“Don’t Marry Her” — The Beautiful South
5 min readNov 30, 2019
Their 1996 album “Blue Is The Colour”, which included the very funny and somewhat quirky “Don’t Marry Her”, really defined The Beautiful South as a band…
Beautiful South co-founders Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway had both been in The Housemartins previously. That Hull-based band had enjoyed success in the 1980s with hits including an a capella cover of the Isley-Jasper-Isley song “Caravan Of…