Lambeth Walk used to be a great market Street with a lot of history and character; and there was a strong community feel about it. As a child I remember the Lambeth Walk festival, the pearly kings and queens and local men pushing their pals around in sponsored pram races for charity. What really destroyed it was the 70s redevelopment when the majority of the old businesses and other buildings were demolished and replaced with the most awful bleak, windswept and soulless shopping precinct. What was left of the market was pitiful and hardly anybody that I know of shops there now. Really sad example of how poor, thoughtless and cheap development can destroy the community spirit and character of an area. Very sad. Nice to see these old photos though. Thanks for uploading.
I got to know the Lambeth Walk in the mid 80s, the horrible redevelopment was already there, very ugly. Some of the then new flats have already been demolished for a good few years now. Back then many of the older residents were still living there. But not any more, it's a soulless place now. Another sadness due to dodgy borough councils (thanks Lambeth council) & greedy developers.
The actual song became popular during the 1920's and '30's, or at least so I've been told. I was living in Denver when this show opened on B'way, but my sister saw and fell in love with Robert Linsey, the show and the walk. She sent me a cassette - CD's weren't popular yet. This is the closest, I've gotten to any part of the show, and I can certainly certainly see why she loved it so.
i've heard this is an american song by origin picked up by londoners during the war. my family are fro canning town. i would love to go back in time and experience the pub scene with the knees up and community spirit. i grew up in essex as my family was bombed out of caning town. but every time i went to east london as a child i was drawn to the area over essex. home is home! shame now that there is no spirit in London or anywhere anymore!
The song comes from Me and My Girl, which is a musical written by three Brits that had its premiere in London's West End in 1937. A film based on the musical was title "The Lambeth Walk" in America (although the film was also a British production) which is perhaps what you are getting the american connection from?
@@JamesTilsley1London and Dublin have many similarities in architecture and style, Dublin was the second city of the British empire after London way back
You can hear where Lionel Bart got his inspiration for many a song from the 1960's musical film Oliver. 1920 -30's music still sounding fresh after 100 years, who'd have thunk it ?
This brought back so many memories. I worked for Horatio Myer & Co Ltd (Myer's Comfortable Beds) in Vauxhall Walk from 1966-69 and spent many hours wandering down Lambeth Walk in my lunch hour with my mate Geoff Wright. Apart form the bomb damage there appears to have been little change from the 1930s, even many of teh shops and even the eating house (Baby's head anyone?) were the same, though what it is all like now I don't know as I have lived in NZ since mid 1969.
When I was 16 I was in music hall somewhere near Aldgate, not sure where. It was only one night but I loved it. We used to go round the old people's homes doing the old music hall songs and dancing. Great fun!
Every part of the uk has its own way, its own people, its own customs. From geordieland to the black country to the taffs, the mancs to the cockneys etc etc..that is our diversity and also our strength in our unity. Its something the govts will try and break and they will fail. I love england i love the uk. The greatest place on earth👍
@@Mills-jw9nc I'm Canadian and the Brits are the finest people I know of! yes, there are problems but don't you think whatever problems there are now are now't to what the people faced in 1940?
Totally spot on , most working class are tight knit family types with humour in buckets and hospitality abundant ... i really like your standpoint we should start a movement before its too late
@@micheledibenedetto7780 Hi Michele, Luv your reply may I ask what actually is the Lambeth Walk and it's significance to London?..Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🌟🌟🤗🤗 n Happy New Year to you 🎈🎈🎆🎆
Nice to know that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth likes to sing "The Lambeth Walk" when her friends and relatives are sitting around in the evenings. I wonder if they do "The Walk" as they sing?
The British during WW2 put this song on footage of Nazis marching and it infuriated the Nazis, especially Joseph Goebbels who trashed a room when he saw it.
Hitler had a similar response, I believe, after watching The Great Dictator by his (presumably former) hero Charlie Chaplin. Trump cannot stand people laughing at his unusually tiny fingers.
Georgie Thumbs I struggle to believe that. To be fair, I don't know about Goebbels, but Hitler envied Britain and never even wanted to fight us. I suppose it could have somewhat angered him but more so because of disrespect to the soldiers, not because it was a British song.
A great classic! Even from France. Remember DALIDA for us french earers. WE do love american comedy, musical comedies, the real ones. Bravo the lamberth walk, a great one!
