<P> In 1950, the song was a top - ten hit in the U.S. for Freddy Martin And His Orchestra with vocalist Merv Griffin and sold over three million copies . The following year, it was a number - 25 hit for Danny Kaye . </P> <P> It was a staple song of the Billy Cotton Band Show on British radio and television . The song is still played over the public address at Cambridge United football matches after home wins . </P> <P> The song appeared in I Could Go On Singing (1963), Judy Garland's last film . A portion of the song also appeared in Disney's 1994 The Lion King (sung by Rowan Atkinson). Nicolas Cage also sang part of this song in National Treasure: Book of Secrets . Ringo Starr sang an impromptu version of the song in Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles' TV special broadcast by the BBC on 26 December 1967 . Also, actors Hayden Rorke and Bill Daily performed a few lines of the song on ukulele in the 1969 I Dream of Jeannie episode "Uncles a Go - Go . In the first episode of the 1977 sitcom Mind Your Language it is mentioned that a professor went crazy and sang this song . </P> <P> Swedish performer Povel Ramel wrote a Swedish version of the song in 1950 . This version, "Far jag kan inte få upp min kokosnöt" ("Dad I can't crack my coconut open"), has little to do with the original . It is sung by a little boy who, in the course of his attempts to open his resilient coconut, disfigures his mother, demolishes the family's furniture, and finally blows their house up . This version also features prominently in the film My Life as a Dog (1985), as well as in the Swedish version of The Lion King . The song is also known in Finland from the versions by Kipparikvartetti and M.A. Numminen, Kuinka saisin rikki kookospähkinän, which feature a similar tragicomic story . </P>

Who sings i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts in lion king