Here we are at #4.
Our Heroes are at it again. Hamming it up corn pone style with another popular song that the kids today have no idea existed. This time the A side is their take on a song added to an operetta called "The Firefly" from 1912 when it was made into a movie starring Jeanette McDonald in 1937.
I'd never actually looked up the original version of this one before. If you do watch the video of Alan Jones singing the original hit in the movie, it just makes the H & J version that much funnier.
"Fly Birdie Fly" is another bluegrass classic which had previously been recorded in a very different version by Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys in 1939.
December 1947 - King 682 - Three Night's Experience/ I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Digging way back for the A side here. A novelty song that had been recorded by Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers back in 1927. "Three Nights Experience" about a very dysfunctional marriage between a drunk and a serial liar and possible adulterer. Those were such innocent times.
The other side is another hoary old chestnut "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" that dates back to a 1909 musical "Prince of Tonight which premiered in Chicago in March of that year.
Fortunately for H & J they didn't have to rely on people's memories of obscure turn of the century musical theater for their recording. At the time they made this in 1947 a film of the same name was released starring June Haver in technicolor.
I couldn't find a clip of the song from the movie so you'll have to settle for the Dinning Sisters rocking up a fine contemporary version because once a song was a hit a hundred people tried to horn in on the action with their own versions or songs that sounded just about as close as you could get without being sued for copyright infringement.
Thankfully those days are over so we're spared a glut of wannabe Ed Sheerans.
I have nightmares like that...
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