My son has been singing the song 'if i knew you were coming i'd have baked a cake'. can you help us find what advert it was in please.
2007-01-05 05:46:01 · 11 answers · asked by Hunny bunny 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
EILEEN BARTON
IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMIN'
Description:
2 CD set Eileen Barton was a born entertainer, and she was barely 3 years old when she started singing on stage. By the time she was 7 she performed as Milton Berle's sidekick "Jolly Gillette." A popular stage and radio actress across America, the young Eileen was chosen to sing beside Frank Sinatra on his first radio show. 50 of the 58 great tracks on this collection have never been available on CD before, including 10 charting songs from 1950 54. "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake" was a number 1 hit for 12 weeks!
Knock Knock Knock Knock
Come in.......well, well, well
look who's here, I haven't seen you
in many a year
If I a knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, baked a cake
baked a cake
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, how cha do
how cha do, how cha do
Had you dropped me a letter
I'd a hired a band, grandest band
in the land,
Had you dropped me a letter
I'd a hired a band, and spread
the welcome mat for you
Oh I don't know where you came from
cuz I don't know where you been,
but it really doesn't matter grab
a chair and fill your platter and
dig, dig, dig right in
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, hired a band,
goodness sake,
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, how cha do
how cha do, how cha do.....
If I a knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, baked a cake
baked a cake
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, how cha do
how cha do, how cha do
Had you dropped me a letter
I'd a hired a band, grandest band
in the land,
Had you dropped me a letter
I'da hired a band, and spread
the welcome mat for you
Oh I don't know where you came from
cuz I don't know where you been,
but it really doesn't matter grab
a chair and fill your platter and
dig, dig, dig right in
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake, hired a band,
goodness sake,
If I knew you were coming
I'da baked a cake how cha do
how cha do, how cha do
how cha do
how cha do, how cha do
how cha dooooooooooooo!
2007-01-05 05:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Its an old British Gas advert because after the woman says she'd bake a cake, a guy comes on next asking for a piece of toast and so on and so on, all using up gas - presumably from British Gas supplies. Hope that helps.
2007-01-05 06:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by Maximus300 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes X 100
2016-03-29 09:10:16 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sesame Street, and also a version was used as the opening theme to Exit 57, a sketch comedy series that aired on Comedy Central
2007-01-05 05:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by Lewis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its a song from Sesame Street sung by the Count and the Cookie Monster
2007-01-05 05:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by Kate J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's from RightMove ... the property people.
The link has a 30 sec video but you have to pay.
2007-01-05 06:04:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eileen Barton and Doris Day had hits with this song. Sharon, Lois and Bram does it too, maybe he heard this version?
2007-01-05 05:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's used on the "Rightmove" advert.
www.rightmove.co.uk - it's a property website used by most estate agents.
2007-01-05 06:05:11 · answer #8 · answered by chip2001 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i dont know what advertisement it was in, but i know Raffi sings it. Used to listen to it when i was a kid
2007-01-05 05:53:30 · answer #9 · answered by julie_12498 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tropicana go? im sure ive heard it a couple of times
2007-01-05 06:02:49 · answer #10 · answered by la de da 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