| 1. Charanga y Mambo |
| 2. Way of Love |
| 3. No, No, No, Cha, Cha, Cha Medley: Satisfaction/The No No Song |
| 4. Por Eso (Me Olvido de Ti) |
| 5. Cubia Sabanera |
| 6. Recuerdos |
| 7. Nothing Is Permanent |
| 8. Cumbia Veracruzana |
| 9. Cha Cha for Two |
| 10. Hernando's Hideaway |
| 11. Busy Office Rhumba |
| 12. Siren Song |
| 13. Robertin, Roberton |
| 14. Fly Me to the Moon |
| 15. Cielito Lindo |
No, No, No, Cha Cha Cha,Brave Combo,Rounder / Pgd,Alternative Pop/Rock,Cha-Cha,Ethnic,Polka,Pop,Rock,United States of America,World Music,Worldbeat
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Complete Flanders & Swann
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006T4S Release Date: 1997-04-30 |
Tracks:
- Warthog, The (The Hog Beneath The Skin)
- The Sea Horse
- The Chameleon
- Whale, The (Mopy Dick)
- Je Suis Le Tenebreux
- Songs For Our Time
- A Song Of The Weather - Flanders & Swann
- The Reluctant Cannibal
- Greensleeves
- Misalliance
- Kokoraki
- Madeira M'Dear?
- Too Many Cookers
- Built Up Area
- In The Bath (From 'At The Drop Of A Hat')
- Sea Fever
- The Hippopotamus Song
Tracks:
- The Gas Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Los Olividados
- In The Desert
- The Sloth
- The Rhinoceros
- Kangaroo Tango
- Jaguar
- Dead Ducks
- The Elephant
- By Air
- Slow Train
- A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
- The Humming Bird
- The Portuguese Man-Of-War
- Sea Fever
- The Hippopotamus Song
Tracks:
- The Gas Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Los Olividados
- In The Desert
- The Sloth
- The Rhinoceros
- Kangaroo Tango
- Jaguar
- Dead Ducks
- The Elephant
- By Air
- Slow Train
- A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
- The Humming Bird
- The Portuguese Man-Of-War
- The Wild Boar
- The Ostrich
- The Wompom
- Twice Shy
- Commonwealth Fair
- P** P* B**** B** D******
- Paris
- Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Cha Cha Cha
- The Hundred Song
- Food For Thought
Album Details
Fantastic Triple CD Box Set of the Recorded Works of One of Britain's Most Popular Comedy Duos. Their Keen Observations of Everyday British Life and Abilities to Exemplify them in Song Made them the Darlings of the UK. Cleverness, Wit and Absoute Hilarity were the Order of the Day, in Just About Any Style of Music. Pure Comic Genius on Three Discs!Customer Reviews:
Return to Sanity.......2005-07-27
Have Some Madeira.......2005-07-06
"Have some Madeira, m'dear" is an all-time favorite.
British humour at its best.......2003-03-15
If you haven't heard this..........2003-01-16
After being told to take up singing as a means of strengthening his polio-weakened lungs, the wheelchair-bound Flanders teamed up with pianist Swann and proceeded to write such classic songs as "The Hippo Song (Mud Mud Glorious Mud)", "The Gasman Cometh", "The Gnu Song", "A Transport of Delight" and many others. As well as a gently satirical spirit, all these songs feature the sublime wordplay and interplay of both men.
The first two discs of this box set are actual concerts - "At The Drop Of A Hat" and its successor "At The Drop Of Another Hat". Recorded at the height of the duo's popularity and form, the sound quality is surprisingly good for recordings this old.
"At The Drop Of A Hat" opens with three of the Flanders and Swann classics. "Transport Of Delight", a song in praise of the "97 horsepower omnibus" features the wonderful harmonies of the duo on lines like "any more fares" and Flanders' dead-on impression of a London busdriver "Geddardait, we're full right up inside". "Song of Reproduction" deals with the new, as it was then, stereo technology and features Flanders delivering an incredible monologue using every conceivable piece of audiophile jargon. "The Gnu Song" (in which "gnu" is pronounced phonetically) is a real treat. The audience's reaction to the reappearance of the gnu is superb.
