It was released in January 2005 to highlight the club's plight in building a new stadium at Falmer.
" Tom Hark (We Want Falmer!)" was a single released by a temporary, Brighton-based band named Seagulls Ska, made up of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. The song can be heard in Instance Automatics claws Prize Circus and Maxx Grab Evolution Other covers of "Tom Hark" can be found in such diverse albums as Freight Train (1993), a live album by British skiffle musician Chas McDevitt The Dansan Sequence Collection, Volume 2 (1993), a Dixieland cover album by Bryan Smith & His Dixielanders and Party Crazy (2000), a novelty album by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. However, he left Mango Groove several years before they recorded their cover of the song. Jack Lerole, who co-founded Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes (the first band to record "Tom Hark"), was also a founding member of Mango Groove. South African band Mango Groove released a cover of the Piranhas' version of the song on their 1997 album Dance Sum More: All the Hits So Far. It has since been adapted to football chants in Great Britain and Ireland. The song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and was the band's most successful single. When Brighton-based punk band the Piranhas covered the song in 1980, they used new lyrics written by their frontman, "Boring" Bob Grover. In the 1970s, instrumental versions of the song were recorded by Jumbo Sterling's All-Stars for their 1970 album Reggae Party by Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra for their 1977 album Safari Swings Again and, in the UK circa 1979, by Captain Morgan & His Merry Men for a 12-inch reggae single. In 1969, Jamaican band The Dynamites recorded an instrumental reggae version retitled 'John Public'. Whistling Jack Smith whistled his cover on his 1967 album Around the World with Whistling Jack.
The next year, Georgie Fame released a different arrangement of the song (with lyrics) on his 1965 album Fame at Last. That same year, Mickey Finn and the Blue Men released their own instrumental cover in the UK as a 7-inch single. Jamaican singer-songwriter Millie Small covered Powell's version on her 1964 album My Boy Lollipop. In 1962, English singer Jimmy Powell released a new version of the song with original lyrics. In the UK, Ted Heath and His Music released a cover of the song soon after the original in 1958. Recordings artists of various genres have covered the song, and some of them added original lyrics. In all, the song was in the UK charts for about 14 weeks. It entered the UK charts at number 30 on 25 April 1958 on 24 May it reached number 2, and held that position for four weeks.
The song was arranged for penny whistle and first recorded by Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes-a South African band led by pennywhistler "Big Voice Jack" Lerole-and released in 1958. " Tom Hark" is an instrumental kwela song written by Rupert Bopape (1925–2012), a South African musician, singer, and songwriter. Single by Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes 1958 single by Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes "Tom Hark"