This popular novelty tune reached the #2 spot on “Your Hit Parade” in the spring of ’41 with the Al Donahue version leading the pack sales-wise. Flipside “Tell It To The Marines” is also posted to this channel.

Transferred from the original 78rpm: Columbia 36051 - The Wise Old Owl (Ricardel) by Kay Kyser & his Orchestra, vocal by Sully Mason, recorded in Hollywood March 13, 1941 .
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