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I guess it's rather ironic that Freddie who died in 1968 aged 59 was a life long teetotaller

This is the dutch group 'Bas Muys' , hence the foriegn accent , they recorded an album of all the Lennon McCartney songs that they gave to other people, there are other clips on youtube.

@patrickcorliss The girl with Pete is Jo Douglas who presented the show as well.

Lonnies version takes the song to a total different dimension, recorded in one take, Lonnie first went to the US around 1953 and spent a long time talking and playing with many blue greats during the 50's..

@loupi52 This was the B side of Rawhide in the UK

@myepiphone Johnny Worth named himself Les Van Dyke after his mate composer Les Reed & Van Dyke, after the name of the Wansworth telephone exchange where he lived.

@hoopoe222 Her singles were chosen by the record company Lulu had no say she was only 17 at the time, the soul songs she loved ended up on her albums, its one of the reasons she left Decca records as soon as she could

This is always quoted as one of Brian Epstein favorite songs, I guess thats why they recorded it.

@typesticker George was a fantastic uke player but he could only play in one key, he had loads of different uke's all tuned in different keys.

@Nojnotpu I always thought Pat Howson was quite generous, even though George left everything to her she offered George's family a settlement which they refused which forced the sale of all of Georges property which went all over the world and after several years of legal wrangling which used up...

@Nojnotpu No, this was a cover , Zip goes a Million was made in 1951, he made this & Banjo boy in 1960 a year before he died, he just walked into Pye studios and recorded both in under 30 mins. it was what he was used to , everything had to be done in one take before recording tape came along ...

I remember when this was released as well, it had already been recorded by Lulu on the same label, Decca, her version was released a few weeks before, she wasn't happy as Decca decided to promote this recording , so she gave up singing the song for quite a while and left Decca ASAP.

@normalil I have it as a single on the Columbia label with It's been a long long time on the B side

@VariedLyrics What I meant was I don't believe that 3 members of the same family have ever managed to get through on the phone, get picked for the show and win the buzzer question and actually play the game with Chris, the odds of that happening must be tremendous . without some help ?

@1488bill Its in Luton in Bedfordshire in the UK, the home of EasyJet

Another classic - Recording Engineer was Joe Meek

Engineered by Joe Meek when he worked for Pye records

It is a classic, Gerald was only 34 when he died, this was made the year before in 1958

@Sheri451 Until 1955 there was only 1 tv channel, BBC1, there was only 1 hour of children tv on Mon thru Fr & nothing at the Weekends, on Sundays tv was only broadcast from 6 to 10.30 pm.

Peter Cook was 22 and still at Cambridge when he was asked to write a few sketches for this revue, he send in over 20.

Challenge TV, its on Freeview & Sky, repeats lots of tv games shows from the 80's - I haven't seen Leslie Crowther though , perhaps his family don't want it repeated.

I'm afraid its her voice that gets me, nothing personal, but she sounds like a female Arthur Mullard.

@19822andy Suttcliffe was interviewed by police twice, but because of his accent and plausible reasons for being in the area he was released.

From what I have read about the ripper case there was very little evidence to go on, crime scenes were not preserved back then, two different police forces were involved with no means of working together and even today after many eminent people have studied the case in great depth no one has so...

Bert did a lot of session work as well for many people such as Craig Douglas, Helen Shapiro

I remember the 'pirate' stations playing this, Alan Freeman made it record of the week when it was first released, I don't think it was a hit though, pity ' it still sounds good

@ftsjr It look like the TV special he did in 1960 not long before he died, he was only 56 but looks older.

The song is the B side of Don't you think it's time - I have the original single.

His manager sold an article to the NME in which Crispian slated other singers & groups, this killed his chart career stone dead, although Crispian denied the article he never had another hit.

@gculloty87 No according to the record label it was written & produced by Charles Blackwell, Charles did work with Joe but fell out with him before Charles went to work for Robert Stigwood.

@1963Luisito - No, the song was written by an American - Wayne Shanklin in 1958, Manhatten Transfer are also all American.

@burnt62 Mike Pratt, Lionel Bart & Jimmy Bennett - Jimmy Bennett was the name Tommy used as a songwriter.

@opalescence84 John Mahoney was born in the UK, in Blackpool, he moved to the US as a teenager & did a couple of years in the US army to get his citizenship, that was back in 1959, he soon lost his British accent.

Voiced by Simon Greenall probably best known as Michael the geordie handyman from I'm Alan Partridge

@WJCairns - It was banned briefly due to the line in the second verse that mentions 'birth control' - it was called in &reissued after the lyric was amended , this is the original.