[78-L] Let's Have A Ding-Dong

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Fri Apr 12 16:44:40 PDT 2013


From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>

> Who's got the ding dong.........?

Somebody bad.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   


On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And a group called The Fifth Estate had a hit with it on Jubilee in 1967.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> It was also the playout music for THE GOON SHOW for many years.
>> 
>> dl
>> 
>> On 4/12/2013 6:50 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Any particular version?
>>> 
>>> Yes. The soundtrack. I thought it would be obvious from the article.
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLIzFMKueec This one does have an
>>> overdub on the soundtrack, however.
>>> 
>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>> 
>>>> Glenn Miller?
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYYDoNeKdwE
>>>> Klaus Nomi?
>>>> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51eju_klaus-nomi-ding- dong_music#.UWh_nzdWK5I dl
>>> 
>>> On 4/12/2013 5:33 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>>> Jonathan Winters might be dead, but the world is no less WEIRD. Check
>>>> out this latest round of insanity that is going on in England.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ding-dong-bbc-refuses-to-play-margaret-thatcher-death-song-in-full-on-radio-1-chart-show-8569691.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please, please, please, all Brits on the list, please go over to I-Tunes
>>>> and buy "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead". It is at #3 and could be #1 if
>>>> all the Brits try. No matter what your politics, imagine a 1939
>>>> recording at #1!!!!! Leah and I will be in London the morning of the
>>>> funeral and I BET that this song will be sung repeatedly during the
>>>> procession from Westminster to St. Pauls!!!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yip Harburg would be so PROUD!!!!!
>>> 
>>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com


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