Belfast Belle ( I'll tell me Ma) Lick the Tins ... vocals after 55 seconds
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Belfast Belle also known as I'll tell me Ma sung by Lick the Tins from the album Blind Man on a Flying Horse. Lick the Tins are best known for their rendition of 'I cant help falling in love with you' from the movies Some Kind of Wonderful and The Snapper. Extract from sleeve notes ....
In 1986, a quartet from London scored their one and only hit with a clever cover version of a song associated with Elvis Presley, Can't Help Falling in Love. Presley's version sold a million and was a US top 3 hit in January 1962 and reached Number One in the UK. 24 years later, the exceptional cover version by Lick the Tins didn't do quite as well as that, although it spent two months in the UK singles chart, but then Lick the Tins were almost unknown before the single was released, and returned to anonymity not long afterwards. This is their story, and this album features (almost) their entire output.
Drummer Simon Ryan was living in Kilburn, North West London, when he re-met singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Ronan Heenan, with whom he had played in an earlier group, The Almost Brothers. This very obscure combo released a 1980 single, You'll Never Make It, which remarkably made the all-important Radio One play list, but the group folded soon afterwards. Ryan also got to know a friend of Heenan's, Alison Marr - both she and Heenan came from Northern Ireland, where he had trained as a veterinary surgeon, and she as a reporter before they moved to London. Ryan was a graphic designer, who worked in the art department of Stiff Records. Alison Marr also played penny whistle, and was a devotee of traditional Irish folk music, while Ronan Heenan was more influenced by rock and blues. They were intent on combining the two traditions, an example of which was their version of Can't Help Falling in Love - when Simon Ryan heard Alison singing a Celtic version of the song, with Ronan on guitar and with Alison's penny whistle, he was intrigued and suggested they record it, as it sounded quite interesting. The trio made a demo of this song in a rehearsal studio, and Simon Ryan played it to colleagues at Stiff who told him that he should not consider giving up his day job, and should get on with designing sleeves.
Today, Simon Ryan again works as a freelance sleeve designer-the front of this album's sleeve is his work. Aidan McCroary has returned to the legal profession, although he is still recording music on his home studio. Alison Marr has just given birth to twin sons. Simon Ryan thinks it's sad that Ronan and Alison no longer play together: "Ronan's a very good songwriter and en exceptional musician, who was very serious-nothing he did was a throwaway-as was Alison. Their blend of rock & Irish was unique, like their version of Hendrix' Hey Joe". Simon is now in a new band, as yet unnamed, while Ronan is rehearsing with his younger brother with a view to playing a more blues-oriented style of music.
According to my DNA test in 18% British isles with includes Ireland. I've always loved the music of Scotland, Ireland, and old English songs. When I hear bagpipes I get very melancholy 😢💙 etc. I have embraced my heritage to be sure. I always thought I was mostly western European. French, Portuguese, Spanish etc. Now I understand why music has always been so paramount in my life. 🇫🇷🍷💙🌏🌎🌍 Arnold Bourbon Amaral
I always wondered about this band. I love the style of music and was sad that the internet did not exist back in 1989 to find out more about them!
The original and best. There version of "Cant help falling in love" is also my favourite. Completely mad but just so interesting.
April 12th, 2020
MKearley49,
Often I am curious of the whereabouts of the short lived groups, of whom there is no longer any news. Thank you for taking the time to tell their story. God truly has blessed them with talent.
Francis P.
I'm not Irish but, at certain times, such as listening to this song, I wish I was. ☺
Everyone wishes they were Irish at some point :)
This band is not irish they are from uk based i london ,
It might seem arbitrary to some Americans, but I just really want peace. This is a lovely song that celebrates the awesome beauty of Belfast. Bless you all from the bottom of my heart.
Seamus Gaidheal Dunno about "arbitrary" - but I can tell you what most of us Americans know of the troubles would fit inside of a thimble with a thimble's full of room left over.
chuckschilling I grew up in Southern Ireland during the Troubles. It didn't affect us at all. It's not, because conflict hasn't ended, a religious conflict, it's a tribal one. I shan't go on, just thinking about it breaks my heart.
Question of curiosity. Is this musical group loyalist or Republican?
If youre Irish, you grew up singing this song.
