'Three Little Maids From School Are We' (stereo version) The Mikado 1966 Gilbert & Sullivan

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  • Опубліковано 4 кві 2020
  • As the soundtrack to the 1967 film 'The Mikado' is mono and quite crackly sounding, I thought it would be interesting to synchronise the picture with a stereo studio recording of the same song to give a much cleaner sound.
    Footage taken from 'The Mikado' filmed in 1966.
    Audio taken from a 1965 studio recording with Sir Malcolm Sargent available on the 'Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular' LP.
    Featuring Valerie Masterson, Peggy Ann Jones and Pauline Wales.
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  • @davidwelsh6655
    @davidwelsh6655 2 роки тому +201

    And as luck would have it I was in an all-male version of "The Mikado" at Oxford. People still ask to see my Yum Yum.

    • @paulsmith5752
      @paulsmith5752 2 роки тому +1

      Matron!

    • @eboz2825
      @eboz2825 Рік тому +11

      Fraser Crane!! Lmao!!!

    • @fleetadmiralperry5739
      @fleetadmiralperry5739 Рік тому +13

      I Think any man Who would Quote Frasier Crane would get along quite well with me 😀 BC I’m his number one Fan In The Black Community

    • @fleetadmiralperry5739
      @fleetadmiralperry5739 Рік тому +11

      What’s Yum Yum Doing Here? LOL Sorry I Could not! Resist

    • @Dallas_K
      @Dallas_K Рік тому +3

      Thank you, Frasier.

  • @gregorycasey5486
    @gregorycasey5486 6 днів тому

    Well, the verdict is in. Of the many renditions of "Three Little Maids" I've watched on You Tube, this version is indeed the best!

  • @ronbes4192
    @ronbes4192 8 місяців тому +9

    Rewatching Frasier in 2023 brought me here. I was not disappointed.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 7 місяців тому +9

    I just remembered the scene in "Chariots of Fire" where one of the runners who will compete in the 1924 Olympics goes to a theater and sees this song being performed, and immediately falls in love with one of the "three little maids".

  • @michaellyden2580
    @michaellyden2580 3 роки тому +101

    "Hey look. The FBI Light Opera Society sings the Complete Gilbert & Sullivan."

    • @LSDforEveryone
      @LSDforEveryone 3 роки тому +11

      First place my mind goes when hearing this. Immediately followed by Bob stepping on a bunch of garden rakes. The first 10 seasons were probably the greatest thing ever produced for the small screen.

    • @Mike-zh1ew
      @Mike-zh1ew 3 роки тому +2

      Where's that from?

    • @LSDforEveryone
      @LSDforEveryone 3 роки тому +5

      @@Mike-zh1ew The Simpsons Cape Feare Season 5 episode 2

    • @chriswilkinson9400
      @chriswilkinson9400 2 роки тому +2

      @@LSDforEveryone
      Very nice one Three girls

    • @thecomedian9852
      @thecomedian9852 2 роки тому +1

      HAHAHAHAHA

  • @cosmoglass
    @cosmoglass 2 роки тому +34

    The lyrics are so amazingly timeless, perfectly describing those three appalling girls you knew years ago.

    • @hank1519
      @hank1519 Рік тому +5

      Gilbert pulled no punches!

  • @karldelavigne8134
    @karldelavigne8134 4 роки тому +71

    What a brilliant trio of singers. Valerie Masterson was probably the finest soprano the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ever had.

  • @yujinyi6099
    @yujinyi6099 Рік тому +25

    The first time I heard this song, I thought they were singing:
    Three little maids who, all unwary
    Come from a ladies’ cemetary
    At the time, the audio was bad but it gave me the idea that they subtly admitted to eliminating school rivals 😅

    • @kirangarimella4172
      @kirangarimella4172 Рік тому +3

      That was the funniest! Seriously, I never laughed so much

    • @nostromoau
      @nostromoau Рік тому +6

      At last an original horror movie plot!

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee Рік тому

      Yes, those ladies seminaries from Meiji period Japan had utterly cut throat rivalries. Buuuuut, small price to pay for Hibachi's and toy robots

    • @curtrupp4259
      @curtrupp4259 8 місяців тому +1

      And so cheerfully 😂

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 2 місяці тому

      @@RaptorFromWeegee#久野一

  • @kayleighbaker7802
    @kayleighbaker7802 Рік тому +27

    I have legit listened to this for an hour and a half, just on repeat. The first 20 times was learning the song, the rest of it was pure enjoyment.

