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"The Thing-ummy-Bob [That's Going To Win The War]" is a 1942 song, written by Barbara Gordon and Basil Thomas with music by David Heneker, which celebrates the female production-line workers of World War II making components for complex weapons to win the war. [1] Its chorus is . I'm the girl that makes the thing That drills the hole that holds ...
His first published song was performed by Merle Oberon in the film The Broken Melody. Among his compositions was the Gracie Fields wartime hit "The Thing-Ummy Bob". After resigning his commission in 1948, he became a lounge singer at the Embassy Club, while continuing his songwriting.
Dame Gracie Fields (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was a British actress, singer and comedian.A star of cinema and music hall, [2] [3] she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. [4]
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Dear Mom (Glenn Miller song) Der Fuehrer's Face (song) Do Your Ears Hang Low? Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans; Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) Dziś do ciebie przyjść nie mogę
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Don Arnold/TAS24/Getty Images Taylor Swift has fans (and Us Weekly staffers) busy with the release of 31 songs across two versions of her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Swift ...
"The Thing" is a novelty song by Charles Randolph Grean released in 1950. The song received heavy airplay, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard charts. The melody is derived from the English bawdy folk song "The Chandler's Wife", which itself derived its melody from the earlier English folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher".