I remember Flanders and Swan. I was very young but I remember watching them on our old black and white tv. I didn't remember one of them being in a wheel chair though.
I grew up with these guys, enjoying their music most evenings when staying with good friends during school days!! We used to roar with laughter and total enjoyment, so infections were their songs! Can’t thank you enough for posting, you’ve taken me back to when I about 12, hating boarding school, but loving all things musical. Thanks to this start and with a lot to do with F and S, I wound up at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas Danby and John Russell!!!!! God Bless you and please keep the F and S coming!! Adrian in Bermuda 💕❤️💕
I've been looking for this song for decades. My mom, born and raised in 1934 in Liverpool, used to sing it to us. (I'm American.) It was such a fun song, and she was so silly and joyful singing it to us. Miss you, Mom.
Michael Flanders' wife, Claudia, was American btw. She later ran a disability travel charity in the 90s called Tripscope. Stephanie Flanders the financial commentator is their daughter. I think Claudia worked for Radio Free Europe before they met.
Until I retired a few years ago from the pen store I worked at outside of Washington DC, whenever I got an older British customer, I would always sing this song - and they always knew the words. I guess I’m rather unusual on this side of the pond for knowing anything about Flanders and Swann. I miss them.
Such a catchy song! A truly unique duo! Who else could think to write such clever songs on the most esoteric subjects. " The Slow Train " is one of my favorites, too. I love Michael's reaction when the audience heartily joins in on the first " Mud..."
Wonderful! Beats into a top hat a lot of the rubbish on TV today. I first heard this in the 60's on Junior Choice. True talent. See also 'The Gas Man Cometh' & 'I'm A Gnu!'
One of my brothers and I sang “The Gasman Cometh” at a family reunion three years ago in Ohio. If we do it again, I think we’re going to try “The Second Law of Thermodynamics.” Ah, professor H2Su4 to you - and the Reciprocal of Pi to your good wife…
I’m a G-nu, I’m a G-nu The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo… 😍 Sang this to my baby grandchildren…they’re all teenagers now and the dreaded ‘ all-encompassing embarrassment’ has sealed them away from me. But maybe they’ll listen and laugh again one day. 😔
High culture indeed! I wonder why they omitted the middle verse in that performance. If memory serves, it goes as follows: "The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice From her seat on the hilltop above, As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice Came tiptoeing down to her love. Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang as they met. His inamorata Adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet."
In At The Drop of Another Hat, they added another verse, set on the banks of the Nile, satirising Nasser's behaviour in Egypt, and courting Russia's support for their hydro-electric scheme.
Charming! We have an LP recording of Flanders and Swan, regularly quoting and singing the songs. These two are wonderful! I loved seeing them on video.
Michael Flanders a 6 ‘4’ top athlete who went to the navy in WW2 and survived a torpedo attack on his ship then got polio and was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. Shunned by universities for his disability despite giving his life for his country then wrote, acted and performed on stage. An absolute genius who was taken so suddenly! ❤️
Our school choir entered a rendition of this into the national school choir awards in the early 70,s I was proud to be part of such a great experience though we didn't win .
God, they were wonderful! I had a wonderful two-cassette set that I made the mistake of loaning, and never saw it again. These two were geniuses! Now, onto "The Gas Man Cometh!"
Heres the lyrics for your sing a long! The Hippopotamus Song Ian Wallace With Donald Swann A bold hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay By the light of the evening star Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair hippopotami maid The hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade Mud, mud, glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow, down to the hollow And there let me wallow in glorious mud The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice From her seat on that hilltop above As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice Came tiptoeing down to her love Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang as they met His inamorata adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet Kranz, kranz schmoodliger kranz, Holudshia shretsaca coldliger kranz Heckvas lees fer you dawgo Follow me follow Begeelio bedabo Down to the hollow Wenyou taub me aput in some true gulio kranz That will prove our cultural relations. Now more hippopotami began to convene On the banks of that river so wide I wonder now what am I to say of the scene That ensued by the Shalimar side They dived all at once with an ear-splitting sposh Then rose to the surface again A regular army of hippopotami All singing this haunting refrain Mud, mud, glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow, down to the hollow And there let us wallow in glorious mud!
Truly the last, greatest, gentaly (howsoever it is spelled or spoken) English musical duo; the truest summary of British Culture that faded into the realms of nostalgia of lost Empire before the 60s resurgence of Beatlemania and its ilk.
@@racheleraanan5133 Few speak as you did; people will acknowledge that cultures have changed, but almost no one admits that they no longer exist. It's strange, surreal, because that reality can create a sense of having lived two lifetimes, one then, and one now, as we are so disconnected from our long ago past.
@@cacatr4495 - Very true and well put, except it hasn't been that long. Historically change proceeded at a snail's pace - with occasional fits, starts and upheavals. WWI produced a sea-change, only compounded in the aftermath of WWII. The world had barely settled, when the age of technology was born - accelerating change beyond anything imagined. Not only do we not live in the same world as our parents did, our younger children do not live in the same world as their older siblings! I've had students react with disbelief when told there were no cell phones when I was a child. A friend tried explaining to his students about life before personal computers, social media and cell phones. They couldn't comprehend. Then again, have you ever had a toddler, who can't read yet, explain to you how to programme a robot?? Different world.
The was my favorite song in the early 60’s my mom wud throw 45 record & then drag it out of the trash.....West Texas, I’m 72 yr old TODAY 🇨🇱AustinTX “MrDon”
@@virginiaconnor8350 The politicians and the industrialists greedy for cheap labor. The rest of us never invited them, never wanted them, and yet we are the ones that must now suffer to live with them and see our children suffer all the more, for it is only getting worse.
YEAH ,I LEARNT THIS SONG FROM MY MAM AND DADA WHEN I WAS 4 OR 5 yrs OLD THAT WAS 1972 -- 73 AND I AM 52 yrs OLD AND IM STILL SINGING IT....I LOVE THIS SONG 👍😁🍺❤️❤️🇬🇧 STAY SAFE WORLD 🌈🌈🏳️🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🌈🌈🌈🏳️🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🇷🇺🇬🇧
So did I..probably in the late sixties or early seventies from my parents and my aunt..it was a great song then as is now..and I'm 57 and singing along..and I became a punk but still loved this classic
My parents had the A Drop of a Hat album and me and my sister learnt all the songs as 9/10/11-year-olds in the mid-70s. Same went for Songs By Tom Lehrer!
I listened to all the editions of this on You Tube. However I remember it being sung by a bass, where the finals words, 'where we shall wallow in glorious mud,' is sung slowly with descending notes, finishing on 'mud 'which only the deepest voices can sing.
@@SuperFerdie1965 Yes he wrote mystery stories and featured in a lousy series which gets aired now on vintage film channels with his sculpted head going round after the titles. He was once a famous name but now his work is synonymous with boredom like the reminiscences of Edgar Lustgarten which are no doubt true but delivered in a terribly bad style. Two Edgar's and another Wallace to symbolise the silly Scots singer.
For anyone who wants it, we are selling not one but 2 copies of this in the records section of the thrift store 2339 Ogilvie Rd Ottawa. Hope they both find homes.
I loved those days when we could sing without having to think P.C. My favourite has always been. The English, the English, the English are best. I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.
There is abother recording where Swann sings the refrain in Russian, and Flanders says: "And he finally uses his degree!" (Donald Swan got strdied Slavic Languages at Oxford.)
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You got here searching for the Oscar Isaac song I assume.
Lol yeah you are right
Lol ya😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Yes
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Songs like this are needed to try & keep spirits up in these current times.
even more now a days
This just reminded me that it's nearly Glastonbury time again.
Doubt they will help the Brits going thru dark times ahead
Trrrrrruly pecker elevating!
I'm now 66 years ole (an OAP) and except the hymns at church, this was my earliest musical memory. Thank you for uploading.
all my brothers and sisters with my Dad, good memories from more simple times
I'm about a 3rd of that age...and this song was a big part of my childhood and yep, I still love it!
Thank you I'm 60 now and happy I grew up with songs like this x
No kidding? That's amazing! Never really know where nostalgia will crop up, what a happy surprise
I used to listen to these fellows back when I was but a wee lad. I'm so glad that there is an archive here!
I went to their performance in Christchurch NZ in ?? the 1980's
I remember Flanders and Swan. I was very young but I remember watching them on our old black and white tv. I didn't remember one of them being in a wheel chair though.
Oh my goodness. I grew up on Flanders and Swann. My father loved them. I can still hear him singing "Mud, mud, mud ...."
Me too Sarah, lovely memories
I found an album of theirs in the library when I was a child.
My Dad used to sing this. I've only just looked it up. Good memories.
Wow. I was a very little girl in England when this was a refrain around our house. I’ve never forgotten the chorus. Thankyou so much❤🙏🕊️🦛🦛
Same here Never forgot Chorus , we used to sing this in Primary School in UK now 56
Brilliant! Those were the days of great language.
Saturday morning radio for children brings back memories. Happy Days.
Remember Tubby the Tuba!
Moon knight somehow brought me here
Liked this. I had never heard of this duo until today
Moon Knight bought us here🌙
I grew up with these guys, enjoying their music most evenings when staying with good friends during school days!! We used to roar with laughter and total enjoyment, so infections were their songs! Can’t thank you enough for posting, you’ve taken me back to when I about 12, hating boarding school, but loving all things musical. Thanks to this start and with a lot to do with F and S, I wound up at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas Danby and John Russell!!!!! God Bless you and please keep the F and S coming!! Adrian in Bermuda 💕❤️💕
Perfection! I used to sing this as a kid and I've never heard the original or knew where it came from until today. Fabulous!
Glorious mud!!! Absolutely outstanding, this is my favourite song.
Quite fitting for Marc and Steven
My favourite was the London Omnibus song. Like other commenters I was brought up on these😄 lovely duo.x
I've been looking for this song for decades. My mom, born and raised in 1934 in Liverpool, used to sing it to us. (I'm American.)
It was such a fun song, and she was so silly and joyful singing it to us. Miss you, Mom.
♥️
Try the Serendipity Singers version; outstanding.
Michael Flanders' wife, Claudia, was American btw. She later ran a disability travel charity in the 90s called Tripscope. Stephanie Flanders the financial commentator is their daughter. I think Claudia worked for Radio Free Europe before they met.
RIP
Did she ever sing the song " Lilly the pink ". I was born mid sixties, in Liverpool. It was a very popular kids singalong
Until I retired a few years ago from the pen store I worked at outside of Washington DC, whenever I got an older British customer, I would always sing this song - and they always knew the words. I guess I’m rather unusual on this side of the pond for knowing anything about Flanders and Swann. I miss them.
Bless you love from the UK🇬🇧
The Glastonbury Festival song
This song we sang at the school concert in 1975 when I was still a pipsqueak.
I sang this with the small children of close friends 30 years ago. We all love it!
I sing this whenever the dog, kids, or myself, get covered in mud. Had it on a vinyl record of kids songs.
Such a catchy song! A truly unique duo! Who else could think to write such clever songs on the most esoteric subjects. " The Slow Train " is one of my favorites, too. I love Michael's reaction when the audience heartily joins in on the first " Mud..."
Mom and I used to sing this on the bus day trips to Skeggy and Mablethorpe. People thought we were crazy, haha many moons ago
Ah brings back the memories
As a young child, this was my sisters favourite song.
I do remember this as a child and it comes across as happily today as it did then , wonderful ..
Ahhh, so this is where Armstrong and Miller got their "Brabbins and Fyffe" characters.
My 4 year old grandsons love this, and mud itself!
Marvelous fun , I remember this from the early childhood too
An absolutely stupendous song !
My favourite Flanders and Swan song was the gas man cometh. Life was so much nicer in those days.
If you came from a loving and secure home, childhood seems like that, no matter what the adults were going through.
Wonderful! Beats into a top hat a lot of the rubbish on TV today. I first heard this in the 60's on Junior Choice. True talent. See also 'The Gas Man Cometh' & 'I'm A Gnu!'
One of my brothers and I sang “The Gasman Cometh” at a family reunion three years ago in Ohio. If we do it again, I think we’re going to try “The Second Law of Thermodynamics.” Ah, professor H2Su4 to you - and the Reciprocal of Pi to your good wife…
I’m a G-nu, I’m a G-nu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo…
😍
Sang this to my baby grandchildren…they’re all teenagers now and the dreaded ‘ all-encompassing embarrassment’ has sealed them away from me.
But maybe they’ll listen and laugh again one day. 😔
Thank you for sharing, Peter. Keep safe.. and here’s to that mud 🍻
High culture indeed! I wonder why they omitted the middle verse in that performance. If memory serves, it goes as follows:
"The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice
From her seat on the hilltop above,
As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice
Came tiptoeing down to her love.
Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound
Of the song that they sang as they met.
His inamorata
Adjusted her garter
And lifted her voice in duet."
Thanks for the memories, Charlie.
I had a version on cassette and don't remember that bit.
Thank you! That's not what most people say when I start to sing it ;)
There is often a 'time imperative' on TV, or producers worry about attention spans.
In At The Drop of Another Hat, they added another verse, set on the banks of the Nile, satirising Nasser's behaviour in Egypt, and courting Russia's support for their hydro-electric scheme.
Bless their hearts . Wonderful.
At The Drop Of A Hat. One of the greatest Comedy album!
Charming! We have an LP recording of Flanders and Swan, regularly quoting and singing the songs. These two are wonderful! I loved seeing them on video.
The gas man song, was brilliant!
Oh, I remember listening to this whilst very young, and singing the chorus with my lovely Daddy... Happy, happy memories...With
Wonderful. Has lightened my mood today. Thank you.
How glorious! I have two well used LP's of Flanders and Swan.
How absolutely lovely!
Oh such memories,loved them.It is a shame that we don't have songs with stories now.
What a memory ! This reminds me of the song parody's done by Alan Sherman. ". . . so clever, so funny.
Ah yes, Alan Sherman. There were quite a few wits with music over the years.
Michael Flanders a 6 ‘4’ top athlete who went to the navy in WW2 and survived a torpedo attack on his ship then got polio and was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. Shunned by universities for his disability despite giving his life for his country then wrote, acted and performed on stage. An absolute genius who was taken so suddenly! ❤️
A lesson in why vaccines are important.
@@GFSTaylor Good to see someone saying that, mate. Antivaxxers make me 🤮
Thank you for that appraisal of Michael's life. What an indomitable spirit he had.
Our school choir entered a rendition of this into the national school choir awards in the early 70,s I was proud to be part of such a great experience though we didn't win .
God, they were wonderful! I had a wonderful two-cassette set that I made the mistake of loaning, and never saw it again. These two were geniuses! Now, onto "The Gas Man Cometh!"
My friend, hie thee unto Amazon, where repose every delight of the soul. They are lousy with Flanders & Swan CD's. 💿
@@h.calvert3165 Messy buckets! So shall I do!
@@richardcleveland8549
Be ye yclept a man of wisdom! 👍
Happy 100th birthday, Donald Swann.
I just got this recommended to me after watching videos about the ending of Moon Knight's episode 4 which ends on a hippopotamus, lol.
Wonderful... I remember it well
Heres the lyrics for your sing a long!
The Hippopotamus Song
Ian Wallace With Donald Swann
A bold hippopotamus was standing one day
On the banks of the cool Shalimar
He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay
By the light of the evening star
Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair
His fair hippopotami maid
The hippopotamus was no ignoramus
And sang her this sweet serenade
Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me follow, down to the hollow
And there let me wallow in glorious mud
The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice
From her seat on that hilltop above
As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice
Came tiptoeing down to her love
Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound
Of the song that they sang as they met
His inamorata adjusted her garter
And lifted her voice in duet
Kranz, kranz schmoodliger kranz,
Holudshia shretsaca coldliger kranz
Heckvas lees fer you dawgo
Follow me follow
Begeelio bedabo
Down to the hollow
Wenyou taub me aput in some true gulio kranz
That will prove our cultural relations.
Now more hippopotami began to convene
On the banks of that river so wide
I wonder now what am I to say of the scene
That ensued by the Shalimar side
They dived all at once with an ear-splitting sposh
Then rose to the surface again
A regular army of hippopotami
All singing this haunting refrain
Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me follow, down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in glorious mud!
Ymy red lom3'm
Thank you!!!
Pure shit crap.. ya fool
lol
Hippopotamus hippo-pota-mus! ❤️
Truly the last, greatest, gentaly (howsoever it is spelled or spoken) English musical duo; the truest summary of British Culture that faded into the realms of nostalgia of lost Empire before the 60s resurgence of Beatlemania and its ilk.
Rob Lamb - They were the products of a culture which no longer exists. Our loss.
@@racheleraanan5133
Few speak as you did; people will acknowledge that cultures have changed, but almost no one admits that they no longer exist. It's strange, surreal, because that reality can create a sense of having lived two lifetimes, one then, and one now, as we are so disconnected from our long ago past.
@@cacatr4495 - Very true and well put, except it hasn't been that long. Historically change proceeded at a snail's pace - with occasional fits, starts and upheavals. WWI produced a sea-change, only compounded in the aftermath of WWII. The world had barely settled, when the age of technology was born - accelerating change beyond anything imagined. Not only do we not live in the same world as our parents did, our younger children do not live in the same world as their older siblings!
I've had students react with disbelief when told there were no cell phones when I was a child. A friend tried explaining to his students about life before personal computers, social media and cell phones. They couldn't comprehend.
Then again, have you ever had a toddler, who can't read yet, explain to you how to programme a robot?? Different world.
Thank you to the algorithm for selecting this for me! Great fun.
A. Favourite song of mine!
The was my favorite song in the early 60’s my mom wud throw 45 record & then drag it out of the trash.....West Texas, I’m 72 yr old TODAY 🇨🇱AustinTX “MrDon”
I grew up on this. I was singing mud mud as soon as Icould talk.
