Eileen was a popular name in my family in the 1930-1950 period.
My Mum wasEileen and had cousins with that as either a first or second name - all after my Mum.

Thanks for flagging up “The Little Grey House”, David... This has been one of my top ten favourite Crosby tracks for 40-odd years. I first heard it on an MCA re-release compilation LP from the 70’s called, “Bing Sings Broadway”, which also contained “The Big Movie Show in the Sky”, “The Yodel Blues” and “Stay Well” from the same 1949/50 period...

In his notes for Vol. 50 of “The Chronological...”, John McNicholas is quite disparaging about the song itself - from the Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill show, “Lost in the Stars” - but I think it’s a gem. Movingly sincere singing from Bing and a lovely contribution from the Jud Conlon Singers and John Scott Trotter and the orchestra.

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Thanks for that, Graham.
“Stay Well”, from the same 18/11/49 session, is also from “Lost in the Stars” and is - to my ears - more recognisably from the same composer who penned “My Ship” and “September Song”.
Interesting that Bing is recording these numbers barely three weeks after the show opened on Broadway...
No, “Ulysses Africanus” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, does it..?!