Funny you said that. My wife was listening to ST:TNG in the living room, and I suddenly had the urge to see the MGM classic 'Abdul the Bulbul Ameer'. I still do not know...oh wait, I saw it a few comments down, "Datalore". That was what she was watching. Very good. I knew that didn't come out of nowhere.
In the planning of my father's funeral on October 23rd I wrote to his sister and she wrote back telling me that my father used to sing this to her. First time she ever told me this but reading about the song I found out it was in the Book of Navy Songs and my father was in the navy during WW2. It is amazing how much we don't know about our families until they are gone so folks make sure you get the precious information which is the fabric of our lives.
+Abici Why did the scriptwriters include this song in the episode? I think it was to draw a parallel between the inevitability of the conflict between Amir and Skavar-two opposed yet similar characters-and the similar relationship between Lore and Data.
I waited for the song to finish before I scrolled down to the comments because I knew - just KNEW - that the first one would be about the same thing that brought me here. Little did I expect that the first TEN (or so) comments would also be about the same thing. Ol' Percy French had no idea when he wrote this song HOW it would be remembered...
My mom used to sing this to us when we hung around in the kitchen watching her cook breakfast. . . thank you for posting! Wonderful jaunt down Memory Lane -- so "non-PC" today, and so delightful despite that fact.
This song was written by an Irishman called Percy French in the 19th century. His other songs were The Mountains of Mourne, Are You Right there Michael, and scores of other songs. Percy French was an inspector of drains and his job took him all around Ireland to little towns and villages. It is said that he could compose songs about any subject, there and then. I invite anyone interested to google this amazing character.
my grandpa made a folk song book and sang this song all the time to my dad then he gave it my dad who sang it to me my grandpa died 4 yrs ago so you can imagine how special this song is to me every time i play it i cry then my dad cries this is a wonderful song and it's nice to hear it to remind me of old times whoever posted this i want you to know you have made 1 50 yr old and 1 11 yr old so very happy if the poster of this vid is reading this you've made my life worth living thank you so much
I am old enough to have heard these songs from my folks collection back in the 1930s. This was my particular favourite and it's nobut a few years back that I recited the words to my grandkids - just a couple of verses had gone from memory though. There is one that I have not located in this collection --- Seven Miles to Vicksburg.
Wow! I love this song. I haven't heard in soo long! There was a radio show called Music with Moskowitz back in the day. I miss it! I'd tape his weekly show with my handy dandy cassette tape recorder. I was 14 WAY back in '89 when I first heard this one. My mom'd come to my room & ask "What in the world are you listening too?!" When other teenagers were listening to Tiffany, I was listening to this. (& Metallica) LOL!! I had since lost that tape..But alas, here is the song! Thanks for posting! :)
Like most folk here, it's a family affair, my parents used to play this; I've probably still got the 78 somewhere; I wondered if I remembered correctly about 'spectacles blue' and there it was.
This guy did “ the road to Vicksburg” that my grandpa bought for moms family as a gift. They could only afford a 78 every so often. I had the record for yrs then sadly dropped it. I still can’t bear to throw it away. Mom said the whole family would gather around their radio/ record player on top,the thing weighed two tons and it was the center of their universe for entertainment and news. That was it. The radio ruled. The depression wiped out his small savings. But mom says they were such a happy family. Key word = family. Not one parent with 5 kids with 5 absent fathers. My God how our society has fallen. I watched the Grammys last month it was all rap. Rap is not music folks. Oh Lord,we boomers had the last real good childhood. Nobody on both sides of my street had a working mom. Can u imagine that ? Mothers were always baking,remember those pies ? Oh Lord how I remember. I was born in 1948.
I have heard this song only once before, by a male quartet on the radio back home in Iowa 65 years ago. I wasn't sure if it was a legitimate song. Thanks for posting!
I used to hear this on Dr. Demento on Sunday nights while listening to my transistor radio under the covers in the mid 1970s. Imagine my surprise when I opened my grandparents' folio of 78 rpm records just now and found A Gay Caballero, not realizing I'd heard Frank Crumit all those years ago. Dad's parents were married in 1928.
