That was when British TV was the best in the world!

Good old Lonnie Donegan I love him. and his humour Xx

Absolutely Brilliant singer A legend Lonnie Donegan

I remember this song as a kid.

Remember this so well. First heard as a National Serviceman in the Airman’s mess of RAF Feltwell. Will never forget it. Circa 1959/60

This is pure entertainment gold. It’s not appreciated so much these days but it is so important to preserve little treasures like this. I’m only 40 but I wish I lived through this up and coming golden age.

Saw them live in Gt Yarmouth in 1961' never heard live drums before. It set me off playing them.......still doing it now, aged 72!!

Love these old songs

I loved this song as a kid it made me laugh I still love it even though I'm now 70 it still makes me laugh even though there's a lot of versions of it love the original though but Lonnie done gal was absolutely brilliant at doing the different versions

I loved this song as a kid and i still do, it was me Granda's favourite. Lonnie was one of our very best :)

This guy is brilliant He deserves more recognition than he ever got. His influence on music in the 60,s was world wide

Its one of the old one's, always the best

A brilliant talent, and very, very funny in the best British music-hall tradition! Thank you, Paul Griggs!

What a legend !!!!! Loved his music as a boy

Young people now maybe don't know what a huge influence Lonnie was on popular music. Maybe his greatest influence is inspiring a huge number of kids to take up guitars and believe they could achieve something as many did.

I was in the cubs in 1956 and he played in Ladywell park . Lewisham at the cubs jamboree . that was when the bass was a tea chest and broom stick .. happy days ,,old man 71

My hubby shared the stage with Lonnie in 1987 at a charity do x

It's a ten from me and Len please bring these days back as we miss them

ah, brings back so many memories.

As a kid, Lonnie Donegan was my all time favourite musician, I had a collection of 78 and 45’s, many with him playing with Chris Barber. A very talented musician with a fantastic vocal range. When he came on the TV, with an old tennis racket in hand I would sing along merrily and continue long after the programme had finished. My parents were not amused. It is however my view that his comic records were his undoing. His talents were wasted, no matter how good they were they failed to demonstrate his truly remarkable ability. Skiffle was a one minute wonder and he was left behind by the very people who admired him the most….the up and coming pop groups. I watched him live in his latter years and was still mesmerised and very much a huge fan but he continued to play those chewing gum songs that didn’t stretch him musically which was so sad. I bought every CD when his sons performed in Rhyl just a few years ago, They performed well and I had the pleasure of meeting his wife at the end of the show. I’m now obviously in my twilight years but remain to this day a huge admirer of the late great Lonnie Donegan and play his music frequently. Why, why didn’t he keep up with the times, a wealth of talent, wasted.

I remember this in the late 60s my dads 45 and if you spun the record in the opposite direction at one part the song actually sings "well get em off then". At the time we thought it funny. I am now 60 years old and this is still one of my favourites from that ERA. Thanks Paul Griggs 👍 🙏 😊

Everyone know the song, but lonnie donegan was an absolute genius. i seen him at guildford in uk before when i was little, before he died, all his songs stay deep in my heart

Top entertainer that's what Lonnie Donegan is!

Very very nostalgia ❤

I recall the song being featured on Juke Box Jury and everybody at school was talking about it.My dad gave me a £1 note to go out and buy the very first two 45 records bought , after converting our radiogram to play vinyl rather than just 78s , this and Handy Man by Jimmy Jones, the latter my favourite record of the time - 1960 - the very start of my ' record buying career '!.

This man was a legend I loved his music and I was lucky to see him live,Lonnie as long as music is played you maybe gone RIP but never forgotten.

Reminds me of my childhood, came out the year before i was born, my dad would sing it, usually during Sunday lunch. It was the only day he went to the pub for a couple of pints which might explain the singing! Good memories of simpler times!

I'd long heard that Lonnie Donnegan brought Skiffle to Britain, thereby sparking the pop music scene, but I had not known how clever and catchy his humorous songs are. A bit of Robin Williams in him!

Great duet your son did with Tom Jones on The Voice 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This guy could really mix 'em up, lol...Irish folk music, with an American folk legend, the guitar-band combo of the day - he was very talented!

It's one of my favourite videos - it just makes me smile every time I watch it!

Exactly 6 months and one day before I was born. I always had a feeling I'd missed out on something and now I know. Thanks for posting this great gem

..our fave Brodcasting Service in the 50th are: BFN/BFBS-AFN & CFN (Werl)..later they moved to Lahr in the "Black-Forest"...

Simply loooooved it. Took me back a few years when first I heard this song. Awesome memories

This isn't the version i grew up with, but i love it!! My mum used to play this one for me on her record player. Happy times....

