Mystery Lyrics Tuesday 9th October
October 8, 2007 by Dave
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Well, I’m back to the fray after more or less sorting out my Internet problems, and I return with a new feature on this blog. If you have a webcam or a microphone connected to your computer then you are able to submit your answer via a video or audio comment (as well as the usual written comment) Use this at your will, or write down the answer as usual - up to you 
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Over to todays choice…
This is a song that I have had in my head for a couple of days… I have no idea when it was published, but as I was a little boy when I used to hear it, I suspect it will be from the early 60s…
The song has been sung by any number of people, so I will accept whatever you give, but the chap I am really looking for was born 26th January 1926 in Hull, England and passed away in 2001 in Sussex. Todays song was the last of his hits, one adored by kids all over the country (was 1965 according to wikipedia), and was a song our mystery artist didnt really like.
“I love my hit records like ‘Young and Foolish’ and ‘No Other Love’, but I am heartily sick of that one.” , he once said. He was a great lover of soccer, writing the song “Glory glory Leeds United”
Your Lyric is:
“I saw a mouse – where?”
A WINDMILL IN OLD AMSTERDAM
RONNIE HILTON
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Unfortunately, due to pressures at work, I am unable to comment the answers at this time… I will try and correct this at a later date…
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alan novich on Mon, 8th Oct 2007 5:02 pm
Ronnie Hilton, I saw a mouse—where? He left us with a legacy of some great stuff, including Paris and Nicky.
Scott on Mon, 8th Oct 2007 5:18 pm
Now this is something i’ve never heard of, but i guss it had an international flavor, A Windmill in Old Amsterdam. mouses with wooden shoes(clogs) roaming all around. LOL sung by equally unheard of by me, Ronnie Hilton.
renfield on Mon, 8th Oct 2007 5:18 pm
A Windmill In Old Amsterdam
RONNIE HILTON
(no relation)
Born Adrian Hill in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Infantry. Following demobilisation in 1947, he became a fitter in a Leeds sewing plant.
Penguin on Mon, 8th Oct 2007 10:10 pm
The song is “I Tell You, I Saw a Mouse” and I think the artist is Ronnie Hilton.
cheryl on Tue, 9th Oct 2007 12:41 am
that would be Ronnie Hilton. Ronnie Hilton was born Adrian Hill in Hull in 1926. His first job was in an aircraft factory and, after being conscripted, he became a corporal in the Gordon Highlanders. A Windmill in Old Amsterdam” is your song.
It was Wally Ridley’s idea, as he wanted to get a children’s record out for Christmas. These two lads played me a selection of their songs and I liked “A Windmill in Old Amsterdam” best. I recorded it with just a rhythm section of piano, bass and drums. Wally said he would add the rest of it later. I didn’t anticipate that he was going to use the Mike Sammes Singers speeded up to sound like mice.
shar on Tue, 9th Oct 2007 2:13 am
Ronnie Hilton ~ A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
loved this wee bit of an obit that I found…
“Hilton had a fine, semi-operatic voice but, when he spoke, he had a broad Yorkshire accent. In 1955 he was asked to cover “A Blossom Fell”, a US hit by Nat “King” Cole. Hilton recalled:
When I recorded “A Blossom Fell”, Wally Ridley introduced me to the writer, who was an American. I said, “Hello, how do you do?” and he said, “My God, how do you sing the way you do, and talk like that?” ”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010223/ai_n14373443
shar
Hil on Wed, 10th Oct 2007 4:04 am
Ronnie Hilton (Adrian Hill) - Died 2-21-2001 ( Pop ) Born 1-26-1926 in Hull, England (He sang,”I Still Believe”, “A Windmill In Old Amsterdam” and “No Other Love”) Worked with Johnny Addlestone and Wally Ridley - He was the voice of BBC Radio 2’s Sounds Of The Fifties series.
http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirr/ronnieh.htm
A Windmill In Old Amsterdam is your song. You’re doing stuff almost as old as mine, Dave.
Hil