This is pure entertainment gold. It’s not appreciated so much these days but it is so important to preserve little treasures like this. I’m only 40 but I wish I lived through this up and coming golden age.
I'm now 70 these was such great songs in those days you could learn all the songs and sing them as wellaa you learnt all of them the late 50s 60s 70s where all the g8 songs where produced not like the crap now that we hear and every new years eve was sung by Andy stewart to bring in new years oh great days how I wish they came back but no we can't turn the clocks back worst luck there's one true song if you really listen to the lyrics is by Karen carpenter YESTERDAY ONCE MORE I want played at my funeral as this song is so powerful in words it will set people really thinking 😂😂😂❤❤
I LOVED this and “chewing gum” as a kid but it did sort of mean it took me years to realise just how bloody good he was in behind the comedy stuff. Gamblin Man for example is just such a mixture of stuff that the Rolling Stones took another 6 or 7 years to discover. The man was there first. A legend. (Same with Winnie Atwell.. famous for the obvious stuff but actually a supremely talented woman)
I loved this song as a kid it made me laugh I still love it even though I'm now 70 it still makes me laugh even though there's a lot of versions of it love the original though but Lonnie done gal was absolutely brilliant at doing the different versions
I was in the cubs in 1956 and he played in Ladywell park . Lewisham at the cubs jamboree . that was when the bass was a tea chest and broom stick .. happy days ,,old man 71
I remember this in the late 60s my dads 45 and if you spun the record in the opposite direction at one part the song actually sings "well get em off then". At the time we thought it funny. I am now 60 years old and this is still one of my favourites from that ERA. Thanks Paul Griggs 👍 🙏 😊
I'd long heard that Lonnie Donnegan brought Skiffle to Britain, thereby sparking the pop music scene, but I had not known how clever and catchy his humorous songs are. A bit of Robin Williams in him!
As a kid, Lonnie Donegan was my all time favourite musician, I had a collection of 78 and 45’s, many with him playing with Chris Barber. A very talented musician with a fantastic vocal range. When he came on the TV, with an old tennis racket in hand I would sing along merrily and continue long after the programme had finished. My parents were not amused. It is however my view that his comic records were his undoing. His talents were wasted, no matter how good they were they failed to demonstrate his truly remarkable ability. Skiffle was a one minute wonder and he was left behind by the very people who admired him the most….the up and coming pop groups. I watched him live in his latter years and was still mesmerised and very much a huge fan but he continued to play those chewing gum songs that didn’t stretch him musically which was so sad. I bought every CD when his sons performed in Rhyl just a few years ago, They performed well and I had the pleasure of meeting his wife at the end of the show. I’m now obviously in my twilight years but remain to this day a huge admirer of the late great Lonnie Donegan and play his music frequently. Why, why didn’t he keep up with the times, a wealth of talent, wasted.
I recall the song being featured on Juke Box Jury and everybody at school was talking about it.My dad gave me a £1 note to go out and buy the very first two 45 records bought , after converting our radiogram to play vinyl rather than just 78s , this and Handy Man by Jimmy Jones, the latter my favourite record of the time - 1960 - the very start of my ' record buying career '!.
Young people now maybe don't know what a huge influence Lonnie was on popular music. Maybe his greatest influence is inspiring a huge number of kids to take up guitars and believe they could achieve something as many did.
Yes, what a great influence. Tricking young singers into signing contracts that gave him total copyrights to THEIR songs. That his family still collects royalties on. Then giving a guitar to a young singer/songwriter, who wrote megahits with it, then taking it back.
Reminds me of my childhood, came out the year before i was born, my dad would sing it, usually during Sunday lunch. It was the only day he went to the pub for a couple of pints which might explain the singing! Good memories of simpler times!
