Songs we remembered.

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Yammy,Ann Shelton was my Grandads favourite singer!

My dad had been in the Navy and I was taught to sing "Sailor stop your roaming' as well. If I remember right Anne Shelton was a big woman with blonde hair. My mum was always singing but I can't so it must have been torture for anyone listening.

There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in my bucket……..a favourite of mine.

Oh That Gorgonzola Cheese!! My grandma & her 2 sisters used to sing it every Christmas after a couple of sherries!!

My Dad used to sing lots of these to me as well as Maisie Dotes and Dozy Dotes (not sure of spelling) and Hello Mother Hello Father.

She'll be coming round the mountain ...

The Laughing Policeman

A you’re adorable.

I saw a mouse. Where? There on the stairs…..

"Oh Dr I'm in trouble", by Peter Sellars, and 'Eat you minastoni/macaroni Joe"

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean was a favourite of my dad's and She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes.

You must’ve been a beautiful baby:
I’m a pink toothbrush you’re a blue toothbrush.

Does anyone remember The Spinners? My parents used to sing the songs and play their record when I was a child. Such lovely songs. 'The Family Of Man', 'The Ink is Black, The Page Is White'

Love letters in the Sand ….Pat Boone

Stanley Holloway`s Oh my, You do Look ill.

Anything by The Spinners 😃

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. Burl Ives I think.

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Stanley Holloway`s Oh my, You do Look ill.

😊 it was “My word you do look queer”

Another even stranger one used to be on the radio a lot when I was little, it went : “Bill Jackson was a poor old dub, He joined the Darkdown Poker Club”…

She wears red feathers and a hula, hula skirt.
A four legged friend.
Sentimental journey.
See the pyramids along the Nile.
How much is that doggy in the window?

My mother's favourite was Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives and she used to play it for my children.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
the cops have wooden legs.
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
and hens lay soft-boiled eggs.

I love singing cliff Richards - We're all going on a summer holiday' when we take the grandchildren away. It's even better when they start singing it back to their parents 😅