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    In the sixties and sevenvited and even into the eighties, comedy records could often be heard on radio.



    My favourites include, "Boom, boom, yat, ta, ta, ta by Eric and Ernie,"Hand Up Your Sticks." by Kenneth Williams and the lesser known,"The Great Bell." by Marty Feldman with the greatest chorus ever,"Rum tiddle, rum, tiddle, scum on the water lint in your navel and asnd in your tea.



    Loads to choose from the Bonzo catalogue,"Shirts." "Intro and the Outro."



    Although I am not a huge fan of either Norman Wisdom or Joyce Grenfel, I do enjoy that record they made together with the tune Narcisuss in the background, they end up dissolving into laughter.



    Great stuff from the us too, Stan Freburg, Alan Sherman(dated now, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Bob Newhart.



    One comedy song that I hated was one recorded by Danny Kaye in which he keptsaying, "Mama, I wanna drink of water" was that the title, I am not sure./



    I would personally draw a discreet veil over some ofRolf Harris's comic gems,with such tiles as,"Sobeody Pinched My Winkles." and "I've lost my Mammy."

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    Hi.

    When I hear Mike Sarne singing with Wendy Richard, Come Outside, I never know now whether to imagine Wendy as The Little X Girl, Miss Brahms, Walker's girl friend in Dad's Army, the character she portrayed in the NewComers or Pauline Fowler.

    Alan French.

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    Not songs - but great comedy! Bridge on the River Wye by Spike Milligan with Peter Sellars, Jonathon Miller and Peter Cook (and a young Patricia Routledge IIRC). An LP long parody of Bridge on the River Kwai produced by George Martin.



    Absolutely brilliant - a must for fans of the film and Brit War films in general. Sellars' Guinness impression is spot on.



    I believe it's available on CD.

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    would love to have shot the Laughing Policeman, Joyce Grenfell was outstanding, as the schoolteacher telling the wee boy not to pick his nose.

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    name='GRAEME']Not songs - but great comedy! Bridge on the River Wye by Spike Milligan with Peter Sellars, Jonathon Miller and Peter Cook (and a young Patricia Routledge IIRC). An LP long parody of Bridge on the River Kwai produced by George Martin.



    Absolutely brilliant - a must for fans of the film and Brit War films in general. Sellars' Guinness impression is spot on.



    I believe it's available on CD.
    never ever heard this Graem. love Patricia Rutledge.

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    I had never heard of the Bridge on the River Wye L.P. I am familiar with the l.p.Sellers did with Tony Newley regarding the Christine Keeler affair. Had it on tape once, but it was relesed on CD sometime ago.



    Matt Monro sang a song on Sellers Songs For Swinging Sellers ablum under a nod de plume.



    Sellers did at least two albums in his own right for Geroge Martin at Parlophone, the Swiging Sellers album had that charming sketch written and co starring Irene Handel where they play a couple chatting of a park bench, very gentle stuff but lovely.



    On the other L.P.Sellers played an M.P. making a speach, Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis wrote a similar sketch for Rowan's one man show in the early eighties, seems to be heavily influenced ty the Sellers sketch.



    Best of the lot from the sellers sketche on record is ,"Balham Gateway to the stars," a parody of the cinema travelogue,"Time has passed by this ancient city and so must we."

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    What about the series of LP's by the one and only Blaster Bates?

    One of his on-stage monologues demonstrated the process of making an explosive, using nitroglycerine : "As you can see, it's very much like marzipan - just the thing for the mother-in-law's birthday cake. You light the candles, then run like hell!"

    Priceless...

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    You know I have been seeing Blaster Bates albums in record shops for years, at one time it was also possible to see Gerald Hoffnung albums.



    One artist I neglected to mention in my original thread was the work of Paddy Roberts, I remember hearing his,"Ballad Of Bethnal Green." on the Decca World of Comedy album, only track of his I have heard. Another great trak on that L.P. was Peter Cook and Dudley Moores Father and Son. Moore as the abrasive Dad and Coook as the snobbish son.

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    Not just songs but some complete shows were available on LP.

    We had some LPs with some episodes of Hancock's Half Hour (the radio series). I remember they included The Radio Ham and The Wild Man of the Woods, Sunday Afternoon at Home and one where he was a test pilot



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    'The Ballad of Irving (the 142nd fastest gun in the West)' by Frank Gallop, 'Three wheels on my wagon' by The New Christy Minstrels and 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadder' by Alan Sherman.



    Tom Lehrer, Stan Freberg and Bob Newhart of course. Lenny Bruce had his moments too!

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    Rambling Sid Rumpo.



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    name='donna']never ever heard this Graem. love Patricia Rutledge.


    Sorry! My mistake it was Patricia Ridgway (who she?)



    But hey! Listen to Bridge on the River Wye for free!!



    The Establishment - Discography - Albums

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    How about Harry Belafonte and Odetta singing There's a Hole In My Bucket, or the version by Nina and Frederick or their version of Baby Its Cold Outside, not hysterically funny but may raise a smile despite the fact that the humour is somewhat dated.



    A slightly obscure one is The Ballad of the Shape of Things by The Kingston Trio also recorded by the jazz singer Blossom Dearie.



    The New Christy Minstrels did a song called,"Choclolate Ice Cream Cone, a song sang in the forties by a country family trio called The Maddox Brothers and Rose.



    Or much funnier than any of the above parodies of the Kingston Trio and The New Christy Minstrels in the Christopher Guest movie,"A Mighty Wind.

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    Benny Hill had a good year for parodying different styles of music, he did a string of parodies of artists such as MartyRobbins, Sonny and Cher and Bob Dylan when he recorded for Pye in the sixties. He did a further batch for EMI in 1970 when he recorded the sessions that produced Ernie, different songs but some of the same gags were resurected.



    Lonnie Donegan recorded a song at the end of his career for Pye called Beans In My Ears, worth checking out for lovers of corny music hall humour.

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    I would think that the most important British comedy records ever would be the George Martin produced Peter Sellers records. Evidently the reason The Beatles were so co-operative with and impressed by George Martin was that he had worked with Peter Sellers. Evidently they were big fans of these records. It goes without saying that the relationship that developed between Martin and The Beatles was quite productive.

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    Most of the songs written and performed by the late Jake Thackray.



    Another of my favorites was Peter Sellers singing "Hard Days Night" in the style of Richard 111.



    Benny Hill had a a big hit with Ernie and Charlie Drake's "My Boomerang Won't Come Back"was popular in its day.

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    My favourites include THE HARRY LIME THEME by Kevin Neil and Peter Sellers' A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF and his George Formby tournament ( can't recall the title).

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    Radio One [forget the DJ's name] used to have a 'Fun at One' slot. Lots of old stuff used to be played, especially Bob Newhart, but one of my most favourite was 'The Moose' by Woody Allen.



    I dont recall much George Carlin or Lenny Bruce being played though

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