  • @roiranen5950
    @roiranen5950 2 роки тому +23

    Can’t quite curb my enthusiasm over this…

  • @saurabhpal8605
    @saurabhpal8605 Рік тому +9

    Three little maids from school are we
    Pert as a school-girl well can be
    Filled to the brim with girlish glee
    Three little maids from school
    Everything is a source of fun
    Nobody's safe, for we care for none
    Life is a joke that's just begun
    Three little maids from school
    Three little maids who, all unwary
    Come from a ladies' seminary
    Freed from its genius tutelary
    Three little maids from school
    Three little maids from school
    One little maid is a bride, Yum-Yum
    Two little maids in attendance come
    Three little maids is the total sum
    Three little maids from school
    Three little maids from school
    From three little maids take one away
    Two little maids remain, and they
    Won't have to wait very long, they say
    Three little maids from school
    Three little maids from school

  • @katherinefields250
    @katherinefields250 Місяць тому +1

    Magnifique! ❤️😍

  • @zetaprime
    @zetaprime 3 роки тому +36

    D’oyly Carte is always the definitive production when it comes to Gilbert & Sullivan. D’oyly Carte actually brought Gilbert & Sullivan together in the first place back in the 19th century. They even built the Savoy Theatre in London to provide a venue for Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas. The first ever use of electricity in a theater can also be credited to D’oyly Carte to enhance those Gilbert & Sullivan works. I was lucky enough in my youth to actually see D’Oyly Carte productions of The Mikado and HMS Pinafore at the opera house in New York. (One of the perks of growing up in such a great cultural center).

    • @nostromoau
      @nostromoau Рік тому +4

      It's a shame they had to fold eventually. It seems the British arts council is only interested in subsidising miserable, hate and politics infused things, of which I have been dragged along to a couple.

    • @zetaprime
      @zetaprime Рік тому +2

      @@nostromoau At least we still have recordings of those great performances, and I'll never forget the ones I was actually able to attend when I was young.

    • @nostromoau
      @nostromoau Рік тому +3

      @@zetaprime You're absolutely right, UA-cam is a blessing.

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee Рік тому +1

      Do you think D'Oyly Carte sounded as good toward the end as they did when you first heard them in the 1880s?

    • @zetaprime
      @zetaprime Рік тому +2

      @@RaptorFromWeegee I wasn't around in the 1880s to hear them, so it's impossible to say. The oldest recordings I've heard are from the 1940s.

  • @ahay241
    @ahay241 Рік тому +4

    I agree Valerie Masterson was stunning in all her roles with The D’Oyly Carte.

  • @jakubsedlak2173
    @jakubsedlak2173 Місяць тому

    Pretty, pretty, prettyyy good...

  • @chriswardlow9441
    @chriswardlow9441 4 роки тому +16

    This is just brilliant big fan of Gilbert & Sullivan myself and my six siblings were weaned on all the opera's by Mum & Dad in the 1950,s

    • @hank1519
      @hank1519 3 роки тому

      It sparkles!

    • @britdude4508
      @britdude4508 2 роки тому

      Me too!

    • @lynettecoleman4215
      @lynettecoleman4215 2 роки тому

      Me too! My Dad in Canterbury Operatic, so glad he introduced me to it all starting in 1958 💕

    • @weswolever7477
      @weswolever7477 Рік тому

      You had an exceptional childhood

  • @quequitoAR
    @quequitoAR Рік тому +3

    Valerie Masterson is beauty herself

  • @wakeup8067
    @wakeup8067 2 роки тому +3

    Beautiful spirit

  • @theotakupunk3484
    @theotakupunk3484 Рік тому +3

    I remember when they did this on suite life

  • @noahpartic7586
    @noahpartic7586 Рік тому +3

    In the 80's, Alvin & The Chipmunks did this very song on Saturday Morning, even dressed the part & everything...not bad. That was my 1st exposure to this very song.

