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29 Nov 01 - 05:12 AM (#600050) Subject: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Stu Does anyone know of an online repository of Rambling Syd's Lyrics. I'll woggle me moulies in appreciation if anyone could let me know. |
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29 Nov 01 - 05:25 AM (#600051) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Well try these from a google search on Ramblin Sid Rumpo Lyrics: AND HERE |
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29 Nov 01 - 05:33 AM (#600056) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: catspaw49 That was about all I could find too Skiff and I also searched under "Kenneth Williams lyrics Rumpo"....Doesn't seem to be any composite lyrics site though. Spaw |
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29 Nov 01 - 05:39 AM (#600059) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Same site also has THIS and THIS Still that's a total of four to be going on with. |
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29 Nov 01 - 06:57 AM (#600077) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST,micca at work There was a BBC double casette done and issued a coupla years ago,that contained the entire Opus, may be still available, and (thanks to KW's clear enunciation) the lyrics should be easy to obtain therefrom, if you have difficulty finding it I have a copy |
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29 Nov 01 - 07:06 AM (#600080) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Noreen Look up a previous thread on Kenneth Williams for more on Rambling Syd. |
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29 Nov 01 - 10:00 AM (#600159) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: A Wandering Minstrel The double cassette is readily available from HMV in the Humour section "now a troth is a cross between a toad and a sloth....." |
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29 Nov 01 - 12:09 PM (#600262) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Rick Fielding If anyone has accidentally stumbled in here (I know, not much chance of that) and doesn't know anything about the songs of Ramblin' Sid, do yourself a favour and check him out. Whether you are a trad folk afficianado, or just love brilliant humour, you'll be well rewarded. He's worth ten "Oh Brothers.." Rick |
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29 Nov 01 - 02:36 PM (#600391) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST,Scrote Given his entendres it's rather appropriate that the songs are on a double cassette. |
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30 Nov 01 - 06:05 AM (#600795) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Stu I've got the double cassette and think I may transcribe the lyrics - I think they'd make for good light relief during a session. I'll also do the Barron Knight's 'Hand on Ear Folk Song' - I classic I fear will be lost to the tradition if it's not saved soon. Thank all! - I'm off to nurdle me splod now. stigWeard |
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30 Nov 01 - 12:43 PM (#601001) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST,JohnB OK my grey matter is failing, I vaguely remember Sid being on a radio show. I think it may have been "Round the Horne", anyone with more grey cells out there? I remember the song "What shall we do with a drunken nurker, What shall we do with a drunken nurker, What shall we do with a drunken nurker, earlie in the mornin. Hit him in the nadgers with a bosun's scrumock etc. JohnB |
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30 Nov 01 - 03:35 PM (#601111) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Cappuccino Yes, it was Round the Horne, surely. Incredible that people like Kenneth Williams and the other guy (the other half of the Julian and Sandy sketches) got away with such camp humour. But in those days, we kids didn't realist it * was * camp. - Ian B |
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30 Nov 01 - 06:02 PM (#601219) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: CraigS Those interested in the strange slang spoken by Sandy and Julian may like to know that it is called Polari, and that there were both east and west london variants. There's meaning in moolies! |
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30 Nov 01 - 06:22 PM (#601239) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Dave the Gnome The cassette is still available. I got it a few months ago. Ordered it from Amazon - I'm sure if there was enough demand the good peeps here would order a few for sale! Yesss me deerios... Cheers
DtG |
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30 Nov 01 - 08:14 PM (#601312) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Jeanie Hello, me dearios, now what have I got in me ole gander bag for you this evening ? Why, girdle your grummits, rollock your fussits, tether your nadgers by the old mill stream ... it's: BBC Radio Collection Rambling Syd Rumpo ZBBC 1746 ISBN 0 - 563 - 38900 - 1 There be forty warbles in all, amongst those likely to tug at your artefacts, being "The Runcorn Spod Cobbler's Song", "The Ballad of the Woggler's Mooly", "The Highland Lament of the Turve Croppers", "The Taddle Gropers' Dance". So charge your possets with the foaming brown mess at the good tidings that Rambling Syd lives on, readily available at WH Smith (where I stuffed me gander bag to bursting with his warbling ditties some mere twelve months since) and similar emporia. **** Craig S : Bona to bada your dolly old eke ! Jeanie
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01 Dec 01 - 03:31 AM (#601474) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Cappuccino Ah yes, 'bona'. Craig, is there more in translation to that than meets the eye? I've always suspected a camp second meaning. - Ian B |
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01 Dec 01 - 07:30 AM (#601529) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Greyeyes Some good rambling here. |
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01 Dec 01 - 07:44 AM (#601536) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: The Walrus If anyone is interested, there is a polari dictionary (of sorts) availabe at: http://members.aol.com/frij/polglos.html (Sorry, I can't do blickies) Regards Walrus |
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01 Dec 01 - 01:57 PM (#601723) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Gareth Re Walrus's post Gareth |
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02 Dec 01 - 04:51 AM (#602053) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: Mr Red Round the Horn? what about Beyond our Ken? were'nt the most of the team in both shows? I can't remember that much detail to be sure. |
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02 Dec 01 - 05:05 AM (#602055) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: pavane Rambling Sid was Round the Horne, but yes, the cast were mostly from Beyond Our Ken. The origin of Rambling Sid was supposed to have been script writer Marty Feldman's intense dislike of folk music. Hugh Paddick was the other half of Sandy & Julian. (He appeared in one episode of Blackadder, as an ageing Thesbian.) PS Re Polari - The word Camp is supposed to be of Polari origin. I thought it was Vader your eke (Ec = Ecaf = backslang for face. Also the origin of YOB is backslang for BOY!) |
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02 Dec 01 - 06:45 AM (#602081) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: The Walrus Gareth, Thanks for the blicky. Walrus |
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02 Dec 01 - 02:32 PM (#602213) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: GUEST I am still laughing, thanks to all of you, what great memories of a very funny man. Kenneth Williams there was none better. Sam the Swede. |
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02 Dec 01 - 10:08 PM (#602490) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: AliUK The world lost a great comic actor when Kenneth Williams died, and it was a shame that his career ended with bad carry on movies ( they were ok up until the seventies) and Will O the Wisp. I remember a friend of mine who had recorded a heap load of Beyond our Ken and Around the Horne on an old reel to reel recorder and was painstakingly transferring them to cassette tape, he was kind enough and brave enough to lend me a load once, and I spent many happy hours chortling away in my bedroom until the early hours of the morning. |
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05 Dec 01 - 06:15 PM (#604528) Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo From: The Walrus Having found a book with a few "Round the Horne" scripts (and the "Rambling Syd Rumpo Songbook") I couln't resist adding a few to the list already in tthis thread. (To the tune "Foggy Foggy Dew")
When I was a young man Walrus |