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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]
"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]
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.
Box and Cox Publications, known as Box & Cox, was a music publisher who had offices at number 7, Denmark Street. [1] Their greatest hit was "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts," written with Irwin Dash under the pseudonym "Fred Heatherton."
“â â As someone who has been called a coconut and told ‘they aren’t black enough’ since they could speak,” he posted online, “If we’re criminalising ‘hate’, I’m glad we’re ...
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).
Banana, coconut, and Twinkie are pejorative terms for Asian Americans who are perceived to have been assimilated and acculturated into mainstream American culture. In Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, coconut is similarly used against people of color to imply a betrayal of their Aboriginal or other non-white ethnic identity.
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