Box of British Humour, A - Various Artists

Product details

Title: Box of British Humour, A

Performer: Various Artists

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: 06/03/2006

Original Release Year: 2006

Label / Distributor: JSP / Proper

Pieces in Set: 4

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Collection

EAN: 788065190422

Additional notes

Album Notes: A compendium of famous British comedy names from the period in and around World War Two, this four-CD box set features sketches and songs by the likes of Max Miller, whose double entendres were the bane of the straight-laced BBC, Stanley Holloway, who later starred in the film version of MY FAIR LADY, and of course the dryly acerbic, quintessentially English Noel Coward. Though some of these routines will be incomprehensible to 21st- century ears, others, like Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" and Norman Long's "On the Day That Chelsea Went and Won the Cup" have weathered the years remarkably well, and comedians like Tommy Handley and Arthur Askey played a vital role in keeping Britons' spirits up during the darkest hours of the war.

Titles on disc 1

1.: Mrs. Worthington - Coward, Noel

2.: Heard At Hogsnorton - The Truth About The BBC - Potter, Gillie

3.: King Canute - Flotsam & Jetsam

4.: Old Hiker - Randle, Frank

5.: Green Tie On The Yellow Dog - Bennett, Billy

6.: Maudie The Racehorse - Tilley, John

7.: Ten Pahnds Dahn - Long, Norman

8.: Fishing - Tate, Harry & Company

9.: Everything Is Fresh Today - Hodges, Jack

10.: Old School Tie - Western Brothers

11.: Recumbent Posture - Holloway, Stanley

12.: Trains - Gardner, Reginald

13.: On The Day That Chelsea Went And Won The Cup - Long, Norman

14.: On behalf Of The Working Classes - Russell, Billy

Titles on disc 2

1.: At The Court Of Good Queen Bess - Waters, Elsie & Doris

2.: London Transport Board - Tilley, John

3.: Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Coward, Noel

4.: I'm The Pest Of Budapest - Byng, Douglas

5.: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven - Frankau, Ronald

6.: Percy The Prawn - Alan, A.J.

7.: Peaceful Street - Butcher, Ernest

8.: Clothes - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom

9.: Keeping A Stiff Upper - Wakefield, Oliver

10.: Nell - Bennett, Billy

11.: My Little Austin Seven - Long, Norman

12.: Stately Homes Of England - Coward, Noel

13.: Band Wagon - Askey, Arthur & Richard Murdoch

14.: When You've Fellows Like Me In The Force - Frankau, Ronald

15.: She Was Poor But She Was Honest - Bennett, Billy

16.: Upp'ards - Holloway, Stanley

Titles on disc 3

1.: We Can't Let You Broadcast This - Long, Norman

2.: Pets - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom

3.: Play Up And Pay The Dame - Wakefield, Oliver

4.: Max Miller In The Theatre - Miller, Max

5.: Bad Show Chaps - Western Brothers

6.: Deepest Shelter In Town - Desmond, Florence

7.: Rain Came Pitter Patter Down - Happidrome

8.: When Moaning Minnie Moans No More - Happidrome

9.: Baby In The Flat Up Above - Happidrome

10.: Let Me Tell You - Happidrome

11.: Let's Have Another One - Happidrome

12.: Our Up To Date Farm - Happidrome

13.: Out In Indiah - Happidrome

14.: Napoleon's Retreat - Happidrome

15.: Biggest Aspridistra In The World - Fields, Gracie

16.: Who Is That Man (Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin) - Handley, Tommy

17.: Lord Haw Haw Of Zeesen - Western Brothers

Titles on disc 4

1.: Is 'E An Aussie Lizzie Is 'E - Flotsam & Jetsam

2.: Proposal - Askey, Arthur & Richard Murdoch

3.: Where Does Poor Pa Go In The Blackout - Long, Norman

4.: Tommy Trinder's Stage Show - Trinder, Tommy

5.: It's That Man Again - Handley, Tommy

6.: Max With The Forces - Miller, Max

7.: Food Demonstration - Holloway, Stanley

8.: Home Guard - Wilton, Robb

9.: Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans - Coward, Noel

10.: If Only I'd Put An X Instead Of 1 - Warner, Jack

11.: What Does It Matter - Hay, Will & Company

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