Well before my time but I love a bit of donny

When I was a kid me n my sister Loved this we used to play the single over and over

Lost opportunity: They could have made a biopic about Lonnie Donegan, or put him in a movie that had something to do with Britain in the early '60s, and they could have cast Robin Williams as Lonnie. He would have been just about perfect, imho. Oh well! They should still have Lonnie in a movie, somehow.

Class musicians class entertainment makes me smile everytime

I love this version it’s great

Lonnie Donegan would be a great star even to day if not passing away age 71.

I love this song 🇬🇧❤️

I've still got the original and what a mouth by Tommy Steel my favourites as a kid

This was done the day before I was born! 😊

whoever uploaded this, thank you so much.

The Smothers Brothers covered this song about 8 years later on their TV show

I've had the original for over 50yrs

I only just found out that Leslie Bricusse wrote this. What a great writer. such a range of music. Will be sadly missed.

A fabulous classic!

I had a record with this song on it - always singing it 👍❤️🍀🍁🦋👵

Came to check out Lonnie. Just listened to Roger Daltrey on Mar Maron's podcast, and he cited Lonnie as the one who changed everything for them over there, even more so than seeing Elvis.

Why does'nt someone write a cheery song like this nowadays?

This song reached number 1 in Toronto in 1960. It never charted in the US according to my Billboard directory. Maybe it was not released in the US or maybe skiffle was an unknown music genre there.

Heard this song today on The Beatles Channel, Sirius Radio. The Beatles were influenced by him. Would love to see a movie too!

At the Crich Village musuem, they are building a 1950s village to go along with the one from 1913. I can only assume that it will be about the time when music like this was enjoyed and young men all over the country were picking up guitars. Better that then the early 50s with the rationing and bomb damage.

b4 my time,,, i born 1968,,hear from my da, saying when i was a kid 70s,!!

Lonnie, what a genius!!

Fantastic Lonnie Donegan best Skiffle ever please listen to his Chewing Gum Song RIP Lonnie

love Lonnie

Biggest selling British solo artist ever (this was at a time before pop charts based on numbers printed at factories

my Da , like Don,, from back 50s/ 60s, b4 i was born,! , i born 68,from northern Ireland UK,,

Great song!

Lonnie Donigan wrote a song for Tom Jones " Fall in love " Fantastic song.. Great writer, Great performer ...🎶

This is called Skittle ! When the Beatles started out it was extremely liked in England ! HeeHaw in the 60’s and 70’s used the songs as Country Music !

I was just 11 and I misheard Dustman , I heard " Dutchman "

Watch it with subtitles on, its a killer.

I love how every version I hear of this has different bad jokes. The one at 2:44 is an oldie but a goodie.

fantastic

A genius!

Intially heard on juke box jury and voted a miss as music hall/ skiffle was considered dead, it went to no.1 giving him his 3rd no.1

My Grandmother used to cycle from Manor Park over to Romford just to sit outside Lonnie Donnegan's house

I'm 65 and very lucky to grow up in the sixties are we related, my family come from sudbury Suffolk 🤔😂

I wish there was a tribute band .

This and 'Good ol' Collingwood forever' have a 'Gor Blimey'.

Marvellous!

Loveeeee that

Pure genius

I love star to remind me od the past

Sheer Talent !

If you put the captions on all these old pub singalong songs it’s hilarious. The automatic captioning just can’t deal with the accents 🤣😂🤣

I used to have all Lonnie Dongan records

Absolutely classic 😂😂😂

I have this song on my computer, only with different lyrics.

Loved this song as a kid. Mum had a 45. I played it to death.

Its a shame to say music 60 even years before now shows musicians having so much fun and talent and yet today we can marvel at it almost wish we were there but our electric composers musicians of today dont know what real talent is or fun or comedy

I can relate to this song ... I was a dustman for a while

Genius

I was waiting for the verse about there being not mushroom in the bin, sadly it never happened.

Top

I 💘 Chas n Dave 1of my faverates is my old man's a dustman🤗😋

This was one of my favourite songs from my dad's record collection! We played it to death!

my, Da ,liked , back then,!! ,, I born 1968,!

Different lyrics...But so much better !

There I was watching a show about space and this came into my head. Follow the logic on that Mr Spock.

Bill Wyman of the Stones was influenced by him in his youth. He was stunned later to find out he grew up down the street from him and didn't know it.

Love yer xxx

His son was on the voice UK he wrote a song for Sir Tom Jones his son sang it with Tom on the show

It looks like every performance of this song and "Chewing Gum" had a different selection of verses. Never heard the platypus before.

pontus jansson's magic

i remember different lines as a kid though