Arthur Askey

Arthur Askey

Arthur Askey

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Top Songs

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I Pulled Myself Together
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How Ashamed I Was
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Ding Dong Bell
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The Washing on the Siegfried Line
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The Bee Song

Albums

  • 1939 - Wartime Songs

    Nov 2024 • 9 songs

  • Hello Playmates

    Sep 2009 • 14 songs

  • Band Waggon / Arthur Askey Goes To War

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Arthur Askey

Biography

A veteran of the classic British vaudeville scene would no doubt build up pretty thick skin, thus explaining comedian and songwriter Arthur Askey's courage in taking on as potentially menacing an adversary as the world's population of bees; accusing the sting-capable creatures of such faults as "building up the honey-comb that looks like tripe" or "stinging all the cows upon the parson's nose." The final insult in his frequently covered "Bee Song" is this couplet: "Bees are allright when alive you see/but when bees die you really should see 'em/pinned on a card in a dirty muse...
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