The Best of Flanders & Swan - A Transport of Delight
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Composer: Michael FlandersComposer: Donald Swann
Performer: Donald Swann
Performer: Michael Flanders
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1994-05-06
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- Act One: Introduction
- Transport of Delight
- Song of Reproduction
- Gnu Song
- Songs for Our Time: Philological Waltz/Satellite Moon/A Happy Song
- Song of the Weather
- Greensleeves
- Misalliance
- Madeira, M'Dear
- Hippopotamus Song
- Act Two: Introduction
- All Gall
- Horoscope
- Gas-Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Ill Wind
- First and Second Law
- By Air
- Song of Patriotic Prejudice
- Hippo Encore
- Encore: The Wompon
Music reviews of The Best of Flanders & Swan - A Transport of Delight
Music Review: Great English Comedy Duo
Rating: 5 Stars
If you enjoy comedy, and you haven't had the pleasure of hearing Michael Flanders and Donald Swann's hilarious act before, then this is a good candidate for you. Although, I would say that you may want to pick up "The Complete Flanders & Swann" instead of just the best of, because you will miss out on some very funny stuff if you purchase this instead of the complete collection. Nevertheless, this is a good starting place and certainly a less expensive option than the other. Flanders and Swann were Michael Flanders (actor and singer), and Donald Swann (composer, pianist, and linguist) and together they wrote, and sometimes performed their marvelous songs.
Known best for a series of Animal songs, the most popular was probably "The Hippopotamus", they also wrote many songs commenting on popular culture, "Song of Reproduction", and the oddities of life, "The Gas Man Cometh", and even occasionally politics, "All Gall". All of them are delightful and funny, as is Michael Flanders commentary between each number. Sadly, neither Michael Flanders nor Donald Swann is with us any longer, but they will never be forgotten as long as their music and their humor stay with us.
This best of retrospective consists of 10 songs from their 1960 album "At the Drop of a Hat", and 10 songs from their 1964 album "At the Drop of another Hat". It closes with an encore of "The Wompom", which appeared on their album "The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann" from 1961. If you appreciate English humor at all you are going to love this CD, and if you are anything like me you will pick up on new things each time you hear it and grow to love it even more. Your only regret from buying this would be that you will likely realize that you should have bought "The Complete Flanders & Swann" box set, but you have been warned.
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