As well as this opening trio, the disc features Flanders' snippets of "Songs For Our Time" (in which he experiments with conventions of hit songs), "Song of the Weather" (a rundown of English weather throughout the year), "The Reluctant Cannibal" (featuring Swann in the tititular role and the chorus "I can't eat people/I won't eat people/eatin' people is wrong"), Swann's foray into Greek folksong "Kokraki" and the justifiably famous "Madeira M'Dear". The performance ends with a rousing version of "The Hippo Song".
Flanders is in fine voice throughout and his comments introducing each song are delivered with deadpan accuracy. The story behind "The Gnu Song" is an absolute masterpiece. Flanders' monologue about the creation of "Greensleeves" is also superb - "'Greenfleeves'. That's an interesting name for a fong" (referencing old English script) being just a taste.
"Another Hat" begins in equally fine form with "Gasman Cometh" and "Ill Wind". "Gasman", presaged as "a tale of unending domestic upheaval", is sure to have most people who've ever dealt with unreliable tradesmen nodding in agreement, while "Ill Wind" is Flanders' attempt at setting words to a French horn concerto featuring the immortal lines "I lost that horn/lost that horn/lost that horn/found that horn/gorn". The performance continues with Swann's Russian/English song "In The Desert", the ending of which is truly side-splitting. "All Gall" (a reinterpretation of "This Old Man" to fit then-French President Charles de Gaulle) is a little dated but very cleverly done. "Song of Patriotic Prejudice", with its introduction and opening lines grabbing the audience's attention is another triumph, while the "Hippo Encore" is a great end to the performance.
Again Flanders is at his peak. His loving description of the Spanish olive-stuffers ("Olividados") and his superb story about flying ("By Air") are both brilliant examples of the shaggy dog story.
My favourite from both of these discs would have to be "First and Second Law". Flanders decides to educate Swann in elementary science and picks on the first and second laws of thermodynamics ("heat is work and work is heat" and "heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body") and the repetition of these phrases in time to Swann's barely-there piano accompaniment is one of the finest moments in British comedy.
The third disc is largely forgettable. It begins with a series of animal-related songs performed in a studio and without much of Flanders' rambling introductions. "Warthog" has its moments, while the others were clearly not performed in front of an audience for a reason. "Wompom" is also mildly diverting, presenting a story about a made-up substance which is the answer to everything.
The rest of the disc is then filled out with much earlier material in a rather poorly-recorded concert. "20 Tons of TNT" (related to the calculation the pair had done which gave that as the amount of TNT per person on the planet at the time) provides food for thought, but little more.
Is this box set for everyone? No. Much of the humour both within and without the songs does require a bit of background knowledge to what was going on in Britain and Europe at the time (1960s), John Profumo is referenced a few times as well as Charles de Gaulle and the Common Market, while a smattering of classical music knowledge can help out a bit with Swann's work and "Ill Wind". The fact that my grandfather (who's in his late 70s) recalls hearing these songs and laughing may give an indication as to the age of some of the subject matter. Equally the fact that "First and Second Law" references an awful lot of physics might do the same.
Nevertheless, for anyone who loves British humour done in a gentle manner or who is interested in the source of "mud mud glorious mud/nothing quite like it for cooling the blood", give these CDs some serious consideration.
Gentle Satire.......2002-04-03
Here are some samples of Michael's verbal wit.
Wordplay:
- "A Transport of Delight," their song of the pleasures of the double-decker bus "has recently been adopted as the theme song of the Underground resistance movement."
- Speculating that Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves: "and the royalties go to royalty."
- About a tennis referee late in the day: "the umpire upon whom the sun never sets."
- Explaining how he was hoisted in his wheelchair onto airliners by a fork lift: "Why they need a great machine like that to lift forks I do not know. Well, they're only plastic, now, aren't they?"
- On status symbols: "The object is to Gunga Din your neighbor: 'I'm a better man than you' is the acid test," and, "let's bang our status cymbals with the best."
- To a disenchanted cannibal: "You used to be a regular anthropophagi."
- Of a lecher: "And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps," while the girl "lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes, and his hopes."
- At the corrida d'olivas (the Andorran festival of olive stuffing, not to be confused with the Spanish corrida de toros, or bullfight): "And a great cry goes up of Ole! He has made an 'ol."
- "It's no good going up to a scientist and saying to him like you would to anybody else, 'Good morning, how are you, lend me a quid, and so on.' He'll just glare at you, or make a rude retort."
