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| (Kenneth Alford) |
| (o): | Lieutenant F.S. Ricketts (1916) | label: |
| | Conducting the Second Batallion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. First published in 1914 (a good year for the marches) under alias Kenneth W. Alford. |
| (c): | Columbia Band (1920) , Henry Miro (1920) , Tony Bell (1955) [n°1 VL as Charel, that's two years before the River Kwai recording], Malcolm Arnold (1957) [as The River Kwai March in film Bridge Over The River Kwai with William Holden and Alec Guinness; Alford/Ricketts wasn't credited], Mitch Miller (1957) [idem], Annie Cordy (1958) [n°1 Fr as Hello! Le Soleil brille], Who (1967) [in John Mason's Cars, twice on The Who Sell Out], |
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| Always been a soldier's favorite and the cruder the lyrics, the better. In wartime and peacetime alike, see the Flemish hit version of '55: Charel, ik heb uw gat gezien (Charly, I've seen your naked ass). |
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