I don't know what made me think about this, but I wonder how many people remember Eve Boswell, and her big 50's hit 'Pickin' a Chicken'?
I was at school with her son, Michael McIntosh, and I remember her turning-up for Sports Days, etc, in her stunning, then very space-age, Citroen DS Break.
She was a big star for a while, but with the 50's/60's arrived rock-n-roll, and a very different style of music. Poor Eve suddenly sounded very old fashioned.
Do you remember her?
How did I miss Pickin a Chicken? Haven't of the chicken or Eve Boswell. Interesting lyrics.
ReplyDelete'pulling a wishbone with someone you love.
Picken a chicken with me'
Now if it was Kentucky blue grass or downhome country music I could understand
I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of her; you'd have to be very old, like me.
DeleteI'm sure the song was still around on the radio in the 60's as I knew it as soon as it started.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum was like me - the radio was on all the time she was working in the kitchen. I can remember "Music while you work" every morning
My family were quite late to own a TV, so radio was a big part of my life too.
DeleteHer name sounds vaguely familiar but I don't recall hearing what might have been called a novelty tune, or was it considered a love song? Maybe it didn't make it across the Pond to where I was in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI think it was very much a UK hit, but maybe in South Africa too, which is where she'd come from.
DeleteI remember the name and the song very well but that's about it. I can't recall any of her other songs.
ReplyDeleteI think she had one hit before 'Chicken', but she was certainly best known for this one.
DeleteDon't remember this one, I think I'm too young!
ReplyDeleteOf course you are; not even a Spring Chicken!
DeleteThis brought back memories of the first time I heard it, or, rather, of hearing my mother sing it. She was busy picking the meat off a Christmas turkey in order to make a curry and suddenly burst into this song. That would have been about the mid-sixties. I haven't heard it since, so you brought back happy memories!
ReplyDeleteIt was one of those songs with such a catchy tune, that I'm not surprised your mother used to sing it. I'm sure mine did too.
DeleteIt is vaguely familiar. Perhaps I heard it from my pram!
ReplyDeleteWhilst being pushed past the record dep't at Woolies!
DeleteI'm 71 and I remember it well. Another I remember is "she wears red feathers and a hula hula skirt" think it was sung by Guy Mitchell.
ReplyDeleteI remember that one too.
DeleteThis is such a coincidence, I have just finished posting on 'Vic Damone' we must stop reminiscing like this, lol
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It's good to reminisce; we haven't got much else to do at the moment.
DeleteI have heard that song before Monsieur Cro. Thanks for sharing it. According to Yorkypedia, Eve Boswell (Eva Keleti) was born in Hungary in 1922. She died in Durban, South Africa in 1998.
ReplyDeleteI've tried to find out what happened to her son Michael, but no mention of him anywhere. I'd heard that he became a theatrical agent.
DeleteThink I am too old to have hear it.
ReplyDeleteToo young; you mean?
DeleteFun music but of a certain time.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't be a hit today!
DeleteCan still sing it from memory. And Sugar Bush. She used to be on The Light Programme a lot when I was very little. Alma Cogan was another.
ReplyDeleteShe used to appear as a 'guest singer' on variety shows. I do remember hearing her.
DeleteAnd Hey Round The Corner - whoo hoo.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember that one.
DeleteNo I have not heard of her. Obviously not populair in Les Pays Bas then. Terrible music I find.
ReplyDeleteI asked my British DH and let him listen. He said he had never heard of it. So probably his mother Gladys didn'tike her either and didn't not sing with her.
It doesn't surprise me that her songs didn't reach Holland. I don't think they reached as far as Scotland or Wales either.
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