Lonnie Donegan - Have a Drink on me. (Live 18/5/1961)

[@MrMercier7]

My Dad loved this song as well and this was played as the final song at his funeral service as we left for the wake. Missing you Dad.

[@4wdthinking]

What a good taste in music your Dad had. Music has a great way of keeping memories alive. All the best.

[@clivemilson2372]

Lonnie was amazing, He inspired so many.

[@billschnarr348]

The guy was a national treasure!!

[@anty66]

84 and still watching and listening, a great entertainer.

[@camnr2933]

Lonnie was an iconic figure. My brother and I bought most of his records and I used to listen to them when I was revising for A levels. I still regularly sing his songs when out walking.

[@HenryMcgrath-gq7bb]

Rock Island Line big hit 1955?

[@christinespain6751]

Lonnie was brilliant,such brilliant memories

[@RockinAtheist]

Back in the early 1960's Lonnie appeared as guest banjo player at the Barnet Jazz Club. During the interval we all jammed into the local pub, the name of which I've forgotten. Across to me at the bar was Lonnie and his friends. I started singing "Have a Drink on Me" and Lonnie asked if I'd bought his record. I told him I'd bought every record since 'Bring a Little Water Silvie'. He shouted to the barman, "Get this man a drink" and he bought me a mild and bitter. My only claim to fame in this life. Well, except for the time I met Connie Francis, briefly.

[@paulwood8410]

THANKS

[@Canadasvt]

@@gregcharles2524I hope you been out now 🎉

[@a.duncan6791]

Dude, you lived another half century, long enough to recount the story. I'd call the one hell of an achievement.

[@Maze2018]

Oh wow this story is absolutely amazing, well done sir 👏

[@terrynicholls4173]

Great man loved around the world He influenced many bands , still with us in his music.

[@walterprill5280]

When I was a youngster, about 5 ish, my mother bought me a Chrystal radio kit from Radio Shack. Got it working and this was the first song I heard. I have been hooked on music ever since. Smile! W.P.

[@Dazzily]

Sixty years ago and I still know every word . . . .

[@madwhitehare3635]

Went to see his boy and his missus do a tribute to him about 10 years ago. They were fabulous. See you soon, Lonnie.....

[@victorsavard4471]

Sure brings back memories of the good old days... God Bless... WHO'S LAUGHING? . . . .

[@nicolarowe1965]

Dads funeral was weds just gone. In bloody lockdown but he always wanted this on the way out! Love him so much xxxx

[@brianpope5243]

Fantastic times these were, he really livend things up in those days, simple chords it made you think that you can play guitar, but he had an amazing voice too, lots of famous groups were influenced by him including the Beatles, great man cheers Lonnie.

[@stevev4255]

Yes- when you think he influenced: George Harrison, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck- all the great rock guitarists: arguably THE most influential musician of the 20th century. Rock wouldn't have been quite what it was without his inspiration.

[@David-sk9vv]

Difficult to say that when you have Buddy Holly to contend with but... I hear what you are saying!

[@ianrive6129]

Also Mark Knopfler, I plan to use this song at the end of my funeral service, put a smile on peoples' faces!

[@davidmansell5986]

He was a top man.

[@TheScribeofLight]

Lonnie lived not far up the road from me. Should be a plaque to commerorate him. This is a classic wake song.

[@stevev4255]

one of a kind- such a massive repetoire, versatile and distinguished voice, at ease on stage, plenty humour... need I go on?

[@Ann6312]

This was my Dad's favorite song - I have been looking for it since he passed in 2011 - THANK YOU for this!!!

[@VicciCreates]

My dad too like this man's songs

[@jenniegem5338]

I lost my dad in 2018...sitting here thinking of him as I listen to this because I know my dad would love this. I don't think he ever heard of this guy and I just discovered him today...man I wish I could share this with my dad :(

[@jackiegeritz5345]

I will have been watching this on tv and enjoying this cheery tune at only 3 year old. My mam and dad never sent me to bed early. My two much older siblings at 9 and 11 years old will have been up in their shared bedroom listening to this on the tv as they were made to do their school homework. My eldest sibling has actually told people that I was bullied as a child! Lol.

[@jackiegeritz5345]

In 1880 down a dusty road Along came a miner with a big fat load He was caked in dirt from his head to his foot His hair so black, that it looked like soot Well, he reined in his mule and hitched him to the rail And he said, "Ol′ fella it's the end of the trail" Well, he ambled on down to the old saloonHe said, "I know it′s early and it ain't quite noon" But, hey, hey, everybody drink on me Everybody! Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on meWell, I just got a letter from down in Tennessee It said my Uncle died and left an oil well to me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me I've been diggin′ all my life and I nearly got to hell But my Uncle dug potatoes and he struck an oil well, oh Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Brother Leslie nowWell Black gold Yellow Gold I Guess it′s all the same Take my tip and give up the mining game Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Well sell your shovel and your old long johns You can make a fortune writing Adam Faith songs Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me Oh well have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me Everybody have a drink on me Hey, hey, everybody drink on me

[@farrellvanessa]

Frank Torpey landed me here. Thanks sir. My daddy is looking down and smiling at these tunes.