@@lucytia2121 you can’t get it back that’s my point. I watch a lot of videos of years gone past and they always break my heart especially Vera lynns they’ll always be an England.
@@emmajanewatts4388 I can’t imagine the pain of experiencing a loss like this first hand, but my parents have always cherished times gone by. Perhaps there’s a depth that can be replicated. What was it that brought everyone together? An all-in-this-together attitude to hardship? Limited choice for TV and entertainment that brought everyone together?
It might be one of the first viral dances too… people all across the at the time developed world did the “Lambeth walk”… since they showed the movie in cinemas
After Finnish Winter War (1939-40) the English volunteers came to the city of Savonlinna and heard that the Lotta's (women volunteered to help the army) were singing a song with this tune. The Brits thought this was to honor them, until they heard the translation to the words "Minä olen kenraali Siilasvuo/enkä minä koskaan viinaa juo/Jos minä viinaa juon/en ole Siilasvuo, hoi!" = "I am general Siilasvuo/and I never drink booze/And if I drink booze/I am not Siilasvuo, hoy!"
Love this song (I am a biproduct of this song!!!) My folks met in a Warwickshire war camp 76 years ago (Dad was a player (lol - he was anything BUT!!) but he somehow convince Mum to marry him - this was their song!!!)
Oh, London as it used to be. It had its drawbacks - poverty being one at that time - but it had a tightly-knit community of people who truly loved their city and who helped each other through tough times. All gone now with people who care nothing for London but only what they can get out of it.
I got out of London (Ealing) 15 years ago and have never been back - too painful. I have London ancestors going back to the 1700s and the likes of Blair and his immigration policy drove me out. A pox on him and that twisted load of political activists who ruined countless lives. Elderly people who had gone through the Blitz ending up living in a community of strangers. Too sad for words.
The British working class can look so shabby in these period photos, but I don't draw conclusions from pictures as to how happy/unhappy the people are. On another note (!) I love the key changes in this song.
Jamie Dawkins It could be some old dear you're having a pop at son, leave it out haha, it probs took her all morning to work out how to use the keyboard! :D
Alternative lyrics: Every night and every day, No matter what the people say, You'll find them all, Doing the lambet walk, Oi! Everything's nice and easy, Do what you darn well pleasy, The sun is shining and the skiy is blue, I'm happy, how about you? Every night and every day, No matter what the people say, You'll find them all, Doing the lambet walk, Oi!
My grandparents were from lambeth and I still remember as a kid my nan and grandad doing the lambeth walk at family events. My uncle remembers these streets and had a tear in his eye when I showed him this video. Sky's aren't blue, the grass ain't green it hasn't got the Mayfair touch, but that don't matter very much
Peter Lushing An astute comment, but sometimes nostalgia is better/easier than dwelling on the reality...the East End is very popular now...it was pretty bleak, 'back in the day...'
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It’s a street in south London that is at the heart of the London borough of Lambeth . It was and still is to some extent a proper old style labour voting working class area of London .
It makes me cry.... Such a fabulous song for a time long gone....
This song and play is so heartwarming. We are in desperate need of entertainment like this in today's world.
Lambeth Walk used to be a great market Street with a lot of history and character; and there was a strong community feel about it. As a child I remember the Lambeth Walk festival, the pearly kings and queens and local men pushing their pals around in sponsored pram races for charity. What really destroyed it was the 70s redevelopment when the majority of the old businesses and other buildings were demolished and replaced with the most awful bleak, windswept and soulless shopping precinct. What was left of the market was pitiful and hardly anybody that I know of shops there now. Really sad example of how poor, thoughtless and cheap development can destroy the community spirit and character of an area. Very sad. Nice to see these old photos though. Thanks for uploading.
I got to know the Lambeth Walk in the mid 80s, the horrible redevelopment was already there, very ugly. Some of the then new flats have already been demolished for a good few years now.
Back then many of the older residents were still living there. But not any more, it's a soulless place now. Another sadness due to dodgy borough councils (thanks Lambeth council) & greedy developers.
Probably been ruined by immigration like the area where I grew up
My dad was born in Lambeth walk.
Mine too
Thats England through and through
Saw the show in London and the last # before Intermission was the Lambert Walk with the cast singing and dancing up & down the theater aisles...MAGIC!
i miss my grand parents. they had so much respect for others. hard working. happy living folk!
