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Lay Down Your Arms (1956 song)

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"Lay Down Your Arms"
Single by The Chordettes
B-side"Teen Age Goodnight"
ReleasedSeptember 1956
GenreTraditional pop
Length2:36
LabelCadence
Songwriter(s)Åke Gerhard, Leon Landgren, "Anne-Caroline", Paddy Roberts
The Chordettes singles chronology
"Born to Be with You"
(1956)
"Lay Down Your Arms"
(1956)
"(Fifi's) Walkin' The Poodle"
(1957)

"Lay Down Your Arms" is a 1956 popular music song with music by Åke Gerhard and Leon Landgren and lyrics by Gerhard (original "Anne-Caroline" Swedish) and Paddy Roberts (English).[1]

Recorded Versions

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Song in Media

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  • The song was also used in a British television play written by Dennis Potter called Lay Down Your Arms, which was screened on 23 May 1970. The play is set during the Suez crisis of 1956.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 27. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 63–4. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  3. ^ Greg Adams. "The Magic of Billie Anthony - Billie Anthony | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  4. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Lipstick On Your Collar (1993)". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-30.