I wonder how many of my readers remember the British musical comedy duo, Flanders and Swann? Old school friends Michael Flanders and Donald Swann teamed up after World War II to write musical revues, with an emphasis on comedy, and were very successful through the 1950's and 1960's. Some of their songs remain popular to this day.
To start with, here's a short documentary about the duo and their success together.
They wrote many comic songs about animals, one of the most famous being "The Hippopotamus".
"Design for Living" examined the vexed question of interior decorating.
One of my favorites was when Michael Flanders decided to sing Mozart's Horn Concerto.
And, last but far from least, here the duo perform "A Song of the Weather".
You'll find many more of their songs on YouTube.
Peter
4 comments:
Great tunes -- such clever lyrics! Their tunes were a great source of our campfire songs , such pleasant memories!
I'm rather fond of 'Too Many Cookers' and 'A Song of Reproduction' (about Hi-Fi...) as well as 'The Gas Man Cometh'.
They did one about St. Trinian's, but apparently it either wasn't recorded, or never made it online. It's in a book I have about Searle and St. Trinian's.
madeira M'Dear is a song is SO anti-PC today
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