Yeah, I agree. He's not that mean, in "Brothers" when Soong says he's dying Lore really gets worried about him. But he's so angry about being misunderstood that he became evil.
My father too would once in awhile sing a verse or two. I once watched him put three bikers on the floor, one with a compound fracture of his right arm, all in 15 seconds, at age of 65. Those were three surprised fellows who had a cool story to tells their new friends in jail.
I have to recommend "Wake Nicodemus" also sung by Frank Crumit. My family had that record, not this song, but I did read it in an old poetry book in the category of "humor and whimsy".
Once again, must thank Randy Brian of "Forward Into The Past" broadcast on Sundays on KSPC/88.7 Claremont, CA for this. I'm sure I've heard it years ago in an old cartoon ("Popeye", perhaps?), but Randy plays it every once in awhile. A sad story, basically a Marty Robbins gunfighter-type ballad. Somebody HAS to die in the end, and it's the arrogant Abdul. Would make a great movie.
Tonight's edition of Have I Got News For You (Fri 16th May 2014) brought me here. After listening to this and reading the lyrics, I can't really believe that the subject matter of this song would be deemed offensive. I could understand the fuss with The Sun Has Got His Hat On. BBC Radio Devon's David Lowe should've not got the sack in the first place for playing The Sun Has Got His Hat On. It was an innocent mistake and he had no idea that the N word featured in it. Ironically, he was going to play this track instead (Abdul Abulbul Amir) but changed his mind thinking that it may be too offensive. I also think that the tune sounds very similar to Factory by Bruce Springsteen.
Yeah! I've just done the same thing! I have never heard this song (probably cause I'm only 30 years old) but my dad said "Abdul Abulbul amir is not racist!" then he went off on one about this political correctness propaganda brainwashing campaign we have been subjected to for the last 20 odd years. Bottom line is people should be able to say anything they want, it's the intention that matters! Anyway love the song! I love these samples of our past! People should be encouraged to experience these pieces of British history instead of trying to surpress and be ashamed of it!
Percy French also wrote a parody on the West Clare Railroad called "Are you right there Michael, are you right? In the song, he is criticakl of the West Ckare Railroad, always slow, always late, always breaking down. The management of the West Clare Railroad took Percy to court suing for lies and defamation. On the Court appointed date,, Percy showed up late, the Judge berated him for being late and wanted to know why7, Percy answered "I;m so sorry but I came by the West Clare Railroad!!!
So strange. Coincidentally, I just saw a WB cartoon from the late 30s/40s called Abdul a bull bull and now I'm watching a Dick Powell movie from 1935 called Shipmates Forever on TCM and he was forced to sing that ditty over and over until his voice was hoarse. I still am trying to figure it all out as supposedly there are NO such thing as coincedences.... 🤔
"I've always loved that ditty, but I could never quite get the cadence right."
be more polite when speaking with Dr. Suung ;)
Lore!
Offenwrongs got a broken heart can’t even tell his boys apart
Same thing that brought me here. Lore's version just popped into my head for some reason...
See you at blue skies
Often wrong's got a broken heart, can't even tell his boys apart...
See you at blue skies
I remember my grandparents quoting this. Thankyou toc cdbpdx for this rarity.
My mother used to sing this to me at bedtime (I was born in 1950, and she was born in 1911). Wonderful to hear it again!
If Star Trek TNG brought you here... do something.
Funny you said that. My wife was listening to ST:TNG in the living room, and I suddenly had the urge to see the MGM classic 'Abdul the Bulbul Ameer'. I still do not know...oh wait, I saw it a few comments down, "Datalore". That was what she was watching. Very good. I knew that didn't come out of nowhere.
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@@sonofwick8718 This is fucking brilliant and I love you for this.
I just started watching Star Trek on Netflix.
So...here I am. 🙋🏼♂️
@@h2w25 Welcome to the family! :)
My father sang this song to me! How wonderful to hear it again!
Data's brother brought me to here..the bastard. #startrektng
+Akeem Lawanson He brought me here too.
Same...
