[78-L] Johnny Standley

[David Lennick]

Lily the Pink was also a fair sized hit for the Irish Rovers. You couldn't 
escape it around here.

Here's what's what about Scaffold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_the_Pink_(song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scaffold

dl

agp wrote:
> At 18:35 02/05/2009, Brian Bashford  wrote:
>> The UK group The Scaffold pinched the tune and called it "Lily The Pink". It
>> was an Xmas  UK no. 1 hit in 1968.
> 
> Yep -- I know of Lily the Pink and I can hear it there ... Jennifer 
> Eccles was covered in freckles ....
> 
> A funny story about Lily the Pink, though. About 15 years ago I dj'd 
> at a friends wedding. Friend's husband was from the UK and a huge 
> contingent of his family attended. They wanted it all prim and proper 
> and so I was given a stack of classical CDs and shuffled through them 
> as the dinner and reception went on. Went the event was over, and I 
> was packing up I tossed in a Scaffold CD and played Lily the Pink. 
> Suddenly the prim and proper atmosphere dropped and strains of 
> 'weeeeeeeee'llllllllllll ..drink a a drink a drink to Lily the Pink 
> the Pink the Pink' through the church hall.
> 
> Most efficacious in every way!
> 
> Tony 
> 
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