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“Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)“ is a novelty song by Lonnie Donegan. Released as a single in 1959, it peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. It was also Donegan’s greatest chart success in the United States, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. The song is a cover version of “Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?“, a song first released in 1924 by The Happiness Boys (Ernie Hare snd Billy Jones), and later a hit for Lulu Belle and Scotty and The Two Gilberts. The song is humorous in content, the verses each describing a dramatic or urgent scenario leading up to the asking of the titular question. The title and lyrics of the Donegan version were changed in the UK because “Spearmint” is a... Read on...