Entire audiences used to titter throughout "Andrew Rose" when Stan Hugill sang it. It's a song full of the terrible ways a British sailor was tormented to death before punishment laws were changed in the British Navy. But the way Stan mugged it up, it was hard to keep a grim outlook. Now I can't hear the serious versions without that voice in the back of my head singing, "The captain trained his dogs to bite him...(Ingalsations they were, or something like that)...While for mercy Rose did cry. On the deck,his flesh in mouthfuls torn out by the dogs did lie," coupled with a bunch of people making fierce dog sounds in the background...You can't help but feel like some sick individual to be snickering at the lyrics to this song!

I was never sure if part of the reason people laughed was because the words were so awful. I just know Stan encouraged the laughter, and I've never seen a serious version of this song go over well with an audience.