Complete Flanders And Swann, The - Flanders & Swann

If you long for humour which doesn't depend on vitriol, swearing, sexual innuendo or childishness, this three CD set is just what you have been looking for. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann were big stars in England in the late 1950 and early 1960s, also touring Canada, the USA and Australia. The wheelchair bound Flanders was the 'funny' man on vocals, with Swann 'the straight' man on the piano. Their repertoire is marked by a gentle and wry humour, as opposed to the harshness, anger and archness which characterises so much contemporary humour. As Flanders says himself in one of his ... more