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Music : The Complete Flanders and Swann: at the Drop of a Hat/at the Drop of Another Hat/the Bestiary of Flanders & Swann
by: Flanders & Swann
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077779746422 Format: Box set Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: EMI Release Date: October 14, 1991 Sales Rank: 1368 Studio: EMI |
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Disc 1:
- Transport of Delight
- Song of Reproduction
- Gnu Song
- Design for Living
- Je Suis Les Tenebreux
- Songs for Our Time
- Song of the Weather
- Reluctant Cannibal
- Greensleeves
- Misalliance
- Kokoraki
- Madeira, M'Dear
- Too Many Cookers
- Vanessa
- Tried by the Centre Court
- Youth of the Heart
- Hippopotamus Song
- Gas-Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Olividados
- In the Desert
- Ill Wind
- First and Second Law
- All Gall
- Horoscope
- Friendly Duet
- Bedstead Men
- By Air
- Slow Train
- Song of Patriotic Prejudice
- Built up Area
- In the Bath
- Sea Fever
- Hippo Encore
- Warthog (The Hog Beneath the Skin)
- Sea Horse
- Chameleon
- Whale (Mopy Dick)
- Sloth
- Rhinoceros
- Twosome-Kang & Jag (Kangaroo Tango and Jaguar)
- Dead Ducks
- Elephant
- Armadillo
- Spider
- Threesome-Duck Billed Platypus/... [Medley]
- Wild Boar
- Ostrich
- Wompom
- Twice Shy
- Commomwealth Fair
- p**p*b****b**d******
- Paris
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Cha Cha Cha
- Hundred Song
- Food for Thought
- Bed
- 20 Tons of TNT
- War of 14-18
- The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Import)
- Hoffnung: A Last Encore (includes the Oxford Union Speech) (BBC Radio Collection)
- Tom Lehrer In Concert
- Phonetically Speaking - and Don't Forget the Piano
- Something Like This
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Average Rating: 
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- You may be a trifle concerned at the thought ...... of buying three CDs of two men singing comic songs.
Don't be.
Flanders and Swann's "comic songs" are different from most. They have bite, wit, character, fire and - just below the surface - sometimes profound meaning. These are no "ordinary" comic songs.
Neither is Swann's accompaniment at the piano ordinary.
These are CDs that contain true gems. Buy them.
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- Witty, civilised, scintillatingBliss! If you tire of entertainment aimed purely at the lowest common denominator then this is the welcome antithesis. The other reviews say it all really. The wordplay of Flanders is just fabulous, the wit perfect, Swann's music light but expertly arranged, and they're not afraid to make references that are, for want of a better word, "intellectual" - in other words, for all the fun and silliness (and they really are very funny), they treat their audience like grown-ups. The result is a box set ... Read More
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- Timeless humourI don't expect there are many 20-something year olds who enjoy Flanders and Swann but I am proud to be one of them. I learnt to sing the Hippopotamus Song at school and then my mum introduced me to this fine collection.
Nothing makes me giggle more that The Gas Man Cometh or playing the Song of Patriotic Prejudice at top volume with 'foreigners' in the house!
I am proud to say I once saw Donald Swann on stage about a year before his death (and, thanks to a kindly employee, ... Read More
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- Comedy changes with the seasons, wit is timelessComedy changes with the seasons, but wit is timeless. Oscar Wilde never goes out of fashion, because he ignored fashion. In the same way, Flanders & Swann remain relevant because their material was selected with care to tap into the eternal concerns of middle-class audiences.
There is still much to surprise and delight as F&S take on public transport, hi-hi, parking, xenophobia, relationships, popular songs, animals fictional and real, even war (arguably, F&S were never more powerful ... Read More
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- Two Gentlemen of MusicI was fortunate enough to see At The Drop of Another Hat in London. These CDs bring back the memory of that evening very clearly indeed. The gentle satire of Flanders' words combined with Swann's incomparable music epitomise that era. If in doubt, buy it. You won't regret it at all.
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