My great gran used to sing this to me when I was a kid. Great memories
I grew up with this. It still makes me stand up for our country. So beautiful.
The actual song became popular during the 1920's and '30's, or at least so I've been told.
I was living in Denver when this show opened on B'way, but my sister saw and fell in love with Robert Linsey, the show and the walk. She sent me a cassette - CD's weren't popular yet. This is the closest, I've gotten to any part of the show, and I can certainly certainly see why she loved it so.
The tune is from 1937. Even was recorded by Duke Ellington in the USA!
Love all the pics, brilliant!
i've heard this is an american song by origin picked up by londoners during the war. my family are fro canning town. i would love to go back in time and experience the pub scene with the knees up and community spirit. i grew up in essex as my family was bombed out of caning town. but every time i went to east london as a child i was drawn to the area over essex. home is home! shame now that there is no spirit in London or anywhere anymore!
The song comes from Me and My Girl, which is a musical written by three Brits that had its premiere in London's West End in 1937. A film based on the musical was title "The Lambeth Walk" in America (although the film was also a British production) which is perhaps what you are getting the american connection from?
You’ll find yourself with a mortgage for £1.6 million pounds
1.6 million pounds sterling? Oi!!!
Just like Redfern and Newton in Sydney, Australia...
Wonderful stuff. Grew up in the finest city in the world, no place like London.
Reminds of my home town Dublin in my youth. Those times are all gone. When neighbours were neighbours!!!
@Marquerite Botts I literally could not care less
But it’s London lol
@@JamesTilsley1London and Dublin have many similarities in architecture and style, Dublin was the second city of the British empire after London way back
Ah yes, my jam.
wtf, Gollum
a great old tune from long ago now.
You can hear where Lionel Bart got his inspiration for many a song from the 1960's musical film Oliver.
1920 -30's music still sounding fresh after 100 years, who'd have thunk it ?
This brought back so many memories. I worked for Horatio Myer & Co Ltd (Myer's Comfortable Beds) in Vauxhall Walk from 1966-69 and spent many hours wandering down Lambeth Walk in my lunch hour with my mate Geoff Wright. Apart form the bomb damage there appears to have been little change from the 1930s, even many of teh shops and even the eating house (Baby's head anyone?) were the same, though what it is all like now I don't know as I have lived in NZ since mid 1969.
When I was 16 I was in music hall somewhere near Aldgate, not sure where. It was only one night but I loved it. We used to go round the old people's homes doing the old music hall songs and dancing. Great fun!
Every part of the uk has its own way, its own people, its own customs. From geordieland to the black country to the taffs, the mancs to the cockneys etc etc..that is our diversity and also our strength in our unity.
Its something the govts will try and break and they will fail.
I love england i love the uk. The greatest place on earth👍
I love the UK as well but it's time for a purge.
Exactly
@@Mills-jw9nc I'm Canadian and the Brits are the finest people I know of! yes, there are problems but don't you think whatever problems there are now are now't to what the people faced in 1940?
Totally spot on , most working class are tight knit family types with humour in buckets and hospitality abundant ... i really like your standpoint we should start a movement before its too late
@@micheledibenedetto7780 Hi Michele, Luv your reply may I ask what actually is the Lambeth Walk and it's significance to London?..Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🌟🌟🤗🤗 n Happy New Year to you 🎈🎈🎆🎆
An incredible SOUND in Stereophonic rendering ever! BRAVO and MERCI BEAUCOUP for that living stereophonic soundtrack ever! Emmanuel from Paris France
Born and raised from the Elephant & Castle proper cockney miss the real Londoners salt of the earth they were
I love it, great ! So deliciously vintage and cockney !, 😊👍🏻
An incredible incomparable VERSION in stereophonic soundtrack no way! BRAVO from Emmanuel from PARIS FRANCE
I like how you came back a year later to write pretty much the same comment again
Lambeth boy through & through.
As a Clapham Common and Lambeth pal, with many Lambeth gals, I used to have this song sung at me a lot even in the 1990s
Nice to know that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth likes to sing "The Lambeth Walk" when her friends and relatives are sitting around in the evenings. I wonder if they do "The Walk" as they sing?
The British during WW2 put this song on footage of Nazis marching and it infuriated the Nazis, especially Joseph Goebbels who trashed a room when he saw it.
Hitler had a similar response, I believe, after watching The Great Dictator by his (presumably former) hero Charlie Chaplin. Trump cannot stand people laughing at his unusually tiny fingers.
