“Don’t Marry Her” — The Beautiful South

No Words, No Song
5 min readNov 30, 2019
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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…

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.