The Archive · 1939

Making a Date

Tuis sounds like a hit number. It is by Roma Campbell Hunter (in private life Countess Van Limburg Stirum) and Manning Sherwin, who wrote "Sitting Pretty." The first verse goes:

"Will you keep that date in Piccadilly-circus When I get back from Berlin?

If I know you'll wait in Piccadilly-circus.

I know we're bound to win Although we'll hava a little bit of bother "TI we get that painter on the run. Say you'll keep that date in Piccadilly-circus And the job's as good as done."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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