Where Seagulls Fly - Johnny Wakelin

[Brovion]

£2.74 including postage if you want the 7 inch single: https://www.discogs.com/release/7361189-Ted-Young-Seagulls-Dirty-Old-Guitar

I got it a lot cheaper than that in a charity shop a few years back. Mine's not for sale.

Thanks, but I've got nothing to play it on! I'll just use YouTube if I need to hear it again.

 

[brighton_tom]

Seeing the Everton game and hearing a few of the songs they play pre and post match, it got me thinking about grounds that play more traditional old school football related songs and reminded me of this one for us... Should it be added to our matchday song list? I'd be up for seeing how it sounds. Traditions have got to start somewhere...

 

[OzMike]

Johnny Wakelin was a cab driver in later years, I met him a couple of times when he was waiting for repairs to be done at my brother's garage.

 

[Eeyore]

Any other old-timers remember a song from about 1977 by ...... no, can't remember his name (Ted Young?). It was called 'Seagulls' and the words went something like:

"The Albion can get around,
Bring back the goodies to the Goldstone ground,
We're moving!
Come on the lads get mo-o-o-ving!
We've got places to go,
Teams to beat,
Look at the football,
Ain't it neat?

Seagulls!
Flying high,
Seagulls!
[Something something]
The one and only Seagulls,
Fill the skies!"

Leaving aside the Goldstone reference the rest is still accurate! I used to have it as a 45rpm single. (That was a type of gramophone record for those of you born after about 1990).

EDIT: I just googled it and it was indeed Ted Young! You can hear it on Youtube. Go on, give yourselves a treat!
EDIT2: I didn't get all the words quite right in the chorus.

I remember it well. On a Sunday morning they would play it on Radio Brighton in the '70s. I remember listening to it before Junior Church each week.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Apparently, he lives near my sister in law in Lancing