We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

12 Days of the Season

from It's My Dundee by Joe Covenant

/

about

NOTE: THIS TRACK IS FREE.

The second of the 'half time' tracks.

This features, (something quite rare in football at the time), the Dundee Cheerleading Squad, , The Dee-Lites.

For a song that runs under two minutes it was one of the hardest to record... A studio full of giggling girls aged 7-18?

Hell on Earth!

Actually, the girls were a joy to work with and the atmosphere in the studio that day was one of the happiest during the entire 5-6 month period it took to record the album.
As the girls kept altering the timing of their singing the instruments had to be added afterwards and no editing of their vocals could be done, so, it had to be captured 'in a oner'.
This was take... I dunno... 276?

Great Fun!
(See lyrics for full run down of the 12 days and their explanation!)

lyrics

On The n'th Day Of The Season, My True Love Gave To Me;

A Season Ticket for Dundee,
Two on the Bench,
Three Scotch Pies,
Four Hot Italians,
Five Goals In,
Six Cups of Bovril,
Seven Quid for Bairns,
Eight Corners Curling,
Nine Away Wins,
Ten Thousand Punters,
Eleven Players Scoring,
Twelve Arabs Crying.

Ready Reckoner:
On The Bench - Substitute players, Two are allowed during a normal game.
Scotch Pies, the standard fare of the Scotsman,
Hot Italians-we hat four Italian players at that time. Bovril, as discussed earlier.
Quid for Bairns-At that time it cost £7 for a child's ticket to a game.
Arabs Crying... Dundee's local rivals Dundee Utd. are known as The Arabs.

credits

from It's My Dundee, released May 1, 2001
Mike Brown - Programming
Joe Lamb - Guitar, Keyboards, Cheerleader Wrangling.
Joanne Gunning - Keyboard

MANY THANKS to Jo Walls Coach of The Dee-Lites for all of her help with procuring permissions etc for the Cheerleaders to join us in the studio.

Written & Arranged by Joe Lamb, based on trad. tune.
Produced & Engineered by Joe Lamb and Mike Brown.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Joe Covenant image

Joe Covenant Dundee

contact / help

Contact Joe Covenant

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

Joe Covenant recommends:

If you like Joe Covenant, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now