Everyone know the song, but lonnie donegan was an absolute genius. i seen him at guildford in uk before when i was little, before he died, all his songs stay deep in my heart
Lost opportunity: They could have made a biopic about Lonnie Donegan, or put him in a movie that had something to do with Britain in the early '60s, and they could have cast Robin Williams as Lonnie. He would have been just about perfect, imho. Oh well! They should still have Lonnie in a movie, somehow.
i agree. but who would go to see such a movie? you would have to make a durty version to get bums on seats. put loads of sex, sex, sex, a nd that way everyone will fill the cinema seats. well? what are you waiting for? have you not bought your own cinema yet? remember, the durtier the movie, the bigger your profits !!!
What about:. Oh dear what cab the matter be, Two old ladies locked in the lavatry, There were there from Monday to Saturday, Nobody knee they were there. Dies anyone remember the rest of it?
My Old Mans a Dustman was an old World War One song that Lonnie and his manager Peter Buchanan put new words and music to. To my knowledge Leslie Bricusse was not involved.
This song reached number 1 in Toronto in 1960. It never charted in the US according to my Billboard directory. Maybe it was not released in the US or maybe skiffle was an unknown music genre there.
His "Rock Island Line" did chart in the U.S. in the '50s, though, and Lonnie did make the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1961 with his "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost, Overnight?)" novelty record! CHEERS!!
Came to check out Lonnie. Just listened to Roger Daltrey on Mar Maron's podcast, and he cited Lonnie as the one who changed everything for them over there, even more so than seeing Elvis.
At the Crich Village musuem, they are building a 1950s village to go along with the one from 1913. I can only assume that it will be about the time when music like this was enjoyed and young men all over the country were picking up guitars. Better that then the early 50s with the rationing and bomb damage.
Its a shame to say music 60 even years before now shows musicians having so much fun and talent and yet today we can marvel at it almost wish we were there but our electric composers musicians of today dont know what real talent is or fun or comedy
Before I die, I want to put it on my 'BUCKET LIST" to get drunk on Guinness and sing this song in a real BRITISH or IRISH PUB. I remember a place called "Richards" in the Omni Center (now the CNN Center) in Atlanta and I remember a place called "Poor Richards" in NORCROSS but the crowds were so COSMOPOLITAN I think we all would have been arrested to singing "My Old Man's a Dustman" ... 7/1/2020 SRC ... Post Script: There was also a "Richard's" in or around The Clayton County Mall where you could throw darts and also eat "Steak & Kidney Pie" which has a bit of a "wang" to it ...
That was when British TV was the best in the world!
This is pure entertainment gold. It’s not appreciated so much these days but it is so important to preserve little treasures like this. I’m only 40 but I wish I lived through this up and coming golden age.
I’m only 28 and me too🤦🏼♀️😂
I'm only 17 and wished I lived through it
I'm nearly 49 and I wish I did too!
I'm now 70 these was such great songs in those days you could learn all the songs and sing them as wellaa you learnt all of them the late 50s 60s 70s where all the g8 songs where produced not like the crap now that we hear and every new years eve was sung by Andy stewart to bring in new years oh great days how I wish they came back but no we can't turn the clocks back worst luck there's one true song if you really listen to the lyrics is by Karen carpenter YESTERDAY ONCE MORE I want played at my funeral as this song is so powerful in words it will set people really thinking 😂😂😂❤❤
I LOVED this and “chewing gum” as a kid but it did sort of mean it took me years to realise just how bloody good he was in behind the comedy stuff. Gamblin Man for example is just such a mixture of stuff that the Rolling Stones took another 6 or 7 years to discover. The man was there first. A legend. (Same with Winnie Atwell.. famous for the obvious stuff but actually a supremely talented woman)
I remember this song as a kid.
It's one of my favourite videos - it just makes me smile every time I watch it!
Absolutely Brilliant singer A legend Lonnie Donegan
Good old Lonnie Donegan I love him. and his humour Xx
Love these old songs
I loved this song as a kid it made me laugh I still love it even though I'm now 70 it still makes me laugh even though there's a lot of versions of it love the original though but Lonnie done gal was absolutely brilliant at doing the different versions
This guy is brilliant He deserves more recognition than he ever got. His influence on music in the 60,s was world wide
Although he stole most of what he did 😂
@@davew6447 big influence for the Beatles
I loved watching him.