Yeah, Lore brought me here finally...
See you at blue skies
same here 😆
In the planning of my father's funeral on October 23rd I wrote to his sister and she wrote back telling me that my father used to sing this to her. First time she ever told me this but reading about the song I found out it was in the Book of Navy Songs and my father was in the navy during WW2. It is amazing how much we don't know about our families until they are gone so folks make sure you get the precious information which is the fabric of our lives.
Damn you, Lore.
Damn you.
+Abici Why did the scriptwriters include this song in the episode? I think it was to draw a parallel between the inevitability of the conflict between Amir and Skavar-two opposed yet similar characters-and the similar relationship between Lore and Data.
You hit the nail on the head my friend.
You hit the nail on the head my friend.
Abici o
I waited for the song to finish before I scrolled down to the comments because I knew - just KNEW - that the first one would be about the same thing that brought me here. Little did I expect that the first TEN (or so) comments would also be about the same thing. Ol' Percy French had no idea when he wrote this song HOW it would be remembered...
Remember this from the 40's.always liked it. As I like the other songs about Abdul.Thanks for posting them so I can listen to them again.
My mom used to sing this to us when we hung around in the kitchen watching her cook breakfast. . . thank you for posting! Wonderful jaunt down Memory Lane -- so "non-PC" today, and so delightful despite that fact.
My mother (born 1922) used to belt this out while she was kneading bread.
This song was written by an Irishman called Percy French in the 19th century. His other songs were The Mountains of Mourne, Are You Right there Michael, and scores of other songs. Percy French was an inspector of drains and his job took him all around Ireland to little towns and villages. It is said that he could compose songs about any subject, there and then. I invite anyone interested to google this amazing character.
Freestyle!
Thank you, Noel! I will. What a GIFTED, Super-CLEVER, super-generous, hard-working guy, Percy. 👏🏼 👏🏼 ❤
my grandpa made a folk song book and sang this song all the time to my dad then he gave it my dad who sang it to me my grandpa died 4 yrs ago so you can imagine how special this song is to me every time i play it i cry then my dad cries this is a wonderful song and it's nice to hear it to remind me of old times whoever posted this i want you to know you have made 1 50 yr old and 1 11 yr old so very happy if the poster of this vid is reading this you've made my life worth living thank you so much
My grandpa sung that to us for Christmas this year! :D
Brilliant! My mum had the 78 and we used to play it over and over when I was a child - Send my respects to the Car !!
Elicits marvelous memories of my mother's lively rendition, which always enchanted her seven children.
Although I was not born until 1943, this was a song that we used to sing in my third grad class. Thanks for sharing the song with UA-cam.
That’s fantastic! Y A Y. ❤❤❤
My Father sang a great version of this. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Thank you.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing this again after an absence of many years. Thanks for posting it.
I am old enough to have heard these songs from my folks collection back in the 1930s. This was my particular favourite and it's nobut a few years back that I recited the words to my grandkids - just a couple of verses had gone from memory though. There is one that I have not located in this collection --- Seven Miles to Vicksburg.
Raymond, it was “ the road to Vicksburg “ I just got done writing about it. I had moms 78 all these yrs and then dropped it. I cried and cried.
The one you couldn't locate must be seven miles from this video
I used to know all the words to this in the 50,s but they slipped away. Thanks for enabling me to recapture them.
remember my dad (died 1947) playing this, thanks
Wow! I love this song. I haven't heard in soo long! There was a radio show called Music with Moskowitz back in the day. I miss it! I'd tape his weekly show with my handy dandy cassette tape recorder. I was 14 WAY back in '89 when I first heard this one. My mom'd come to my room & ask "What in the world are you listening too?!" When other teenagers were listening to Tiffany, I was listening to this. (& Metallica) LOL!! I had since lost that tape..But alas, here is the song! Thanks for posting! :)
Music With Moskowitz??!? Well. Do you remember Gorgeous Rabbit? That was me.
I remember standing on a chair by my grandmother's International phonograph and getting her to play Frank Crumit records.
