She Wears Red Feathers

Guy Mitchell - 'She Wears Red Feathers'

13th March, 1953 (4 weeks)

Guy Mitchell had the next number 1 single in the UK with She Wears Red Feathers, the tale of a London Banker's love for a hula girl.

This video is something different - I thought it was a bit more interesting than the usual 'slide show to music'. It's from a short film from Universal featuring Guy Mitchell himself performing She Wears Red Feathers and Feet Up! Which was, in fact, the first ever UK number 2 single, missing out to Al Martino.

So, she wears red feathers and a hula-hula skirt and eats cocynuts fish feeerom the sea (I hear 'they're greeeeeeat', anyone?) and gets a London Banker to fall in love with her. Call me a cynic, but he's probably only doing it so he can be a non-dom. Though I think that probably reaches a point where it stops being romantic. Or funny.

Of all the songs so far, this one has stood out to me, despite being very much in the same vein of one singer and their orchestra as the previous singles. It manages to come close to novelty, but doesn't cross the line in to being unbearable - unlike some of the songs coming up...