We had such a (much-needed) laugh last night at one of our fave venues Wilton's Music Hall! Mr Tom Carradine (for it is he) is a master of the old-time knees-up round the piano, and indeed we went to one of his Cockney Sing-a-longs at Wilton's in 2019.
This time, he (in collaboration with that musical genius and our longtime friend Marcus Reeves, who we bumped into after the show) has come up with a new show format - the Great British Comedy Songbook. Featuring not just Music Hall numbers, but also a range of funny and often bizarre numbers across the decades; everything from George Formby and Gracie Fields, Noel Coward and Flanders and Swann, through ditties made famous by Tommy Steele, Bernard Cribbins and Victoria Wood. There were sequences featuring comedy songs about bananas, animals and pastiche versions of other famous songs from the shows.
We sang till our throats were hoarse, laughed till our ribs hurt, and generally had a whale of a time!
The show we saw was the first of its format so no footage online for that yet, but here's a sampler of Mr Carradine at Wilton's, to give you an idea of the atmosphere:
...and here, two songs he did do last night (both great favourites here at Dolores Delargo Towers):
Superb!
Oh what fun!
ReplyDeleteIt was a real pick-me-up! Jx
DeleteIt sounds like a charming evening. We don't have anything like this in the US, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteYou have my deepest sympathies. Despite the semi-translation of our "Music Hall" and "Variety" revues and entertainments into the US equivalents "Burlesque" and "Vaudeville", no-one bothers to revive such things over there - let alone a jolly old sing-song of the music of such bygone eras? Shame. Jx
DeleteGood tunes for swinging back beers! I like the second song the most. I guess its a good thing the family didn't have a dog or cat. Who knows what that poor creature would've gotten stuck too! Maybe a cupboard door.
ReplyDeleteThey had all the best tunes back in those days! And there was certainly a quantity of gin consumed last night - an essential at any good night at the Music Hall, methinks... Jx
DeleteGoing back a few years now...our little Am. Dram. group put on an Olde Time Sing-along.Such a jolly good romp, we had to do two more nights.You don't get the same with disco...
ReplyDeleteTwo very separate genres, indeed. Unfortunately the old-time piano sing-along has been rather sidelined by the "me-me-me"-generation, fuelled by karaoke. Jx
DeleteI want to pursue a career in the music hall! I want to sing a song about paint colour charts!
ReplyDeleteMost excellent! I'm glad you had a good time.
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I hoped they'd do Ida Barr's "classic": "I 'Ad a Little Thrush, but Now It's Gorn Away"... Jx
DeleteI couldn't have liked it more.
ReplyDeleteFab photo of Mr. Carradine and Wilton's.
It was a brilliant show at a magnificent venue! Jx
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