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Funny you should mention Feldmans silent sketches I saw an edition of the Marty Programme on BBC 4 the other day and I didnt laugh as heartily as I did as a kid,, , I am getting really fed up with that lightning tours sketch and the onE on the golf course. Funny he never married was brilliant as was the book sketch from At Last the 1948 Show. This sketch was later reprised by John Cleese and Graham Chapman on the Python Contractual Obligation album, of course the sketch was penned by them.

Shame he didnt do more telly in his short life there's only At Last the 1948 Show,the BBBC TWO Marty series and the one he did for ITV for the American market.

He only did a few good films, Young Frankenstein being far away one of the best.

bhowells

I am ashamed to admit that I didnt mention the Python records in my original thread, the three Charisma albums with sketches from the series were classics in their own right.

The Cheese shop sketch from Matching Tie and Handkerchief was an udoubted classic, I saw the orignal sketch on a Python video of the third series and the sketch semmed a bit laboured on tv compared to the record version which would have been shorter. Another favourite from the Matching Tie album was the sketch with someone going into a record shop and asking for a record called."The Ronnettes Sing World War Two noises.

Also forgot to mention the L'P.S of "Not the Nine O Clock News, with the classic Gerald the Gorilla sketch and the General Synod's Life Of Python.

Ivor Cutler albums were also brilliant.

winsfordtown

I've got all seven LP's. Still brings a smile to my face when I'm down. I always thought Blaster was Cheshire thing.

bhowells

I suddenly remembered that Tony Randall and Jack Klugman did a comedy version of Carly Simons "Your So Vein." as Felix and Oscar from the tv series of The Odd Couple. I was beginning to think that I imagined this but I checked on Wiklopedia and the two actors recorded the song as a single in 1973. I havent heard it myself and the record was never a hit.

batman

Didn't Dracula release a version of that!

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

earlb

I'm very proud to admit i recorded three python albums for Charisma.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

bhowells

Am I right in saying that the guy who did the Tonee Blackburn song was once married to disc jockey Annie Nighingale.

bhowells

Sister Josephine, Brother Gorilla, My Family Tree, Leopold Alcox all by Jake Thackray.

Forest Lawn by Tom Paxton, one of the few comic songs by him that I like, though I love his serious work.
Does anyone now that comedy re-working of The Twelve Days Of Christmas, I have seen Stephanie Cole peform this on stage in the Oxford Playhouse and there is a good version on record by Frank Kelly.

bhowells

Leonard Cohens "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong" is wonderfully comic.

Hemlok

My father had 2 records of his - "Songs for Gay Dogs and "At the Blue Angel" - I found both hilarious while i was growing up - favouritges being "our Little Village", Love is a wonderful thing, and the woodpecjker song - but what about flanders and Swann? I also remember a reecord called Joan Taylor;s Workshop - the only opera singer I ever heard playing silly beggers...... (sigh) those were the days.......

bhowells

Anyone remember that dreadful parody of C.W. Mcolls Convoy, didnt Dave Lee Travis have a hand in this.

I am sure that many Carry on fans on this forum will be famliar with the ,M.F.P. album featuring many of the team, including, Bernard Bresslaw singing You Need Feet and Frankie Howard's version of Cole Porters,"You Need Feet." and Babs Windsor doing Mother Kelys Doorstep, a song she was born to sing.

bhowells

Pye Records were very good to comedy fans in the sixties with their releases of Hancock L.P;S on and E.P.S, they did a similar thing with Steptoe releasing edited down versions of the tv soundrack on Pye Golden Guinea.

Interesting to note that they continued releasing albums taken from the tv soundtrack at a time when the shows were adapted for radio.

I think Corbett and Bramble would do some voice over work for the records on portioons of the show which were largely visual.

I well rememberan E.P. my brother had of Stetpoe which consisted of a sketch performed at a command performance in 1963, where Albert and Harold are totting outiside Buckingham Palalce.

Jack Jackson would always use snippets from Steptoe records on his light programme show in the sixties.

orpheum

I have a large number of 78s.Amongst these i have a number which were recorded from actual stage performances including Gracie Fields and a 3 record set of Max Miller at the Holborn Empire.

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alan french

Hi.
Last Saturday I was listening to Suzie Quatro's Radio 2 programme and heard an old comedy record I had never heard before. After playing Neil Sedaka's OH! CAROL! She played the answer back by Carol King which was OH! NEIL! I thought it was funny anyway and it made me laugh.
Alan French.

Andy H

B Howells:
A couple of years ago I managed to find a double cassette of Gerard Hoffnung. The recordings include interviews, comedy monologues and bits recorded from the radio. Absolutely hilarious in parts. There's the (now) famous 'barrel of bricks' story, which has me howling with laughter every time I hear it. Blaster Bates used to make a fine job of this one as well.
We also had the Paddy Roberts album, but the only track I can recall is the one you mentioned, but it disappeared around the time my mother died. Perhaps she took it with her, she did like it.
Somewhere I have the CD of Flanders & Swann's 'At the drop of a Hat' - very clever comedy.