Throw-aways
- During the height of the cold war the Soviet Union sent the Moscow Ballet on a world tour. Donald sang one chorus of the Hippopotamus Song "mud, mud, glorious mud - nothing quite like it for cooling the blood" in Russian. Michael: "That should improve our cultural relations."
- During the 1963 Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler scandal: "None of that going around saying no smoke without fire. Nil cumbustibus, Profumo." Also, from "Friendly Duet," "such models of friendship are precious and rare, while the friendship of models is not."
- "Now if you're writing a musical, as I'm sure practically all of you are, . . ."
- Of Donald: "You know that no one has a higher regard for your music . . . than you do yourself. I merely meant that you are not great because you are not dead. If you wish to be great you must stop composing and start decomposing."
- "We never found a rhyme for (Soviet Premier Nikita) "Kruschev" until he was dead: Did he die or was he "pushed off"?"
- "We spent two dreadful, uh, delightful years, entertaining the Americans whose need, let's face it, is greater even than yours. Of course, when we're over there we say that the other way 'round."
- "No matter what you may say about the Germans, and who doesn't . . ."
- "Some of the songs that have made our names a household word, like slop-bucket . . ."
- "They've started testing cars now. They started at 10 years, then 5, now three. There's even some talk of having them tested before they leave the factory."
Absurdities
- "I'm delirious about our new oven fitted with the eye-level grill. This means that without my having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye."
- A spectator during the construction of Stonehenge: "So, it's not going to be lived in. Well, that's something anyway. So what is it, then? It's a what?! A calendar?! A bit big for a calendar isn't it? You'd look pretty foolish with that on your desk."
- "Donald knocked himself out this morning. Got one of those new pop-up toasters. Nasty things."
Incredible multiple rhymes:
- "The fair hippoptama he aimed to entice from her seat on her hilltop above, as she hadn't got a ma to give her advice, went tip-toeing down to her love."
- Of Josephine: "Nonsense, said Bonaparte. She lives on her own, apart, in her own apartment."
- "Oh let us be married if our parents don't mind. We'd be happy and inseparable. Inextricably entwined. We'd live happily every after, said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed."
- "And you'll always see a single lace-less left-hand leather boot. A bootless British river bank's a shock. We leave them there at midnight, you can track a member's route by the alternating print of boot and sock."
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No, No, No, Cha Cha Cha
Brave Combo Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000003KH Release Date: 1993-03-01 |
Tracks:
- Charanga Y Mambo
- The Way Of Love
- No, No, No, Cha Cha Cha
- Por Eso (Me Olvido De Ti)
- Cumbia Sabanera
- Recuerdos
- Nothing Is Permanent
- Cumbia Veracruzana
- Cha Cha For Two
- Hernando's Hideaway
- Busy Office Rhumba
- Siren Song
- Robertin, Roberton
- Fly Me To The Moon
- Cielito Lindo
Customer Reviews:
Polk 'n' Roll.......2002-11-13
Hard to chose one and only one Brave Combo's album, but this one's truely great.
Why don't you make yourself a favour and get the album MUSICAL VARIETIES too...
cha cha cha yes, yes, yes.......1998-11-18
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Eyes Wide Shut: Music from Stanley Kubrick Movies
Manufacturer: Golden Stars ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004VRKT Release Date: 1999-12-01 |
Tracks:
- When I Fall in Love [From Eyes Wide Shut] - Hollywood Star Orchestra
- Second Waltz from "Jazz Suite" [From Eyes Wide Shut]
- Strangers in the Night [From Eyes Wide Shut] - Hollywood Star Orchestra
- 2nd Movement from "Symphony No. 9" in D Minor Op. 125 "Choral" [From a
- Pomp and Circumstance March Op.39/1 [From a Clockwork Orange] - Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
- Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) [from Lolita, My Love] - Ella Fitzgerald
- Introduction from "Also Sprach Zarathustra" [From 2001: A Space ...]
