[78-L] Bell bottom trousers

Stephen Davies SDavies at mtroyal.ca
Thu Apr 23 13:15:05 PDT 2009


        This is the perfect forum for this question:  How many versions of 
"Bell bottom trousers" (... coat of navy blue) are there on 78rpm, and how 
would you rate each one for having been sanitized?
        For the uninitiated, this is a song about a maid at the inn who 
keeps a sailor company subsequently has a baby boy.
        I've heard, and read in sheet music, many bowdlerized versions, 
but during WWII it was sung to inspire navy enlistment, I think.

        It's subjectively applied, but the scale is 1 - 5, where 5 is 
unexpurgated, and 1 is so clean it's practically an instrumental.

- Stephen D
Calgary


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