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Artist:Charles Coborn
Label:  Columbia
Country:UK
Catalogue:5665
Date:Jan 1930
Format:10"
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Community: 3 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
ACharles CobornThe Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte CarloGilbertRate
BCharles CobornTwo Lovely Black EyesCoborn, ScanlanRate


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scrough
1st Sep 2018
 Quote:"Coburn had recorded this song as early as 1913 on Winner 2289".
He had recorded both titles on Pathé cylinders by June 1903 when they appear in a listing. 'Monte Carlo' was recorded on single sided Columbia c.June 1904, and both titles appear on an Odeon double sided c.1905.
 

 
xiphophilos
31st Aug 2018
 A side:


A version from 1934 in a Pathé soundie:


Coburn had recorded this song as early as 1913 on Winner 2289:


Lyrics and more info.
 

 
xiphophilos
31st Aug 2018
 B side:


Strolling so happy down Bethnal Green
This gay youth you might have seen,
Tompkins and I, with his girl between,
Oh! what a surprise!

I praised the Conservatives frank and free,
Tompkins got angry so speedily,
All in a moment he handed to me
Two lovely black eyes!

Next time, I argued I thought it best,
To give the Conservative side a rest.
The merits of Liberals I freely pressed,
When Oh! what a surprise!
The chap I had met was a Tory true,
Nothing the Liberals right could do,
This was my share of that argument too,
Two lovely black eyes!

The moral you've caught I can hardly doubt
Never on politics rave and shout, Leave it to others to fight it out,
If you would be wise.
Better, far better, it is to let,
Lib'rals and Tories alone, you bet,
Unless you're willing and anxious to get
Two lovely black eyes!

CHORUS: Two lovely black eyes!
Oh! what a surprise!
Only for telling a man he was wrong,
Two lovely black eyes!
 

 
scrough
31st Aug 2018
 Coborn recorded these in his late 70s, and had been using them as part of his act for around forty years. He wrote the lyrics for "Two Lovely Black Eyes," which was based on Scanlan's "My Nellie's Blue Eyes."
 

 
edlongus SUBS
31st Aug 2018
 Hey, those songs sound interesting from the titles alone!! ☺
 

 
vinylpassion
31st Aug 2018
 Two famous titles
 


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