ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR - Frank Crumit - 1927

[Kittielips]

SCREECH!!

5*****!

Jennie. x.

[nmscot]

My grandpa sung that to us for Christmas this year! :D

[MichaelLIP]

Nice cheery song - great !

Thanks for posting it.

[liamthedream]

Percy French also wrote a parody on the West Clare Railroad called "Are you right there Michael, are you right? In the song, he is criticakl of the West Ckare Railroad, always slow, always late, always breaking down. The management of the West Clare Railroad took Percy to court suing for lies and defamation. On the Court appointed date,, Percy showed up late, the Judge berated him for being late and wanted to know why7, Percy answered "I;m so sorry but I came by the West Clare Railroad!!!

[kevvy1908]

@liamthedream That is a brilliant story - and I believe it!

[bigbluemonkey321]

Saw Lore sing it last night. Also came looking for the lyrics. It seems like there was a cartoon from the 40's-50's I vaguely remember.

[afaultytoaster]

Abdul Abulbul Amir University, Cairo

[suey007able]

my cradle songs beautiful

[BowieForever]

Thumbs up if you wanted to listen to the song that Data/Lore sings.

[hazatude]

This was sang to me by my Mugga. Thank you!

[leftcoasttim]

Once again, must thank Randy Brian of "Forward Into The Past" broadcast on Sundays on KSPC/88.7 Claremont, CA for this. I'm sure I've heard it years ago in an old cartoon ("Popeye", perhaps?), but Randy plays it every once in awhile. A sad story, basically a Marty Robbins gunfighter-type ballad. Somebody HAS to die in the end, and it's the arrogant Abdul. Would make a great movie.

[crunterstamps]

Great song,BUT...there are many Better songs to be heard,Check them out!!"Sonya""And then he took up Golf""Leena from Palesteena"for example.All Superb!!!

[rockgor]

Another great song from Percy French. He also wrote Phil the Fluter's

Ball, The mountains of Mourne, Eileen Oge, Come Back, Paddy

Reilly.

All are on You Tube.

Percy was born in 1854. Was still alive when my dad was a kid.

Tnx 4 posting.

[TheInsaneCr0w]

Why the 1 dislike?

[RenardLeFox]

@TheInsaneCr0w It was Data.

:P

[MrGavin2]

One of Ian Dury's favourite records

[bearhedded]

As I was coming out of the anesthesia, when I had my wisdom teeth out, I thought I was being asked who Frank Crumit was, and I kept saying, "He's a singer". and they kept looking at me like I was nuts!

[basuvia]

Great memories, I'll know the lyrics til I die. Thank- you

x

[C0mmanderEddingt0n]

Thumbs up if you came here because of star trek

[AnonymousComrade]

this should have been in fallout 3

[10leggo]

Over 50 years ago a child we had a wind up gramophone and very few records but this was one of them. I seem to remember it being said that it was a true story!! Does anyone know the history behind it?

[frolt]

We used to play this endlessly as children in the 60s

[CantwrCymreig]

My dad used to sing this back in the 1960s! Thanks for uploading it.

[re6356]

goblinonacloud, You are so right about the trash which passes for entertainment today, I would`nt pay `em in washers.

[Doublerday]

I learnt this when I was ten years old (some 70 yrs ago!). Amazed to learn that Stephen Fry had never heard of it until he was the Whitbread commercial. Doublerday.

[pyrofella]

I have an -R- rated version of this song - it great to hear the original version

[almadora]

reminds me of a neil innes song.

[52topper]

My father sang this song to me!  How wonderful to hear it again!

[MichaelLIP]

Really great and fun thing. A simple yet so tuneful song.

Thanks ofr posting it and giving so much pleasure

[mojotony82]

Remember singing this in a school play when I was 10 years old.

Seen every Star Trek episode but didn't realize Lore sung it once, will have to revisit that one! Thanks!

[justpgraham]

I also heard this on desert island disks , thanks for posting it great song

[83nepenthe]

I knew this as a child, there are lots more verses

[rexjones100]

A real good old bar song in the services, I thought this had gone for ever.I also heard it on Desert Iisland discs.

Thanks it is now in my favourites.

[johnmcglinchey]

Heard this on Dessert Island Discs today - great post Cheers

[steinwaygrande1]

Havent heard this in 50 years . GOsh it brngs back memories. I think Danny Kaye did a version of this - I`m not sure if this is correct, but he did so many things that its hard to remember everything that Danny Kaye did

[goblinonacloud]

@steinwaygrande1 You're correct, Danny did so many things and yes he did sing this however it's Frank Crumit's version that my Dad used to sing to me when I was a kid. He can't believe that Frank Crumit is on Utube! lol.. I' don't think that I've heard this in 50 years myself.. gosh I'm getting older! Yikes! lol

[steinwaygrande1]

@goblinonacloud Thanks for your kind reply. Yes indeed the name Frank Crumit rings a bell , but didnt know he was also on U Tube. As we both mentioned its about 50 years or more sine I heard Danny Kaye sing this. Sadly all the great proper entertainers are no on longer and we have a lot of crap to put up with. I would [art wiiht a single dollar to see the likes of todays so called "entertainers".

[oohthumper]

@goblinonacloud @my dad also sang this song to us years ago

[JCJasion]

@steinwaygrande1 - Mitch Miller's meatballs did this one as well in the "Sing-A-Long With Mitch" TV show.

[kf001u1894]

Remember this from the 40's.always liked it. As I like the other songs about Abdul.Thanks for posting them so I can listen to them again.

[doctorpsycho1960]

One of my father's favorites, although he remembers an even older version, where the Russian was named "Ivan Petrovsky Skovar".

[driftways170]

I used to know all the words to this in the 50,s but they slipped away. Thanks for enabling me to recapture them.

[yerk3]

An American in the 1920s singing about the Crimean War?

[jvbrown1995]

No. The song was originally a poem written in 1877 by Percy French about the Russo-Turkish War (1828-9).

[jvbrown1995]

Excuse me. It was much more recent, as in 1877 to 1878.

[higginbottomd]

I thoroughly enjoyed hearing this again after an absence of many years. Thanks for posting it.

[MrBecool38]

i found this record in some i have...with frankie and johnnie on the reverse.. im so glad you posted this so i could hear it...i love this song...lol

[DblOSmith]

Cool, thanks for posting this! I heard Lore sing a snippit from this on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I thought I'd look it up.

Thanks again!

[Carycomic]

What Mr. Smith said. :-D

[burnt62]

Fantastic ... reminds me of my late dad singing this when he was decorating the house ... lovely memories. Thanks for posting

[111sienna]

this is the only song ive ever requested on the radio back in the day,from dr. demento show, and he played it....my dad used to sing it to me when i was young....thanks alot

[browne636]

Data/Lors sang it on Star trek. Bob

[Gameguru667]

@browne636 That's how I learned about it!

[Loudeboss]

This is just MARVELLOUS !

Thanks a lot '' cdbpdx '' !

[roiheeenok]

franny et zohey

[kevinf78]

was that on a tv ad years back

[mightydannymonkeydru]

Yes, Whitbread

[pgbpelspp]

Use to listen to his whole collection of comedic songs at my grandparents house all summer long loved them as a kid. wish i had them now, some one in the family has them I'm sure

[cushtichavi]

Got this on a different label. Lve it... Thanks.

[theoldlefthander]

Early in My Record Scrounging. Thanx for posting. Love Frank!!!