Guy Mitchell - She Wears Red Feathers

Hello all - I return. Long time no see. Here's Guy Mitchell and 'She Wears Red Feathers', a jaunty tune that will stay with you for days upon listening to it a few times. You got your money's worth in the 1950s. Guy Mitchell was really Albert Cernik, but would you let your children listen to songs by a man called Albert Cernik? Of course not. The story goes that a record exec came to the name by reasoning thus: "my name is 'Mitchell' and you seem a nice 'guy', so we'll call you Guy Mitchell". I am going to adopt a similar approach with my firstborn, substituting the record exec for a midwife. 

'She Wears...' tells the tale of a London banker who falls in love with a hula girl. Yes, that age old story.... After sailing 14 days from Mandalay (it is imperative you know that, how dare you say it is only a rhyming device), the banker spies from his ship a native girl wearing aforementioned feathers and a "huley-huley skirt". Yes - a "huley" skirt. In the playing out of some sort of grand cosmological scheme, it happens that this woman has been dreaming of an Englishman every night, as simple native girls are wont to do. And what of the subsistence of this girl I hear you cry? Fret not, such an important fact is not neglected, you will be interested to hear that she "lives on just cokey-nuts and fish from the sea". Yes - "cokey-nuts". Guy Mitchell laughs in the face of accepted pronunciation. As you'd expect, primitive (wo)man only has two source of nutrition. To cut a three minute pop song short, English banker is granted instantaneous permission to marry native girl by her parents, they wed to the sound of basoon-playing baboons, and before you know it, huley-girl is back in London drinking tea - a thoroughly amusing sight to all.