Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor by Lonnie Donegan

Genre: Pop
Year: 1961

"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" is a novelty song by Lonnie Donegan. Released as a single in 1959, it peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. It was also Donegans greatest chart success in the United States, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. The song is a cover version of "Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?", a song first released in 1924 by The Happiness Boys (Ernie Hare snd Billy Jones), and later a hit for Lulu Belle and Scotty and The Two Gilberts. The song is humorous in content, the verses each describing a dramatic or urgent scenario leading up to the asking of the titular question. The title and lyrics of the Donegan version Read full article at wikipedia.org

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