Talk:Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour?
Most of the online sources cited use the UK spelling "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour", understandably as it's a British recording by a British artist. Some also use the American spelling "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor" in addition to the UK spelling. If no-one objects, I'll move this article to Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour (On The Bedpost Over Night) so that this becomes a redirect, taking care to move the history and talk page history along with it. Any problems? . . dave souza, talk 10:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Not only no problems, but I have no idea how that apostrophe crept in to the title of this article, because the photographic evidence  is that there is no apostrophe on the label. --gejyspa (talk) 15:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Grammatically incorrect?
It the first few sentences make it sound like "it's" is incorrect, and "its" is correct. "It's" is the grammatically correct version, since it shows that the flavour belongs to the chewing gum. I think sentence should be rephrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.32.166 (talk) 07:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU Shii (tock) 07:23, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The correct possessive pronoun is "its", for the same reason that we write "his" and not "him's". See Possessive pronoun. Harlequin (talk) 13:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Agree that "its" is correct. However, shouldn't the question mark be _outside_ the closing bracket and not inside it? The question being asked is "Does your..." and the clause in brackets just modifies the question. BealBocht (talk) 15:35, 11 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Plenty of song titles are questions with no '?'. —Tamfang (talk) 03:22, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Use in actual Spearmint TV commercial?
I tried to find something on YouTube or in Google to no avail, but my memory is I first heard this song when it was used on an actual TV commercial for Spearmint, which is a natural fit. If anyone can find a source to back this up, it would be worth mentioning. 70.72.223.215 (talk) 03:20, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

What this song means...
It might be considered "original research" to say, as this article does, "The song is humorous in content, the verses each describing a dramatic or urgent scenario leading up to the asking of the titular question" but it's a harmless statement. I'd like to note that the song is about the complications of being married. "Here comes a blushing bride / The groom is by her side / Up to the altar / As steady as Gibraltar / Why, the groom has got the ring / And it's such a pretty thing / And as he slips it on her finger / The choir begins to sing: / Does your chewing gum lose its flavour..." Your spouse chews your gum in the middle of the night -- that's true intimacy. Perhaps someone can find a source for the meaning of the song. 72.179.53.2 (talk) 01:35, 28 May 2012 (UTC) Eric

BBC trademark restrictions claim
I've removed the citations for this and replaced them with a Dubious tag. On checking those links, they don't actually back up the sentence.

The article previously read: "The title and lyrics of the Donegan version were changed in the UK because "Spearmint" is a registered trademark there, and the BBC would not play songs that mentioned trademarks. "

But the first citation shows that Spearmint was registered as a trademark in 1961, two years after the song was released. And looking up the text for London Revisited: it's a 1935 comedic article that only mentions that the BBC bans "that modern pest, the advertiser".

I don't doubt that Spearmint was certainly available in the UK in the fifties, and the BBC very likely had a ban on trademarks. However, neither of those sources actually say what the citation claims, and together they completely fail to back up the statement.

I have failed to find any interviews with Donegan or other contemporary sources to back it up: just occasional mentions on modern sites that could well have cribbed the fact from Wikipedia. 81.129.152.162 (talk) 16:27, 19 April 2020 (UTC)