Lita Roza - Oh Dear,What Can The Matter Be

[@misheckbanda6900]

Can you believe it that I was taught this song at Kindergarten in Africa 30 years ago? It just rang in my head today, looked for it on KZbin and here we are! Oh memories!

[@katebrooks6546]

My grandma sang this song over and over. I think she’s still singing it in heaven ✨

[@seapigoinkoink]

My papa drove her to sing in Cyprus, and I could not be more proud 🎉

[@strawberrysoup6571]

My grandma used to love this song. She used to sing it to me. I'm going to miss her so much. 🌺🌺🌺

[@bearandlou]

My Dad once told me hed had the pleasure of meeting Lita when he was doing his national service in the 50's. She made such an impact on him. He cherished the meeting and fondly remembered her all his life. Thank you for the posting.

[@ilahildasissac1943]

As a child in 70's, I had this song on a record.

[@MrCeora]

Used to sing this in elementary school class. Noboby but skilled jazzmen can liven up an otherwise plain vanilla but cute song. If it weren't for jazz musicians, america's song book may have been forgotten. So underated an unappreciated in america, but overseas... given their due.

[@headmasterhastings4884]

This arrangement is so good.

[@azillliasmith2734]

I think I must have learn the rude version...... however great rendition by this lovely lady❤️👍🏻

[@dharineebapat1680]

I showed my toddler this :)

[@rayjackson3096]

I must have heard this decades ago, because i often sang the beginning of it, but never in whole. It was nice to hear the song fully.

[@JulietManx]

What a pure class voice

[@gregkiteos1936]

I was today years old when I found this song. The first line and much of the second line are used in The Railway Series story *Bertie's Chase* and the Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends episode of the same name.

[@nightarcher55]

Same! Thomas was my entire childhood, sad to see how it has changed. I miss the age of models.

[@alexandrafeeney7197]

My mum used to sing a version of this to me and my siblings when we were wee and were crying. She’d bundle us up cuddling in and sing it until we stopped crying or fell asleep… it ended up that she could sing it and then we would end up crying for no reason… not wails but gentle sobs. Now I don’t know if I cry because crying to the song is so ingrained in me or of its because she is gone

[@EddieMillerStudios]

"Never you mind about Johnnie," laughed the Driver, "just you climb on the cab and look for Thomas."

[@Trainboy452]

"Can you see him?"

[@Trainboy452]

Never you mind about Johnny.

[@MrEmperorCJ]

Trainboy45 Productions 2019 laughed the driver

[@roybucket4169]

What episode was that from again?

[@bread-jy5rg]

@@roybucket4169 bertie´s chase

[@AbareKillerFan-yo7pe]

I was expecting to find a Thomas and Friends reference in the comments... I'm glad I found one

[@Trainboy452]

Glad to be of service.

[@good_vibes_sometimes]

this was my childhood song. i just remembered it recently and couldn't tell if it was a dream or real.

[@mtlakaso]

thankx for this..i was at the school choir competitions last night and this was one of the songs sang there

[@BuckshotLaFunke1]

Hey, that's Pi Scheffer who waves the baton! If I am correct he used to a high school teacher, but he became a gifted arranger for Dutch radio orchestras and for some time he led a group that played Charleston songs: the OK Wobblers.

[@labourRED1]

beautifull x

[@malcolmabram2957]

Sorry, will never be free from my school day's lyrics: "Oh dear what can the matter be? Jonnie's got locked in the lavatory. He's been there from Monday to Saturday. What shall we do.

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

Is there a bigger band off camera? I'm not a good judge of such things, but I imagine a full orchestra producing this sound.

[@PeterDrake]

Oh dear what can the matter be? Seven Young Ladies got stuck in the lavatory They were there from Sunday to Saturday Nobody knew they were there. The first one to go was Penelope Bender She bend down to pick up a broken suspender It snapped back and hit on her feminine gender And nobody knew they were there.

[@FHIPrincePeter]

That's the version I knew.

[@siy8230]

Oh dear what can the matter be, two old ladies stuck in the lavatory, they were there from Monday to Saturday and nobody ever found them.. (That's how I knew it as a kid)

[@Potatoman0852]

oh what can the matter be the fireman said johhny so long after

[@theq4602]

So this is the song Edward's fireman was singing.

[@kathiemcbainmann8969]

Oh Dear, indeed.

[@jazzcatt]

Sure would like to know what year, or at least decade, that this was recorded, and what TV show this performance was from.

[@fishpop]

Bertie is late, that's what the matter is.

[@gracebrowne2752]

John was so long with the fair setting preperations in the place i was born later than i was supose to they watched his ever move . Thats y when i wanted his cap on my first comunion adullts were telling me that it was out of fashion

[@MadAndyBeckman]

If ever there was a song totally hijacked by it's parody this, along with Smokie's "Living Next Door To Alice," is probably the best example.

[@nightarcher55]

I heard this from Thomas and Friends

[@darwinblinks]

Winterbeast brought me here.

[@JBD-cx9sf]

What year is this from?

[@TheGenreman]

Johnny's locked in the lavatory

[@sinaschuler8664]

We einging thst bye my school

[@Stephen10528]

Is it because he's having such a good time?

[@kathleenosborne6931]

Smh

[@joetheshyguy410]

I heard a version of this but it was about a lady stuck in a lavotry(sorry spelling bad) can't remember the singer but it was a woman, anyone know who or what i'm talking about

[@blehblah9309]

Victoria Wood

[@AresTarot-Lima]

Alguien vino por la canción del inglés junior bbc? 🤣😆🌹

[@MargaretBrowne-q4x]

He had to go to the fair and me to i got my hat of garlands and dress i had to cry for the hat they said was out of fashion but it was mine

[@jassy3881]

Different to the Bridgerton version 🤣😂

[@patrickstocks3576]

Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Dear, dear! What can the matter be? Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Johnny’s so long at the fair He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons 🎀 He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons 🎀 He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons 🎀 To tie up my Bonnie brown hair Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Dear, dear! What can the matter be? Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Johnny’s so long at the fair He promised to bring me a basket of posies A Garland of lilies, a gift of red roses 🌹 A little straw hat 👒 to set off the blue ribbons 🎀 That tie up my bonnie brown hair Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Oh, dear! What can the matter be? Johnny’s so long at the fair

[@davidhorn6008]

Easy, He met a girl at the fair whom both could and would. He wasn't so sure of You.

[@bonitagreenbaum2361]

Johnny left you.

[@the_Push42]

Possibly an anti war song from the 1800s

[@ohno2384]

Anyone here because of little nightmares?

[@flyguy8814]

Me!

[@trevorhydes4816]

Tapi 4ga b

[@williambutler5091]

Were you wellied when you typed that?

[@cquilty1]

You'd never guess she was a scouser with that dreadfully fake American singing accent.

[@jazzcatt]

As an old American lady, I had to look up the word Scouser to find out it meant someone from Liverpool, England. I learned the 'traditional' version as a kid in early elementary school.

[@laurawilde4784]

Yes she was a proud Liverpudlian with a great voice

[@cquilty1]

@@laurawilde4784 Clearly you're talking about our Cilla...