Thanks Charles but I'll repeat "If it's a Holloway thing then those monologues just leave me cold". They do my head in esp. spoken in that preening Lancashire accent (how they speak near where i come from, BTW) :-)

The song's OK though.

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>>>>>>>>A humourous song but I guess the audience would wish you to die if you tried to sing all the verses! :-)
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>>>>>>>Perhaps if Stanley Holloway were to do it? ( BTW, I have a cousin in Devizes who does a drop dead perfect rendition of "Albert and the Lion" and the other Albert whose ( which's ? ) name escapes me right now )
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>>>>>>Sorry. This means nothing to me. If it's a Holloway thing then those monologues just leave me cold. I'm surprised Americans know of him anyway, except from the old "Ealing Comedies".
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>>>>>Are you kidding? "With 'er 'ead Tooked Oonderneath 'er arm" was a great piece of music.
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>>>>Ha Ha. I only ever heard that once, on the radio, many years ago, and thus had no idea it was SH.
>>>>You've seen "Passport to Pimlicoe" - one of the very best of those old Ealing comedies?
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>>>I don't think I know that one. My favourites are "The Man in the White Suit", and "The Ladykillers". I'll have to look for it.
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>>It's about a hole in the ground, caused by a Nazi bomb, where they find a doc that states that Pimlico (London) is part of the ancient dukedom of Burgundy, and not part of England. This is all in austere just post-war Britain, with bomb sites and rationing. Well they close the "border" with England and set up customs post and all that, and rationing ceases. But later it all goes wrong.