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Brilliant. Listen to him for ever.

I heard this song as a kid my dad used to play it alot I played it alot of course I loved it and you keep hitting you're head I still am hitting my head 😂😂😂

Came across this by accident , reading the posts about his final days are sad, It is the nod and the wry smile this song brought to me and many others possibly that is really a fitting tribute to the man who sang to make people smile

cheerio!

ENTERTAINMENT BRILLIANT

Used to see him on about anglia pity himself and Fred Wedlock couldnt record together

great

I love these songs😀

If you find the time I would love to listen to 'My Christmas Dream' thank you!

Thanks for the memories! Have you got 'My Christmas Dream'? Would love to hear it

Brilliant

SUPERB BOI.

Great to hear this for the first time !

My bottom dropped out years ago

He's a one off, totally original. Fabulous! In his own way continuing the English folk song tradition..Thanks so much for sharing this.

Jesus wept.

Thank you for sharing

Absolutely brilliant what a tallented man He is very popular still in the folk scene He was also a brilliant song writer and musician a true legend.

Classic.Remember him well - om from Ipswich so torken a bit rum too bor ! ( he say )

Lovely song...but the spelling of the lyrics on the video...wince

I love this guy!

Ev'rything goo along a' something

He was a clever songwriter - thanks for poostin' these bor.

Had his records when I was a kid at School in Norfolk!!

I remember seeing Allan performing at the Flying Services Club in Peterborough in the 60's. What a talent.!Still got a picture of him posing with my little sister. His songs are a social history and hark back to a time when Norfolk was still essentially an agricultural county much unchanged for generations.

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Thanks, Granddad, for introducing me to the Singing Postman!

Allan sounds just like my late grandparents from King's Lynn. Tears in my eyes listening to this.

Perfect ! So nostalgic . Brings a tear.Cheeeeeerio Brian

Just found this lovely old single I bought back in '64,the Singing Postman.. Very apt. 🌈

I remember this well from when I was a kid. Great nostalgia.

I've heard that this guy was in black sabbath at one time

I found out earlier this year he was actually related to me through my mums mum. His mum was a Curson from Stiffkey. My dads mum also came from Stiffkey but I don’t think he was related to her but you never know as it is Norfolk. I remember hearing him about 40 years ago. Having looked up about him again I saw I share the same birthday as him.

My mums family are all from Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, I always said that a proper Norfolk person would talk like singing with the way they spoke, my now departed Wife was from Skegness when I used to bring her down to Gorleston I had to translate what people was talking about, I’m from a mining village in North Notts and when hitler decided to rearrange and demolish some buildings most of the family got evacuated up to our village my Mam met my Dad and that as they say was that. I love listening to proper Yarmites talk and these songs from a Norfolk Legend.

He reminds of the good old days when we used to come to Gorleston to see my Mams family, my Grandad & Grandma Watson used to talk like this, they eventually had to move up to our pit village in North Notts, I still visit the relations that’s still in Gorleston & I’m here regularly on a beautiful little caravan site in Belton. But I’m afraid Mr. Upton I’m having to correct you on him being a native of Norfolk, I read about his life and he was born in Lancashire and moved to Norfolk ( Gods County) when he was a lad of about 5or6 years old, I think it was when his mum passed away he moved away, can’t remember where to but I seem to remember he moved back again.

Do you have his record what you on holiday

Proof that Rap was invented in Norfolk

The version on the album- April in ‘The Singing Postman’s Year’ from memory- was a much slicker version than this, with better guitar playing and a ton of reverb on the refrain. Allan sang “Wass the bottom dropped out” throughout in that one. This has to be my favourite of his, narrowly edging “Come Along a’ Me” (“Trains they goo along a train line/ Cars they goo along a rood...”). “Stoon Pickin’ Time” has to be a contender for the best British depression song too imho.

Here are the lyrics, or what I'm able to discern anyway... Now I was born in Cromer town 30 year ago It were a real pokey town I think you ought to know They took me on the promenade, took me on the sand And that’s when they say to me when I fell out of the pram Mind your head, boy, mind your head. Now granny Faulley tooty blue standing on the shore Granny Faulley tooty blue I’ll never see no more Just before she passed away, just before she died She say to me, feablely when you’re in the tide Mind your head boy, mind your head There lots of people now never be dead If they’d only had the sense to mind their head If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today Mind your head boy, mind your head Now when I was a tartie boy when I was still at school Toby was the clever one and I was just a fool Teacher used to villeyoff(?) and holla books at me And all the boys behind me used to holla merrily Mind your head boy, mind your head There lots of people now never be dead If they’d only had the sense to mind their head If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today Mind your head boy, mind your head Now Toby was a friend of mine we always used to be Together on the Cromer line in 1943 He was neither (any ideas?) He wouldn’t have been alive today if he hadn’t of heard my claim Mind your head boy, mind your head There lots of people now never be dead If they’d only had the sense to mind their head If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today Mind your head boy, mind your head Now Cromer gal known all my life down along the prom Now if you’d like to tackle one you can come along Now should you ever take a gal to be your wedded wife You’ll be eating nag pie all the rest your life So mind your head boy, mind your head There lots of people now never be wed If they’d only had the sense to mind their head If you never heard me say, I’ll tell you all today Mind your head boy, mind your head

i tell ya sothen they was good old days, nver agin,.

Many thanks indeed. Had not heard this track. I am a King's Lynn girl! You don't hear a Norfolk accent very often.

What kind of place is Diss ? .. x

Hope we never lose music like this , classic folk beautiful ! Blessed be

🎼 cheeriooooo🎶.... classic, relevant and timeless. God bless you, Allan

Bloody superb. Im from Suffolk and remember Allan on About Anglia

Mum has an LP of his and i sooo want it lol. Love this stuff as i am Norfolk born n bred

Anyone who’s interested you can get his music on Cd still

Instructive

Here we goooo!

The English Bob Dylan