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Yeah, another 81 here and it's a friend's all time favourite film who was born the same year.
I guess it was a little eclipsed by The Sound Of Music in terms of people's favourite musical of that era. Another musical I remember seeing a lot was My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn.
'Cover is not the Book' is in the style of classic Music Hall songs, which often were vaguely bawdy and humorous. It was considered a lower class form of entertainment, like vaudeville in the USA. People would drink and smoke in music halls and be generally rowdy. Part of the joke was that Royal Doulton is posh and Music Halls are definitely not, so a Royal Doulton Music Hall is the type of contradictory humour Mary Poppins enjoys. The entire song is vaguely suggestive, but in a way that would completely go over kids' heads.