The Best of Flanders & Swann: Mud, Glorious Mud (Incl.The Hippopotamus Song & A Transport of Delight)
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Flanders & Swann
The Best of Flanders & Swann: Mud, Glorious Mud (Incl.The Hippopotamus Song & A Transport of Delight)
[ Regis Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 7 April 2008
Flanders and Swann were a comedy duo from the 50's who shot to fame through their two-man revue 'At the Drop of a Hat', and later 'At the Drop of Another Hat'. Michael Flanders was the actor and singer of the duo and he was accompanied by the composer, pianist and linguist Donald Swann.
Flanders and Swann's songs are characterised by wit, gentle satire, complex rhyming schemes, and memorable choruses. 'Mud Glorious Mud' brings together many of their best known works on a specially priced CD.
"Thanks to phenomenal sales of the LP and EPs (produced by George Martin), the songs and sketches became household favourites and a long-awaited and hugely successful USA tour began in 1959. A second show later toured other British cities, Australia, New Zealand, North America and Hong Kong. …Flanders' spoken introductions were intimate and ahead of their time, and the show as a whole, 50 years on, remains strikingly topical."
- James Murray
Tracks:
A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus)
Song Of Reproduction
I'm a Gnu
Design for Living
Je Suis le Ténébreux
Philological Waltz
Satellite Moon
A Happy Song
A Song of the Weather
The Reluctant Cannibal
Greensleeves
Misalliance
Kokoraki - A Greek Song
Madeira, M'Dear?
The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud)
Vanessa
Too Many Cookers
The Rhinoceros Song
The Wart Hog
The Elephant Song
