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Into The Valley Song

DiscoCAFC
DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
edited May 2012 in General Charlton
Just noticed it is at 147 in the Itunes Download chart.

Lets get it further up by downloading it lol

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  • IsawAlonsoplay
    IsawAlonsoplay Posts: 87
    Nah, I'm alright.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Why would I do that? I've got the 7" vinyl!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    get back and give those palace fans hell on their boards disco
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Have I missed something - this is not " a Charlton song" and the artists aren't Charlton supporters. Is that right ?

    We have been known to play the song on match days though.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,438
    Have I missed something - this is not " a Charlton song" and the artists aren't Charlton supporters. Is that right ?

    We have been known to play the song on match days though.
    Nothing to do with Charlton as far as I know but it'd be rude not to take advantage of the 3 words that make it sound like it is. Good song though.

  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,993
    It features in a tv advert at the moment, presume that's why it's registered on the download chart.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,122
    I've downloaded it but it hasn't been recorded in any charts, "lol".
  • Eric_Dales
    Eric_Dales Posts: 412
    The song was released by Scottish "new wave" band the Skids in 1979 and the only link between the song and Charlton is the word Valley. Have the original vinyl version somewhere in the loft. No idea what the song is about as most of the Richard Jobson's lyrics in the song are unintelligible to a non-scottish ear.

    Sure I heard somewhere that Bradford City also use it on match days as they play at Valley Parade.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,034
    The song was released by Scottish "new wave" band the Skids in 1979 and the only link between the song and Charlton is the word Valley. Have the original vinyl version somewhere in the loft. No idea what the song is about as most of the Richard Jobson's lyrics in the song are unintelligible to a non-scottish ear.

    Sure I heard somewhere that Bradford City also use it on match days as they play at Valley Parade.
    Wikipedia's entry about the song



    "Into the Valley" is a 1979 single by Skids, taken off their Scared to Dance album, and is their best known song, appearing on a number of punk rock and Scottish music compilation albums. It reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 24 March 1979.[1] It was written by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson.

    "Into the Valley" is still used as a theme song for fans of Dunfermline Athletic F.C. in the Scottish Premier League and Charlton Athletic F.C. of the English Football League Championship, whose stadium is aptly named The Valley. It was also used in their premiership years by Bradford City A.F.C., whose stadium is named Valley Parade.

    The song's lyrics are notoriously unintelligible owing to Jobson's diction.[2][unreliable source?][dead link] This has been sent up in a Maxell television advertisement which features printed (incorrect) "translations" of the words.[3] The chorus, often misquoted, is actually "Ahoy, Ahoy, Land, Sea and Sky".

    Richard Jobson has said that the lyrics were written about the recruitment of Scottish youths into the army and more specifically about a friend who had been killed on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland.[4][5]

    Local legend still persists that the valley mentioned is a reference to the village of High Valleyfield, known locally as "the Valley"[6] a village with a reputation for "mini warfare" between its own residents and those of nearby towns and villages (namely Torryburn, Rosyth, Oakley and Inverkeithing), near the Skids' home town of Dunfermline.[citation needed]

    The song was covered by street punk band the Street Dogs on their 2008 album State of Grace.

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