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Thread #137887 Message #3155169
Posted By: MGM·Lion
16-May-11 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: Anyone know Cohen The Crooner
Subject: Anyone know Cohen The Crooner
I had a 78 record in the late 1940s, by, I think, Ambrose & His Orchestra, a very popular BBC &c danceband of the time. On one side was a woman singing Noel Coward's "Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage Mrs Worthington", a well-known and perfectly accessible song: but does anyone happen to know who she was?
On the other side, Max Bacon, a well-known radio & music-hall comedian of the time {also, later, an actor ~ he played the fat neighbour in the original London stage version of The Diary Of Anne Frank; also BTW a cousin-in-law of my Mother's ~ used to meet him at family children's birthday parties before WWii!}, sang a comic song called "Cohen The Crooner", of which I still remember the lyric:
As I push my barrow along
You'll hear me sing the latest song
I'm Cohen the crooner
The Crosby from Mile End.
I sell peanuts penny a bag
To the tune of Tiger Rag
I'm Cohen the crooner
The Crosby from Mile End.
I sing jazz or [h]opera
My customers to suit,
But I don't give a hoot
So long I sell my fruit.
Radio singers may be swell
But they can't sell you fruits as well
Like Cohen the crooner
The Crosby from Mile End.
Anyone, by any marvellous chance, ever hear this song before? Have any info as to authorship &c? A long shot, I know, after all these years; but Mudcat often comes up with miracles, and any info would be greatly valued by
~Michael~