[@Yuri-iz3cd]

Thats Excellent for whole wide world!

[@winonamassingill7895]

That guitar 🎸 player was fantastic. Without his guitar 🎸 playing I don’t believe Lonnie’s recording would have been nearly as successful.

[@bobbybingo8341]

THE GREAT LES BENNETTS

[@andrewhepworth3125]

going through a Donnie Lonegan moment. WOW!!! He made you feel so good. We need him today.

[@lengerrard3810]

Lonni started the Ball rolling..👍👍👍

[@grahamboult4454]

Love to hear these songs again i was 16 when this came out

[@gakski]

Note the scriptwriter for the show was Trevor Peacock who was Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley and the author of the song "Mrs. Brown You Got a Lovely Daughter."

[@skoot2u]

Saw Lonnie at Nott's Americana,WOW ! What an entertainer and he had been ill for some time but he owned that stage.R.I.P. Lonnie.

[@jasonchayka5684]

This is the single greatest recording on KZbin. Ive probably watched about 30 times. I wonder if it was a single in America, would it have gone up the charts.

[@gakski]

Buddy Thomas had a regional hit in several US markets with this song in 1961.

[@peterh.schindler5444]

Was wäre die Welt, wenn es Lonnie Donegan nicht gegeben hätte?

[@MyOwnHorn]

Paul Griggs:First,thanks for posting and sharing this perticular video. Watching it. Hearing this classic Lonnie Donegan song. So much can be said here. This is an amazing music performance. Starting with Lonnie's humorous closing remarks. Really sounds like a little like Robin Williams. Seeing him playing that rhythmic banjo. Seeing the deep concentration of the guitar player behind him. As he keeps time with the beat. You feel the spirited energy there. All in all,classic Lonnie Donegan. Once again,thanks for posting and sharing this awesome video.

[@tc19948]

A scintillating perforner, and a consummate musician. We''ll never see his like again.

[@hilarysegal5088]

his son's a chip off the old block - go see him - Chris Donegan Band

[@shannonhardcastle5504]

We chose this song together. It will be played at your funeral. I miss you so much, but this song reminds me of you and when we lay your body to the ground . We will have a drink on you Gramdad. Love you x still feel like your here x

[@Brothers_outdoors]

First song on my grandads funeral list. I wish I'd seen him 1 last time

[@danielgoulding4623]

An amazing performer that escaped me .

[@davidmansell5986]

Any show that has "Monica (The Elephant)" featured in the credits, has to be worth watching!

[@stuarttootell]

An Icon of my teen years in the 1950s

[@daveinespania]

Donegan is gone but his music carry s on

[@hardloper070884]

Thanks to Lonnie - so simple, so wonderful

[@hardloper070884]

hey guy - this is the the day when you were made

[@heathen-greaser]

This guys absolutely brilliant, thanks for sharing

[@frankhyland6333]

Brilliant. What a fantastic group they were.

[@jnairac]

In loving memory Dad. You had good taste in music , skiffles

[@peterwood-jenkins3634]

I love the way Lonnie scats some of the song , that was great what a entertainer Nice One Lonnie My inspiration to be a Vocal Singer Entertainer

[@dieternorbertfreyberg8458]

yes yes das war unsere Musik.lang ist es her.......

[@bobbeck5866]

He was the master

[@johnnypocknee2842]

Such a great performer was Lonnie thanks Paul for keeping his spirit alive with these vidios

[@daveroberts4086]

Great music.

[@traceyhayward6848]

Hey Hey everybody have a drink on me lol 😂 love it 😍

[@VicciCreates]

I was 2 years when i heard this I love it. Thanks to my dad love for old songs

[@rodneymacfarlane1707]

WHAT A RIPPER /CHEERS

[@brianwalton1613]

Do not forget that young Tony, the son of Tony (Lonnie) is still carrying on the Trad Tradition to this day with his own Lonnie Donegan group, singing live and just as good a showman as his dad, he played at a party for me last year and was FAB. Let us not forget that Lonnie started out playing Banjo for Ken Colyer and I have the first version of Rock Island Line on the Jazz LP. New Orleans to London...

[@hattalis29]

My mum was a big fan of Lonnie

[@bryanfinlay9130]

Great to see Lonnie with Les Bennett

[@leslieeaston3383]

Brings me back to my dad's first phonograph.

[@peterwood-jenkins3634]

A Little touch of the goons their Spike Milligan Never be another as great as Lonnie

[@joluttringer4450]

Dear Paul : many thanks for this video I never see before. Lonnie was the singer and banjo he gives me "the mind to" (I hope this is correct, my english is poor) banjo playing, the country music (in 1958/9, "skiffle" was "country for me...shame) and the dixieland jazz (with Lonnie AND, OF COURSE, Chris Barber's jazz band). I purchased one tenor banjo by Clifford Essex (London) in 1969...Best wishes from France and, one more time : Thank you so much ! Jo

[@CoCojoy420]

Amazing, thank you!!

