Why do they call it Christmas "Eve"? Is there also a Christmas Adam??

[renomarvinm]

I just wanted to know.

[saasher2012]

Yes that's the one I listened to,which is why I said it wasn't crude just funny.

[saasher2012]

I've just listened to the pig that slowly walked away. Yes your right , thanks! We are talking at x purposes.i ve never heard it in its entirety , the one I posted was just as I found it in the book no more no less, thanks again for your information.
Still funny though!

[renomarvinm]

Rudy Vallee must have "covered" the Frank Crummit version of "The Pig" song.  Thank you ronnybabes!  And thank you too Sam!   I never realized there WAS another version!  Rudy Vallee, it seems to me, was the "bad boy" of his time, in his own way.  His career would have made a wonderful movie.  As for "And the Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away," and "The Old Sow Song," I love them both!!!!  FUNNY!!!!  He also did the Whiffenpoof song.

And, I'll admit it - I also like the Lambeth Walk!!!  There's a version on YouTube with the short Cockney guy doing it, flipping his hat around.  That is pure class!!!  Ah, to have such style!

[saasher2012]

Glad you like them !

[renomarvinm]

My late father served in the US Army in the Philippines before World War Two.  He was a coast artilleryman on Corregidor.  He finished his tour three months before the Pearl Harbor attack - otherwise, I would not be here.  But he had this song he would sing, and I'm afraid to look it up.  It was titled:

The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga.

[bankhaunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjVQd6O6VvE

[cee-dee]

Wrong song:-

Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys got no tails
'cause they were bitten off by whales,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga.

Oh, we won't go back to Subic in the Spring,
Oh, we won't go back to Subic in the Spring,
The mosquitoes there are too big,
And they bite you on the pubic,
So, we won't go back to Subic in the Spring.

Oh, the women wear no skirts in Iloilo,
Oh, the women wear no skirts in Iloilo,
They wear dirty undershirts,
But they give until it hurts,
Oh, the women wear no skirts in Iloilo.

Oh, the oxen have no feet in Mariveles,
Oh, the oxen have no feet in Mariveles,
So, they slide it on their seat,
And they spend the year in heat,
Oh, the oxen have no feet in Mariveles.

Oh, the girls don't smell like roses in Chefoo,
Oh, the girls don't smell like roses in Chefoo,
But they know a hundred poses,
So, come on and hold your noses,
Oh, the girls don't smell like roses in Chefoo.

So, we'll all go down to Shanghai in the Fall,
Oh, we'll all go down to Shanghai in the Fall,
And the goose is sure to hang hai,
And the gander's sure to bang hai,
And we'll all go down to Shanghai in the Fall.

[saasher2012]

No & I'm afraid I daren't look it up either! I did look up the Wiffenpoof song& I liked it immensely so much in fact it's been stuck in my head ever since, so sad & very sweet. At the risk of me getting laughed at , what is a Wiffinpoof please? Sam.

[saasher2012]

Ooooer ! I'm confused now!

[bankhaunter]

This version then perhaps, there is a couple of newer verses which could be described as a little risque.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkeys_Have_No_Tails_in_Zamboanga

[saasher2012]

Yes well moving swiftly on ! LOL!

[renomarvinm]

Hi everybody!  I've been away for a bit!  I missed all of you!

 Saasher, Sam I don't know where the title "Whiffenpoof" came from.  Maybe Rudy Vallee dreamed it up, or possibly the man who actually wrote the music.  That song was also was used as the title for that old TV show about Pappy Boington in the Pacific in WW2.  I forget what the name of the show was, but I think Robert Conrad (or somebody) played the Boington role.  It was full of hype and silliness, about as historically accurate as a poorly written comic book.  But it had beautiful theme music.  The plots were all Hollywood, and totally absurd.  I remember one episode where they somehow captured a Japanese pilot and held him prisoner for a time, and had intellectual discussions with him, and even played ping pong (table tennis).  Then he excaped and  found a Corsair aircraft and took off and he and Boyington had a dog fight, with Boyington winning, naturally.  This was so absurd that it beggers description.

The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga -  thanks to all of your beautiful research, we now have two versions of the song!  And I had never heard the lyrics before except the first verse.  I think the unofficial, and slightly risque, version is the one the troops sung!  The other one was "cleaned up" for the public. Bowdlerized, so to speak.

The first song I actually, personally, remember as a child was "So Long. Its Been Good to Know You."

Ok, what was Adams' first song?  What did HE sing, or THEY sing, he and Eve? And what did they name their group?   Did he do a solo, with Eve doing refrain.  I can see them now, hopelessly trudging around the muck in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, or somewhere in northeastern Africa, him singing some interesting but primitive tune, while she tied to yodel out some kind of counterpoint, meanwhile muttering to herself, "Dang it!  I could sure use a tamborne here!!!"

[saasher2012]

Glad you liked the research done by other posters, great work done by them I wouldn't have dared post it being a newbie.
You are assuming I take it that Adam& Eve were American?
& the song. How about Whitney Houston " I Have Nothing". Sam.

[renomarvinm]

Hi Sam!!!  Now THAT song would workl!!!!    (I hope I got a happy face there  - with these new characters ebay has given us, it's hard to tell!))  Anyway, I always mentally pictured Adam and Eve as being Ethiopians, probablybecause of Lucy, and the finds they're making in the Danikil Desert and all.

I can the two of them now, trudging through the muck,  And Eve is saying, "Boy, just you wait Adam, until Hailee Silasee becomes King!  Just you wait!  He'll get you for making me carry all the luggage!!!!

Que in Little Stevie Wonder, singing "A Place in the Sun."  (I like that one!)

[ronnybabes]

"The Whiffenpoof Song," was published in sheet music form in 1909. It became a hit for Rudy Vallee in 1927 and later in 1947 for Bing Crosby. It has also been recorded by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, and countless others.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs, an undergraduate musical group at Yale University, is the oldest college capella group in the United States.

Established in 1909,  the group comprises senior men who compete in the spring of their junior year for 14 spots.  The Whiffs' best-known alumnus may be Cole Porter, who sang in the 1913 lineup; the group often performs Porter songs in tribute.

[ronnybabes]

I think you'll find the Lambeth Walk originated in Germany Reno. 

[bankhaunter]

Brilliant!

[saasher2012]

Thanks for that, blerdy fantastic!

[*.*..lola..*.*]

#216 LOL Ronnie

[renomarvinm]

My stomach is cramping from LAUGHTER!!!   Brilliant, Ronny!  And as I sit here in a house surrounded by rain and fog in dismal gray Oregon, I am once again reminded of Mel Brooks!  Specifically Mel Brooks' original production of The Producers, where Franz Leibkin is emoting, "My fuhrer!  He could dance the PANTS off of Churchill....."

Oh, boy!!!