1947 HITS ARCHIVE: Too Fat Polka - Arthur Godfrey

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Too Fat Polka (I Don’t Want Her) (You Can Have Her) (She’s Too Fat For Me) (MacLean-Richardson) by Arthur Godfrey, orchestra and vocal group conducted by Archie Bleyer

Among the recorded output of America’s most popular and influential broadcast entertainer, this not-so-PC novelty was far-and-away Godfrey’s biggest success. A million-selling disc, “Too Fat Polka” spent six weeks at #2 on the record sales chart as 1947 turned into 1948.

THE 1947 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1947 (some were recorded in 1946). .
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