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'Mary, Mary, as Plain as Any Name Can Be'

Sean does his impression of James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

A call from a listener, Mary in County Tyrone, gets Sean thinking about a song...

'Mary, Mary...' he says. 'There is a song from one of my favourite films, Yankee Doodle Dandy, with Jimmy Cagney, and there's a song in that about Mary. I'm just trying to remember it...'

'The song starts,' Danny Boyd says, 'Mary, Mary, plain as any name can be.'

And Sean does James Cagney doing the lines: 'But with society, propriety, they say Marie.'

'I think Mary was the name of the songwriter's wife,' Danny says.

Sean agrees. 'Yes, George M Cohan.'

With music from Dave Edmunds, Steve Gibbons, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brenda Lee, and more.

56 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 May 2021 15:04

Music Played

  • Dave Edmunds

    I Knew The Bride

  • The Steve Gibbons Band

    Tulane

  • The Bellamy Brothers

    Let Your Love Flow

  • Billy Swan

    Skake, Rattle And Roll

  • Elvis Presley

    Burning Love

  • Billie Jo Spears

    Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song

  • Pat Boone

    Love Letters In The Sand

  • Brenda Lee

    Fool Number One

  • The Drifters

    At The Club

  • The Platters

    The Great Pretender

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Pick Me Up

  • Doris Day

    Deadwood Stage

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 May 2021 15:04