I've asked Tom in an email, but no reply yet. I was going to get around to Greg too, but seeing as you've done it freda, I won't bother.

Robin Connaughton? I don't recall ever hearing him sing it!

Anyway, we are hot on the trail here in Oz. I'd be interested to know too. I'm thinking that maybe with Greg's connections with the acting world, and it being a sort of music hall song, that maybe it was Greg who rescued it from somewhere. He does seem to have a knack of finding weird unusual songs, like f'rinstance "I've got a ferret sticking up my nose", however I think that one was John Cleese, and although Pythonesque, was actually pre-Monty Python.