The Best Blue Moon?

[urban genie]

How did we come to adopt the song as our "anthem"? I was a regular at Maine Road in the late seventies (season ticket holder in the North Stand), and I honestly don't ever remember hearing it. What's the connection (apart from the "blue")?

We nicked it off crewe

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Marcels for me.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

We nicked it off crewe

Nope, I was stood about 10 yard's away from the drunk who kept singing it on his own then everyone joined in. That was the first time it was sung.

It was spontaneous, nobody knew that Crewe supposedly had a version.

 

[urban genie]

Nope, I was stood about 10 yard's away from the drunk who kept singing it on his own then everyone joined in. That was the first time it was sung.

It was spontaneous, nobody knew that Crewe supposedly had a version.

Crewe sang ot for about 30yrs before spontanious one day or not it was equickly pointed oit it was Crewes anthem, and we still adopted it.

you wouldn't start singing delilah just cause some piss pot did it one day

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Crewe sang ot for about 30yrs before spontanious one day or not it was equickly pointed oit it was Crewes anthem, and we still adopted it.

you wouldn't start singing delilah just cause some piss pot did it one day

Crewe had been singing it since 1959? Because City first sung it when Kendall was the manager.

Quickly pointed out by who? I was home and anyway and nobody pointed anything out to me.

I bet less than 1% of City fans knew that Crewe supposedly sang a different version so how could it be stolen?

 

[Marklr]

Crewe had been singing it since 1959? Because City first sung it when Kendall was the manager.

Quickly pointed out by who? I was home and anyway and nobody pointed anything out to me.

I bet less than 1% of City fans knew that Crewe supposedly sang a different version so how could it be stolen?

Kendall "City only win away once in a blue moon".
That's where I thought it came from...so fans sang it.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Kendall "City only win away once in a blue moon".
That's where I thought it came from...so fans sang it.

It genuinely started with a drunk guy singing it on his own, it was actually pretty funny, on about his 4th different rendition in the space of about 20 minutes a lad stood behind me joined in and then we all did. That was 100% the first time it was sang, there was no hidden meaning behind it.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I don’t really like the song myself but I’ll nominate Glenn Miller’s instrumental version.

If I had to go with one with lyrics then maybe Dean Martin’s or Billie Holliday’s.

We should change to “Blue Moon of Kentucky” but change Kentucky to West Gorton. ;)

“I said blue moon of Kentucky, keep on a-shining
Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue
Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on a-shining
Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue”

 

[Marklr]

It genuinely started with a drunk guy singing it on his own, it was actually pretty funny, on about his 4th different rendition in the space of about 20 minutes a lad stood behind me joined in and then we all did. That was 100% the first time it was sang, there was no hidden meaning behind it.

I believe that...and with what Kendall said at the time, it all fitted and took off.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Kendall "City only win away once in a blue moon".
That's where I thought it came from...so fans sang it.

Not correct.
The first time I heard it sung was Anfield away first game of the 1989 / 90 season - under Machin.
A small group of however many lads singing it repeatedly throughout the game and by the end of it, it had caught on.
Over the next few away games and eventually home games it then became the anthem that it remains.
Kendall became manager in the December

 

[Marklr]

Not correct.
The first time I heard it sung was Anfield away first game of the 1989 / 90 season - under Machin.
A small group of however many lads singing it repeatedly throughout the game and by the end of it, it had caught on.
Over the next few away games and eventually home games it then became the anthem that it remains.
Kendall became manager in the December

Yeah...the actual game I'm referring to was the away game at Villa....if my memory serves me correctly. So if you heard it before that, then it can't be my theory haha.