Max Bygraves

My grandchildren adore his novelty songs: You're a pink toothbrush, Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea.
I once heard that his first public performance was on the prom at Southend when his mother realised she didn't have the train fare home so she told him to sing.

I can remember seeing Max B on the stage at the Wood Green empire in the early 50's with Archie Andrews!

Good actor as well.

He has a lovely voice, I think he's great.

He seems like a lovely, nice lad.

Yeah , he"s good and handsome and clean cut as well .

Not many of them Nonu, I do like Will Young though.

Do you like modern singers as well ?

Aaaah, I loved both those records, I was a great Ronnie Hilton fan as well.

I've now got that mouse song as an earworm - serves me right!

Maybe it was the damn tulips that confused me. Both songs were frightful. [vomiting emoticon]

It wasn't Max Bygraves. Ronnie Hilton recorded A Windmill in Old Amsterdam. Freddie and the Dreamers also covered it, although I don't remember their version.

Not to mention Tulips from Amsterdam which I have had as an earworm ever since I heard of his death.

Was he responsible for that bloody mouse with clogs on song?

Nonu -- yes! I remember talking to the Ladybirds on that show, and they said much the same thing... lucky old him, eh?

This is really rather spooky. My grandchildren have been staying with us and one of them loves me to teach her songs. So this week I taught her Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer katsanella bogen by the sea.
The night Max died she and I gave the rest of the family our premier performance....... Oo-er.
RIP Max and thank you for all those lovely moments on Saturday mornings with Uncle Mac. xx

So sorry to hear about Max Bygraves dying, but he had a good innings. I loved him for years, always made sure I caught all his TV shows.

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!! is it time yet , we keep askin" well I do

it was Blossom!! thank you and 'whenim I managed smileys

I know if u go back about 15 posts u will see it has already been mentioned . Did not his wife have rather a pretty name , Petal I believe ?

Nonu you have your numbers aboutfaced - he was 89, born October 1922 - checked it on Wikipediaa

He lived here in Bournemouth for many years, his house was on the cliff top. We often saw him drive around our little suburb in his Rolls Royce, he used our local shops and was very happy to sign autographs, have pictures taken and generally be very pleasant. His son also lived here and was a patient of the Medical Centre I worked in - as was Ed Stewart [aka Stewpot]. Oh and Mungo Jerry lives down the end of my road, see him often and he is a big head!! Whereas Max Bygraves was always a gent. R.I.P.

He'd have fitted in well in Lil's bar, (from what I have seen of it) innuendos, slight salaciousness and all.

Not one of my favourite performers.

Loved him, in our teens we would go to the Lewisham Gaumont on Sunday afternoons/evenings, when they had 'live' entertainment. Max Bygraves was a favourite, I think he was a 'local' man, and he entertained the crowd really well. His 'You need hands' was a later favourite, and of course he went from strength to strength from those early days. We also saw Harry Secombe there, and he too kept everyone laughing. No smutty jokes, just good clean fun. Don't make 'em like that any more.

I thought he was already dead