Fred
Definitely here because of rewatching Brothers from ST:TNG. Looks like that has been the case of others over the years :)
One of my father's favorites, although he remembers an even older version, where the Russian was named "Ivan Petrovsky Skovar".
Haha my grandpa sang this to us last Christmas! For some reason it just popped into my head when I saw some Christmas trees earlier :)
My dad used to sing this back in the 1960s! Thanks for uploading it.
I find it funny that half the comments are Star Trek fans looking for this song. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
Like most folk here, it's a family affair, my parents used to play this; I've probably still got the 78 somewhere; I wondered if I remembered correctly about 'spectacles blue' and there it was.
Great performance. Brilliant.
Takes me back.
Cool, thanks for posting this! I heard Lore sing a snippit from this on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I thought I'd look it up.
Thanks again!
Absolutely an American classic film. Cult following earned.
Yep Star Trek
This guy did “ the road to Vicksburg” that my grandpa bought for moms family as a gift. They could only afford a 78 every so often. I had the record for yrs then sadly dropped it. I still can’t bear to throw it away. Mom said the whole family would gather around their radio/ record player on top,the thing weighed two tons and it was the center of their universe for entertainment and news. That was it. The radio ruled. The depression wiped out his small savings. But mom says they were such a happy family.
Key word = family. Not one parent with 5 kids with 5 absent fathers. My God how our society has fallen.
I watched the Grammys last month it was all rap. Rap is not music folks. Oh Lord,we boomers had the last real good childhood. Nobody on both sides of my street had a working mom. Can u imagine that ?
Mothers were always baking,remember those pies ?
Oh Lord how I remember. I was born in 1948.
Thanks for such a fascinating comment - what an amazing time you lived through!
My Dad used to sing this song to me!!
I have an -R- rated version of this song - it great to hear the original version
One of the most played artists of the 1920s on Dr. Demento.
Grandfathers favorite song, WW II hero.
Used to hear this on the Dr Demento show once in a while :-)
I have heard this song only once before, by a male quartet on the radio back home in Iowa 65 years ago. I wasn't sure if it was a legitimate song. Thanks for posting!
the Blazers
This was sang to me by my Mugga. Thank you!
I used to hear this on Dr. Demento on Sunday nights while listening to my transistor radio under the covers in the mid 1970s. Imagine my surprise when I opened my grandparents' folio of 78 rpm records just now and found A Gay Caballero, not realizing I'd heard Frank Crumit all those years ago. Dad's parents were married in 1928.
Yeah, I agree. He's not that mean, in "Brothers" when Soong says he's dying Lore really gets worried about him. But he's so angry about being misunderstood that he became evil.
See you at blue skies
This is just MARVELLOUS !
Thanks a lot '' cdbpdx '' !
Beautiful
Thanks.
So nostalgic, I love the sound of old records.
Heard this on Dessert Island Discs today - great post Cheers
My father too would once in awhile sing a verse or two.
I once watched him put three bikers on the floor, one with a compound fracture of his right arm, all in 15 seconds, at age of 65.
Those were three surprised fellows who had a cool story to tells their new friends in jail.
Wow.
Saw this on Star Trek and looked it up. I confess I am a bit surprised: I was sure this was an old English music hall ditty.
Thanks so much -- a real blast from the past
Oh I love it, I can vaguely remember it. I remembered the Ivan Skavinsky Skavar as soon as it was said. Wow the things we lock away in our heads eh?
Terry Wogan played this several times on his breakfast show, back in yhe late 1970's
Great stuff.
I have to recommend "Wake Nicodemus" also sung by Frank Crumit. My family had that record, not this song, but I did read it in an old poetry book in the category of "humor and whimsy".
Actually, Brent Spiner sang it. Data, Lore & Dr. Noonien Soong are just characters he plays
My Daddy used to sing this to me!
Once again, must thank Randy Brian of "Forward Into The Past" broadcast on Sundays on KSPC/88.7 Claremont, CA for this. I'm sure I've heard it years ago in an old cartoon ("Popeye", perhaps?), but Randy plays it every once in awhile. A sad story, basically a Marty Robbins gunfighter-type ballad. Somebody HAS to die in the end, and it's the arrogant Abdul. Would make a great movie.
