Tom Ince's 55th minute equaliser for Blackpool against Barnsley on the 2 February was quite rightly greeted with the usual loud Bloomfield Road cheer. However, what was noticeably absent was a rendition of Blackpool's adopted song "Glad all Over" as gremlins prevented it from being played over the PA.
The look of confusion on certain fans faces was a gentle reminder that many will never have seen a goal scored at Bloomfield Road without the follow-up accompanyment of "Glad all Over". Such has that song now been associated with the club over the past 10-11 years.
However, for some of the older fans this was somewhat of a welcome recollection of how goals used to be celebrated long before the Stadium was modified and technology allowed the instant play-back of a sound clip at the touch of a button.
As far as pre-match songs are concerned many of those same fans will also recall that Blackpool's has had links with certain songs going back much further than the popular Dave Clark Five hit played over the past decade. 
Over forty years ago the Nolans first penned their "Blackpool" single back in 1972 and when this "Blackpool" song was first played at Bloomfield Road it was greeted warmly but it never really became a pre-match favourite for Pool fans until around 1976. The Nolan family were supporters of Blackpool at the time and actually went to the trouble of having a record made of their song at their own expense. The record was on sale from the outset in the Supporters' club.
In the match programme against Millwall on September 11th 1976 a "Blackpool Supporters Song Sheet" was included with the lyrics for fans.
Much further back and lesser known was the link between the "Yes, we have no bananas" song and Blackpool FC which was associated with the Seasiders during our 50's heyday.
Gerry Wolstenholme Blackpool FC historian recalls that when he was a young lad watching Blackpool from the Spion Kop in the late 1950s, the song ‘Yes, We have no bananas’ was always played over the tannoy system and we all sang along heartily.No-one ever thought to question why the song was being sung, it was simply part of supporting Blackpool!
When he wrote his book Cup Kings, Blackpool 1953 he was reminded of this tradition as the song was played at Wembley and he began to wonder why it was connected with the Seasiders. His thought at that time was that perhaps it was because although we did not have bananas, we did have tangerines because he was aware that the song came out sometime around the time that Blackpool first played in their tangerine strip. "A little weak perhaps but it was all I could think of at the time and something that the late broadcaster Brian Moore was later to pick up from the book and repeat on the radio on a programme about Blackpool Football Club.It is thus that history can sometimes be recorded – by mistake!" said Gerry
The song was in fact inspired by a Long Island fruit seller and was written by Frank Silver, music, and Irving Cohen, lyrics, for the Music Box Revue of 1923 that opened in New York on 22 September 1923.The song was published in England by the famous impresario Lawrence Wright of Blackpool and it was the same season, 1923/24, that Blackpool changed to their now famous tangerine strip.So the two came together nicely at that time.
Being a very popular tune of the day, it was played by the band that marched around Bloomfield Road before every home game and it quickly became a favourite of the fans.And Blackpool began to win their homes games so the song became something of a lucky mascot for the team.But not everybody was impressed.“When is the absurd ‘bananas’ stunt to cease at Bloomfield Road?”This was the question asked in February 1924 by one critic who added, “It has long become a hoary chestnut.”But the fans loved it so it continued to be part of the pre-match entertainment.
After a 6-1 thrashing of Port Vale on 22 March the Gazette & Herald reporter put the victory down to two things.Firstly he cited Frank Buckley’s management style and second he stated, “‘Bananas!’ Blackpool’s famous mascot tune was never played so brightly and so convincingly.There was assurance in every note.”And the following week an unusual occurrence took place.The song was played before the away game at Leeds United. One Blackpool supporter immediately commented “Leeds will never beat us today” and sure enough the game ended in a 0-0 draw.It was unusual for the tune to be played at an away fixture for it was normally the local bandsmen that piped up the tune.But on this occasion Bill Norman the former Blackpool manager and then manager of Leeds specifically asked the bandmaster for the tune to be played as a gesture to his former club.
The song continued to be associated with the team but then mysteriously, and with the advent of a change of strip to light and dark blue stripes in the 1933/34 season, it was dropped.However when Blackpool returned to their tangerine strip for the 1938/39 season the song was revived as the club’s signature tune. Indeed another popular version of the same song was sung from the Kop in the 50's
"Yes we have fine footballers
we have fine footballers today
We've Matthews and Morty
and Ernie is a shorty
we'll bury the team we play."
it continued to be played at Bloomfield Road right up to the early 1960s when more raucous tunes took over.
So perhaps there is something in the comment “Yes, We have no bananas but we do have tangerines”! Or is it just coincidence that the song returned when the tangerine strip did so?