The original of 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight, released 1924, I do not know if this record had a UK release, Spearmint was a registered trade mark this would have possibly restricted the playing on BBC radio, in the 1950's Lonnie Donigan changed it to chewing gum.
In the early 1960's 78rpm records were common at jumble sales, I lived in Hampton, Middlesex until I was 21, their was a Farther and Son who went to all the Jumble Sales and brought all the 78's, their front room was floor to ceiling shelves full of 78's, in those days 45's were rare items at Jumble Sales/Junk shops but there were three that regulary turned up, the first was Lonnie Donnegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Loose It's Flavour On The Bedpost Over Night, the other records were Nina & Fredrick - Listen To The Ocean and Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me, I have not seen a copy of these three records for many years.
I have in my collection two Lonnie Donigan vinyl 78's produced by Pye, these seen to be a bit of an oddity as when they were issued the people who brought 78's tended to have older record players that used traditional gramaphone needles, playing a vinyl record would destroy the record, people who had moden record players would buy the recording on a 45, Top Rank also produced vinyl 78's, these did not sell well and most ended up on Market Stalls being sold of cheap.
Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight 1924
