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04 Aug 01 - 09:00 AM (#520922) Subject: Flanders & Swann From: Skipper Jack Can anyone out there tell me where I can get a recording of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, or a book of their songs?
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04 Aug 01 - 09:27 AM (#520930) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: nutty I have a Flanders and Swan Song Book published in 1974 by CHAPPELL & CO , 50 New Bond Street, London W1 .... it has these songs>>>> The Elephant The Gas Man Cometh A G-nu Have Some Madiera, M'dear The Hippopotamus The Rhinoceros A Song of The Weather A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) The Wharthog The Whale(Mopy Dick) Your local library or bookshop should be able to tell you if it is still in print |
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04 Aug 01 - 10:13 AM (#520943) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Skipper Jack Thanks Nutty, But I took the trouble to surf a web bookshop and found the book I was looking and duly ordered it. Maybe I should have done that in the first place! Thanks again. |
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04 Aug 01 - 10:15 AM (#520944) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Skipper Jack Thanks Nutty, But I took the trouble to surf a web bookshop and found the book I was looking and duly ordered it. Maybe I should have done that in the first place! Thanks again. |
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04 Aug 01 - 06:01 PM (#521085) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Liz the Squeak There are several CD's available, notably 'At the drop of a hat' and 'At the drop of another hat' and 'Bestiary', all available as one set. I have a vinyl copy of the first as well..... I scare people at work by quoting them. Usually 'January brings the snow', and 'House and Garden'. LTS |
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04 Aug 01 - 06:40 PM (#521099) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Ralphie Liz "Have some M'Deira M'Dear....!" Ralphie x |
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04 Aug 01 - 07:18 PM (#521112) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Liz the Squeak Ah, once it's been opened, you know it won't keep.... My favourite was always 'misalliance'. And the canibal song. LTS |
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04 Aug 01 - 07:25 PM (#521116) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: GUEST 'Slow Train' is my favourite for poignancy 'In The Desert' continues to cause me to laugh out loud even though I've heard it hundreds of times |
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04 Aug 01 - 07:38 PM (#521122) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Ralphie "From Selby to Goole" "From St Earth to St Ives....." |
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04 Aug 01 - 10:55 PM (#521192) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: GUEST Gaudeamus Wompom! Philanthropic fruit! troll |
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04 Aug 01 - 11:03 PM (#521194) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Troll lost my cookie. There! Thats better! troll |
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05 Aug 01 - 02:42 AM (#521242) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: nutty Could have just come straight to the website I suppose Flanders and Swann |
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05 Aug 01 - 11:51 AM (#521383) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Mr Red I always found the "Canibal Song" a bit hard to swallow IN NZ the Moari had a delicacy called "long pig". Suspect it was always an in joke. |
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05 Aug 01 - 03:03 PM (#521462) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Skipper Jack Isn't it marvellous? I didn't think that so many people would remember Flanders & Swann! Thank you Liz The Squeak for the recordings information. That's my next task - to see if I can get hold of those.
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05 Aug 01 - 04:07 PM (#521494) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: GUEST,Willa Skipper Jack; coincidentally, I just looked at the thread titled 'practice clicky thread'. Under Individual Performers you'll find Flanders and Swann - the site gives information on album availability. Thanks for the thread, Marion! |
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05 Aug 01 - 04:45 PM (#521513) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Liz the Squeak Great site but littered with popups... my popup killer sounded like a popcorn factory..... I must learn the rest of P**P*B****B**D******..... LTS |
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05 Aug 01 - 06:09 PM (#521562) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Morticia "So do drink it up......it will help you to sleep"...only got about a quarter inch in my bottle.....doubt that sleep will come easy on that. |
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05 Aug 01 - 11:32 PM (#521680) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: dick greenhaus CAMSCO Music--"..If it's in print we'll get it for you..." |
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06 Aug 01 - 01:17 PM (#521938) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Tiger I got mine at eBay - especially good for OOP stuff. |
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06 Aug 01 - 05:05 PM (#522114) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Liz the Squeak And once it's been opened, you know it won't keep.... Morty - the 1988 port is still here for you..... LTS |
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06 Aug 01 - 06:55 PM (#522217) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: ChanteyMatt Amazon UK has a box set. Ours arrived on Saturday. Yahoo! |
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06 Aug 01 - 09:37 PM (#522305) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Susan A-R Recently had friends who called a plumber in to fix their hose and had to get someone to sheetrock their wall . . . It all makes work for the working man to do.
