# Help ID obscure 1960s novelty song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-obscure-1960s-novelty-song/451546 "2008-06-02T22:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-obscure-1960s-novelty-song/451546/1 "2008-06-02T22:15:42Z")

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Given the success of the SDMB detectives in [Please help decipher my own notes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470301), I’d like to submit for your review a mystery note of my own. Back around 1968, there was a short-lived novelty tune played in the Washington, DC area which consisted of a young lady singing about the charms of various men. I don’t think there was much in the way of lyrics beyond their names. However, I have no idea who sang the song, or what it was called.

Anyway, at the time I wrote down a list of some of the names mentioned, and to this day still have this list, which is: Johnny, Harvey, Charley, Herby, Arthur, Henry, Tony, Erving, Sammy, Dino, Erskine, Stanley, Kenny, Bobby, Orville, Jeffry, David and Englebert. Any help in identifying the title or artist would be appreciated. Don’t all post at once…

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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-obscure-1960s-novelty-song/451546/2 "2008-06-02T23:08:43Z")

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[QUOTE=whitetho]  
Given the success of the SDMB detectives in [Please help decipher my own notes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470301), I’d like to submit for your review a mystery note of my own. Back around 1968, there was a short-lived novelty tune played in the Washington, DC area which consisted of a young lady singing about the charms of various men. I don’t think there was much in the way of lyrics beyond their names. However, I have no idea who sang the song, or what it was called.

Anyway, at the time I wrote down a list of some of the names mentioned, and to this day still have this list, which is: Johnny, Harvey, Charley, Herby, Arthur, Henry, Tony, Erving, Sammy, Dino, Erskine, Stanley, Kenny, Bobby, Orville, Jeffry, David and Englebert. Any help in identifying the title or artist would be appreciated. Don’t all post at once…  
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No luck so far. Can you think of _any_ lyrics besides the names?

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-obscure-1960s-novelty-song/451546/3 "2008-06-03T09:12:17Z")

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[QUOTE=photopat]  
No luck so far. Can you think of _any_ lyrics besides the names?  
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Unfortunately, no. If I remember correctly, it was mostly the singer dreamily saying various names – sort of along the lines of Stan Freberg’s “John and Marsha”, rather than a detailed list, like the Nails “88 Lines About 44 Women”.