Canada Dry Show Theme

[LLeff]

"All Good Pals Together"
from "The Show Goes On" (Thanks Brad from Georgia on that one)
Recorded by Gracie Fields

Don't know why I've been spending so much time on this, but...a little more checking shows up a song called "We're All Good Pals Together" by Gracie Fields. But I don't have the sheet music, and my Gracie Fields 78s seem to be mostly limited to Now is the Hour/Come Back to Sorrento on London (except for a 4-record set of war songs including a rather ghastly-titled ditty of "He's Dead But He Won't Lay Down").

This seems to be like the perpetually-forgotten line in the theme from The Flintstones. Just try singing the theme song and you'll find it. I'll start it for you:

Flinstones, meet the Flintstones
They're the modern stone age family
From the town of Bedrock
They're a piece right out of history
Let's ride with the family down the street...

[Maxwell]

Hehe, Buck Benny rides again!

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie.

http://www.lauraleff.com/laramie.htm

"OPIN"??????

[shimp scrampi]

Let's ride with the family down the street...

"Cow upon a tree"

Just kidding, it's 'through the courtesy of Fred's two feet' of course.

And thanks for the Laramie pics! Looks like my kind of town. Is
"Loaf-N-Jug" two nouns, two verbs, or one of each? And whichever way, was Phil Harris there?

[Brad from Georgia]

Hmmm...I'm beginning to think that in an earlier life Elton John wrote those "All good pals" lyrics. HIM I can't understand EITHER!

[bboswell]

Fanfare Please!!!

Since I am one of those people who will not let things out of my mind until they're solved... I have the answer to the lyrics question!

This came from an old Austrailian booklet called "With the Diggers 1914-1918" It's full of cartoons and lyrics to songs that soldiers sang in WWI. Now that we have all the lyrics, soldiers can start singing it again, (between choruses of the latest eminem tune of course!)

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Here we are again, Happy as can be,
All good pals and jolly good company.

STROLLING ROUND THE TOWN, OUT UPON THE SPREE,
All good pals and jolly good company.

Never mind the weather, never mind the rain,
Now we're all together, whoop she goes again.

Lah-di-di-di-da, Lah-di-da-di-di.
All good pals and jolly good company.
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Maxwell nailed almost all of it, even down to the proper "dees" and "dahs!"



If anyone is interested in the source booklet, it is downloadable as a PDF file, but beware, it is over 200 pages and 25Megs!

http://www.immortalia.com/html/books-an ... 4-1918.zip

[Maxwell]

I'm surprised I got that much of it! It really was hard to pick up and it took repeated listenings to try to figure it out.