actually a pseudonym for Glen Daly himself! The music is credited as “traditional” and the lyrics are credited to “Liam Mallory”. Then, in 1961, “Mr Glasgow” Glen Daly records a completely unrelated song called “The Celtic Song”. The song is first recorded by Irving Kaufman, and becomes a number one hit in 1918.Ĭlick below to listen to “Hail Hail the gangs all here” as sung by Kaufman in 1917.Ī link – Hail Hail the gangs all hereĪfter this, at some point prior to the 1960’s the song is sung on the Parkhead Terraces as: Estron and Theodore Morse called “Hail Hail the gangs all here”, based on “With Cat-like Tread”. A military marching song is written by D.A. Pay attention to the chorus at 0:37, the words are:
You can watch a performance of “With cat-like tread” below:
They heavily rip off Verdi’s Anvil chorus for the song “With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal”, which is sung by the pirates at the climax of the show. W.S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan write the comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. Pay attention at 0:58 in:įast forward to 1879. You can watch a performance of the Anvil Chorus below. In act II, scene 1, the gypsies sing the famous Anvil Chorus It all starts in 1853 with the Opera Il Trovatore (The Troubadour), written by Verdi. The (almost) complete history of Hail Hail and The Celtic Song, with links for your listening pleasure! Sure it’s the best darn team in Scotland,Īnd they cheers us up when we know the Scottish Cup For we only know that there’s going to be a show,
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