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"I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" is a novelty song composed in 1944 (as "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts") by Fred Heatherton, a songwriting pseudonym for a collaboration of English songwriters Harold Elton Box and Desmond Cox, with Lewis Ilda (itself a pseudonym of American songwriter Irwin Dash). [1]
Dash also wrote songs under the name Lewis Ilda. One of his best remembered songs is "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", written with English songwriters Elton Box and Desmond Cox of Box and Cox Publications, under the collective pseudonym of Fred Heatherton, [2] and copyrighted in 1944.
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Their greatest hit was "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts," written with Irwin Dash under the pseudonym "Fred Heatherton." [ 2 ] The principals were Elton Box (1903–1981) and Desmond Cox (1903–1966).
In 1949, his recording of "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", performed with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, sold three million copies. [ 13 ] During a nightclub performance, Griffin was discovered by Doris Day , who arranged a screen test at Warner Bros. for a role in By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).
"Doggie" was one in a series of successful novelty songs since the 1930s, following on the success of songs such as Bing Crosby's "Pistol Packin' Mama" and Merv Griffin's "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts". Prior to the release of "Doggie", composer Bob Merrill penned "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake". [4]
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The song (probably the Finnish version) can be heard at length in the background (playing on the radio) of a scene in the Swedish film, My Life as a Dog-- the music for at least one stanza seems to be identical to the music for the song "All I Want for Christmas is a Hippopotamus"David 05:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC) []