Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs
"Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" is a tribute to the artist L. S. Lowry, who had died two years previously. For the song, Coleman drew on his own memories of Salford and Ancoats as well as the paintings of L. S. Lowry. St Winifred's School Choir appeared on the record, singing the children's song "The Big Ship Sails on the Alley-Alley-O". The single spent three weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart. The b-side of the record was entitled "The Old Rocking Chair".
The tune of the song has been adapted into a song sung by fans of Scottish football club Celtic FC, entitled Willie Maley, who was a prominent figure in the early history of the club. The song can be heard on a weekly basis sung by fans, and played over the loudspeaker system at Celtic Park
The tune of the song has also been adapted by The Lancashire Hotpots in the song Dolby 5.1. A song about a lottery winner who fills his room with all the latest technology including PS3's and PS4's. Throughout the song the Hotpots sing "He had a plasma telly, and a Dolby 5.1, he had a stereo that were Bang and Olufsen" in the same style as "He left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs", and towards the end this is replaced with children singing the same thing - very similar to the way the kids end matchstalk men singing "The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley O", they then tell the kids to sing for their grandad, he's only in the care home down the road", most probably in reference to the later Winifreds Choir single - "No-one quite like Grandma"
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Famous quotes containing the words men, cats and/or dogs:
“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“You all talk like somebody else made these laws and Pharaoh don’t know nothing about ‘em. He makes ‘em his own self and he’s glad when we come tell him they hurt. why, that’s a whole lot of pleasure to him, to be making up laws all the time and to have a crowd like us around handy to pass all his mean ones on. Why, that’s a whole everything under the sun! Next thing you know he’ll be saying cats can’t have kittens.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.”
—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. “Strong and Sensitive Cats,” Atlantic Monthly (July 1994)