    • @SoupyDaze
      @SoupyDaze Рік тому +3

      Same, it's cool seeing the original song, but I can't help but like the Chipmunks' version more, haha

    • @noahpartic7586
      @noahpartic7586 Рік тому +1

      @@SoupyDaze IKR. It happens. Imprinting in a way.

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 6 місяців тому +1

      And I seem to recall that The Animaniacs performed this song as well, in full costume and hair. :)

  • @alicegould4383
    @alicegould4383 2 роки тому +1

    Fabulous!

  • @hannahs1683
    @hannahs1683 3 роки тому +14

    This adaptation has so much more personality than the later one

  • @albertperson4013
    @albertperson4013 2 роки тому

    Well done, my good man!

  • @seandipaul8257
    @seandipaul8257 6 місяців тому +2

    Why the fuck do I, a 25 year old dude from fucking sweden know about this play and have known about this play since I was like 9.
    I still don’t get the hype around playing yum yum.

  • @ourkid2000
    @ourkid2000 2 роки тому +3

    Hey kids....wanna drive through that cactus patch?

  • @MarioKL
    @MarioKL Рік тому +6

    Well, Frasier's falsetto isn't what it used to be

  • @jeijeimeow5354
    @jeijeimeow5354 Місяць тому

    We practice for months songs from the Mikado and had a school concert in 1991. We painted our faces white with zinc and wore yukata. It was entirely culturally inaccurate but good fun to the parents. I don't have any photos of the event, I wonder if I could find images from the school archive.

  • @TRoss31Udub
    @TRoss31Udub 3 роки тому +41

    Is anyone else here because of frasier? Lol

    • @ctreve93
      @ctreve93 3 роки тому +13

      People still ask to see my Yum-Yum :p

    • @michaellyden2580
      @michaellyden2580 3 роки тому +3

      Hey Kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch?

    • @johnselwitz5362
      @johnselwitz5362 3 роки тому +4

      @@michaellyden2580 *sip “Ahh! This coffee’s too hot!”

  • @annefcb1968
    @annefcb1968 Рік тому

    Thanks

  • @jonkenyon4876
    @jonkenyon4876 2 роки тому +2

    Frasier brought me here.

  • @pizzatimeking4379
    @pizzatimeking4379 2 місяці тому

    Wow what a great song, hopefully my coworker who's named after a dog breed at a radio station won't prank me by making me sing this song live.
    If you don't get this reference you clearly haven't watched Frasier S3.

  • @annefrancescb
    @annefrancescb Рік тому

    Nice😻

  • @eva4adam451
    @eva4adam451 8 місяців тому +1

    Tonight is our premiere from the Micado.
    I cannot see nothing because i play in the orchestra.

  • @michaelmadrid6046
    @michaelmadrid6046 Місяць тому

    I remember this music from suit life of zack and cody on Disney channel the episode from japanese convencion at the tipton hotel

  • @SpiritualAtheist
    @SpiritualAtheist 7 місяців тому +1

    Frasier sent me here.

  • @nicholasbartonlaw341
    @nicholasbartonlaw341 3 роки тому +2

    She's magnificent!

  • @thomashogan16
    @thomashogan16 2 роки тому +2

    The oboe in this orchestration is perfection! Sullivan cut it perfectly.

  • @SomewhereAbove
    @SomewhereAbove 2 місяці тому

    Me and the girls on spring break

  • @52joker64
    @52joker64 2 роки тому +8

    Damn Bart was carrying this song. Milhouse was really letting the side down

  • @fernandoguevara8258
    @fernandoguevara8258 Рік тому +2

    Chariots of fire, anyone?

  • @lynx777
    @lynx777 2 роки тому

    I was cracking up watching an old version of Magnum p.i. in which Higgins forced TC and Rick to replace two women who had quit for a performance for a diplomat..
    So I looked it up on here to see if there was any such song lol!

  • @rickybeckles7919
    @rickybeckles7919 Рік тому +3

    Doctor Fraiser crane lol 😆

  • @crazyorganist1609
    @crazyorganist1609 3 роки тому +6

    I like the Joan Sutherland, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Shore version it's absolutely hilarious

  • @broadwaymike92
    @broadwaymike92 Рік тому

    Princess Diaries 2 led me here!!!

