Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert

Subject: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Shezinaussie
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:48 AM

I have just come back from the Circus with my granddaughter, and have promised her that I will get the song about 'the lion that ate our Albert' - did a search on that phrase - no success - can someone please give me a link to the lyrics please, or put the lyrics up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:54 AM

Its a Marriot Edgar onologue, perfomed most notably by Staney Holloway. Doubleday sell t as far as I recall.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:54 AM

Go here and click 3 "Albert and the Lion".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:55 AM

http://monologues.co.uk/Albert_and_the_Lion.htm

Try this.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:55 AM

You'll find it here along with many other good monologues.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: masato sakurai
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:58 AM

It's on YouTube.

Albert and the Lion - Stanley Holloway.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:57 AM

Sheziaussie:
The links above should help, but I notice you mention it as a song. It is usually done as a recitation. If it was sung at the circus, was it to a well known tune?

Cheers

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Willa
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 10:16 AM

Stanley wrote a follow-up to 'Albert and the Lion' and 'Albert's Return' in 1978 called Albert's Reunion
It's here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/barnicle/stanley/words/albertsreu.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:59 PM

Never heard it done as a song, always a recitation, billed as a 'Musical Monologue' because it was accompanied by a piano when performed by S.H.

I do/did quite a few monologues, and have been accosted by a concerned little girl about this one. Make sure you know 'Albert Comes Back' before you do 'The Lion and Albert' in mixed company.;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:15 PM

Doesn't anyone think of looking within Mudcat any more?

ALBERT AND THE LION
ALBERT'S RETURN
ALBERT'S REUNION
JUBILEE SOVEREIGN

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:53 PM

Or even (perish the thought) the DT?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: zozimus
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 02:52 PM

John Conolly wrote a version called "Albert Goes to Cleethorpes" which is on his "Send Us A Postcard" CD, well worth getting.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Tig
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 06:17 PM

Oh for the days when Cleethorpes Festival was on the Pier - as in Albert Goes to Cleethorpes.

John gave me a copy of it - I think it's great

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lion ate Albert
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 04:35 AM

And Bernard Wrigley and I wrote another follow-up called 'Albert, The Lion and The Drink' about Albert Ramsbottom's son, Albert Junior, following in his Dad's footsteps. There's a live version of it on one of Bernard's many CDs. If you ever hear someone called Monologue Joe performing this and claiming he wrote it, you can tell him from me he's a liar.