"I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts"- DANNY KAYE

Decca no.Y6211

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gramophone
• phonograph
• Danny
• Kaye

[Timedevour36]

This is actually not the original. The first person who recorded it was Merv Griffin and someone else, but Danny Kaye did record it the same year.

[gramophoneshane]

@Timedevour36 Do you know what date Freedie Martin & Griffith recorded it?

[mexicodude908]

the coolest song ever thanks for posting it where do you buy the records at I cant fnd any

[gramophoneshane]

Hi MD. I've found them all over the place. In antique & secondhand shops, op-shops like St Vinnies, garage sales (I think you guys call them yard sales), and even second hand book shops sometimes. There's always ebay or craigslist if you're desperate :) I've bough a few old peoples collections out of the local news paper for sale section too.

[wariotube]

OMFG!!!

the original one, isn't it :O!!

[gramophoneshane]

Yes. It was written in 1944, but Danny Kaye was the first to record it in 1950.

[CptFoxMcCloud]

ORIGINAL! Holy crap. Good job man, this should be played in Fallout 3. :D

[OndReview]

oh, i'm fi ve years old, sitting under my grandma's diningroom table, listening to this coming from her old crosley record player. thank you!

[amomanurse11]

I made my own version

[BonJohnvie]

does anyone notice that this tune has a similar chord progression to "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"?

[TheRareworld]

songs pretty catchy :D

[juicyjamie1999]

epic

[wenglishsal]

@ThePsychotropicFox ... Hello there, this song is about 'knocking coconuts off their stands' at a fair-ground stall, as in... 'roll a-bowl-a-ball a-penny a-pitch.. Or in other words, 'pitching, like you do in baseball, but at a static target..

Oh and the more mean the stall holder was, then the nuts were either glued or nailed onto the stands...

And you normally got about 6 balls for a penny.. In old money.. Before decimilzation..

Best regards from a Silver-haired Nan from Wales :0)X

[Timedevour36]

@gramophoneshane Unfortunately no, the most specific I can find is that they both recorded it in 1950, but what I read suggests that it was Merv Griffin who did it first.