Georgie Thumbs I struggle to believe that. To be fair, I don't know about Goebbels, but Hitler envied Britain and never even wanted to fight us. I suppose it could have somewhat angered him but more so because of disrespect to the soldiers, not because it was a British song.
@Georgie Thumbs it was called Hoch Der Lambeth Valk.
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A great classic! Even from France. Remember DALIDA for us french earers. WE do love american comedy, musical comedies, the real ones. Bravo the lamberth walk, a great one!
My Nan use to sing this to me when I was little.
We’ve lost this forever, it’s very sad
@@zackstark24601 I didn’t mean that 😊
@@zackstark24601 broadway has nothing to do with anything, it didn’t even cross my mind.
What’s in the video I ment
How would you bring it back? Genuinely interested in working on this, as someone in my 20s
@@lucytia2121 you can’t get it back that’s my point. I watch a lot of videos of years gone past and they always break my heart especially Vera lynns they’ll always be an England.
@@emmajanewatts4388 I can’t imagine the pain of experiencing a loss like this first hand, but my parents have always cherished times gone by.
Perhaps there’s a depth that can be replicated. What was it that brought everyone together? An all-in-this-together attitude to hardship? Limited choice for TV and entertainment that brought everyone together?
Lived there for 11 years ❤🙏 loved it ❤ from 1980 to 1991
It might be one of the first viral dances too… people all across the at the time developed world did the “Lambeth walk”… since they showed the movie in cinemas
After Finnish Winter War (1939-40) the English volunteers came to the city of Savonlinna and heard that the Lotta's (women volunteered to help the army) were singing a song with this tune. The Brits thought this was to honor them, until they heard the translation to the words "Minä olen kenraali Siilasvuo/enkä minä koskaan viinaa juo/Jos minä viinaa juon/en ole Siilasvuo, hoi!" = "I am general Siilasvuo/and I never drink booze/And if I drink booze/I am not Siilasvuo, hoy!"
I always remember Maj. Howard's glider troops singing this on the way to their assault on Pegasus Bridge in "The Longest Day."
I remember that as well. It's a brilliant film, and always watch it when it's shown in the telly.
@@katyp.2495 "Hold, until relieved. Hold, until relieved."
I love this song
A snippet of the song shows up sung by one of the glider troops on the way to Pegasus Bridge in The Longest Day.
Yeah I immediately think of the film when I hear the song!
Love this song (I am a biproduct of this song!!!) My folks met in a Warwickshire war camp 76 years ago (Dad was a player (lol - he was anything BUT!!) but he somehow convince Mum to marry him - this was their song!!!)
if only these old boys could see Lambeth now. Bet it would break there heart
their
why
What happened?
Trust me they are rolling in their graves
@@davidthomson8996 Probably a racist.
My school always does this show and this is one of the songs!😀
The opening line. We haven't got the Mayfair touch. But that don't matter very much 😍
Oh, London as it used to be. It had its drawbacks - poverty being one at that time - but it had a tightly-knit community of people who truly loved their city and who helped each other through tough times. All gone now with people who care nothing for London but only what they can get out of it.
Go polish your rose-tinted specs, Grandma
I got out of London (Ealing) 15 years ago and have never been back - too painful. I have London ancestors going back to the 1700s and the likes of Blair and his immigration policy drove me out. A pox on him and that twisted load of political activists who ruined countless lives. Elderly people who had gone through the Blitz ending up living in a community of strangers. Too sad for words.
@@SundaeRoastincel troll
It's not like it's a lie. The city is full of vulture funds these days.
Awoke with this song in my head 😊
this is somewhat like Maxwell Street in Chicago, without the music :)
The British working class can look so shabby in these period photos, but I don't draw conclusions from pictures as to how happy/unhappy the people are. On another note (!) I love the key changes in this song.
They still look shabby today in Benidorm.😂
My family come for Lambeth..True Londers.
+Sigma 4 I bet they can even spell "Londoners" too.
Jamie Dawkins It could be some old dear you're having a pop at son, leave it out haha, it probs took her all morning to work out how to use the keyboard! :D
no darling you're only a true londoner if your from the east end, its where all the cockneys live. proper working class
Londoners ≠ Cockneys
keeley B all the cockneys live in essex now mate
This is why I love Britain
WOW...BRILLIANT.....!!!!!!!
