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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Author: Lewis Allan
Label: Decca
Year: 1953
Written by the author of Strange Fruit(!), who's real name was Abel Meeropol (1903-1986). Lewis and Allen were the names of his stillborn children. As a Communist and avid supporter of the Rosenbergs, Abel and his wife Anne adopted Julius & Edith Rosenberg's two sons after their parents' execution.
Covers:
Sacha Distel [as Scoubidou (Des Pommes, des poires); hit Fr, top 20 for 11 straight months; originally spelled Skoubidou]
Freddy Sunder [as Skoebidoe]
Distel had to be sued before royalties over this French hit-cover started rolling in. Distel just added a bebop scatting phrase, pronouncing it like the follow-up of the hula hoop craze.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)