AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
![]() She saw that he ate spinach, now he's big as he can be When her sailor went to sea to see what he could see (Oh, bell bottom trousers, coat of navy blue She just smiles and shakes her head, then she softly sighs Though they smile and tip their caps and they wink their eyes Soldier boys all flirt with her but to him she's true When her sailor boy's away on the ocean blue She loves her sailor and he loves her too) (With his bell bottom trousers, coat of navy blue Just a great big sailor but she thinks he's very cute Now he's on a battleship in his sailor suit Once there was a little girl who lived next to meĪnd she loved a sailor boy, he was only three And additional recordings by Guy Lombardo, Louis Prima, Jerry Colonna and others made Bell Bottom Trousers Tune-Dex Digest's number two selling song for 1944-45 (second to Don't Fence Me In)." info from the Moe Jaffe website: /~jaffed/moejaffe/index.html "Fortunately, Moe's cleaned-up version was tame enough for Ruth McCullough to sing when Tony Pastor's orchestra recorded the song. ![]() For a hundred years or more, sailors sang a much bawdier version of the tune, much too "blue" for the times." "In 1944, Moe took credit for words and music, without collaboration, on Bell Bottom Trousers - although he would freely admit that it wasn't an entirely original concept. Words & Music by Moe Jaffe / Cover Art by Barbelle
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |