Leslie Crowther and Bernie Winters “Flanagan and Allen” (A Royal Birthday Gala…Part 13/30) HD
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2018
- The Queen Mother on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
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The BBC presents a Royal Birthday Gala from The London Palladium.
A galaxy of glittering stars from the world of music, theatre, film and television gather together for a special celebration to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in a musical montage
of the shows around in the early 1900s.
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Flanagan and Allen were a British singing and comedy double act popular during World War II. Its members were Bud Flanagan (1896-1968) and Chesney Allen (1894-1982). They were first paired in a Florrie Forde revue, and were booked by Val Parnell to appear at the Holborn Empire in 1929.
As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act; this led to a successful recording career as a duo and roles in film and television. Just prior to and throughout the Second World War they appeared in several films helmed by Marcel Varnel and John Baxter. Flanagan and Allen were both also members of The Crazy Gang and worked with that team for many years concurrently with their double-act career.
Flanagan and Allen's songs featured the same, usually gentle, humour for which the duo were known in their live performances, and during the Second World War they reflected the experiences of ordinary people during wartime. Songs like 'We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line' mocked the German defences (Siegfried Line), while others like 'Miss You' sang of missing one's sweetheart during enforced absences. Other songs, such as their most famous, 'Underneath the Arches' (which Flanagan co-wrote with Reg Connelly), and the song Umbrella Man which was used in many Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons), had universal themes such as friendship. The music was usually melodic, following a binary verse, verse chorus structure, with a small dance band or orchestra providing the accompaniment. The vocals were distinctive because while Flanagan was at least a competent singer and sang the melody lines, Allen used an almost spoken delivery to provide the harmonies and bass line.
The recordings of Flanagan and Allen remain popular, and the duo are frequently impersonated by professionals and amateurs. Royal Variety Performances often feature people 'doing a Flanagan and Allen', notably Roy Hudd and Christopher Timothy, Bernie Winters and Leslie Crowther. In 1980 the latter two featured in a one-off musical drama about the duo produced by ATV for the ITV network.
The later comedy team Morecambe and Wise, who often expressed their admiration for Flanagan and Allen, recorded a tribute album, Morecambe and Wise Sing Flanagan and Allen (Phillips 6382 095), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more popular songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals. Fans of either comedy team may be slightly disappointed by this album, since all of the selections are performed absolutely straight, with no comedy except for a brief amount of banter after one of the songs. Run Rabbit Run was one of their best hits in World War Two.
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A very fine performance by LC and BW.
i'm still here ,this is just lovely for me ,i'm 71 and remember all these wonderful people , i wish they where still here xx
This is a perfect example of how great songs of yesteryear can be resurrected by following generations. Messrs Crowther and Winters certainly proved that with this medley which they could easily have called their own. The quality of the recording and orchestral arrangement are of course much improved.
Bernie impressed me so much here. Bud Flanagan would have loved it.
Leslie Crowther was a huge talent - and a very nice man.
My late dance mistress always referred to him as the nicest man in showbiz and from what I saw that was a title well earned
What a wonderful tribute act from these two - they both look and sound perfect as Bud and Ches 🧡
It's known that Bud's widow Curly thought that Bernie was THE choice t portray her husband and I love the interplay between Les & Bernie in this piece. No disrespect to the other actors but I didn't think the line up really worked - some of them couldn't even decide which foot they were to step out on and the concept of opposition arms had them stumped
really happy days ,all gone now sadly , the country that most of us love is sadly gone forever , how sad is that ?
Rest in peace Leslie and Bernie x ❤️
I'm impressed by Leslie Crowther's skill at impersonating Chesney Allen - even down to pretending he can't sing.
Bud Flanagan could sing, just lister to the Theme for Dads Army, which was recorded just before his death.
"Ches" didn't sing - his style was known as "recititive" and it isn't easy to do. However the two of them in this clip are in perfect harmony.
Leslie was a lovely singer - somewhere if I can find it I will post his Jack Buchanan routine where he did "And Her Mother Came To". He sang that beautifully and was also a very accomplished concert pianist
@@petersyme7083 That I think is one of the most evocative sounds of TV history and what utter brilliance to choose Bud to do that theme song because it is so much in the 1940s idiom
This is the first time I liked Bernie Winters.
Can't get enough of this..
What a talent Leslie Crowther was.
I know. There is a clip somewhere that shows his first try at doing the Umbrella Song on one of his own TV shows. It was musical, elegant and well executed but it wasn't Ches. Contrast it with this where he has Ches off to the life - the voice, the manner, the subtle vocal harmony. He and Bernie put some real hard graft into creating those characters and you could see it was done with real love and respect.
You have to remember that although we only think of Les doing game shows he had been to RADA, he was an outstanding concert pianist, a very funny and quick witted comedian and writer. Such a shame he was lost too soon - I think there was much more he could and should have done.
Thank you so much for posting. We are so lucky to have things like UA-cam so that we can still see wonderful clips like this. X
Aren´t we just..You Tube has been an amazing gift for me working with this project...It has allowed me to bring some forgotten (and in some cases) never seen shows back to life. I will be posting this whole show in one piece at some point X Thanks for commenting and please don´t forget to check out my albums on Facebook...lots of rare theatre programmes, footage and information on entertainers largely forgotten today...you can find me at Vaudeville Funtimes over there too...
I can put a name to all the faces absolutely brilliant shows my age of 78
That's impressive! I was wondering who they were and had to look it up. 🙂
Such a loving and brilliant tribute from these two talents - the audience seems stone cold.
Entertainment isnt the same anymore , all the greats are gone 😔
My father was eighteen years older than my mom, so I was fortunate enough to know and love this music
Absolutely brilliant
Great...I love it!!!!
😢😢😭😭😭 reminds me of my granddad an me singing this song miss him
Love it,I keep rewatching it,they both nailed it,they both got it right R.I.P Leslie and Bernie xx
A stage full of legends of the likes we never see again. .
Thank you whoever for posting this wonderful clip
Isnt it wonderful...happy days.xx
Just Brilliance
Really loved this clip .. sheer nostalgia
just lovely such stars and such happy days ,and we had nothing but where happy , what happened to our lovely country , sad
Love this listing 2024
Bloody marvelous!
I was once Leslie Crowther's dresser at the Garrick Theatre and he was a lovely man...the same could not be said for Brian Rix!!
He was a delight - never too busy to talk to a fan or reply to a letter. I defer again to my late headmistress who had a maxim for these "rectal-cranial inverse" (head up their own a**e) actor types who thought themselves god's gift and far too grand to stop and iinteract with the people who made them stars. As she used to say "If you want the anonymity of a dustman then you better accept the pay and working conditions of a dustman"
Absolutely amazing presentation.
wonderful just wonderful
wonderful, thank you for posting
i can't stop watching this and it's so sad that they have all gone ,(i think } just lovely my sort of entertainment .loved it
@gayflout69
Cheer up - John Altman is still alive.
Just Brilliant ❤️
Nick Cotton making an appearance lol
My Dads Favourites i used to sing these songs with him memories 💜x
nicely done
Just wrote a message about this remarkably good rendition of Flanagan & Allen and my device lost it. But plse watch & enjoy paying particular attention to Bernie Winters looking so much like Bud Flanagan and Leslie ‘crackerjack’ Crowther singing in that deep bass inimitable talk/sing style just like Chesney Allen.And then the good & the great performers of that era enter stage left. Fantastic viewing!
Isn't that Charlie Drake at the end, on the right?
Spot the forgotten talentless nobodies:)
And no - winters and crowther don't count for points/prizes. Yes, they're all but forgotten talentless nobodies, but as their names are in the video title, it doesn't count.
Answers on a postcard!
Such a wonderful performance! ♥Feels so lovely to recall the gentleness and simplicity of this era. Many years ago, while working for the radio station at Great Ormond Street Hospital, I met Leslie Crowther and he was a lovely guy. He visited a second time and remebered my name - which amazed me, as we'd hardly spoken on his first visit. Only discovered this video after hearing Bernie Winters discussing it with Bob Monkhouse in this interview: ua-cam.com/video/1lAnKm3LiZw/v-deo.html
That interview was precious. Bernie might not always have been well cast in the jobs he did - particularly after he went solo but his sincerity and respect for Bud were just so obvious. It's a tough ask to portray someone who appears in so many films so the "new" version is compared too often to the original but Bernie walked that tightrope and made it look effortless. So sad that there is not more film of this partnership
Odd thing, I just noticed Bill Pertwee in the line. I think he could have done Ches, with perhaps the great Billy Dainty as Bud. Bill did play Bud in one of the Royal Variety shows and he had the voice and the manner really well.
They don't compose, write, arrange, sing or play them like this anymore today. We have allowed all the great songs of yesteryear to slide into oblivion and replaced them with primitive sounds masqueraded as music.
Were it not for the wonder of UA-cam and dedication and diligence of Uploaders we, who are old enough to know what to search for, would have no music at all, as radio stations ceased broadcasting real music decades ago. Thousands of years of the
evolution of music gone.
Two very talented actors. They were the consummate pair for this part, much better than the egotistical roy Hudd, who ruined the character.
Ches had a musical style we can all recognise but I never saw anyone who could do it like Leslie Crowther could.
i am struggling to identify about half of the people who walk on at the end of the song, some i recognise but cannot put a name to the face, others are totally unrecognised by me, what i have so far is ( in order of appearance ) Alfred Marx, Jimmy Perry ( of Perry and Croft ), Cardew (The Cad ) Robinson , Willy Rushton, Nicolas Parsons, Melvyn Hayes as tail end i think. Then from the right , Richard Walsh, Brian Protheroe, John Altman ( Nasty Nick Cotton ) , Bill Pertwee, Recognise orange tan man , Brian Cant (of playschool fame), and Little Charlie Drake at the end. Anyone want to fill in the final name, Mr Perma-tan
The international stars celebrating the 90th birthday of the Queen Mother in this charity performance are: Peggy Ashcroft, Rowan Atkinson, Richard Attenborough, Lionel Blair, Sarah Brightman, Isobel Buchanan, Darcey Bussell, Simon Cadell, Michael Caine, Christopher Cazenove, Leslie Crowther, Mark Curry, Arthur Davies, Michael Denison, Placido Domingo, Stephen Fry, James Galway, Jill Gascoine, John Gielgud, Dulcie Gray, Robert Hardy, Marilyn Hill Smith, Jeffrey Holland, Anita Harris, Patricia Hodge, Kiri Te Kanawa, Howard Keel, Bonnie Langford, Vera Lynn, Lisa Maxwell, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Meadmore, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Warren Mitchell, Roger Moore, Jonathon Morris, Irek Mukhamedov, Elaine Paige, Angharad Rees, Anneka Rice, Cliff Richard, Eric Roberts, Wayne Sleep, Willard White, Bernie Winters, Jenny Wren.
Also the cast of Anything Goes (from the Prince Edward Theatre), members of the cast of Song and Dance (from the Shaftesbury Theatre), the Royal Gala Dancers and the Stephen Hill Singers.
Harry Rabinowitz was in charge of the music and associate producer Norman Maen is also the stage director for the gala.
Television director Kevin Bishop
Executive producer Yvonne Uttlewood
Discover more at the playlist here…😃
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@@vaudevillefuntimes9753 Yeh, i found this list, but other than Leslie Crowther and Bernie Winters, none of the other people on stage in this video are listed in this cast for the entire show.
Wellllll🤔... I got two blanks for you😉👇
Cardew (The Cad) Robinson
Henry Winkler (The Fonz)...
"( in order of appearance ) Alfred Marx, No idea = (?), Recognise = (Cardew Robinson) , Willy Rushton, Nicolas Parsons, Melvyn Hayes as tail end i think. Then from the right , Beard not a clue = (?), Tall guy no idea = (?), John Altman ( Nasty Nick Cotton ) , Bill Pertwee, Recognise orange tan man = (Henry Winkler "The Fonz") , Brian Cant (of playschool fame), and Little Charlie Drake at the end. Anyone want to fill in the blanks ?
@@vaudevillefuntimes9753 The Cad is a great spot , i couldn't get Stephen (Blakey from 'On the buses' ) Lewis , or Rod Hull out of my head and it was blocking all other thoughts. I Disagree about Henry Winkler though , the Orange Tan Man was a singer/comedian/Dance artist and English too if i am not mistaken. @raygrout6437 can you help out here ?
@@Brodrick32 You are right! It´s not Winkler, apologies. Deffo Cardew though. My dad used to tread the boards with him. I remember Cardew being a real gent. I was always a bit in awe of him having grown up reading the Radio Fun Manuals I thought of him as a superstar! I have another clip of Cardew on "The Gang´s All Here" 1992 at Wimbledon Theatre. Probably one of his last performances 😢 ua-cam.com/video/BXGYt4DS1BM/v-deo.htmlsi=5C561QMS4EkvZ11o
Bernie replaced Leslie on Who's Baby
Are the suits at the end famous or just like a chorus line?? People were applauding them as they were coming on but I don’t recognise any of them
Looks like Jimmy Perry, Willie Rushton, Nicholas Parsons, Melvyn Hayes, Cardew Robinson on the left, on the right, John Altman (Nick Cotton), Bill Pertwee, Don McLean, Brian Cant, and I think Charlie Drake. We don't get a good look at all of them.
My friends have helped me out and confirmed that the others are Alfred Marks (who appears to have shaved his moustache off to be in An Inspector Calls), Richard Walsh, and Brian Protheroe.
@@farmbrough Not Don Mclean i think, but the others are correct. I recognise the perma-tan man but i haven't got a name to put to the face yet
Bernie Winters always made my skin crawl
@martinreavey8419
Dreadful, unfunny little man.
Sigh..
a royal birthday. as if any royal would be swaying and singing along with this good stuff. makes me sick
Leslie Crowther sounds like a duck.
Cheney Allen had that distinctive talking style with the lyrics beautifully here
@@malcolmjawohowelll2892 Yes, he's mimicking Allen's style very well. I've never heard anyone else do anything like what Chesney Allen did, talking behind the singing, but fitting in rather than sounding out of tune.
That is how Chez Allen sounded. He copied him very well.
And so did Allen.
Crowther was the least funny man, ever!