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Paris 1940- Nazi Occupation: Lambeth Walk Nazi Parody Film (Original Post) appalachiablue May 2021 OP
The song came from the 1937 musical play Me And My Girl. Staph May 2021 #1
Very nice, it's a fun song & dance. I've seen appalachiablue May 2021 #2

Staph

(6,258 posts)
1. The song came from the 1937 musical play Me And My Girl.
Tue May 11, 2021, 02:30 AM
May 2021

It was revived in 1952 and 1985 in London (where I got to see it!), and in 1986 on Broadway.

Here's a recording of The Lambeth Walk from the Broadway production. Robert Lindsey is awesome!




appalachiablue

(41,284 posts)
2. Very nice, it's a fun song & dance. I've seen
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:12 AM
May 2021

other film clips of people dancing to the song in the 1930s and 1940s.

Years ago in London I went to the Lambeth area to visit the old garden museum at the Church of St. Mary at Lambeth.

The building is largely the Victorian reconstruction of the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth. In 1976, John and Rosemary Nicholson traced the tomb of the two 17th-century royal gardeners and plant hunters John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger to the churchyard, and were inspired to create the Museum of Garden History.

It was the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of gardening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Museum

> I've seen a lot of London and Paris, including sites featured in the first film of Paris under the Nazis- notably the street where the Paris Opera is located.

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