They both die. And you could say that they're both arrogant. Or better, they're both supremely confident.
The words of that song were a subject for plebes at the Naval Academy to memorize and spout back at upper class-men when ordered in the 1930's
It was Lore. When Dr. Soong installed the emotion chip in him thinking he was Data.
See you at blue skies
my Dad used to sing me this song...
No. The song was originally a poem written in 1877 by Percy French about the Russo-Turkish War (1828-9).
There sure are a lot of versions of this song. I suspect my father must have learned the lyrics from this record as his version was almost identical.
@TheInsaneCr0w It was Data.
:P
.....Dr Demento special.....me ol granny.....
my cradle songs beautiful
This is the way my dad sang this
Tonight's edition of Have I Got News For You (Fri 16th May 2014) brought me here. After listening to this and reading the lyrics, I can't really believe that the subject matter of this song would be deemed offensive. I could understand the fuss with The Sun Has Got His Hat On. BBC Radio Devon's David Lowe should've not got the sack in the first place for playing The Sun Has Got His Hat On. It was an innocent mistake and he had no idea that the N word featured in it. Ironically, he was going to play this track instead (Abdul Abulbul Amir) but changed his mind thinking that it may be too offensive. I also think that the tune sounds very similar to Factory by Bruce Springsteen.
Yeah! I've just done the same thing! I have never heard this song (probably cause I'm only 30 years old) but my dad said "Abdul Abulbul amir is not racist!" then he went off on one about this political correctness propaganda brainwashing campaign we have been subjected to for the last 20 odd years. Bottom line is people should be able to say anything they want, it's the intention that matters! Anyway love the song! I love these samples of our past! People should be encouraged to experience these pieces of British history instead of trying to surpress and be ashamed of it!
It's cool. THX.
Percy French also wrote a parody on the West Clare Railroad called "Are you right there Michael, are you right? In the song, he is criticakl of the West Ckare Railroad, always slow, always late, always breaking down. The management of the West Clare Railroad took Percy to court suing for lies and defamation. On the Court appointed date,, Percy showed up late, the Judge berated him for being late and wanted to know why7, Percy answered "I;m so sorry but I came by the West Clare Railroad!!!
Hi, Star Trek sent me
See you at blue skies
I didn’t think it was so far 1917 that’s amazing
I have a different version by Frank Crumit, if you like, I can post it as a video response.
Dwight Eisenhower liked to sing this song, according to author William Manchester.
Here from Mr Data singing it on Star Trek TNG
Lore *
He's my favourite character, even though he's evil.
See you at blue skies
Yes vry gud song my checkin lowv it vru much
Missing my Grandfather brought me here
Now that snake in the grass/Was a pain in the neck...
Hi just wondering if you know if this version of this song is in the Public Domain and free to use on productions?
it was lore , he surprised me
What was on the other side of that record. My grandfather had a copy of that song and on the back was military piece.
Lore sent me here....
This was pressed in 1930
James Broderick in Arlo Guthrie's ' Alice's Restaurant ' brought me here ;D
So strange. Coincidentally, I just saw a WB cartoon from the late 30s/40s called Abdul a bull bull and now I'm watching a Dick Powell movie from 1935 called Shipmates Forever on TCM and he was forced to sing that ditty over and over until his voice was hoarse. I still am trying to figure it all out as supposedly there are NO such thing as coincedences.... 🤔
@liamthedream That is a brilliant story - and I believe it!
reminds me of a neil innes song.
Actually the song Captain Picard sang in 10 forward wasn't this song, it was an old navel song call Heart of Oak.
Necro post, but it's naval. Navels are belly buttons.
Thankyou..... ^_^
Me too!
its like a early woody guthrie
Thumbs up if you wanted to listen to the song that Data/Lore sings.
@browne636 That's how I learned about it!
Thumbs up if you came here because of star trek
Nope. Dr. Demento, long before any ST revival series was ever conceived.
Abdul Abulbul Amir University, Cairo
this should have been in fallout 3
Data and Lore!