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The following year, it was a number-25 hit for Danny Kaye. It was a staple song of the Billy Cotton Band Show on British radio and television. The song is still played over the public address at Cambridge United football matches after home wins. [4] The song appeared in I Could Go On Singing (1963), Judy Garland's last film.
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." [2] The principals were Elton Box (1903–1981) and Desmond Cox (1903–1966).
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.
So here it is St. Patrick’s Day, with the shamrock martini stains on our chin still wet, and that lovely bunch of Coconuts are already planning for Dec. 31. Oh, yes they are.
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In 1950, a Decca single, "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", was released, and became another chart hit for him. [55] His second Columbia LP album Danny Kaye Entertains (1953, Columbia) included five songs recorded in 1941 from his Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, most notably "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)". [57]
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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).