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January 14

Help identify a song from half remembered lyric

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I am trying to identify a song.; it's probably from the 1940s/1950s (judging by the age of the lady who used to sing it when she was doing the housework). The only thing that I can remember is one line "like a pack of hungry wolves on parade". It's probably a long shom but maybe somebody in wikipedialand will recognise this line. Thanks! --TrogWoolley (talk) 16:42, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently one Colin Everett used to sing a song that included the line

On through the hail, like a pack of hungry wolves on the trail, we are after you...

You'll find the full lyric here (p. 36), together with the claim (p. 1) that Everett wrote the lyrics. It looks like he came along too late to be singing in the 40s or 50s, but I'm not sure he is the author at all. It looks like the same song, or part of it, was sung on a Goon Show in 1956 to the tune of the Song of the Mounties from Rose Marie. Does any of this sound familiar? --Antiquary (talk) 19:10, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: the song I've been talking about actually is The Song of the Mounties from Rose Marie. If only the speakers on my computer worked my YouTube link would have told me that. --Antiquary (talk) 19:29, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much everybody. It is indeed The Song Of The Mounties, as sung by Nelson Eddy. The lady concerned used to sing The Indian Love Call too - Rose Marie might well have been her favourite film. --TrogWoolley (talk) 12:41, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]