When you do the Lambeth Walk,
Starving Hobos all the way,
You'll find them all,
Doing the Lambeth Walk
Oy
Are you kidding me-- I would have sworn that was Tony Newley singing!! Amazing.
ABSOLUTELY.
GOOD.
I was born in Lambeth .
Hi Sam .nice track but what actually is the Lambeth Walk..Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands
there was I finkin that the proper way to pronounce it was LAMBERF!
Henry Byrd . pl y
lol
Oi!
I though' i' is prounounced like a "lambev"
Alternative lyrics:
Every night and every day,
No matter what the people say,
You'll find them all,
Doing the lambet walk, Oi!
Everything's nice and easy,
Do what you darn well pleasy,
The sun is shining and the skiy is blue,
I'm happy, how about you?
Every night and every day,
No matter what the people say,
You'll find them all,
Doing the lambet walk, Oi!
thats the way i remember it, but, it should be hoy, as in hoy you, not oi, as in oy vey
yep thats the way i remember it, but it should be hoy as in, hoy you, not oi, as in oy vey
♪♫♪Anytime you're Lambeth way
Any evening, any day,
You'll find us all doin' the Lambeth walk.
Hoi! ♪♫♪
First ever time I heard this last week at the Tivoli Theatre of Me And My Girl. Hilarious, stuck in me and mums heads
I looked for this because of The longest Day from the peagus bridge landing
When you're down in the dumps, have a listen to this, mate.
Delightful!
My grandparents were from lambeth and I still remember as a kid my nan and grandad doing the lambeth walk at family events. My uncle remembers these streets and had a tear in his eye when I showed him this video.
Sky's aren't blue, the grass ain't green it hasn't got the Mayfair touch, but that don't matter very much
My school used to have us do this dance when learning about ww2
I'm sorry to have missed being there; I was in England in 1959 and 60...blast ! :)
Watch out for false nostalgia! I'd like to hear or read about the people who lived there back then before deciding it was a nice time and place.
nostalgia, fake or no, is great :)
Peter Lushing An astute comment, but sometimes nostalgia is better/easier than dwelling on the reality...the East End is very popular now...it was pretty bleak, 'back in the day...'
Anyone else thought of the British special units private who sings this to calm his nerves on his flight to the Pegasus bridge?
Top class. Thanks
Lambeth walk a new way of dancing and singing? Emmanuel
Awesome montage, well done.
I can see my house!
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Fantastic photos
Pure class 👏
fascinating period photos. I wonder how many of those pubs are still in business?
been working at the lambeth mission on lambeth walk opp the lambeth walk pub not many workers know how famous it is
We did love a sing song.
British Alastor be like- oh wait nvm he fucking exploded by a blockbuster...
you'll find us all doing the lambeth walk!!!!!!!!
great stuff !
Loooooovvvvee Robert Lindsay xxxxx :-)
First Class Classic
Any relation to Mollie?
Beau-y-fall!
My mother used to dance it .
The Pakistani Embassy brought me here.
@@ciaran6171 Don't give up your day job
ONE BALL, ONE BAAAALL.
HISTORY IS INTERESTING,
DON'T YOU THINK?
YES.
PS: London is the greatest city in the world, in my opinion!
pie mash liquor
you forgot the jellied eels
Wolfroy47 it slipped his mind:)
The Darlinghurst walk in 1990s..was a enquired ability
I have to sing this song at school for paragon event
Even the Lambeth walk pub is flats now. Councils know how to fuck good memories up. Pie & mash shop on Lambeth walk back then was the best in London
brilliant
time machine, I need some vim!
yep most people didnt have bathrooms so they had community bath houses, it was either that, or, yer old tin bath in front of the coal fire
doin tha laymbef walk oi!
a great old waltz.
It’s not in 3/4
From what musical does this come from? Where was it recorded, and when? Who are all the artists, singers and orchestra?
This video certainly is "a bit of fun."
not heard this in years, is this Robert Lindsey? my dad used to drink in a pub call the Lambeth Walk!
It is him, from the '86 Broadway show.
Lost now as part of Londistan
You’re not from London, are you?
It’s a street in south London that is at the heart of the London borough of Lambeth . It was and still is to some extent a proper old style labour voting working class area of London .
Hurrah!!!
The old London ...all gone now.
blame yourselves for running away lol
Yeah right