Posted on 07/10/2025 5:35:53 PM PDT by fatima
Yes. It was written by two American songwriters during the Spanish-American War but became popular in Great Britain a few years later during the Boer Wars. I first heard it when I was a kid, watching “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. You can hear it in the background during a saloon scene. I was always curious what the name of the song was, and only recently found out.
I have had similar experiences. In 1957, I heard a song on the radio with the phrase, "swing around, swing around, swing around the Jimmy John." It stuck in my mind for decades, and when the Internet came along and I could do a lyrics search, I found out that the song was The Gandy Dancer's Ball (1952). I also remember a song on the Captain Kangaroo TV show that had the phrase "everybody pose." I learned from the Internet that the song in question was Posin' by Jimmie Lunceford, and others (1937).
Nice songs. They’re new to me. You can’t go wrong with Frankie Laine or Jimmie Lunceford. Captain Kangaroo once introduced me to “Donkey Serenade”. One of the characters, I think Bunny Rabbit, did some sort of schtick with that song playing in the background.
I stand corrected. It wasn’t Bunny Rabbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayEfMgg4xo&list=RDDayEfMgg4xo&start_radio=1
Visions of Johanna
Hang On Sloopy
Patches (they found her face down in that dirty old river)
Little Martha (written by Duane Allman)
Jody (by Jeff Beck from Rough and Ready album)
Caroline No (Beach Boys, Pet Sounds?)
Thank you. Also have some of jhis cute little-boy pictures framed in my brdroom, Last thing I see at night and first thing in the morning.
Carrie Ann - Hollies, 1967 ...........
Help Me, Rhonda - Beach Boys, 1965
Hey Jude...........................
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