Richard Pennycuick asks Deryk Barker:
>1. Is this the same Allan Jones?
>2. Does he remember Donkey Serenade?
I'm not Deryk, but I'll answer just the same.
1. Yes. It was Jones's big hit.
2. Yes. It was my favorite record for a while when I was a toddler. It
wasn't even my parents' record. We used to go over to my grandparents'
house every weekend. My grandparents had this huge cabinet-model 78
turntable and a bunch of old discs: Schumann-Heink, Caruso, Gallagher
and Shean, George M. Cohan, "Uncle Josh Buys an Automobile," and "Donkey
Serenade" among them. I got to choose records and work the machine.
Oooooo.
Steve, who hears "a song in the air,/ but the fair/ senorita doesn't seem
to care/ for the song in the air"