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The song was also covered by Elvis Presley on the album From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee in 1976. In 2019, Donegan's son, Peter auditioned for The Voice UK in which Tom Jones turned his chair for him. Jones, when finding out and taken aback by who he was, performed an impromptu duet of the song with Peter. [8]
Donegan was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 April 1931. [4] He was the son of an Irish mother (Mary Josephine Deighan) and a Scots father (Peter John Donegan), a professional violinist who had played with the Scottish National Orchestra. In 1933, when Donegan was aged 2, the family moved to East Ham in Essex. [5]
This song tells of the exploits of the protagonist at the Battle of Mons. [5] A version concerning a football game and beginning "My old man's a scaffie [dustman or street-sweeper, from scavenger] [6] /He wears a scaffie's hat" (echoing the first two lines of Donegan's song) is recorded as a Scottish playground song during the 1950s. [7]
"Puttin' On the Style" was a 1957 hit for skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan.It was recorded live at the London Palladium and released as a double A-side along with "Gamblin' Man" and reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in June and July 1957, where it spent two weeks in this position. [4]
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The Voice UK is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The eighth series began airing on 5 January 2019 and concluded on 6 April 2019, presented by Emma Willis on ITV . will.i.am , Jennifer Hudson , Sir Tom Jones and Olly Murs returned for their eighth, third, seventh and second series, respectively.
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