Harry Roy - She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor, 1939

[BrokenPromises3]

Sophisticated filth definately.. aha

[ColonelFain]

Also known in the thirties as Harry Roy and his Bat Club Boys. Classic! Thanks.

[ColonelFain]

@ColonelFain Look up "My Girl's Pussy"

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

I'd love to see that list of 147 songs not fit for radio play. I've got "Lavender Cowboy" and "A Guy What Takes His Time". I wonder how many more I would recognize.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

Yep there were naughty songs back then, and even before, all the way back to the cylinder era. Something naughty was probably the next thing Edison recorded after "Mary had a little lamb."

Also, "Jolly Holiday" from Mary Poppins seems to have borrowed more than a few bars from this...

[megaswenson]

I listened again. He's singing "Sable Cape" which actually makes sense.

[megaswenson]

"...she had it when she CAME." What have I stumbled upon?!!! It's like a Smut Pit for nasty vintage music! I'm positively SCANDALIZED. And next, youtube wants me to listen to a song from Lucille Bogan that is so vile it would peel the paint right off the walls! Oh, GOODNESS GOODNESS, HEAVENS TA BETSY!

But seriously, what did he mumble in the end it was that she finally recovered? Bouquet (mispronounced)?

[epmorris]

@megaswenson I think it is" Sable Cape " sable maning dark brown .

[megaswenson]

@epmorris Thank you! 

[BethDiane]

@epmorris Sable is a kind of fur.

[epmorris]

@BethDiane Thanks but it is also an adjective ; possibly used here to describe the cape but it is anyone's guess.

[bassoonabooma]

@epmorris I'm guessing that in context, fur is the most likely explanation. During the Depression, a fur cape would be almost as hard to replace as a maidenhead.

[Gydinglight12]

or Bea Lillie.

[Gydinglight12]

Sounds a little like a song Noel Coward might have written for Gertie Lawrence

[dadoctah]

Someone's missing a bet not putting out a CD box set of the 147 songs on the NBC black list.

[swallin19]

The very best version, by Harry Roy, droll singing, and dead pan delivery of the risqué comedy lyric, Harry Roy, like Bill Cotton, had a deep sense of fun, both expert musicians as well as good entertainers.

[leeperryismerry]

And above all I want you to be very, very, careful

[glendavar]

I'm looking for the parody on this song titled: "She really meant it keep it til she married." Like this song it is very suggestive and ends up referring to her grandmothers wedding dress. Anybody have a copy to post? Thanks!

[sensadrome]

My grandfather (94) just told me about this on You Tube - he saw it live back in 1939! Wonderful stuff, so witty...

[MerseysideAlice]

Just heard this for the first time on Sunday evening Radio 2. My mum likes all the 1930s tunes, so do I really. What a great cheeky song, as controversial as George Formby for its` day!

[bowllyroom]

you look swell baby!

[nblmsc]

A great fan of Harry Roy - thanks for the info too.

[almadora]

wow, i love it. i was truly born in a differnt time. (the tempo and beats has shades of 'its a jolly 'oliday with mary' from 'marry poppins.') love it!

[Corrie121]

Was only familiar with the Pearl Bailey version of this masterpiece, but I really enjoyed this Harry Roy version equally.

Thank you so much for bringing such enjoyment.

[jumpdance24]

funny song, Big band sound and a certain elegance about the whole thing. Look at the photographs.

[ukstray]

I used to play this song on a 78 rpm on a wind up gramaphone!!

[VideogeekinMD]

Ah, so music was kind of dirty back then as well. It's sophisticated filth,lol.

[martinokeefe]

I've been loooking for this song everywhere, what a great one!

[HarborGuy]

Great humor - it kept the bad war news away - 5 Big Stars !!

[GTwitchell]

It has been sixty-four years since I heard this song - just once - and never since - until right now. I have never been able to forget it! What a delight to find it again. Thank you YouTube!

[clarkedeville]

Those were the days!!!

[kspm01]

Such fun tune; I had the same reaction to it as barbcard... but oh what a relief she didn't lose her cape.

[genia106]

Goods? Like dry goods? That is hysterical! :))) I was thinking expensive Versace shoes. :) You are up very late...

[genia106]

Grzegorz, This is a swell song! :))I can't stop smiling! What adorable lyrics and how serious the singer/singers are. :( Poor Minnie , I thought she lost her diamond encrusted dancing shoes, that would indeed have been a tragedy!!!! :))

[HarborGuy]

Lost her beaded bag again! Oh my! Fun tune...

[barbcard]

I always thought she lost her one and only you-know-what and that's what inspired film critic Pauline Kael's title"I Lost it at the Movies." But now I know a sable cape is much more important. O, those Brits! And to think this all happened at the old Hotel Astor, where I used to meet my friends for a day on the town.

[dzheger]

Fun tune and lyrics. What a relief it was to find out that virtuous Minnie hadn't lost her sable cape after all.