While his act may seem tame by later standards, songwriter and comedian Paddy Roberts’s curt, folksy compositions, often boasting risqué themes, tweaked the often uptight standards of mid-20th-century British society. His adoptive country (Roberts was born in South Africa but raised in England) ate up his discs during the late 1950s & ‘60s. Roberts, who had also tasted brief fame in the 1930s with the U.K. chart-topper “Angel of the Great White Way,” was also a well-regarded songwriter, penning hits for Ruby Murray, Max Bygraves, and many others.