Fiddler's Dram - Daytrip To Bangor - 7" Single

Description: Fiddler's Dram - Daytrip To Bangor - 7" Single - 1979 Daytrip To Bangor (Didn't We Have A Lovely Time)The Flash Lad Fiddler's Dram were a British folk band of the late 1970s, most widely known for their 1979 hit single, "Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time)", which reached no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. It has been claimed that "Day Trip to Bangor" was actually inspired by a day trip to Rhyl, a seaside resort 35 miles east of Bangor, North Wales, but Bangor had an extra syllable and slipped off the tongue more easily, so it was used instead of Rhyl. That caused an outcry from councillors and businesses in Rhyl, who complained that the publicity would have boosted the resort's tourist economy. Songwriter Cook has unconditionally denied this, however. Interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast on 29 September 2011, Cook said the song was "absolutely yes" about the Bangor in Wales. She said: "I was so ignorant at the time that I didn't know that any other Bangor existed, so it was categorically this Bangor, and it was Bangor because it scanned and for no other reason than that. And it was the only place I knew along the north Wales coast." In the documentary, when interviewer Jonathan Maitland reminded Cook that there was a furore about the song really being about Rhyl, Cook laughed and called it "a great piece of nonsense".The single reached a peak of number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1980, having been released the previous month.

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