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07 Aug 01 - 01:33 AM (#522398) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: Liz the Squeak August, cold and dank and wet... Brings more rain than any yet...! LTS |
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08 Nov 15 - 12:26 PM (#3749280) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: keberoxu "House and Garden," a post in this thread gives that as one of the "At the Drop of a Hat" songs. The title is "Design for Living." The phrase "House and Garden" appears in almost every verse. Leon Berger, in webpages and recording notes, says this was sung by no less than Moyra Fraser and Max Adrian, two of the biggest names in revues of the time. "At the Drop of a Hat" was recorded more than once. If you acquire the boxed CD set (EMI probably) called "Hat-Trick," the first compact disc presents "At The Drop of the Original Hat." This is the Fortune Theater recording made for West End/London audiences. I grew up with this long-playing album and memorized its spoken bits as well as the sung lyrics. In fact, "Design for Living" is in the DT database here. And the version preserved there is the one from the LATER "At the Drop of a Hat" performance on record; I believe this one was intended for audiences who were not limited to the UK and so there were monologues changes that took out some of the jokes that only a UK insider would know. Of course, for better or worse, I grew up with the earlier, "insider" performance and lived for years with the mystery of, "what did THAT joke mean?" After the big-laugh line, "The garden's full of furniture And the house is full of plants!" line, with the Fortune Theater audience bringing the performance to a screeching halt with clapping and guffawing, Flanders and Swann (they sure knew how to adapt their timing and delivery to a full, responsive theater of people) resume the chorus with this insider lyric: "It doesn't make for comfort, But it simply has to be: You mustn't be left behind the times -- [da da da Dum da Dum da DUM] You mustn't be left behind the Times Furnishing Com-pa-ny! [da DUM!]" So for fifty-odd years, in the back of my mind, was: someday, somebody has to explain to me about the Times Furnishing Company....since I'm outside the UK, I don't have a clue. When I search online, it seems that yes, Virginia, there really is/was a Times Furnishing Company. True? |
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08 Nov 15 - 07:40 PM (#3749365) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: keberoxu And then they wrote: 'Twas applauded by the masses The middle classes too - oo And even by the Harewoods And the County Set Yes, even by the Doggy Doggy Few. |
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09 Nov 15 - 04:58 AM (#3749414) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: MGM·Lion "History of The Times Furnishing Co. Buying your furniture on hire purchase was the unique selling point of the Times Furnishing Company, begun by Jewish entrepreneur John Jacobs, which traded out of High Holborn. They had many stores across London and the rest of the country, aimed at the mass-market." Book ad online ≈M≈ |
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09 Nov 15 - 12:35 PM (#3749527) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: keberoxu Hey, Thanks, M! So much for Times Furnishing, Liberty's, and Heal's. I didn't know what a coracle was either....live and learn. |
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20 Apr 17 - 05:46 AM (#3851390) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: FreddyHeadey It might be worth checking dates for "...multi-award winning comedian Tim FitzHigham and BBC Radio 4 musical maestro Duncan Walsh Atkins ..." in At The Drop Of A Hippopotamus http://flandersandswann.info/tour.php I don't read posts from 'GUEST ' or 'GUEST,Guest' |
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16 Apr 20 - 04:22 PM (#4046541) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: keberoxu What do you all make of this? Someone has uploaded to YouTube a video of Flanders & Swann live. And Leon Berger has responded , in a comment to the video upload, saying that it is illegal to reproduce the video and its reproduction will be removed 'shortly' but his comment dates back four months... April 1967, Broadway, New York ('Another Hat') |
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17 Apr 20 - 05:05 AM (#4046615) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: The Doctor Many years ago now, in a second-hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, I came across a video copy of this performance. There is also currently a copy on ebay. |
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18 Apr 20 - 07:40 PM (#4046922) Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann From: keberoxu Already there are bits and pieces of performances from said USA-performance video on YouTube, and have been for some time now. This is the first time anyone has ventured to upload the entire presentation at once. |