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On this CD:
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Cycling Song
Composed by Claude Hill
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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A Rugger Song
Composed by James Gallatly
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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The Eton Boating Song
Composed by Algernon Drummond
with Jennifer Partridge, The Song and Supper Club
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The Glorious Twelfth
Composed by Henry Watson
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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The Cricketer's Carol
Composed by Herbert Preston-Thomas
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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A Game of Tennis
Composed by Harriet Kendall
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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Won't you come over and play croquet?
Composed by Franklin Ardelle
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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Our Football Supper
Composed by Henry E. Pether
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge, The Song and Supper Club
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The Rival Blues
Composed by Odoardo Barri
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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The Newmarket Coat
Composed by Harry Ball
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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Little Tommy Went a Fishing
Composed by James Macy
with The Song and Supper Club
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Captain Webb, the Champion Swimmer
Composed by Samuel Corbett
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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Mountaineer Song
Composed by Leo Kerbusch
with The Song and Supper Club
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Boxing Song
Composed by Thomas Chilvers
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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A Hunting Morning
Composed by Alfred Silver
with Jennifer Partridge, Peter Savidge
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I won her heart at billards
Composed by Charles jnr Coote
with Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
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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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