  • @rahulmodi8706
    @rahulmodi8706 8 місяців тому +1

    Ok, this doesn’t sound as cringe and weird as when I heard it on Frasier 😂

  • @theobolt250
    @theobolt250 Рік тому

    Like our forbeears said "walk softly and carry a bif stick". (three little brats from hell)

  • @mrnortham6541
    @mrnortham6541 3 роки тому +6

    Where’s Larry?

  • @philbertchow5425
    @philbertchow5425 3 роки тому +4

    Dr. Julius Irving

  • @jamespfitz
    @jamespfitz 2 роки тому +2

    This is theme music for Curb Your Enthusiasm. Who knew?!

    • @raymofarrell19
      @raymofarrell19 Рік тому +1

      It's not the theme but it is played in the show an awful lot

  • @ColonelMarcellus
    @ColonelMarcellus 4 місяці тому

    Which one is YumYum?

  • @j.p.h.hartkamp.7915
    @j.p.h.hartkamp.7915 3 роки тому +6

    Always see Larry David when I hear this.

  • @BookshelfQBattler
    @BookshelfQBattler Місяць тому

    And then Larry David bought the rights and set it as the background music to all of his hijinx

  • @BrandochDaha9
    @BrandochDaha9 3 роки тому +1

    they killed three little maids, to see what was in their hearts.

  • @prosperity4444
    @prosperity4444 5 місяців тому

    What's yum yum doing here?

  • @carlrs15
    @carlrs15 4 місяці тому +1

    "Hey kids! Wanna drive through that cactus patch?"
    "Yeah!" Yeah!"
    "NO!"
    Welp two against one

  • @ioriakita9194
    @ioriakita9194 Рік тому +1

    Cuando bart Simpson cantó está canción para desenmascarar a bob patiño

  • @breakingaustin
    @breakingaustin 3 роки тому +4

    Three Little maids from Mocha Joe's

  • @Speights2011
    @Speights2011 2 роки тому +2

    The Simpsons

  • @boredcommoner1926
    @boredcommoner1926 Рік тому

    Henry Danger led me here

  • @colinlevert6511
    @colinlevert6511 3 роки тому +2

    thumbs if Frankini brought you here.

  • @johnnywhite58
    @johnnywhite58 3 роки тому

    why are they singing in unison ?

    • @stevenmathers6661
      @stevenmathers6661 7 місяців тому

      They are singing it as written.

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 6 місяців тому

      Well, maybe because the lyric is "are we" ... not "am I".

  • @antonettegibbons7960
    @antonettegibbons7960 Рік тому +2

    On curb your enthusiasm 😮😅

  • @escopiliatese3623
    @escopiliatese3623 3 роки тому +9

    Curb Your Enthusiasm’s version is better.

    • @breakingaustin
      @breakingaustin 3 роки тому +4

      What great taste!! You're the only one aside from me who has mentioned it!

  • @yuta.7319
    @yuta.7319 2 місяці тому

    全然日本っぽく無い
    好きになれない😐

  • @ChrisM-zm4li
    @ChrisM-zm4li 4 місяці тому

    Meh

  • @audreyrodeny
    @audreyrodeny Рік тому +1

    it feels kinda racist? also a bit mysoginistic?

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 6 місяців тому +2

      Yes, yes, everything before 1990 was like that--- film, teleivsion, radio shows, literature. It was wrong. We move on, though--- rather than cancel or erase every single questionable thing in entertainment.

    • @MrSeekerOfPeace
      @MrSeekerOfPeace 3 місяці тому +2

      This play is satirising English high society culture, through the guise of the Japanese shogunate.

    • @timesawasting7532
      @timesawasting7532 3 місяці тому +1

      @@MrSeekerOfPeace People don't realize today that all of Gilbert and Sullivan was satirizing English high society.

  • @galenspikesmusic
    @galenspikesmusic Рік тому

    thats racist

    • @karldelavigne8134
      @karldelavigne8134 Рік тому +2

      Not at all. This is a satire of Britain, in Japanese costume, and of Western orientalism. You need to put it into context.

  • @YogsenForfoth
    @YogsenForfoth 2 роки тому

    Oh this is so bad. 😂🤦‍♂️