@@davew6447 just like Lead belly then and no one disputes or disparages his influence n music.
Lonnie is acknowledged as the origin of British Rock and Roll
Remember this so well. First heard as a National Serviceman in the Airman’s mess of RAF Feltwell. Will never forget it. Circa 1959/60
Thank you for your service 🤞🏼
Very very nostalgia ❤
I loved this song as a kid and i still do, it was me Granda's favourite. Lonnie was one of our very best :)
with you all the way Chris .. oh the "good ole days"
Aida
Can tell your a cockney by the “it was me grandads”
Saw them live in Gt Yarmouth in 1961' never heard live drums before. It set me off playing them.......still doing it now, aged 72!!
I was in the cubs in 1956 and he played in Ladywell park . Lewisham at the cubs jamboree . that was when the bass was a tea chest and broom stick .. happy days ,,old man 71
I remember this in the late 60s my dads 45 and if you spun the record in the opposite direction at one part the song actually sings "well get em off then". At the time we thought it funny. I am now 60 years old and this is still one of my favourites from that ERA. Thanks Paul Griggs 👍 🙏 😊
Its one of the old one's, always the best
My hubby shared the stage with Lonnie in 1987 at a charity do x
I'd long heard that Lonnie Donnegan brought Skiffle to Britain, thereby sparking the pop music scene, but I had not known how clever and catchy his humorous songs are. A bit of Robin Williams in him!
He's always reminded me of Robin
he looks like Robin when he does that grin smile
and the fake voices
As a kid, Lonnie Donegan was my all time favourite musician, I had a collection of 78 and 45’s, many with him playing with Chris Barber. A very talented musician with a fantastic vocal range. When he came on the TV, with an old tennis racket in hand I would sing along merrily and continue long after the programme had finished. My parents were not amused.
It is however my view that his comic records were his undoing. His talents were wasted, no matter how good they were they failed to demonstrate his truly remarkable ability.
Skiffle was a one minute wonder and he was left behind by the very people who admired him the most….the up and coming pop groups.
I watched him live in his latter years and was still mesmerised and very much a huge fan but he continued to play those chewing gum songs that didn’t stretch him musically which was so sad.
I bought every CD when his sons performed in Rhyl just a few years ago, They performed well and I had the pleasure of meeting his wife at the end of the show. I’m now obviously in my twilight years but remain to this day a huge admirer of the late great Lonnie Donegan and play his music frequently.
Why, why didn’t he keep up with the times, a wealth of talent, wasted.
ah, brings back so many memories.
A brilliant talent, and very, very funny in the best British music-hall tradition! Thank you, Paul Griggs!
I recall the song being featured on Juke Box Jury and everybody at school was talking about it.My dad gave me a £1 note to go out and buy the very first two 45 records bought , after converting our radiogram to play vinyl rather than just 78s , this and Handy Man by Jimmy Jones, the latter my favourite record of the time - 1960 - the very start of my ' record buying career '!.
Well before my time but I love a bit of donny
What a legend !!!!! Loved his music as a boy
Young people now maybe don't know what a huge influence Lonnie was on popular music. Maybe his greatest influence is inspiring a huge number of kids to take up guitars and believe they could achieve something as many did.
Yes, what a great influence. Tricking young singers into signing contracts that gave him total copyrights to THEIR songs. That his family still collects royalties on. Then giving a guitar to a young singer/songwriter, who wrote megahits with it, then taking it back.
Exactly 6 months and one day before I was born. I always had a feeling I'd missed out on something and now I know. Thanks for posting this great gem
..our fave Brodcasting Service in the 50th are: BFN/BFBS-AFN & CFN (Werl)..later they moved to Lahr in the "Black-Forest"...
