I used to watch my father shaving sometimes as a special treat. I would sit on the closed lav seat, and he would sing an eclectic lot of songs like The Wheel of the Wagon is Broken, Roll Along Covered Wagon, the beginning of Non Piu Andrai from Marriage Of Figaro, O What A Tight Little Island, On The Isle Of Capri... And after a bit I would join in, natch. This would have been mid 1930s -- I was born 1932 -- when songs like the Gracie Fields one and the Big Bill Campbell one and the Jimmy Kennedy one I mention were around. Tho of course Mozart and Dibdin were a little bit dead by then!...

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