Card of the Day - 2023-03-27

mister softee do you know
Mister Softee [trade : ice cream : UK] "Did You Know" (1976) /12 - MJZ-13 : HX-166.2 : Db.455

I am certain I have used this set before, because it is one of my favourites, but cannot find it. Anyway we are showing it as an illustration of "April Showers" - as in "Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May". This song was unbelievably first sung in 1921, by Al Jolson, in a Broadway musical called "Bombo" that also included the songs "Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" and "California Here I Come". And Al Jolson was also the first to sing it on screen, five years later, in a film called "A Plantation Act" which runs for just ten minutes and includes three songs!

This set appears in our British Trade Index book three, where it tells us it measures 76 x 77 m/m and is a set of twelve cards. There is also a link to Db.455, which is at the back of the book where all the alike series are issued, and that tells us that the set was also issued by Lyons and by Tonibell.  Lyons might confuse you because they had fingers in many pies but looking at the actual cards you will quickly see they say Lyons Maid so they were issued with ice cream, as was the Tonibell set, and ours.