The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #137182   Message #3183630
Posted By: Jack Campin
08-Jul-11 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: Let's give the composers some credit
Subject: RE: Let's give the composers some credit
One I only just realized: Adam Macnaughtan's "Jeely Piece Song" uses the tune of "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight?" which I used to attribute to Lonnie Donegan.

Google finds it credited like this:

Based on the 1924 original by Ernest Hare & Billy Jones
"Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
(Marty Bloom / Ernest Breuer / Billy Rose)"


Are Ernest Hare and Ernest Breuer the same person?
Was Billy Jones a pseudonym for Billy Rose?
Where did Marty Bloom fit in?
And where did Donegan find it?