Nor do I. Although my parents too had the LP. They're definitely
'kinder, gentler' than Lehrer, although he too was played a lot on CBC
back when...
Doug
On 13-May-08, at 2:39 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Of the lives I know nothing. I know a piece of trivia: Swann wrote an
> arrangement of some songs of Tolkein's called "The Road Goes Ever On",
> my dad used to have a copy of the sheet music although I've no idea
> why as it was never played or sung in my house. A couple of Flanders
> and Swann tunes are still well-loved, and the folk memory of them is
> apparently still strong enough for the comedians Armstrong and Miller
> to have sent them up reasonably effectively in a recent TV sketch show
> (see also this: http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/medic/fitness/ ).
>
> Personally I prefer Tom Lehrer, which is probably treasonably
> unpatriotic of me but so.
>
> Dominic
>
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