Flip, Flop and Fly was originally by Big Joe Turner. Also recorded by Elvis,
the Rock and Roll Trio, and less memorably, by Bill Haley and the Comets.
Tad Richards "Well said, old mole."
The Old Mole Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet
of the MoleNet Act I, Scene 5
http://pages.prodigy.net/tadrichards
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From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: "Close your ears if I sing"
> I have been tempted, and I have succumbed.
>
> How about Sal Mineo's "first Love":
>
> They say your first love affair is the one love affair
> you'll remember (for) the rest of your days ...
> and once you've chosen to love that first sweet love
> you'll be different in so many ways ...
>
> And was it Nervous Norvus who sang that 'hit' on behalf of the road safety
> authority in USA:
>
> Oh nurse oh nurse, I've made a new resolution -
> I'm never never never gunna speed again!
> (aside) Slip the juice to me, Bruce.
> (alternative aside) Slip a gallon to me, Alan.
>
> (The juice and the gallon both refer to blood transfusions, if'n you
didn't
> catch it from my small quote.)
>
> In Oztralia, we had the Wild One, Johnnie O'Keefe, who sang a wonderfully
> trivial song called 'Flip, Flop and Fly'. Flop was the operative word
there.
>
> Still, the generation before had a hit called 'I left Up My Finger and
Sing
> "Tweet, Tweet" ' ...
>
>
> Andrew
>
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