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oh Lucky Jim! exclamation

Well that’s not good

Origin

From the music hall song Oh Lucky Jim! attributed variously to George Formby, Tom English & anonymous. Whether the 1954 Kingsley Amis novel of the same name is related is yet to be established, but the song was used in the soundtrack of the 1957 film adaptation.

Collector

Naomi – 1970s
Naomi Iliff (King) – owner

Notes

Each verse ended with “Oh lucky Jim, how I envy him!”

Submitted: 05/07/2022 by Mark ● Last updated: 10/07/2022 15:57 by Mark

any thoughts?





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