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  • Composer: Georges Brassens, Michael Flanders, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Donald Swann, English Traditional, et al.
  • Audio CD (14 Oct 1991)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000006T4S
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,173 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Listen  2. Song Of Reproduction 7:06£0.69
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Listen  5. Je Suis Le Tenebreux 2:27£0.69
Listen  6. Songs For Our Time (Philological Waltz/Satellite Moon/A Happy Song) 4:16£0.69
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Listen  9. Greensleeves 7:51£0.69
Listen10. Misalliance 3:55£0.69
Listen11. Kokoraki 5:05£0.69
Listen12. Madeira M'Dear? 3:52£0.69
Listen13. Too Many Cookers 3:12£0.69
Listen14. Vanessa 3:55£0.69
Listen15. Tried By The Centre Court 3:45£0.69
Listen16. The Youth Of The Heart 4:17£0.69
Listen17. The Hippopotamus Song 3:12£0.69


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Listen  2. Sounding Brass 2:53£0.69
Listen  3. Los Olividados 6:38£0.69
Listen  4. In The Desert 3:45£0.69
Listen  5. Ill Wind 5:01£0.69
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Listen  7. All Gall 3:53£0.69
Listen  8. Horoscope 1:10£0.69
Listen  9. Friendly Duet 2:20£0.69
Listen10. Bedstead Men 3:16£0.69
Listen11. By Air 6:17£0.69
Listen12. Slow Train 5:26£0.69
Listen13. A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice 2:51£0.69
Listen14. Built Up Area 3:22£0.69
Listen15. In The Bath 2:34£0.69
Listen16. Sea Fever 3:55£0.69
Listen17. Hippo Encore 1:16£0.69


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Listen  4. The Whale (Mopy Dick) 3:29£0.69
Listen  5. The Sloth 3:15£0.69
Listen  6. The Rhinoceros 2:35£0.69
Listen  7. Twosome: Kang And Jag (Kangaroo Tango/Jaguar) 2:04£0.69
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Listen11. The Spider 2:21£0.69
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Listen13. The Wild Boar 2:23£0.69
Listen14. The Ostrich 2:56£0.69
Listen15. The Wompom 5:52£0.69
Listen16. Twice Shy 4:12£0.69
Listen17. Commonwealth Fair 4:06£0.69
Listen18. P** p* B**** B** D****** 6:20£0.69
Listen19. Paris 4:05£0.69
Listen20. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Cha Cha Cha0:31£0.69
Listen21. The Hundred Song 1:09£0.69
Listen22. Food For Thought 3:55£0.69
Listen23. Bed 3:19£0.69
Listen24. Twenty Tons Of Tnt 2:30£0.69
Listen25. The War Of 14-18 2:15£0.69

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Fantastic three 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 absolute hilarity were the order of the day, in just about any style of music. Pure comic genius on three discs!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best of British Satire, 14 Feb 2001
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The genius that is Flanders and Swann lives on in this boxed set of their complete works. One cannot help but wonder how they might have changed the historical course of musical satire had Michael Flanders lived longer and they had continued writing and recording their songs. This is musical satire at its very best, and along with Tom Lehrer are memorable examples of the genre. Even though I already own the three individual analogue recordings that comprise this set, the compulsion to hear the recordings without the crackles, hisses, pops and squeaks of black plastic was overwhelming. As a bonus, there are some previously unreleased songs on the last CD....fine examples of what might have been. Gone, but not ever forgotten, these two great artists have their rightful place in the history books for their contribution to music and comedy.
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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Example of the Genre, 3 Sep 2001
Flanders and Swann epitomise the 1950s and 1960s revue and (gently but somehow more powerfully) satirical comedy (c.f Tom Lehrer). The context is amazing (brought together in the booklet and with sleeve notes compiled by John Amis, an erstwhile friend and colleague of them both) - they wrote songs for other people and then decided they would hire a theatre and invite a few friends to hear them sing "At the Drop of a Hat"! There is also one video (EMI/PMI MVP 9913393 - it may no longer be available) to feature them with COLOUR footage recorded in the US in April 1967 which contains some of the old favourites and a few of the newer songs. CD set is well worth having even if you have them on analogue.
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5.0 out of 5 stars They make an old fan very happy, 17 Jun 2003
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Flanders, the perfect after dinner speaker with a delightfully mellow and versatile baritone voice; Swann, the supreme partner, both on the keyboard and in the singing. Michael Flanders is expert with language, Donald Swann with music: the latter achieving the highest art -- that of singing counterpoint with MF while playing the perfect accompanist on the piano to them both. All this, and it is VERY funny: even when the jokes are dated they retain their punch and they are told and sung so well that they still convey their humour, and, on occasion, biting satire. These are timeless pieces with duets, solos, monologues and instrumental displays linked by MF in inimitable form. There will never be the like again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Remind yourself of (or construct for yourself) the 1950s....
Three-CD set in a tidy white box, plus a booklet of notes - including biographies, a history of their collaboration, their first experimental theatre booking, its perhaps... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not quite complete
To all the 5-star reviews, with which I thoroughly concur, I should like to add that the stereo recording of "At the Drop of a Hat", which is the one reissued here, was of a later... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paul Magnussen

5.0 out of 5 stars You may be a trifle concerned at the thought ...
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Flanders and Swann's "comic songs" are different from most. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, civilised, scintillating
Bliss! If you tire of entertainment aimed purely at the lowest common denominator then this is the welcome antithesis. The other reviews say it all really. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2005 by Darren Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless humour
I don't expect there are many 20-something year olds who enjoy Flanders and Swann but I am proud to be one of them. Read more
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Comedy changes with the seasons, but wit is timeless. Oscar Wilde never goes out of fashion, because he ignored fashion. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2004 by Andy Millward

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Gentlemen of Music
I was fortunate enough to see At The Drop of Another Hat in London. These CDs bring back the memory of that evening very clearly indeed. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2004 by A G Tottle

5.0 out of 5 stars Real humour
From touching songs such as "The Youth of the Heart" and "Friendly Duet" to "Misalliance" and "Madeira M'Dear" to the animal songs,... Read more
Published on 25 April 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Three evenings of wit and satire
Flanders and Swann were gentelmen and these CD's prove this. Be it in the wit and satier of the bedsted men or in the soul of Donalds "The youth of the heart". Read more
Published on 25 Dec 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very English Brilliance
The outputs of the partnership between Michael Flanders and Donald Swan are very English and very much a product of their time. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2000

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