🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #Breakfast John Wilson, Gene de Paul, John Wilson Orchestra, Saul Chaplin & Adolph Deutsch: 🎵 Barn Dance (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) #BBCRadio3 #JohnWilson #GenedePaul #JohnWilsonOrchestra #SaulChaplin #AdolphDeutsch

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #WordsAndMusic Gene de Paul & Percy Faith and Orchestra: 🎵 Unecessary Town #BBCRadio3 #GenedePaul #PercyFaithandOrchestra

"Mr. Five by Five" is a 1942 #popularSong by #DonRaye and #GeneDePaul, that describes a heavyset man who is "five feet tall and five feet wide". The person highlighted by the song was #JimmyRushing, the featured vocalist of #CountBasie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. #EllaMaeMorse with #FreddieSlack and His Orchestra had a hit recording with the song in 1942 (Capitol 115); it was number one on the #HarlemHitParade for two non-consecutive weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2Gs_4zh_U