Author Topic: Ferry Cross My Hearsey (Read 987 times)

Satchmo Distel · « **on:** January 03, 2021, 05:54:31 PM »

Gerry Marsden RIP.

Keebleman · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2021, 07:27:17 PM »

BBC getting it totally fucking wrong as usual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55524795

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Marsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.

The second was Ferry Cross The Mersey, written by Marsden.

FCtM was never a number one. Both their first two hits were by a guy called Mitch Murray, who in the 90s published a book about how to write a best man's speech.

DrGreggles · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2021, 07:35:55 PM »

Quote from: Keebleman on January 03, 2021, 07:27:17 PM

FCtM was never a number one.

Not until 1989 anyway.

Alberon · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2021, 07:36:15 PM »

No longer needs his pacemaker[1].

1.	Yeah, I know he had heart surgery, but no pacemaker, but I couldn’t resist.

Gulftastic · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2021, 07:42:14 PM »

My favourite version is Harry Enfield's scousers rendition.

kalowski · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2021, 08:17:34 PM »

Life doesn't go on day after day.

Bury Cross the Mersey

rue the polywhirl · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2021, 08:32:29 PM »

I Don’t Like It (Being Dead)
How Do You Do It? (I Wish I Knew But I Can’t. Because I’m Dead)

Ballad of Ballard Berkley · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2021, 08:35:23 PM »

I always liked how, in later years, whenever Marsden inevitably turned up in BBC Four documentaries about the British Invasion, he'd always be sat in the corner of a Merseybeat memorabilia-encrusted Liverpool pub with a pint in front of him. He was presumably stationed there at all times, just waiting for a film crew. RIP.

Satchmo Distel · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2021, 08:44:20 PM »

As we mentioned on the Poppermost thread when wd did 1963, Marsden was a regulatpr on The Sooty Show for several years

https://sooty.fandom.com/wiki/Gerry_Marsden

Satchmo Distel · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2021, 10:19:49 PM »

Elizabeth Sladen is in Ferry Cross The Mersey

https://sites.google.com/site/elisabethsladenonscreen/home/ferry-cross-the-mersey

Lisa Jesusandmarychain · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2021, 10:39:16 PM »

I'll Be There ( in my coffin/ urn/ ultimately, grave).

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2021, 10:48:47 PM »

Ferry Cross The River Styx

Johnboy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2021, 02:22:40 PM »

I liked Gerry, he was good in that Epstein doc.

shiftwork2 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 04, 2021, 02:31:02 PM »

Saw him in panto at the Liverpool Empire in, I'm guessing, 1974 or 5. No recollection whatsoever, sorry.

Norton Canes · « **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2021, 02:44:12 PM »

Is there life in Marsden?

(No)

Wacky Homemade Badges · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2021, 03:54:26 PM »

Ringo nearly joined Gerry and the Pacemakers on bass before getting the Beatles gig, apparently.

SteveDave · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2021, 04:25:40 PM »

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on January 03, 2021, 08:35:23 PM

I always liked how, in later years, whenever Marsden inevitably turned up in BBC Four documentaries about the British Invasion, he'd always be sat in the corner of a Merseybeat memorabilia-encrusted Liverpool pub with a pint in front of him. He was presumably stationed there at all times, just waiting for a film crew. RIP.

Looking like Eddie Large

gilbertharding · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2021, 07:48:21 PM »

Gerry Marsdead.

A few years ago I was using the Mersey Ferry, and was amazed and amused to find that it played 'Ferry Cross the Mersey' on an apparently endless loop. I thought I would make some kind of quip to the man who operated the doors and gangplank, about how being subjected to this dirge throughout every day of every one of his his shifts must surely one day drive him stark staring mad.
Quick as a flash, and displaying the legendary Scouse sense of humour, he replied "I quite like Gerry Marsden."

Gulftastic · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2021, 08:38:52 AM »

I've been on the South Shields/North Shields ferry and that was rubbish. Is the Mersey one better?

famethrowa · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2021, 02:07:22 PM »

Ferry Cross the Mersey. Such rubbish. I heard it back before I even knew much about the Beatles and could see it was sentimental junk, a Cliff Richard castoff that sounded straight out of 1959. FFS, The Fabs were writing Ticket To Ride as this stinker was cashing in on their work with his half a chorus that went nowhere.

jobotic · « **Reply #20 on:** January 05, 2021, 02:14:35 PM »

Never done the ferry across the Mersay, although I have watched it from the Liverpool side.

I have, however, done

"Transpo-o-orter across the Usk."

The Culture Bunker · « **Reply #21 on:** January 05, 2021, 02:22:27 PM »

I've done the ferry cross the Gulf of Finland, which was mainly full of Finns on their way back from a trip to Tallinn to load up on cheap booze.

This was a more interesting experience to me than listening to anything by Gerry and the Pacemakers.

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Author Topic: Ferry Cross My Hearsey (Read 987 times)