COLONEL BOGEY MARCH
Created on 27/07/2005Latest update on 23/02/2026
Artist: Lieutenant F.S. Ricketts
Author: Kenneth Alford
Year: 1916
Conducting the Second Batallion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. First published in 1914 (a good year for the marches) under alias Kenneth W. Alford.
Covers:
- 1920:
- 1920:
- 1939:
British troops [as Hitler Has Only Got One Bal; Roud #10.493! the rest of the lyrics went: Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all]
- 1955:
Tony Bell [n°1 VL as Charel, that's two years before the River Kwai recording]
- 1957:
Malcolm Arnold [as The River Kwai March in film The Bridge On The River Kwai with William Holden and Alec Guinness; Alford/Ricketts wasn't credited]
- 1957:
Mitch Miller [idem; top 20 US]
- 1958:
Annie Cordy [n°1 Fr as Hello! Le Soleil brille]
- 1962:
Dudley Moore [as Colonel Bogey]
- 1967:
Who [in John Mason's Cars, twice on The Who Sell Out]
- 1985:
Breakfast Club cast [whistled version]
- 2015:
Alberto [as Onno, Mag Ik Je Toyboy Zijn]
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).
