The Black & White Minstrel Show - The Frog and the Mouse

[@goodiesguy]

One of their best IMO, has a nice rock beat to it.

[@Aeonterbor]

There's somehting about this song it has a certain iconic nature about it, I also liked it because it was relatively simple to type up a subtitle track for it since they don't deviate from the original song too much. "Give a Man A Nail" by comparison was much more of a challenge given the complexity of the lyrics, I had to also listen to the 1961 performance to work out what they were saying in some parts since they whiz through the words so fast. (39 words alone within the first 15 seconds)

[@Midas-qn6rv]

@goodiesguy On behalf of everyone in this inconsequential little fan club, where the _hell_ did you get all of this, good sir?

[@Aeonterbor]

While I have a feeling I know where he got the files from I might share a story regarding Jester_Jukebox, they were one of the previous users who had access to this stuff but instead of digital captures his material was often filmed off screens or steenbecks playing back material, I have a suspicion that a lot of the currently available transfers were made around the time the Timeshift episode was in production and also for later clip appearances such as "The One Show" and "Saluting Dad's Army", Slowly they were spirited away to online collector circles by people who got access to them.

[@Midas-qn6rv]

@@Aeonterbor Makes sense. Speaking of the subtitles - I always wondered why they would often make seemingly random lyric changes that you don't hear in any other versions of the same songs - e.g. 'Brooklyn Bridge is falling down.' Was it some quirk of British copyright law at that time, perhaps - i.e. you own it if you change the lyrics, the equivalent of our "fair use?"

[@Aeonterbor]

@@Midas-qn6rv I think it was just George playing around with the songs, The song in this video doesn't use the ending verse of the original version which I think makes it better suit the performance here. My theory is he may have just been writing out the songs from memory when plotting out the medleys and tweaking them on the fly, sometimes entire songs are re-invented like "Old Macdonald" getting a verse about him having a farm in Mexico, he also added lyrics to "The skater's waltz" for a Christmas routine as the original song is just instrumental.