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Play the Game: Victorian & Edwardian Sporting Songs
 
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Play the Game: Victorian & Edwardian Sporting Songs

~ Ian Partridge (Performer), Jennifer Partridge (Performer), Peter Savidge (Performer), Odoardo Barri (Composer), Thomas H. Chilvers (Composer), et al.
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  • Performer: Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
  • Composer: Odoardo Barri, Thomas H. Chilvers, Jr. Coote Charles, Samuel Corbett, Algernon Drummond, et al.
  • Audio CD (4 Jun 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Just Accord
  • ASIN: B00005O14J
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,267 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Cycling SongIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 3:00£0.79
Listen  2. A Rugger SongPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 2:15£0.79
Listen  3. The Eton Boating SongJennifer Partridge, The Song and Supper Club, Andrew Phillips 4:03£0.79
Listen  4. The Glorious TwelfthPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 3:32£0.79
Listen  5. The Cricketer's CarolIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 2:38£0.79
Listen  6. Won't You Come Over and Play CroquetPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 3:03£0.79
Listen  7. A Game of TennisIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 2:47£0.79
Listen  8. Our Football SupperPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge, The Song and Supper Club, Andrew Phillips 2:35£0.79
Listen  9. The Rival BluesIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 4:00£0.79
Listen10. The Newmarket CoatPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 3:04£0.79
Listen11. Little Tommy Went a FishingThe Song and Supper Club, Andrew Phillips 2:24£0.79
Listen12. CaddiePeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 3:34£0.79
Listen13. I Won Her Heart at BilliardsIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 4:08£0.79
Listen14. Captain Webb the Champion SwimmerPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 3:45£0.79
Listen15. Mountaineer SongThe Song and Supper Club, Andrew Phillips 3:57£0.79
Listen16. Boxing SongIan Partridge, Jennifer Partridge 2:24£0.79
Listen17. A Hunting MorningPeter Savidge, Jennifer Partridge 1:24£0.79


On this CD:
  1. Cycling Song
    Composed by Claude Hill
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  2. A Rugger Song
    Composed by James Gallatly
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  3. The Eton Boating Song
    Composed by Algernon Drummond
    with Jennifer Partridge, The Song and Supper Club

  4. The Glorious Twelfth
    Composed by Henry Watson
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  5. The Cricketer's Carol
    Composed by Herbert Preston-Thomas
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  6. A Game of Tennis
    Composed by Harriet Kendall
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  7. Won't you come over and play croquet?
    Composed by Franklin Ardelle
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  8. Our Football Supper
    Composed by Henry E. Pether
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge, The Song and Supper Club

  9. The Rival Blues
    Composed by Odoardo Barri
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  10. The Newmarket Coat
    Composed by Harry Ball
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  11. Little Tommy Went a Fishing
    Composed by James Macy
    with The Song and Supper Club

  12. Captain Webb, the Champion Swimmer
    Composed by Samuel Corbett
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  13. Mountaineer Song
    Composed by Leo Kerbusch
    with The Song and Supper Club

  14. Boxing Song
    Composed by Thomas Chilvers
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  15. A Hunting Morning
    Composed by Alfred Silver
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge

  16. I won her heart at billards
    Composed by Charles jnr Coote
    with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

  17. Caddie
    Composed by Herbert Schartau
    with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge


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Amazon.co.uk Review
The serious approach in these performances of utter trivia--titles such as "I won her heart at billiards" and "Won't you come over and play croquet"--lend them an absurdity that their creators wouldn't have envisaged. When Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane penned his carol to "the joys of the gay cricket ground, with some jolly good fellows to share it," he presumably had no sense of how changing times would amplify his meaning. Likewise with the composer of the "Eton Boating Song", who wrote "Swing, swing together with your backs between your knees". All of which makes this disc a complete joy, done as it is with po-faced eloquence, restraint and delicacy. Tenor Ian Partridge and his various collaborators (The Song and Supper Club turns out to be a bunch of former choral scholars who do after-dinner entertainments) know that for the formula to work it needs a certain sympathy and earnestness, but they're not blind to the high-camp that gives the songs a life--and an appeal--beyond their period inconsequentiality. It's an hour of good, clean (OK, clean-ish) fun. --Michael White

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5.0 out of 5 stars A FUN CD FOR THE SPORTS LOVER, 9 Oct 2004
By T. W. Dawson (Pimlico, London, UK) - See all my reviews
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A fun CD which will appeal to the sports lover, music lover and history lover in equal measure. The idea is simple. "Play The Game" contains 17 British and American songs,
each one about a different sport. The songs were written between 1862 and 1913.

Listeners are likely to be drawn to the songs which illustrate their favourite sports. Many golfers will recognise the plight of the player in "Caddie", written in 1900, who pleads with his caddie, ever more desperately, to 'get me right out of this mess'. Enthusiasts of British heritage will enjoy "The Eton Boating Song", the song of Eton College, where Princes William and Harry were educated. The CD contains a real historical curiosity: "A Hunting Morning" is a setting of a rare poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

The liner notes contain an article on the history of sport, a background note on each song plus short biographies of the composers and lyricists. The CD would make an unusual Christmas or birthday gift for a sports loving friend.
Strongly recommended!

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