The Proclaimers - Throw The 'R' Away video free download

Daniel Lucena

Fantasticos!!Que par espectacular!!!

1860js

Wonderful..!

Tim Jordan

One of my faves since I was a young college man

livinFREEinSCOTLAND

bloody brilliant boys...

ROBwithaB

It pleases my ear, gentlemen.

booknplays

As a Bostonian I already threw the R away! I love a Scottish brogue. I hired a guy once just because of his accent!

maggielli

Nein,ich liebe das RRRR !!!!

UND3ADSHARK

Love u Charlie and chris your axsent is the BEST!

DaRovmeister

Makes me glad av got ears!

James Hornback

Is OLD MAN by Red Light King rap? Or is it proclaiming?

Evelyn Grzedzicki

Pfff, keep your accent, its the best!

Shantanu Khandkar

Craig (or Charlie) looks so different without the glasses!

Calum Beattie

English accents tend to roll the R less than Scots accents do. Basically, by "flattened all my vowels and I threw the r away" they mean not singing in their own accent. This was their first single and is about the way record companies told them "you won't be successful if you sing in your own accent".

lolinskimk6

What do they mean with "throwing the R away"? Me personally, I like to talk with a Glaswegian accent (watched too much Ducktales). Or at the very least attempt to (mainly by rolling my Rs much to the chagrin of my teacher). I know this is a two year old post, so I dont expect an answer.

booknplays

Thanks for answering for me. I didn't want to take the time to set the record straight to someone who didn't get the joke. Then again, this person compared the Scottish burr to an Italian or Spanish accent. Geez!

HowDareThey1970

I think booknplays gets it just fine. He or she was just saying that in the Bostonian accent, the R was already thrown away. It was a comparison, not an indication that they didn't "get" the song!

Moia Murphy

See scottish_elevator_-_voice_recognition. I am a Scot and found hilarious

byrnon

Cool that they broke barriers for Scottish accents. Funny about trying to sing in fake American accents. During the British Invasion years, some of us here in the US thought English accents were the coolest because of the Beatles and the Stones.

Jock Tamson

I like the Mousouri accent in America,home of Jesse James.The Proclaimers are east coast,but this song was played in the eighties on a music show called The Tube in London,and it was a cultural turning point for Scots music.As up to that point we had sang in fake American accents like Lu Lu and Sheena Easton.The Proclaimers were one of the first bands to say fuck that,we are proud of who we are and how we sound.And my hats taken of to them cos of that,they opened the doors to do the same now.

Anton Massey

I wish I had an identical twin. :(

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