Great duet your son did with Tom Jones on The Voice 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yes top class
When I was a kid me n my sister Loved this we used to play the single over and over
Top entertainer that's what Lonnie Donegan is!
Was!!
and the beatles used to love him too
Reminds me of my childhood, came out the year before i was born, my dad would sing it, usually during Sunday lunch. It was the only day he went to the pub for a couple of pints which might explain the singing! Good memories of simpler times!
This man was a legend I loved his music and I was lucky to see him live,Lonnie as long as music is played you maybe gone RIP but never forgotten.
Everyone know the song, but lonnie donegan was an absolute genius. i seen him at guildford in uk before when i was little, before he died, all his songs stay deep in my heart
good job you didn't see him after he died
I love this song 🇬🇧❤️
Lost opportunity: They could have made a biopic about Lonnie Donegan, or put him in a movie that had something to do with Britain in the early '60s, and they could have cast Robin Williams as Lonnie. He would have been just about perfect, imho. Oh well! They should still have Lonnie in a movie, somehow.
Totally agree- we don't get characters like him in the music business these days- thanks to that utter moron by the name of Cowell.
i agree. but who would go to see such a movie? you would have to make a durty version to get bums on seats. put loads of sex, sex, sex, a nd that way everyone will fill the cinema seats. well? what are you waiting for? have you not bought your own cinema yet? remember, the durtier the movie, the bigger your profits !!!
I agree about a film about lonnie donegan would be great, but to have used the idiot that was robin williams, no thanks!
@@officemanager3377 well said awful singer
@@onthedry8386 I can't help thinking that you obviously mixed up Robin Williams with Robbie Williams, didn't you..?
This guy could really mix 'em up, lol...Irish folk music, with an American folk legend, the guitar-band combo of the day - he was very talented!
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
The Smothers Brothers covered this song about 8 years later on their TV show
I've had the original for over 50yrs
I've still got the original and what a mouth by Tommy Steel my favourites as a kid
Simply loooooved it. Took me back a few years when first I heard this song. Awesome memories
😄😄I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 the song but when last did you play it
This was done the day before I was born! 😊
Why does'nt someone write a cheery song like this nowadays?
+Eddy de Vries Lonnie was adaptable , when skiffle died, he changed to comedy and blues
People are too self-conscious to enjoy a good skiffle or knees-up these days. It's a shame.
those days people had real problems, today we dont have, so we are making on our own......
people don't write cheery songs anymore?
Is... is this your first time on youtube?
What about:. Oh dear what cab the matter be, Two old ladies locked in the lavatry, There were there from Monday to Saturday, Nobody knee they were there. Dies anyone remember the rest of it?
It's a ten from me and Len please bring these days back as we miss them
This isn't the version i grew up with, but i love it!! My mum used to play this one for me on her record player. Happy times....
Lonnie Donegan would be a great star even to day if not passing away age 71.
whoever uploaded this, thank you so much.
I only just found out that Leslie Bricusse wrote this. What a great writer. such a range of music. Will be sadly missed.
My Old Mans a Dustman was an old World War One song that Lonnie and his manager Peter Buchanan put new words and music to. To my knowledge Leslie Bricusse was not involved.
@@Rickenbackerglory He was using a pseudonym, Beverley Thorn, I believe.
@@kevinbennett7615 It’s only credited to Lonnie Donegan and Peter Buchanan on the record.
Class musicians class entertainment makes me smile everytime
I was just 11 and I misheard Dustman , I heard " Dutchman "
I love this version it’s great
A fabulous classic!
This song reached number 1 in Toronto in 1960. It never charted in the US according to my Billboard directory. Maybe it was not released in the US or maybe skiffle was an unknown music genre there.
His "Rock Island Line" did chart in the U.S. in the '50s, though, and Lonnie did make the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1961 with his "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost, Overnight?)" novelty record! CHEERS!!
