Glen Daly - Mary's A Grand Old Name (1970) video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/07/17

Released on the 1970 album, "It's Glen Again Live at the Ashfield, Glasgow." Written by George M. Cohan and introduced by Fay Templeton in "45 Minutes From Broadway" during 1906.

My mother's name was Mary

She was so good and true

Because her name was Mary

She called me Mary, too

She wasn't gay or airy

But plain as she could be

I hate to meet a Mary

Who calls herself Marie

For it is Mary, Mary

Plain as any name can be

But with propriety, society will say Marie

But it was Mary, Mary

Long before the fashions came

And there is something there that sounds so square

It's a grand old name

Comments

9 years ago

James Betty

Love older classics. Altho these are not songs I grew up with, they are GR8. Who in the heck could thumbs down any of this compilation. Love the fact that each tune has a tidbit of history is put forward w/each tune.

10 years ago

Wilfred Hosteland

GREAT!!

10 years ago

Alfonso Ramos

This is a cool old song. It comes out in the movie "Tootsie" . Love it.

11 years ago

Robert Cummings

Ahhh - James Cagney and Yankee Doodle Dandy . . . his version brought the nation together in WW11 as Cohan's did in WW1. They don't make em' like that anymore = the songs or the likes of Cagney . . . and as for Mary's a Grand Old Name - I can still her the old boys singing it in the pub at night . . . . . .

11 years ago

Joanne Demmin

My late mother's name was Mary and I named my daughter born last Sept, Mary. I used to sing this song to her when I first brought her home and had to fight back tears. I loved how James Cagney sang it in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Thanks for posting it. .

11 years ago

billythedoggie

mary was my mother's name....and what a grand ole name that was...and a wonderful mom she was....she passed away quite a few years ago..to live on in my brothers and my one sister's memories...of course we only called her mom....but it was mary that was her name...thanks for the memories MOM.....thanks for the hugs when i needed them, and for making birthdays special...

11 years ago

janeheald

Thanks so much!

11 years ago

stockinettestitch

If it weren't for the movie Tootsie I'd have never heard this. :-)

13 years ago

Mary Waterson

@mvnkct It certainly is........... Mary L

13 years ago

D Cerone

Such a same that we don't have great ballads like this being written today.

14 years ago

Paul Morgan

Fantastic thanks for posting.

14 years ago

MeganOMally

My Grandmother used to sing this song to me all of the time

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