Harry Hudson was a popular dance band leader from the 20's through to the 50's. His big hit "Hunting Tigers Out In In-diah" was covered by the Bonzo Dog Band in the 60's. Not much can be gleaned about him on the net sadly.
Harry Hudson - March Of The Chocolate Soldiers
Harry Hudson - Mother Goose Parade
I never knew "Hunting Tigers Out In In-diah" by the Bonzo Dog Band was a cover of somebody else's song.
ReplyDelete(Well, I guess ya learn something new everyday.)
Indeed many of the Bonzos early songs were covers of old 78's that Viv Stanshall and the others found in junk shops. A nice CD was released a couple of years ago which highlighted some of the best HERE.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information re: "Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us"
ReplyDelete(I downloaded a copy of it.)
I had seen that title ("Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us")
in the past and thought it was just a compilation Bonzo recordings.
Now if I could just track down a (free) MP3 of their version of "Suspicion".
For some reason it wasn't on their 2 disc compilation "Cornology" (which I have).
A video of The Bonzos performing ""Hunting Tigers Out In In-diah"
(Introduced by Terry Jones)
http://youtu.be/ZNmL1L3dF6g"
Later,
KD
Glad to be of help. No idea where to find "Supicion". Good hunting (in India or elsewhere!) Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteI did another search and found "Suspicion".
ReplyDeletehttp://togrool.com/download-bonzo-dog-band-suspicion-826667.xhtml
The spoken word part of the song is pretty funny.
Almost as good as "Wrestle Poodles... And Win! " from "Mr Apollo"
Later,
KD