<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Tom Dooley" / "Rock o' My Soul" (1958) </Td> <Td> "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bed posts Overnight?)" / "Aunt Rhody" (1959) </Td> <Td> "Fort Worth Jail" / "Whoa Buck" (1959) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Tom Dooley" / "Rock o' My Soul" (1958) </Td> <Td> "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bed posts Overnight?)" / "Aunt Rhody" (1959) </Td> <Td> "Fort Worth Jail" / "Whoa Buck" (1959) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" is a novelty song by Lonnie Donegan . Released as a single in 1959, it entered the UK Singles Chart on 6 February 1959 and peaked at number 3 . It was also Donegan's greatest chart success in the United States, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961 . </P> <P> The song is a cover version of "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?" written by Billy Rose, Ernest Breuer, and Marty Bloom and first released in 1924 by The Happiness Boys (Ernie Hare and Billy Jones), and later a hit for Lulu Belle and Scotty and The Two Gilberts . The song is humorous in content, the verses each describing a dramatic or urgent scenario leading up to the asking of the titular question . </P>

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