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Believe it or not, my dad's old enough to have actually been 'in' on the skiffle scene when he was a teenager - he used to book bands for his dad (my granddad)'s ballroom.
He can thus often be heard canterwauling such tunes as 'my old man's a dust-man' and 'does your chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight?*'.
Though he does maintain that as soon as the Beatles broke, all the skiffle bands dropped their previous songs and changed overnight into Beatles cover bands .. a move which was applauded by everyone, as the Beatles were much better than skiffle.
Lonnie Donegan's actually still going, and he played live on Radio 1 last year, believe it or not. He sounded pretty crazy in fact - like Mark E Smith doing Bob Dylan impressions..
*As recently lampooned by Half Man Half Biscuit on their terrific 'New York Skiffle' - "does your heroin lose it's glamour on the washboard overnight?" |
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