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There were several versions, so JY probably recorded it as well. I have the Frankie Laine version on a 78 somewhere in my boxes.

Alan,
I have it on very good authority that this incident did in fact occur.
I was tendered a document via the post from Aussie that proves the damage that occured, with pictures as well.
Humble pie or not mate, I was sceptical, but bear in mind also that a lot of Commercial carpet here has a fair amount of Nylon and other Synthetics woven in to it.
The base of shoes these days are plastic-based.
I think to a degree, that this guy wore the wrong combination of clothes.
You'd never see me wearing Nylon in any large amount, I learned that lesson at a Hay-barn fire some years back, it melts very easily and sticks to your skin.
Give me Cotton any day!.

Pauluk. You've still got 78's ?

You're either really old, or you're a DJ ! !

@ kiwi
You're making me curious.
What does that mean: "really old"?

'Old', to the young, means your brains fell out of your ears on achieving the age of 40!
Sir Jimmy Young, OBE., CBE. was born in 1923 at "Cindyfud", Gloucestershire, my old stamping ground in my middle years. A very good singer and pianist, he was the 'dog's b*llocks'** then, with quite a few consecutive 'No 1s' under his belt in the mid-fifties, Jim actually joined the BBC in 1949, but took a DJ slot on the newly formed Radio One in 1967. R1 was (is) a "youf" pop station, formed by the Government after they forced 'pirate' radio-stations out of business. Jokes in the media about his alleged syrup*, and 'advancing years', led to a move to Radio 2, where he remained in a popular chat/items/middle-of-the-road music slot for over 30 years. He was 'pushed out' as 'too old' in 2002, despite questions being raised in the House of Commons! He did not "go quietly into the night" either, giving the Beeb a right-rollocking broadside on his last show. Audience figures promptly went down the khazi, because the young whippersnapper-directors forgot one tiny little detail. The audience were the same age!

Youth is wasted on the Young.- Oscar Wilde.

Alan
PS
*'syrup'= 'syrup of figs', = wig.
** dog's boll*cks ; is from the first 'Meccano' toy construction sets of the early 1900's, marketed as two sorts, 'Box Deluxe', from which we get 'dog's b*llocks' ie the best, or superlative, (and nothing to do with dogs or their anatomical bits). And 'Box Standard' from whence came 'bog-standard', meaning ordinary. Funny old lingo, English, ain't it!

Wolfgang, I'm 36 years old and 78 rpm records are a vague memory for me so obviously this means " really old ".

Unless you are currently employed as a DJ, in which case owning a 78 vinyl record is a job requisite.

Alan your explanation of the "Dogs bollocks" phrase is interesting. I was an avid Meccano enthusiast as a young lad. I can't remember the "Box Deluxe" but thats probably because my parents could only afford the "Box Economie".

Neither! I'm just an avid record collector who loves the old music.