If your parents are heavily into Irish folk, you grew up singing this song
This takes me back. Saw Lick the Tins quite a few times when they were gigging regularly in London. They even got on the Radio 1 playlist, which was a major achievement at that time of awful DJs and wall to wall shite. It didn't happen for them and they packed it.
There are no winners only no one seems to have work it out yet some very very lovely ladys in Belfast I do hope to go back one day God bless the Irish one and all . . . .
Clever imagery, showing both the ugly and the beautiful of Belfast. Wonder what's the significance of the happy smiling faces of the kids, hope for the future perhaps ? And the little lad with the flag, the passing on of old hatreds ? Good version of the song too btw
Another brilliant version. I've heard so many covers of this song and it never ceases to amaze me.
Nice vid. My only problem is the Belfast lasses don't have fake tans, a wee lack of realism. Maybe the "orange" look is not too PC?
Ha ha, just good craic.
Happy St Pat's.
My sweet friends...Zidane and Ronan sadly missed. Alison and Simon still going strong!... despite m...
Aidan!
This is one of those songs, like Mul of Kintyre, that just makes you long to be on the highlands. Never been there in my life; but, it yanks it right out of the air. And I miss these guys. Alison has a voice like Nena Kerner - don't need to make sense, just make noise and it's like honey.
Love this! Love also the version by Sinead. Love also the version by Young Dubliners. Love most the first version I ever heard here in the west U.S., Van and the Chieftains.
IRA
Really nice job. Thanks for putting it up for everyone to hear.
i think the first chick you see is my old college math tutor
which is freaking me out man
That was Incredible!!!!
It's even better than the other song by them that I've heard! Do you have any other songs by these people? Please post them if you do!
Belfast girls.....the best looking girls in the world.
Love it ❤❤
Alison I think you are brilliant you always were too good for killyleagh you probably wouldn't remember me but you rosemary Smith and me anne Reid were in the castle in killyleagh my granny Hughes used to be housekeeper there I'm living at the foot of the mournes but I go to sleep nearly every night listening to the sound of the sea on my CD mournes dont come close you're a fantastic musician and I'm saying this not because I knew you back then but because you are happy Christmas anne
I have never missed a city so much as I did as I watched this video. Brilliant.
Love this cover
Also love their cover of I can't help falling in love with you on the film Some kind of Wonderful
Wise men say "only fools rush in",
But I can't help falling in love with you!
Lick the Tins god bless you! Alison's penny whistle intro is the bestest best and is set as my phones ringtone!....... Please call 😘😊
Thank you soooo much for posting x
@warfy59 I just updated the description with some information about the band.
this version smelss.
Miss Kelly's...forgot what a atmosphere was.apart from when the Mrs comes home...
This is a much better song than falling in love.
By miles. Bloody light years better.
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did anyone notice how cool the slideshow was? are they just random pics of pretty belfast chicks?
Great song and great version
Original? This is a very old song, friend. A decent version of it, but far from 'the original'.
It was actually 43 seconds
lick the tins is always amazing.
i love this song soooooo much
As much as I liked the band, especially their cover of I Can't help... I'm not so keen on this one. For my money Kirsty MacColl produced the definitive (female) version of Belfast Belle, all others are pale by comparison.
Who is the girl at 1:41 ? I'd like to propose her
Fabzil Your mum.
MK is that Alison Marr at the end? Love the version and the video. First song my kids ever learned to sing.
@countmockula12 I don't think you've been to Northern Ireland recently, have you?
Oh mein Gott, das ist die schlechteste Version dieses Liedes, die ich je gehört habe. Und ich habe schon viele gehört...
Fantastic 👍 and Bravo 👏 🙌
Essa loira que aparece no vídeo e lindíssima
crap this version nigh made me cry
dunno why
Nope,that's Katie Melua who lived in Belfast when she was younger.
STEAL...LOL....Your Ma....will be a prody....
Apparently it is Katie Melua. Although I dunno why she is included in this vid, as she is not, and does not class herself as, a 'Belfaster'.
Only Belfast women in next video please.
They can match any women, in any country, in any of the four corners of the earth.
Nice song and video!
What a boutyas ?
very good !!^^
peace my friend
very nice
I agree 100%
pesma ok
Great track.
trop bien !
trop géant !! ^^
trop bien ! ^^