And tomorrow ( from where I'm writing in Australia) is birthday day for our man.

Just received mine. About to open the envelope.

Super! Looking forward to it already - well done, Malcolm!

The spring edition of BING magazine is being prepared and should be available early next month. See http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BING178.html

I am looking forward to receiving the new issue, Malcolm! As always, it's a pleasure working with you!

AGF

The summer edition of BING magazine is at the printers and should be available early in August.

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Magazine has arrived and I'm just about finished reading it.
As Malcolm stated - no obits this issue but Mary Carlisle  will have to wait for next issue.
And a reminder here - Sunday 7th. October at 2.00pm at the Roxy Theatre, Morton,WA (that is Washington State about 100 mile from Seattle and Portland) and not Western Australia I will be screening Errol Flynn's very first film - In Wake of the Bounty - playing Fletcher Christian, a role Clark Gable played a couple of years later. Errol was 23/24.
Also the six Bing Mack Sennett shorts. Admission $5.00.
So those in the west - come to Morton, go to the pictures Saturday night and see Bing on Sunday. Have good accommodation available too.

Yes, it's planned  for February / March. There will be a insert in the magazine to order it.

Might even have 'Kookaburra sings in the old gum tree" but probably not waltzing Matilda or The road to Gundagai.
That's a film that Bing, Bob and Dottie could have made - The Road to Gundagai - and the song was already composed. They may have run into Dad and Dave.
For non-Aussies. There was a radio serial called Dad and Dave and a woman named Mabel and a song about 'my Mabel waits for me.
Ah! What could have been.

Archiefit wrote:

Bing did sing that immortal Aussie classic in a radio show, "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts".

"Archiefit", I'm afraid you are mistaken. It's not Australian. 

"I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" was written in 1944 (original spelling was "Cocoanuts") by the English songwriters Harold Elton Box, Desmond Cox, and Lewis Ilda using the collective pseudonym of Fred Heatherton.

It became very popular in the UK and was usually performed with strong cockney accents so that for example "lovely" became "luverly". It was frequently performed in community sing-alongs. 

In the US it was recorded by Freddy Martin & Merv Griffin with a very poor imitation of London cockney accents and was something of a hit. (I suspect that it might possibly have been heard by US servicemen in the UK and "taken back" on their return, as happened with some other songs).

In the UK the most popular version was with the Billy Cotton Band, with vocal by Alan Breeze, though surprisingly that recording was made later, in 1950.

It was performed by Bing on the Chesterfield radio shows of 30 November and 28 December 1949.
Various other performers recorded it and it has been used as background "scene setting" on TV and film. 

I'm looking forward to the new magazine, Malcolm.

Nice cover photo, Malcolm.
Guess you and Pat have suntans.