On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Dennis Boone wrote: > The Limeliters covered it in the US in 1961, so apparently not. :)
Yes, but that was about five years after the Flanders and Swans LP and who knows how long after they first performed it live. I have never heard the Limelighters version, up here in the Northern outpost of the British Empire we got to listen to Flanders and Swann. The American sensitivity may have been dulled by 1961 but I suspect that now it is now as sharp as it ever was when Victoria sat on the throne so a cover of this song today would meet a storm of outrage. I heard the shocking tale this morning of an enderly British scientist who will be going to his grave in disgrace after saying that the problem with women in the lab is that "you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and they cry when you criticize them". -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** [email protected] ** : - Lynn Johnston
