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"'''Any Old Iron'''" is a  [[United Kingdom|British]] [[music hall]] [[song]] with lyrics written by [[Charles Collins (songwriter)|Charles Collins]] and Fred E. Terry, and music by E.A. Sheppard. [[Harry Champion]] sang it as part of his act, and recorded it in 1911.<ref>Folk Song and Music Hall ((cite web|url=https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/any-old-iron/ |title=Any old iron ))</ref>

The song title and refrain is a pun on the [[Street cries|traditional cry]] of the rag-and-bone trade.

The song may also be a coded reference to the singer as a gay man, or a man taken to be gay. In [[Cockney rhyming slang]], ''iron'' means a gay man (''iron'' = ''iron hoof'' = ''poof''), gay men had adopted a green tie as their badge, and a fob watch and chain was dapper dressing. <ref>''Guardian'' Have a gay old time, 9 March 2001 ((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,448635,00.html |title=Hidden subversion in music-hall lyrics &#124; the Guardian &#124; guardian.co.uk |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] ))</ref>  The song begins with the singer thinking "I look a dandy" being followed by "a lot of kiddies" shouting at him "Any Old Iron".  The song  is understood this way by Albert Steptoe, a rag-and-bone man, in the TV comedy [[Steptoe and Son]], Series 5, broadcast in 1970.

== Other versions ==
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*In 1957, [[Peter Sellers]] recorded a rendition in a voice he created for ''[[The Goon Show]]'', Willium "Mate" Cobblers. It reached No. 17 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] that year.<ref>((cite web |title=PETER SELLERS full Official Chart History ((!)) Official Charts Company |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/4961/peter-sellers/ |website=www.officialcharts.com |accessdate=1 November 2018 |language=en))</ref> Sellers had previously performed it as Major Dennis Bloodnok (with [[Spike Milligan]] as Minnie Bannister) in a 1954 episode of ''The Goon Show'' entitled "The Booted Gorilla".<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e10_the_booted_gorilla|title=The Goon Show Site - Script - the Booted Gorilla (Found?) (Series 5, Episode 10)))((dead link|date=October 2023))</ref>
*It was performed on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' by [[Kermit the Frog]], joined by [[Fozzie Bear]], two [[Whatnot (Muppet)|whatnot]]s, and the audience. [Season 2, Episode 14 ([[Elton John]])]
*It was performed by [[Roger Daltrey]], accompanied by [[The Chieftains]], in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]] in 1992.  A recording of the performance appears on the album ''An Irish Evening''.
*It was included in ''[[The_Boy_Friend_(1971_film)|The Boy Friend]]'', [[Ken_Russell|Ken Russell's]] 1971 film version of the musical by [[Sandy Wilson]].
* It was also sung by [[Chas and Dave]] on their 2015 album ''"Enjoy Yourself" (The Complete Jamboree Bag)''
* [[Herman's Hermits]] released a version as well.
*In one episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'', "The Hand of Fate", Mr. Mash cannot find the owner of a shipment of 27 galvanized buckets, and starts singing the song and accompanying himself by rattling the buckets around.
* The Barron Knights used the tune and some of the lyrics of the song in a satire on punk, in the late 1970s.
* The band [[Snuff (British band)|Snuff]] included the song as a previously unreleased track on their 2005 compilation: ''Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other 1986-2002''.
*British comedian [[Bill Bailey]], along with the [[BBC Concert Orchestra]], as part of his live show "Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra", mixed the song in as part of a "Cockney Arrangement" of the "[[William Tell Overture]]".
*Somerset band [[The Wurzels]] sample the song's melody in their song Blackbird
*The song was used, with different lyrics, in [[television advertisement]]s for [[Hammerite]] and Smoothrite paint.<ref>((YouTube|AGcFm_L4GLs|Hammerite advert)). Retrieved 30 June 2021. <!--Archived, but not displaying at the time of this edit: ((Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630223645/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcFm_L4GLs |date=30 June 2021)).--></ref>
*In the [[T-Bag]] series; 'T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set', in the third episode ('Lost in Space') the character; T-Shirt starts singing the first part of the song when T-Bag is using a metal detector. 
* There is a sequence in the movie ''[[Yellow Submarine (film)|Yellow Submarine]]'' when the "real" [[The Beatles|Beatles]] are confronted with their look-alikes trapped in a blue glass sphere, inspiring [[John Lennon|John]] to go off on an abstruse invocation of Einstein's [[Theory of relativity]], to which [[Paul McCartney|Paul]]'s response is to sing "Any old Ein! Any old Ein! Any any any old Einstein!"
* [[Scunthorpe United F.C.]] ("The Iron") have adopted this song, and it is played before all of their home games.
* In ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]'' Series 18, Jeremy and James sing the song in jest as Richard drives the old style [[Morgan 3-Wheeler]] through a corner.
*There is a scene in the movie "[[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]]" where Charlie and Syd meet just before Charlie's audition for Mr. Karno. Charlie and Syd greet each other by singing the chorus to "Any Old Iron".
*In the 2001 [[Steven Spielberg]] movie ''[[A.I. Artificial Intelligence]]'', while the rejected robots are being chased by the bikers for a "Flesh Fair", the commander of the illuminated hot-air balloon is repeatedly saying over a loudspeaker "Any old iron".

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[[Category:1911 songs]]
[[Category:British songs]]
[[Category:Music hall songs]]
[[Category:Songs with music by Charles Collins (songwriter)]]


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