You'll never walk alone

**Greenforever** · 26/04/2008, 6:17 PM

Can anyone tell me which club supporters sang this song first?

I was told it was Man Utd in 58 after the Munich Disaster. Is this tru or just a wind up.

I now not the correct forum, but couldn't find where i should post this.

Thanks

**GavinZac** · 26/04/2008, 6:31 PM

World football?

Anyway, Christine Johnson was the first to sing it. Liverpool fans were the first fans to sing it, immediately after it was covered by Gerry and the Pacemakers and played over the Anfield speakers. If Celtic fans were the first to sing it, they'd have been collectively spontaneously breaking into a rendition of a Broadway musical.

**blobbyblob** · 26/04/2008, 6:43 PM

Not gospel but heres my twopence...

Liverpool were the first to adopt this song and are by far the most consistent singers.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_socc...lk_Alone_first

**Greenforever** · 26/04/2008, 7:18 PM

Originally Posted by blobbyblob

Not gospel but heres my twopence...

Liverpool were the first to adopt this song and are by far the most consistent singers.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_socc...lk_Alone_first

From that it appears possible that it was sung originally by Utd as a tribute to the Busby Babes, but as stated impossible to be certain.

Thanks anyway!

**tetsujin1979** · 26/04/2008, 7:59 PM

I was always told it was Celtic fans who sang it first?

**GavinZac** · 26/04/2008, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I was always told it was Celtic fans who sang it first?

Originally Posted by Greenforever

From that it appears possible that it was sung originally by Utd as a tribute to the Busby Babes, but as stated impossible to be certain.

Thanks anyway!

Yhe version sung even today is that of Gerry and the Pacemakers, rather than the musical. The first recorded mention of the song being sung was on BBC Panorama in 1964, months after its release. Then, in 1965, they recorded this:

Disregarding how unlikely it is that either United or Celtic fans, back in the days of flat-capped working class masses, picked a song from a relatively lesser known Broadway musical and sang it the way G&P would go on to do, it is not coincidental that G&P are from Liverpool.

In fact, as much as I dislike the current generation of Liverpool fans, or at least those that I am exposed to, it is often said that it was the Kop's singing of popular hits that started football 'singing' rather than basic roaring or co-ordinated shouting, or the military singing of Portsmouth.