Here after Oscar Issac's song😁
Am I only one who get this recommend after Oscar Isaacs's Hippopotamus song?
Hahaha love the song but LOOVE that intentional mistake at @2:38 😂😂😂 great voice and piano bit amazing performers these two! Good shit!
That's not what I was searching...
These guys, Kit and the Widow, Fascinating Aida…an oasis of joy in a swamp full of rubbish….
Just great!
Wonderful and priceless!!!!
Glorious family sing ins.
,,, ✨SPLENDIFEROUSLY FANTABULOUS✨ ,,, ✅✅✅
I was trying to find the Oscar Isaac one💀😹
i also
SAME 💀 you here after moon knight?!
@@skyler-vogel yep
@@shibuyapumpkin YASSSS
From a time when people and MPs could safely walk the streets.
Who invited all these responsible for making that impossible? We have the same problem here too.
@@virginiaconnor8350 The politicians and the industrialists greedy for cheap labor. The rest of us never invited them, never wanted them, and yet we are the ones that must now suffer to live with them and see our children suffer all the more, for it is only getting worse.
@@schifahrer123 They were as duped as we were.
Oscar fan ?
YEAH ,I LEARNT THIS SONG FROM MY MAM AND DADA WHEN I WAS 4 OR 5 yrs OLD THAT WAS 1972 -- 73 AND I AM 52 yrs OLD AND IM STILL SINGING IT....I LOVE THIS SONG 👍😁🍺❤️❤️🇬🇧 STAY SAFE WORLD 🌈🌈🏳️🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🌈🌈🌈🏳️🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🇷🇺🇬🇧
So did I..probably in the late sixties or early seventies from my parents and my aunt..it was a great song then as is now..and I'm 57 and singing along..and I became a punk but still loved this classic
My parents had the A Drop of a Hat album and me and my sister learnt all the songs as 9/10/11-year-olds in the mid-70s. Same went for Songs By Tom Lehrer!
I've just heard this song for the first time. I shall sing it during my shower once a day from now on.
🎵Isn't it awfully nice to have a...
An anthology called A Poet for Every Day of the Year has led me there😊
I listened to all the editions of this on You Tube. However I remember it being sung by a bass, where the finals words, 'where we shall wallow in glorious mud,' is sung slowly with descending notes, finishing on 'mud 'which only the deepest voices can sing.
Oscar Isaac version>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Fax
Absolutely classic
Singing silly songs, great for the heart and smiles.
You came here because Oscar Issac yeah me too.
*because of
Wonderful.
My husband bought this with money from his Gran, happy days
Love this song so funny
My late mother had this ❤
This is other level. Is so cool
and now everyone wants a "House Hippo!"
What great fun!
Love it!
Usually rendered at the end of the interminable stories of Ian Wallace...they are as clear as mud and known as the Mysteries of Ian Wallace.
Edgar Wallace?
@@SuperFerdie1965 Yes he wrote mystery stories and featured in a lousy series which gets aired now on vintage film channels with his sculpted head going round after the titles. He was once a famous name but now his work is synonymous with boredom like the reminiscences of Edgar Lustgarten
which are no doubt true but delivered in a terribly bad style. Two Edgar's and another Wallace to symbolise the silly Scots singer.
@@rhodiusscrolls3080
Ah but what a great copper Superintendent Duggan was in the Scotland Yard series. All cases solved and all within 30 minutes!
Shameless sentimentality. There's nothing quite like it. Thanks for putting this on here.
I almost forgot that song but I remember, "Mud, Glorious Mud..
Pure silly fun...👍
A good hiking song
For anyone who wants it, we are selling not one but 2 copies of this in the records section of the thrift store 2339 Ogilvie Rd Ottawa. Hope they both find homes.
Charming.
Nah, Oscar Isaac did this WAYYYY better!
It's not a competition. Please, no wagering.
I loved those days when we could sing without having to think P.C. My favourite has always been. The English, the English, the English are best. I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.
But you're still stuck with "Jerusalem".
Who else came from Oscar Isaac?
There is abother recording where Swann sings the refrain in Russian, and Flanders says: "And he finally uses his degree!" (Donald Swan got strdied Slavic Languages at Oxford.)
What happened to the second verse - "The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice..." ? Was that a later addition, perhaps?
Academic Agent father.
Yes I came here after listening him with Dutton
I’m envisioning Alice in the Wonderland 1951 Lewis Carroll’s world of imagination ❤