Gronk! wrote:
It seems not many people know Old Faithful was actually number 1 in the charts when it was first sung by a Hull fan too
There weren't any charts in 1936, it was a song from a film which sold a few copies of sheet music for a sing song round the piano! ‘Old Faithful’ though is different to most other football and rugby songs because its an otherwise little known popular cowboy song, sung in the mid thirties by Gene Autrey to his horse.
There is no mention of Hull, our ground or even our nickname in it and so as an adopted song that has lasted for 80 odd years it is very special. In fact, It is said that it was first sung by a single voice in the threepenny Stand at the Boulevard and then taken up by the crowd, in a game against Wigan in1936 and was directed to our most faithful of servants and absolute icon of the game Joe Oliver. Only Hull and Hunslet had songs back then and Hunslets about a group of sea farers (I think it was) has long since dissapeared. Whether this is true we will probably never know, but somehow at the next game it was sung again and the rest is history. If you use it I see it as flattery really because that what imitating someone or something is. Whether we win or lose You'll hear it sung properly on Sunday!
