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Thread #161787   Message #4224300
Posted By: Lighter
17-Jun-25 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Ninety Nine Bottles Of Beer
Subject: RE: Origins: Ninety Nine Bottles Of Beer
World Folklore Dept., from the "Chicago Daily Tribune," Nov. 8, 1957:

"KHRUSHCHEV LEADS ROUSING DRINKING SONG Moscow, Nov. 7 (Reuters) Nikita Khrushchev tonight led a rousing chorus of a folk song at a banquet celebrating the 40th anniversary of the bolshevik revolution....

"He launched out into the Russian equivalent of a British song, 'Ten Bottle of Beer on the Wall.' Khrushchev beat time and led the singing for 15 minutes"