Name: A Box of British Humour [Box]
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A Box of British Humour [Box]

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Album: A Box of British Humour [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mrs. Worthington - No‰l Coward
2)	Heard at Hogsnorton - The Truth About the BBC - Gillie Potter
3)	King Canute - Flotsam and Jetsam
4)	Old Hiker, The - Frank Randall
5)	Green Tie on the Yellow Dog, The - Billy Bennett
6)	Maudie the Racehorse - John Tilley
7)	Ten Pahnds Dahn - Norman Long
8)	Fishing - Harry Tate
9)	Everything Is Fresh Today - Jack Hodges
10)	Old School Tie, The - Western Brothers
11)	Recumbent Posture - Stanley Holloway
12)	Trains - Reginald Gardiner
13)	On the Day That Chelsea Went and Won the Cup - Norman Long
14)	On Behalf of the Working Classes - Billy Russell
1)	At the Court of Good Queen Bess - Doris Waters/Elsie Waters
2)	London Transport Board - John Tilley
3)	Mad Dogs and Englishmen - No‰l Coward
4)	I'm the Pest of Budapest - Douglas Byng
5)	One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Sex, Seven - Ronald Frankau
6)	Percy the Prawn - A. J. Alan
7)	Peaceful Street - Ernest Butcher
8)	Clothes - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom
9)	Keeping a Stiff Upper - Oliver Wakefield
10)	Nell - Billy Bennett
11)	My Little Austin Seven - Norman Long
12)	Stately Homes of England, The - No‰l Coward
13)	Band Wagon - Arthur Askey/Richard Murdoch
14)	When You've Fellows Like Me in the Force - Ronald Frankau
15)	She Was Poor, But She Was Honest - Billy Bennett
16)	Upp'ards - Stanley Holloway
1)	We Can't Let You Broadcast That - Norman Long
2)	Pets - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom
3)	Play up and Pay the Dame - Oliver Wakefield
4)	Max Miller in the Theatre - Max Miller
5)	Bad Show, Chaps - Western Brothers
6)	Deepest Shelter in Town, The - Florence Desmond
7)	Rain Came Pitter-Patter Down, The - Happidrome
8)	When Moaning Minnie Moans No More - Happidrome
9)	Baby in the Flat up Above, The - Happidrome
10)	Let Me Tell You - Happidrome
11)	Let's Have Another One - Happidrome
12)	Our up-to-Date Farm - Happidrome
13)	Out in Indiah - Happidrome
14)	Napoleon's Retreat - Happidrome
15)	Biggest Aspidistra in the World, The - Gracie Fields
16)	Who Is That Man (Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin)? - Tommy Handley
17)	Lord Hee Haw of Zeesen - Western Brothers
1)	Is 'E an Aussie, Lizzie, Is 'E? - Flotsam and Jetsam
2)	Proposal, The - Arthur Askey/Richard Murdoch
3)	Where Does Poor Pa Go in the Blackout? - Norman Long
4)	Tommy Trinder's Stage Show - Tommy Trinder
5)	It's That Man Again - Tommy Handley
6)	Max With the Forces - Max Miller
7)	Food Demonstration, The - Stanley Holloway
8)	Home Guard, The - Robb Wilton
9)	Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - No‰l Coward
10)	Only I'd Put an X Instead of 1 - Jack Warner
11)	What Does It Matter? - Will Hay

Album: A Box of British Humour [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mrs. Worthington - No‰l Coward
2)	Heard at Hogsnorton - The Truth About the BBC - Gillie Potter
3)	King Canute - Flotsam and Jetsam
4)	Old Hiker, The - Frank Randall
5)	Green Tie on the Yellow Dog, The - Billy Bennett
6)	Maudie the Racehorse - John Tilley
7)	Ten Pahnds Dahn - Norman Long
8)	Fishing - Harry Tate
9)	Everything Is Fresh Today - Jack Hodges
10)	Old School Tie, The - Western Brothers
11)	Recumbent Posture - Stanley Holloway
12)	Trains - Reginald Gardiner
13)	On the Day That Chelsea Went and Won the Cup - Norman Long
14)	On Behalf of the Working Classes - Billy Russell
1)	At the Court of Good Queen Bess - Doris Waters/Elsie Waters
2)	London Transport Board - John Tilley
3)	Mad Dogs and Englishmen - No‰l Coward
4)	I'm the Pest of Budapest - Douglas Byng
5)	One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Sex, Seven - Ronald Frankau
6)	Percy the Prawn - A. J. Alan
7)	Peaceful Street - Ernest Butcher
8)	Clothes - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom
9)	Keeping a Stiff Upper - Oliver Wakefield
10)	Nell - Billy Bennett
11)	My Little Austin Seven - Norman Long
12)	Stately Homes of England, The - No‰l Coward
13)	Band Wagon - Arthur Askey/Richard Murdoch
14)	When You've Fellows Like Me in the Force - Ronald Frankau
15)	She Was Poor, But She Was Honest - Billy Bennett
16)	Upp'ards - Stanley Holloway
1)	We Can't Let You Broadcast That - Norman Long
2)	Pets - Murgatroyd & Winterbottom
3)	Play up and Pay the Dame - Oliver Wakefield
4)	Max Miller in the Theatre - Max Miller
5)	Bad Show, Chaps - Western Brothers
6)	Deepest Shelter in Town, The - Florence Desmond
7)	Rain Came Pitter-Patter Down, The - Happidrome
8)	When Moaning Minnie Moans No More - Happidrome
9)	Baby in the Flat up Above, The - Happidrome
10)	Let Me Tell You - Happidrome
11)	Let's Have Another One - Happidrome
12)	Our up-to-Date Farm - Happidrome
13)	Out in Indiah - Happidrome
14)	Napoleon's Retreat - Happidrome
15)	Biggest Aspidistra in the World, The - Gracie Fields
16)	Who Is That Man (Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin)? - Tommy Handley
17)	Lord Hee Haw of Zeesen - Western Brothers
1)	Is 'E an Aussie, Lizzie, Is 'E? - Flotsam and Jetsam
2)	Proposal, The - Arthur Askey/Richard Murdoch
3)	Where Does Poor Pa Go in the Blackout? - Norman Long
4)	Tommy Trinder's Stage Show - Tommy Trinder
5)	It's That Man Again - Tommy Handley
6)	Max With the Forces - Max Miller
7)	Food Demonstration, The - Stanley Holloway
8)	Home Guard, The - Robb Wilton
9)	Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - No‰l Coward
10)	Only I'd Put an X Instead of 1 - Jack Warner
11)	What Does It Matter? - Will Hay

Performer Notes

A compendium of famous British comedy names from the period in and around World War Two, this four-CD box set features sketches and songs by the likes of Max Miller, whose double entendres were the bane of the straight-laced BBC, Stanley Holloway, who later starred in the film version of MY FAIR LADY, and of course the dryly acerbic, quintessentially English Noel Coward. Though some of these routines will be incomprehensible to 21st- century ears, others, like Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" and Norman Long's "On the Day That Chelsea Went and Won the Cup" have weathered the years remarkably well, and comedians like Tommy Handley and Arthur Askey played a vital role in keeping Britons' spirits up during the darkest hours of the war.