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"The Hole in the Ground" is a comic song written by Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks. When recorded by Bernard Cribbins and released by EMI on the Parlophone label in 1962, it was a number nine hit in the UK Singles Chart. It remains the highest charting and most successful of Cribbins' hit singles, staying on the chart for 13 weeks.
The song has been recorded by other performers. [4] The song is sometimes known by one of its verses, "Tempie let your hair roll down" [citation needed], and is the basis for the campfire song "I Wish I Was a Little Bar of Soap" [citation needed]. Natalie Wood sings two verses of the song in the 1947 film, Driftwood.
Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter, known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs.His songs "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" were both British Top 10 chart hits in 1962, [1] both recorded by Bernard Cribbins to music by Ted Dicks and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. [2]
A Scottish version of the song is heard in the 1973 film The Wicker Man; Schooner Fare performs this on their 1983 album Alive; It is sung by a children's choir in the 2019 film The Hole in the Ground, and the song's lyrics tie into a mysterious hole that causes the events of the film. [3] The Irish Descendants, recorded and performed a version.
Taylor Swift is cooking up new surprise song combos on the international leg of The Eras Tour. Swift, 34, played the first of several live shows at the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday, February 7, and ...
The song's morbid theme of infanticide, juxtaposed with its childish nature, has made it popular as a cultural reference. It is mentioned in Sebastian Barry 's novel Annie Dunne , Hannah Kent 's novel The Good People , Bernard MacLaverty 's Grace Notes and Daniel Shortell's novel th!s , and forms a substantial inspiration for the film The Hole ...
Murv Shiner recorded the song for Decca. Dave Denny recorded "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" for RCA. T. Texas Tyler covered the song for 4 Star Records in 1949. The song reached number 4 on the country chart. [10] Fat Man Robinson recorded an R&B version for Decca that contained the lines to a Ford that Williams had dropped from his version.
The song opens with the line: I've been working on a cocktail, called grounds for divorce. Uncut magazine said it was "surely one of the best opening lines of any pop song in years" [1] and NME compared it to something James Bond might say "this is kind of glorious one-liner he’d mutter before taking the bad guys down and then smooching a lofty Eastern European countess."