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April 1947 - King 620 - Managua, Nicaragua/Bill Bailey
In 1947 this song was a hit for Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. He'd go on to personify being the squarest of squares and predated the animated corpse of Dick Clark as the face of New Year's Eve by decades.
B-side. Old song. "Bill Bailey" It was a big hit on cylinder for Arthur Collins in 1902 when Teddy Roosevelt was president and the top speed record for an automobile was set at 74 mph.
This one was originally a 1945 English song but with a bit of a lyrical voodoo to make it less fucking depressing it was a hit for Frances Langford who sings the shit out of it with strings in 1947.
And on the flip here we have "Symphony" and I really don't think you're going to do better than Der Bingle's 1946 version. You can almost hear the panties getting damp when he croons it.
Our heroes probably not so much. The pea pickers just play it too durn fast to make out to.
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