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Thread #115413   Message #2952346
Posted By: GUEST,Patsy Warren
26-Jul-10 - 07:03 AM
Thread Name: 1950s novelty songs
Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
Mums and Dads, Mums and Dads, Funny Mums and Dads:- not quite sure who the children were who sang that but always loved it though.

The Runaway Train, Michael Holiday

I've Lost My Mummy, Rolf Harris

Woodman, Spare That Tree, Phil Harris

There were green alligators and long necked geese,
Some humpy back camels and some chimpanzees,
Some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the Unicorn:-
The Batchelors theory on the demise of the Unicorn.

Tommy Steele's 'Dream Maker' and also 'Little White Bull'

'New Fangled Tango' Lena Horne, funny to watch.

'You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd' - Roger Miller. It was just so silly but I always sang along to it as a child.

I saw a mouse (where, there on the stair, where on the stair, right there, a little mouse with clogs on: I think it was Ronnie Hilton singing about A Mouse in A Windmill in Old Amsterdam.

'(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window' Lita Rosa

Stanley Holloway did a monologue song (if that counts) I can't quite remember the title but it was a boy who got too close to a lion in a cage disobeyed and got eaten. It was a droll Northern funniness and I loved it. [=The Lion and Albert]

There were so many little gems.

These songs were typical things that were regularly played on the radio on the Home Service on Sunday while my mother was cooking lunch or on a Children's Favourites programme before the birth of radio 1