78 RPM - Lonnie Donegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?) / Aunt Rhody (The Old Grey Goose) - Pye Nixa - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lonnie Donegan
Label:	Pye Nixa
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	N.15181
Date:	Feb 1959
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	16 Own, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lonnie Donegan	Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?)	Rose, Bloom, Breuer	10.0 Rate
B	Lonnie Donegan	Aunt Rhody (The Old Grey Goose)	Lonnie Donegan	Rate

Notes

LONNIE DONEGAN and his Skiffle Group

A side 'Recorded at The New Theatre, Oxford, 13th December 1958'

B side 'Recorded at Regal ABC Theatre, Hull'

Also issued on 45 RPM as 7N.15181

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dunk78 23rd Apr 2023



TheJudge 7th Aug 2019		The vinyl 78s were mostly (if not entirely) on Pye group (or Pye-distributed) labels (Pye, Nixa, Mercury).



old record nut 7th Aug 2019		There are two things I would like to add to the discussion, First 78s were out of favor in the U.S. by 1957 and production by around '58. The 45 was king from '56 on. Also, in the last years of the 78 most were made of an unbreakable plastic and improved fidelity but the heavy-handed (or should I say heavy- armed) players were no match for the new high fidelity players.



W.B.lbl 26th Jul 2015		"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour . . . " was recorded as such because at the time, "Spearmint" - as was incorporated in its original title (written in the 1920's by Billy Rose, Marty Bloom and Ernest Breuer), "Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor . . . " - was a trademarked name, and thus would have run it afoul of the BBC's ban on advertising in popular records. And back in 1958-59, the BBC was the only game in town on the radio - and Donegan evidently and obviously was aware of this. There was no corresponding 78 RPM issue of the U.S. Dot release #15911, as the industry there had largely abandoned this veritable but brittle (literally, given how shellac records tended to crack easily) format over the prior year.



Alan Warby 17th Jul 2013		Reached Number 3 in the NME charts, 6 Feb 1959. It was also awarded a Gold Disc.