Pinky & Perky - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight

Released 1959 and unusual for a UK released 45 some came in a Picture Sleeve, the arrangement of the song is taken direct from the Lonnie Donegan version including the jokes, in the introduction it is Perky who is snoring, to distinguish the puppets in TV's black & white days Perky always wore a hat, in more than one quiz this has come out as a queston, one young team had no idea who Pinky & Perky were.

Pinky & Perky ~ Does your chewing gum lose its flavour ~ 1959

Memory Failure

 

For some time I have been backing up all my music to an 8TB SSD drive, prior to this all my music was backed up to a pair of 4TB disc drives, I recently acquired some additional external memory and was backing up the data as I had realised that if the SSD was lost, stolen or failed I would lose all the data. half way through the transfer the SSD drive failed, the drive was still under warranty eventually after much correspondence has been sent for repair and will be returned with no data, I think the additional memory caused the problem so I have not used it since and will probably bin it, as a stopgap I brought a 20TB HDD drive and was going to buy a 16TB SSD drive unfortunately for me the SSD drive was out of stock.

I have a new connecting cable for the original drive on order and will transfer the data to the new back up memory, when I was doing the original transfer their was too much data to transfer in one go I was transferring it in blocks and was thinking shall I delete the block once I had transferd it luckily I decided not to delete once transferd.

Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight

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

Hermione Gingold - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour

 

Released 3rd March 1967in the UK,  Hermione Gingold was 69 when she made this record, she had a previous UK record release in 1955 and a second American release in 1967 with Someting Stupid.

Hermione Gingold 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour'

Here is the second American release from 1967, no one has yet posted a copy on 45Cat.

Hermione Gingold : Something Stupid

New Records

Irene 'Granny' Ryan - No Time At All

 

The second single from Irene Ryan, taken from the show 'Pippin', on March 10th 1973 Irene Ryan collapsed on stage during a performance with an apparent stroke, she was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and died 26th April 1973. 

Irene Ryan is not an artist you would not associate with Motown, they had the musical rights to the show, other performers I have come across on unusual labels were Bing Crosby and Lena Zabaroni (not together) on Stax, if I recall issued in Vietnam.

Irene Granny Ryan - No Time At All 1973

Granny (Irene Ryan) - Granny's Mini Skirt

 

Granny played byIrene Ryan from the TV show Bevely Hillbillies released this record in 1968, this record has been mentioned as one of the worst records of all time!

Granny's Mini-Skirt by Irene Ryan