[@angelamary9493]

Fond Memories of by gone years 🥰

[@ejhickey]

some mighty fine picking and singing

[@roseborkett6347]

Don’t get them like this now , wonderful x

[@ktthe90sgirl88]

Favourite song from Lonnie Donegan

[@SpeegBJ]

The jokey joke stuff the Beatles brought with them, John Lennon being so silly cute, and the rest of it...oh the roots here with Donegan. I love his 1959 tune that came to the USA when I was a kid, "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor". Superb music of the folks.

[@thepatwinncombo9889]

I hadn't realized until recently that Lonnie D had had some hits in the USA.

[@kathryngraves4108]

The roots are The Goons I think...

[@SpeegBJ]

@@kathryngraves4108 Sure, the Goons factor in as influence, but this skiffle thing Donegan has and others did and do... that's what I'm talking about; it's a mix of several accounts that play culturally into The Beatles landscape.

[@gremlinuk1968]

was , my dads fav,, back in 60s,,/ so I play now, / I born 68,!

[@atomosepicurus2850]

Real hero from my childhood - wish I could find his ad for Smith's salt & Vinegar

[@charlesmicallef6242]

Simply fantastic, again Lonnie Donnegan use to stay at Holdsworth House in Halifax back in the early 70's and when he was Touring and to see his son singing a big success that Lonnie wrote for Tom Jones is simply fantastic ! Thank you Richard Lupton, made my evening !

[@gremlinuk1968]

every one who play this, have a drink on me,!! cheers !!

[@davidmansell5986]

And I'll buy you one back. Fancy some pork scratchings to go with it? I'm buying!

[@gremlinuk1968]

@@davidmansell5986 yes, 😁 I love pork scratchings ,! I only can get in eBay,! As am from northern Ireland UK ♥️🇬🇧 cheers pal , 🤝

[@timothykirk4052]

From my adolescence I think I remember a version of this song by a baritone or bass. Am I (again) remembering something that didn't happen?

[@lenevans9639]

named my son lonnie in 1964, think he had me, ah yah. love ya. L D. . len e. Victoria B..

[@shaneruddock-pedallingtheg8114]

I love it when he yells and almost yodels like he's really enjoying the moment. Shame he never enjoyed the fact he could and should have been a bigger star and was never truely paid for his work. Great man great singer. I wouldn't be paid £3 to write or perform a song... Its funny and good that Dave Clark just as much a genius as donegan was the one who changed the music pay and contract by creating his own and became the first artist to create the modern expectations we see today of pay as an artist. Shame that back then you were paying producers and entertaining them not the other way round.

[@shaneruddock-pedallingtheg8114]

Too many people called him bitter and moany. I wouldn't say so. I think he had alot of joy in him as an artist but deserved more respect from "the man" J.B. who ruined rock!

[@raymondjones5152]

Great song l was twelve years old when this came out

[@JimAllen-c3v]

THE BEST

[@amycarmichael2748]

So awesome!! Love him!!

[@lorettashannon6093]

I good listen to him all day n night

[@Yuri-iz3cd]

Simple guys, simple chords, simple attitude, thats genius!

[@PassDaMethod]

Holy shit, I just realized that Robin Williams was ripping off Lonnie Donegan the whole time.

[@thepatwinncombo9889]

Most people are ripping off Lonnie Donegan :-)

[@margy601]

Good old songs

[@johntate5722]

Almost exactly 60 years ago.

[@DavidWhitley]

one of a kind

[@revolutionday1]

Raise your hand if you thought this was going to be the original version of the AC/DC song.....

[@cluelessallready]

My doll love this song xc

[@geoffcook3469]

You could have made a fortune writing Adam Faith songs, great line.

[@abirdthatflew]

Masterpiece!

[@thegardener4395]

I really wish Skiffle would make a come back, my toes were tapping within seconds of hearing this.

[@keithwatson2800]

Les Bennetts - great guitar player

[@peterjones9407]

When. My. Little girl is smileing

[@heidrunjacobitz9472]

Einfach Klasse ..

[@jungianstudies5847]

I used to dance trad jazz jive to this.

[@geoffcook3469]

Brilliant

[@flappospammo]

do you reckon ac/dc copied this ?

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

Well missed. RIP L onnie

[@baerlauchstal]

Gosh, the AC/DC version's *really* different, isn't it?

[@melstirk8930]

Forget about Elvis this man started it all great artist

[@김영조-p1s8v]

i like this song

[@anummasa]

4 a live per4mance that sounded great

[@rosellacestarioli921]

Bravo supet

[@jonathonripley7448]

Great

[@sonjadietz5297]

SUPER

[@jamiebidner9565]

his song me and bobby mcgee so good rip lonnie

[@jamiebidner9565]

and my old mans a dust man, all good times as a kid

[@reneematte8426]

Paul Griggs thanks again 🎼🎀

[@deyoungaza]

A cleaned-up version of Lead Belly's "Cocaine Habit Blues (Take A Whiff on Me)". Lonnie Donegan's version is great, aslo!

[@therock2win]

Great musivc

[@cluelessallready]

My dolls song lv jacky tuca we lv ya doll xxx

[@shaunlowthian4234]

Who's the guitar player?

[@Rickenbackerglory]

Les Bennetts

[@morriganravenchild6613]

A genius!