Lyr Req: My Ole Flame

Subject: My Ole Flame
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 06:31 PM

Can anyone send me the lyrics to the novelty song My Ole Flame? Thanks a lot

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Ole Flame
From: Giac
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 08:15 PM

Hi, Phil --

When you say novelty song, do you mean the version done by Spike Jones, which featured a "Peter Lorre" voiced pyromaniac?

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was a parody of an older "love" song.

I had the first version on a Spike Jones recording, but it's long gone. However, there is at least one CD, maybe more, of his, um, renderings (using that in the correct sense of the word). He was a skilled singer and musician and the lyrics are easy to understand.

Good luck, Giac

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Ole Flame
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 09:31 PM

The song I'm referring to is about an old tobacco chewing guy who's girlfriend won't cooperate as long as he is chewing. And, in the end, he has to choose. Thanks!

Subject: Lyr Add: MY OLD FLAME
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:06 AM

This is probably the original, of which the others mentioned above are parodies:

Copied from http://www.ladyday.net/song/song171.html

MY OLD FLAME
(Arthur Johnson / Sam Coslow)

My old flame
I can't even think of his name
But it's funny now and then
How my thoughts go flashing back again
To my old flame

My old flame
My new lovers all seem so tame
For I haven't met a gent
So innocent or elegant
As my old flame

I've met so many men
With fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Some who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame
I can't even think of his name
But I'll never be the same
Until I discover what became
Of my old flame

[AMG/All Music Guide lists 358 recordings of this song. Billie Holiday's was an early one, if not the first.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Ole Flame
From: toadfrog
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 09:00 PM

Well, the novelty song, by Spike Jones, can be found on THIS WEB SITE. I'm really not sure it's worth pasting into the Forum.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Ole Flame
From: Mudlark
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 09:15 PM

Jim Dixon...thanks for posting the lyrics...it's a great song...makes me wonder whether the lyrics fit the tune or the other way around...