Fantastic Lonnie Donegan best Skiffle ever please listen to his Chewing Gum Song RIP Lonnie
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😄😄I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 the song but when last did you play it
I had a record with this song on it - always singing it 👍❤️🍀🍁🦋👵
Heard this song today on The Beatles Channel, Sirius Radio. The Beatles were influenced by him. Would love to see a movie too!
Loveeeee that
love Lonnie
Came to check out Lonnie. Just listened to Roger Daltrey on Mar Maron's podcast, and he cited Lonnie as the one who changed everything for them over there, even more so than seeing Elvis.
I love how every version I hear of this has different bad jokes. The one at 2:44 is an oldie but a goodie.
b4 my time,,, i born 1968,,hear from my da, saying when i was a kid 70s,!!
If you put the captions on all these old pub singalong songs it’s hilarious. The automatic captioning just can’t deal with the accents 🤣😂🤣
😄😄I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 the song but when last did you play it
fantastic
Watch it with subtitles on, its a killer.
Great song!
At the Crich Village musuem, they are building a 1950s village to go along with the one from 1913. I can only assume that it will be about the time when music like this was enjoyed and young men all over the country were picking up guitars. Better that then the early 50s with the rationing and bomb damage.
A genius!
This and 'Good ol' Collingwood forever' have a 'Gor Blimey'.
Lonnie, what a genius!!
I'm 65 and very lucky to grow up in the sixties are we related, my family come from sudbury Suffolk 🤔😂
Biggest selling British solo artist ever (this was at a time before pop charts based on numbers printed at factories
I wish there was a tribute band .
My Grandmother used to cycle from Manor Park over to Romford just to sit outside Lonnie Donnegan's house
Lonnie Donigan wrote a song for Tom Jones " Fall in love " Fantastic song.. Great writer, Great performer ...🎶
Absolutely classic 😂😂😂
Marvellous!
They don't make em like that any more. 😁
my Da , like Don,, from back 50s/ 60s, b4 i was born,! , i born 68,from northern Ireland UK,,
Intially heard on juke box jury and voted a miss as music hall/ skiffle was considered dead, it went to no.1 giving him his 3rd no.1
Pure genius
Sheer Talent !
I love star to remind me od the past
I have this song on my computer, only with different lyrics.
Genius
I was waiting for the verse about there being not mushroom in the bin, sadly it never happened.
Its a shame to say music 60 even years before now shows musicians having so much fun and talent and yet today we can marvel at it almost wish we were there but our electric composers musicians of today dont know what real talent is or fun or comedy
Love yer xxx
Spitzenmässig !!!
I can relate to this song ... I was a dustman for a while
Well done mate ...Happy days !!!
I 💘 Chas n Dave 1of my faverates is my old man's a dustman🤗😋
I used to have all Lonnie Dongan records
😄😄I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 the song but when last did you play it
His son was on the voice UK he wrote a song for Sir Tom Jones his son sang it with Tom on the show
Before I die, I want to put it on my 'BUCKET LIST" to get drunk on Guinness and sing this song in a real BRITISH or IRISH PUB. I remember a place called "Richards" in the Omni Center (now the CNN Center) in Atlanta and I remember a place called "Poor Richards" in NORCROSS but the crowds were so COSMOPOLITAN I think we all would have been arrested to singing "My Old Man's a Dustman" ... 7/1/2020 SRC ... Post Script: There was also a "Richard's" in or around The Clayton County Mall where you could throw darts and also eat "Steak & Kidney Pie" which has a bit of a "wang" to it ...
Loved this song as a kid. Mum had a 45. I played it to death.
There I was watching a show about space and this came into my head. Follow the logic on that Mr Spock.
my, Da ,liked , back then,!! ,, I born 1968,!
Different lyrics...But so much better !
Bill Wyman of the Stones was influenced by him in his youth. He was stunned later to find out he grew up down the street from him and didn't know it.
Well, it's very difficult not to like that, isn't it now?
It looks like every performance of this song and "Chewing Gum" had a different selection of verses. Never heard the platypus before.
i remember different lines as a kid though
Reminds me of Robin Williams 😂