Odd Blood the late 1930s and early 1940s, was inspired to write "Ambling Alp" after reading about American boxer Joe Louis. The track's title comes from the nickname of one of Louis' adversaries, Italian Primo Carnera, while the lyrics, including the lines "Stick up for yourself son / Never mind what anybody else done", are from the perspective of Louis' father. Keating wrote "I Remember" as a love song about a woman—later to be his wife—he met and kissed on a plane; he has noted that for the time he overcame his fear of flying. "Mondegreen" is Keating's attempt to mix the
Primo Carnera Two Farthings" (1955) based around London's Petticoat Lane Market where he has a match against a local bodybuilder who is getting married to Diana Dors. Primo appeared in at least 10 Italian films between 1939 and 1943, as well as several in the 1950s, like Prince Valiant, in the role of Sligon. His last screen role was as the giant Antaeus alongside Steve Reeves in "Hercules Unchained" (USA Title, filmed in Italy, 1959, original title "Ercole e la regina di Lidia"). In 1945 he returned temporarily to boxing and won two fights. But the next year, after three losses against