Tuesday, June 16, 2009

ALL BRITISH

Get your chewing gum here.

Led off by Scotlands (I always thought he was Irish born) Lonnie Donegan - the king of skiffle


Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight. There are probably a dozen versions of this song done by Lonnie all with slightly different words.

"Does the spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?
Would you use it on your collar when your button's not in sight?
Put your hand beneath your seat and you will find it there all right...
Does the spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?"

(Billy Rose, Marty Bloom & Ernest Breuer, 1924)

Jimmie Brown (The newsboy of the town)
Battle of New Orleans - easily the best version

Britain's Bing Crosby soundalike Michael Holday with Marty's Story of my life

Frank Ifield with a real oldie - Abdul Abulbul Amir

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