- Adagio from "Gayane" - Ballet Suite [from Lolita, My Love]
- Theme from "Spartacus" [From Spartacus] - Hollywood Star Orchestra
- Sarabande [From Barry Lyndon]
- German Dance No. 1 in C Major [From Barry Lyndon]
- Third Movement from "Cello Concerto" in E Minor [From Barry Lyndon] - Musici Di San Marco
- Main Title from "The Shining" [From the Shining] - Hollywood Star Orchestra
- Chapel of Love [From Full Metal Jacket] - The Dixie Cups
- We'll Meet Again [From Dr. Strangelove] - Vera Lynn
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Le Meilleur de l'Opérette
Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000053W6K Release Date: 2002-04-02 |
Customer Reviews:
Melodies to miraculously cure the moribund!!!.......2005-09-10
FROM OFFENBACH TO LOPEZ.......2002-08-16
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The Lighter Side
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000075A60 Release Date: 2002-11-12 |
Tracks:
- Allegro From Water Music Suite In F Major
- Bourree Fantasque
- The Cuckoo
- Golliwog's Cake-Walk From Children's Corner
- Gladiolus Rag
- Jealousy
- Czardas
- Carnival Of The Animals: Introduction And Royal March Of The Lion
- Carnival Of The Animals: Hens And Cockerels
- Carnival Of The Animals: Wild Asses
- Carnival Of The Animals: Tortoises
- Carnival Of The Animals: The Elephant
- Carnival Of The Animals: Kangaroos
- Carnival Of The Animals: Aquarium
- Carnival Of The Animals: Persons With Long Ears
- Carnival Of The Animals: Cuckoos In The Depths Of The Woods
- Carnival Of The Animals: Aviary
- Carnival Of The Animals: Brass Players (Pianists)
- Carnival Of The Animals: Fossils
- Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan
- Carnival Of The Animals: Finale
Tracks:
- Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince Of Denmark's March)
- Of Knights And Castles
- Le Bateau Sue Leman
- Blues March
- Brass Cats: Kraken
- Brass Cats: Black Sam
- Brass Cats: Borage
- Brass Cats: Mr. Jums
- Suite From West Side Story: Prologue
- Suite From West Side Story: Something's Coming
- Suite From West Side Story: Mambo
- Suite From West Side Story: Cha-Cha, Scherzo
- Suite From West Side Story: America
- Suite From West Side Story: Cool-Fugue
- Suite From West Side Story: Finale
- The Carnival Of Venice Variations
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Main Street USA
Morton Gould , George Gershwin , Leonard Bernstein , and New Century Saxophone Quartet Manufacturer: Channel Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003UZI Release Date: 1996-10-01 |
Tracks:
- Pavane
- Main Street Waltz
- Main Street March
- Clara, Clara
- Oh, I Got Plenty O'Nuttin'
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- Oh, I Can't Sit Down
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Summertime
- There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' For New York
- Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
- Promenade
- Three Quarter Blues
- Merry Andrew
- I Feel Pretty
- Balcony Scene (Tonight)
- Cha-Cha/Meeting Scene/Jump
- One Hand, One Heart
- Gee, Officer Krupke
- Scherzo
- Somewhere
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No Ke Aloha Ma Ka Aina
Manufacturer: Eric Dotterer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA48RE Release Date: 2005-03-08 |
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No No No Cha Cha Cha
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000A28PCI Release Date: 2002-09-03 |
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The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann
Manufacturer: Parlophone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004S6FO Release Date: 1991-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Warthog (The Hog Beneath the Sea)
- Sea Horse
- Chameleon
- Whale (Mopy Dick)
- Sloth
- Rhinoceros
- Twosome: Kang & Jag (Kangaroo and Jaguar)
- Dead Ducks
- Elephant
- Armadillo
- Spider
- Threesome: Duck Billed Platypus/The Humming Bird/The Portuguese ...
- Wild Boar
- Ostrich
- Wompom
- Twice Shy
- Commonwealth 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
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Ultimos Exitos De Los Aragon
Manufacturer: DISCUBA 565 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000FEWVC6 |
Latin Music:
- Norteños de Sangre Pura
- Nostalgia: 100 Anos de Boleros, Vol. 2
- Nueve Semanas Y Media
- Pa Todos Charanga
- Pasión
- Paso Del Cienpies
- Penas Del Alma
- Perdona Mi Franqueza
- Personalidad
- Piano Inolvidable (Unforgettable Piano)
Latin Music
Music: Del Campo: La Divina Comedia and Other Orchestral Mus
All the Pain Money Can Buy (+3 Bonus Tra
Alban Berg: Wozzeck / Ingo Metzmacher
Alphabet City [Import] [Original recording remastered]
318 Hot Girl [Explicit Lyrics]