Spencer Heath's
Series
Spencer Heath Archive
Item 2218
In the 1930s and 1940s, roadside billboards by the Burma Shave Company were popular. Succeeding one another in a row along the highway, they were five in number, four each one with a line of a jingle and the last, “Burma Shave.” Spencer MacCallum challenged Heath to compose one, which he did. But as the Company was then going out of business, they did not use it.
Original is missing.
Truth to speak
No miss’ll cuddle
To a sheik
With bristle stubble.
BURMA SHAVE
Metadata
| Title | Subject - 2218 |
| Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
| Series | Subject |
| Box number | 15:2181-2410 |
| Document number | 2218 |
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| Authors / Creators / Correspondents | |
| Description | In the 1930s and 1940s, roadside billboards by the Burma Shave Company were popular. Succeeding one another in a row along the highway, they were five in number, four each one with a line of a jingle and the last, “Burma Shave.” Spencer MacCallum challenged Heath to compose one, which he did. But as the Company was then going out of business, they did not use it. |
| Keywords | Poem Humor Burma Shave |