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Especially for those whose Hogmanay celebrations have been called off due to an excess of wind:

Stop Yer Tickling Jock from Harry Lauder.

Meanwhile George Formby has been Letting the New Year in:

Heh Heh! Turned out nice again, ain't it! 🎶Plinky plink plonk🎵

Flotsam and Jetsam were an Anglo-Australian musical comedy duo of the 1920s and 1930s, sometimes considered a forerunner of Flanders and Swann.

Flotsam's real name was Bentley Collingwood Hilliam (1890-1968) and Jetsam's real name was Malcolm McEachern (1883-1945). Hilliam wrote most of their songs, played the piano and sang in a light, high tenor voice. By contrast, McEachern had one of the deepest bass voices on record.

Here they sing: Is 'e an Aussie, Lizzie, is 'e

and the somewhat disturbing wartime propaganda song The Londoner and the Hun