Flanders And Swann - Live 1967, uba rare british comedy stage show clip from a 1992 british video they made in the US toward the end of their careers. Please comment, share, link and rate, thank you. A
You are absolutely right when you say that...I've allways thought that because it was already dated and a throwback to the 20s when F&S performed this brilliant act in the 50s and 60s that it was ignoring faddish fashion trends and going full steam into bygone era with no apologies, thereby sticking two fingers up to future critics and cementing themselves into the hearts of people like us...and somehow I think they didnt give a hoot about such tiffles as fashion trends..one fashion trend that did help them, by chance, was the penchant for singing '20s style music hall numbers' in the late 60s..even The Beatles had a few very good stabs at this style with songs like 'when I'm 64'...but F&S reign supreme
My sister and I grew up listening to these guys and could never find anyone else who had even heard of them! Thank you so much for posting...the Armadillo song still makes me cry after all this time :)
Wonderful. I grew up with "At the Drop of a Hat". Part of a great tradition of satirical songwriters - Gilbert & Sullivan, Tom Lehrer and many more. Nice to see music and lyrics used so deftly and combined so joyfully.
Such wonderful, elegant performers, and Swann's keyboard skills were so often overlooked. With the sad death of their great friend, Ian Wallace, a whole era in British revue entertainment has ended.
This was my first exposure to Flanders & Swann when I was in fifth grade, and actually watched this on CBS before going to do my own performing in our middle school concert...
One of my disappointments in life was that I never saw F & S live in concert. Although I know most of the words I never tire of listening to them. Thanks for uploading this clip, if you have any others please upload them for the 1000's of F & S fans out there.
I've known and loved Flanders & Swann for pretty much all my (40) years, thanks to my father being an obsessive fan who taught me all the 'Hat' songs from an early age. It's surely not healthy to know all the words to Madeira M'dear from the age of ten is it? I discovered Armadillo much later and it always felt like 'my song'. The line: "Never tell a man the truth about the one that he adores" just kills me every time...
@@adlamis Maybe my father played it as sort of cautionary tale ? Certainly i grew up often singing The Hippopotamus Song with him when we were out together.
thank you for finding this! such a great team! I had the LP and played it on a turntable in the 60s! never saw them live! this is so lovely they were only ever sound for me!
I absolutely love these guys. Quite brilliant in all respects and now sadly missed. I'd love to have seen them live. I wonder what they'd be singing about if they'd been born in the 60's or 70's......?
If full concerts were professionally recorded, they should be released. If adequate home recordings exist, they should be remastered now we have the technology to broadcast quality into a compilation DVD. Flanders might not have liked being recorded, but he deserves the infamy, along with Swann, for their pains. They were geniuses, as this clip and the responses prove.
Great to finally see them live , so to speak. I have the original LP of At the drop of a Hat which belonged to my parents and have often listened to it and finally found it on iTunes so can now listen without the scratches and jumps.
John Pollock Complete recordings (save odd ones like this TV one) are available on CD - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ZCJBCY/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=569136327&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000026GPR&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1Z9GQ4EXGGCBDANKXD63
I remember the night this was broadcast, I was with my parents just returning from a visit to my maternal grandparents, and so upset (I was about ten years old) that we had missed most of the show, though I did hear the "First and Second Laws" song.
(Kiss-kiss) Adenauer ratified at Bonn, One old man goes on and on! The "Another Hat" version of "All Gall" is a bit more edgy, as is the response to the "Horoscope" song.
It's funny that the English are still upset that De Gaulle kept them out, when in fact today they don't really want to be part of the EU and certainly not the Eurozone.
Jerry Kitich Thing is, it's not the same EU nowadays as when De Gaulle was around (nor when the UK actually joined 10 years later). They'd probably have had second thoughts had they been able to see into the future, with hordes of so-called economic refugees arriving weekly from eastern Europe, and (far worse) countless sheaves of pointless restrictive regulations issuing forth from Brussels. Regulations that nearly every other country seems to defy or ignore.
