What song?
What is the name of the song (late 30s to 40s) that Louie keeps listening to on his phonograph that at first irritates Murphy while they worked to restore the bi-plane?
share"My Hat's on the Side of my Head" by Al Bowlly
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I'd like to know the answer to this too,
I have tried Googling the lyrics, but no luck
The song's refrain is something like "You got me walking on the tips of my toes
and wearing my hat on the side of my head"
The catchy song was recorded by Al Bowlly and can be heard sung by him on YouTube but the version heard in "Murphy's War" definitely isn't that one: I originally thought that Fred Astaire was the performer of the song played on the sound-track but Astaire never recorded it as far as I know.There's no mention that I could see of the music in the end-credits so it's a little mystery.
shareThe recording was a Decca one (not HMV as suggested in the scene of the gramophone) and made by the Roy Fox band. The vocalist was, I believe, not Al Bowlly but Sid Buckman, another fine artiste who appeared regularly with the band and others. The original number 'My hat's on the side of my head' came from a film of the late thirties called 'Jack Ahoy' in which Jack Hulbert, an able seaman on board a British warship sings it after he takes a fancy to the captain's daughter.
shareMurphy must have been pretty irritated by the end of the movie. I think it's hilarious that after all that went on, the movie ends with the jaunty "(I'm) Walking on the Tips of my Toes and my Hat's on the side of my Head." Hilarious.
I'm not a woman, much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
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