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Thread #115413   Message #2768183
Posted By: beeliner
18-Nov-09 - 12:10 AM
Thread Name: 1950s novelty songs
Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
My gawd, this could go on for HUNDREDS more posts, the list is endless.

The poster who mentioned " 'Just Keep Walkin' by Martin (sic) Stang" is probably thinking of "Ambrose, Part Five" by Linda Laurie. The unidentified voice of Ambrose does sound a little like character actor ARNOLD Stang. (There were no parts 1-4.)

David Seville was William Saroyan's COUSIN, not nephew.

"Oh, What a Face" was by Phil Harris, but there were lots and lots of cover versions back then, so it's possible that Arthur Godfrey could have recorded it also. Godfrey also covered Oscar Brand's "Teterboro Tower".

Lots of the Coasters' records have good novelty B-sides which never got much radio play, "Shoppin' for Clothes" by Leiber & Stoller being probably the best.

The original "I'm My Own Grandpa" was, I believe, by Lonzo and Oscar, with lots of cover versions.

"The Little Blue Man" was by Betty Johnson, who was the wife of Charlie Grean (sp?), who wrote her hit "I Dreamed" and Phil Harris's hit "The Thing", which was indeed based on "The Chandler's Wife" as another poster noted.

Did anybody mention the Hoosier Hotshots' "From the Indies to the Andes in His Undies"?