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We All Had Doctors' Papers is a live album by Welsh comedian and singer Max Boyce, first issued in 1975 and recorded at Pontarddulais Rugby Club. It was his fourth album release and followed his breakthrough recording Live at Treorchy. The album contains a mixture of comedic and traditional songs, along with Boyce's interactions with the crowd.
The chorus of Max Boyce's song "Hymns and Arias", frequently sung by fans of the Wales rugby union team, mentions "Ar Hyd y Nos": "And we were singing hymns and arias; 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'". [13] Alan Stivell sings the song in Breton, Welsh and English on his 23rd album Emerald.
Live at Treorchy is a live album by Welsh comedian and singer Max Boyce, first issued in 1974.It was his third album and his first for a major label, EMI Records.The album contains a mixture of comedic songs and poems along with Boyce's interactions with the crowd at Treorchy Rugby Club.
Max Boyce was born in Glynneath.His family was originally from Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Harries. A month preceding Boyce's birth, his father, Leonard Boyce, died of severe burns injuries following an explosion in the Onllwyn No.4 coal pit where he worked. [1]
In the 1970s the Welsh folk singer and comedian Max Boyce popularised the chant to excite the crowd at his concerts. [1] Boyce is also a big rugby union fan, and through him it then began to be adopted by Welsh rugby union crowds at international matches. Soon it spread to rugby crowds at club and international level.
Max Boyce on The Road And The Miles (1977) The Knowe O'Deil Band on Orcadia (1986) Bert Jansch on The Ornament Tree (1990) Fred Jordan on In Course of Time (1991) Jim Diamond on Sugarolly Days (1994) Mick West on Right Side of The People (1997) Matthew Gurnsey on Kilted Concertina (2003) Elizabeth Marvelly on Elizabeth Marvelly (2007)
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Part XV was used by Pete Seeger for the lyrics of "The Bells of Rhymney" Part XXXIV was adapted by Max Boyce as "When We Walked to Merthyr Tydfil in the Moonlight Long Ago" Part XXXVI was used by Public Service Broadcasting for the words of "Turn No More", sung by James Dean Bradfield , on the album Every Valley