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At the Drop of a Hat | 
| Artist: Flanders & Swann Label: EMI Category: Music
List Price: £8.99 Buy New: £4.98 You Save: £4.01 (45%)
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Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 4499
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Discs: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077779746521 EAN: 0077779746521 ASIN: B000026GPR
Release Date: September 14, 1992 Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Transport Of Delight | | • | Song Of Reproduction | | • | Gnu Song | | • | Design For Living | | • | Je Suis Les Tenebreux | | • | Songs For Our Time | | • | Song Of The Weather | | • | Reluctant Cannibal | | • | Greensleeves | | • | Misalliance | | • | Kokoraki | | • | Madeira M'dear | | • | Too Many Cookers | | • | Vanessa | | • | Tried By The Centre Court | | • | Youth Of The Heart | | • | Hippopotamus Song |
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| Customer Reviews:
flanders and swann at the drop of a hat July 6, 2005 9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Memories of childhood come flooding back. A chorus of yums running round the table...come and get it roast leg of insurance salesman. Mud mud glorious mud. A big six wheeler scarlet painted london transport diesel engine 97 horsepower omnibus. The list goes on. A true pleasure and delight in a very old fashioned gentler humour.
Wit for any age and any generation January 25, 2003 7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Flanders and Swan capture timeless humour through songs of a very unusual origin. If you never imagined to laugh at a song about a gnu, or be caused to think about why one of Britian's national songs is "Jerusalem", perpare to enjoy an interesting experience. Buy it, it's fantastic and if you don't like someone else in your family will love it!
The best of English wit December 22, 2000 31 out of 32 found this review helpful
I grew up with this record, through the 1960s. It is witty without being vulgar, charming without being coy, very intelligent without ever being pedantic or condescending, and all in all lots of fun. The songs are delightful and singable. It's adult humour, but a child can enjoy it. I revelled in it at the age of six, and can still listen to it and get more out of the jokes, nearly 40 years later! Some of the humour is topical, but the gentle satire has a universality to it that seems to have lasted. Highly recommended.
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