[78-L] Bell bottom trousers

[David Lennick]

Jerry Colonna
Tony Pastor
Guy Lombardo
The Jesters
Kay Kyser
Louis Prima

Of these, I haven't heard the Kyser and can't remember the Jesters version. But 
it seemed to me that the Prima retained a little of the salt of the original.

dl

Stephen Davies wrote:
>         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
> 
>