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gest song hit of the second World War is the "Beer Barrel Polka."
Canadian soldiers sang it when they dis- embarked in England. Australian and New Zealand soldiers sang. it when they filed down the gangplank in the Middle East. English soldiers sang it as they sloshed through the mud of France. And shelter- dwellers in London sing it while the bombs whistle down about them.
So far it's sold nearly a million copies - and it's still a good seller.
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Running a close second on England's "hit parade" is the American best- seller, "South of the Bor- -der-which-incidentally,- was written by England's best known song-writing team, Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Oarr. That, too, has sold nearly half a mil- lion copies.
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2015-2 which sold 100,000 copies.
Others that have sold well include "It's a Hap, Hap, Happy Day" and "We'll Go Smiling Along.".
Topical songs also have proved popular. For the raid-harrassed civilians, their "Good night", whose words go:
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Goodnight, Goodnight. Goodnight, Goodnight."
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Tuck me wooden bed.
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We all love you, Ser- geant-Major
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Don't forget to wake me in the morning
And bring me round a nice hot cup of tea,
Kiss me goodnight, Ser- Kennt-Major.
Sergeant-Major, be fL mother to me!"
But the biggest topical song. hit of the war was "Hang out the Washing on.the Siegfried Line," written by Kennedy and Carr. So far it's sold 350,000 copies. Admittedly, the sales have fallen off dur- ing the last few months, but the publishers say they'll have a new market when England finally undertakes the often- sive on land. The words are:
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Have you any dirty wash- ing mother dear?*
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Carr, working alone, wrote the song that is in fourth place, "Somewhere in France”, whose popularity waned after- Dunkirk. That sold 100,000 copies.
War.
But none of the songs of this war approach the sales of England's hits of the last For instance, "It's a Long, Long. Way to Tip- perary" sold 5,000,000 copies, Roses of Picardy" 3,000,000 coples, and "Keep the Home, Fires Burning" over 1,000,000 copies.
Publishers attribute the drop in sales of hit songs, to the radio, on which a popular song to-day is literally played to death" in about 13 weeks, whereas during the last war the average life of a hit song was two years.
Songs symbolining the unl versal hope for bettor days ahend are finding a ready market. One publisher com- missioned Irving Berlin to write a song expressing this thought. Berlin produced
"It's a Lovely Day To-mor-
THE wireless was on. So These argument. Tire Man from Leicester said:
"The best song in the world is, II Could Fall in Loov Again I'd Fall in Loov wi' Yow Again.
"Don't talk wet, you silly git," said the Kid from Widnes. "Give me 'Trees,' "'-
"Matier "o" fact, yer both. wrong, see?" said the Lad from the Elephant and Castle. "What about 'She's Funny That Way'?"
Pale ands I looved beside U Shalimar," said, the Man from Yorkshire.
"Lillollady," said the Wal- sall man.
"Little Old Lady bo damn- ed," said Phillips.
Somebody climbed on a bucket and manipulated the dial of the Fet. It cried theree, and Cluck. There was a flash orchestral muate and a crack of applause as lite dial bit through a thousand miles of other.
Then came a miserably familiar volce, and the Walsall mon said: "Aw-Aw!"
It came through quite clearly. The tortured atmosphere grunted, panted, and sometimes held its breath altogether. But between crackles. Haw-Haw talked on- the poor traitor, spat upon and
scorned, drawing hit spite into space
Switch him off," said the Kid from Widnes, "aid let's get Syd Walker."
"Just a minute," snk the York- slilrentan, and we listened for an- other little while.
"I wonder what they pay 'im." said the man from Leicester.
"Whatever they pay 'Im, it won't be na good to 'in," said the Lad from the Elephant. "It's like a 'copper's' nurk."" 'E' gits a fow`hưb. So wot? E can't look 'Imseit In the face; everybody looks dalı on 'im. I betcher a million pounds the ferries think to themselves,
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There's bad Englishmen," said the End from the Elephant, "There's rats in every drain."
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"Switch the silly git off," kald the Kid from Widnes. "I want some music,"
The sat squealed and clucked again, and a second later zuvenicen -men were alnging "Begin the Be- gulne" in soventeert different keys.
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