:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-2518446-1322745328.jpeg.jpg)
Biography
:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-2518446-1322745328.jpeg.jpg)
The Singing Postman
Real name: Allan Smethurst
Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 2000
The Singing Postman was Allan Smethurst, an English folk singer and postman.He is best known for his self-penned novelty song, "Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?", which earned him an Ivor Novello Award in 1966, and "A Miss from Diss".
The Guardian dubbed him a "bookishly melancholy folk-satirist".