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Latest National Stories. It made the tune infamous; yet for Ian Marshall, a Cornish folklorist, musician and author of the definitive The Amazing Story of the Floral Dance , Wogan's intervention was regrettable. You were reminded of a performance given by a seriously stoned Elvis Presley near the end of his career. Marshall's book is a fascinating document of a musical obsession that covers every aspect of the provenance, etymology and performance history of the tune.

But the roots of the Floral Dance are mysterious and subject to confusion, even in Cornwall. Eighty per cent of the published composition was her own invention," Marshall says. The most far-reaching of Moss's modifications was to change the name of the dance itself.

Unfortunately, it's since become the custom even for Cornish people to refer to the furry dance by the wrong name. Moss's rewrite was the Edwardian equivalent of a chart-topper. Thousands of copies of the sheet music were sold, and the first singer to have a recorded hit with the tune was the light baritone Peter Dawson. The tune took on a new lease of life, though, from the mids, when it became a brass band standard.

In West Yorkshire's venerable Brighouse and Rastrick band hired a talented young music director named Derek Broadbent, who had the idea of combining a brass arrangement with a pop rhythm. His second stroke of inspiration was to put the tune out as a single.

A Radio 2 breakfast producer passed the disc to Wogan, who played it while singing along at peak listening time before the 8am news. This is the town's big annual shindig. Join in the throng on the streets, with dancing, music, food stalls, fairground rides and a carnival atmosphere. For the local experience, fight your way to the bar at the thatched Blue Anchor pub for a pint of Spingo, the local tipple; not for the faint-hearted. If you've never been to Flora Day, you have to go - it's like nothing you've seen before!