damian entwistleNo poem today.
But here's the Hippopotamus Song, from Flanders and Swann.
YouTube
BellycanThis one goes out to Ned, the left-hand thread garden snail in search of love in New Zealand.
Flanders and Swann, Misalliance.
Misalliance
@treleanor @damonism of course, the ultimate tribute song to buses has to be the Flanders and Swann classic, "A Transport of Delight".
FLANDERS & SWANN - 'A Transport Of Delight' - 45rpm 1957
Steven HeywoodIn these… times… we need more happy chorus songs.
Satellite Moon: A Happy Song (New Master)
Graham WardFlanders & Swann and the "Hammer Ponds of Sussex"
Some will know exactly where is post is going and probably I have started an 'earworm' for you! If not, read on about some 20th-century culture and a little about the Tudor and Stuart Iron industry in the Sussex Weald.
https://edintone.com/hammer-ponds/
#FlandersAndSwann #Tudor #Stuart #IronIndustry #IndustrialArchaeology #Histodons #Sussex @histodons
Terry BoonSpotify's search neatly did job with #NathanLoggins album "God Found in Everything" - including "The Weak and Strong Nuclear Force".
Loggins describes it combining "progressive rock, fusion and new age". Despite reminiscent title, very different from Flanders & Swann's thermodynamic "First and Second Law" ("Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter / You can try it if you like but you far better not-er! ... That's entropy, man!)"
(https://artistrack.com/nathan-loggins-god-found-in-everything/)
Nathan Loggins - God Found In Everything (ArtistRack Rock Music)
Nathan Loggins – God Found In Everything: With this being my sixth album release I continue my personal exploration within the sonic realm of music combining aspects of progressive rock, fusion and new age. With the God Found In Everything Project I dare to ask if God is alpha and omega and the creator of […]
Code of Amor 💘We just had our gas bottles delivered. Which reminded me of this old tune of great mirth. 😊
https://youtu.be/hblU6RkBXhc?si=f9wcnnpMBzH6Plc5
#flandersandswann
#thegasmancometh
https://youtu.be/hblU6RkBXhc?si=f9wcnnpMBzH6Plc5
#flandersandswann
#thegasmancometh
The Gas-Man Cometh (Live)
Hugo Mills@Nickiquote @stavvers It's not irrelephant. It's a hippopotamus.
TiggyWatching a video of Flanders and Swann. Not brilliant quality (the piano sounds a bit off-key sometimes) but good enough.
I used to watch them on TV when I was young, and some of their songs are still heard today, eg the Hippopotamus song.
Any many of the messages still ring true, unfortunately.
But I never knew that Donald Swann wrote a song that included Elvish from Lord of the Rings.
#FlandersAndSwann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFiL4p4K9Y&ab_channel=thedjrasteri
The Only Flanders & Swann Video
Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦Musical Interlude: On the railroad theme, here's a solemn song from comedy duo Flanders & Swann, mourning the threatened closing of many smaller rail stations in the UK. Thankfully many stayed open, but a lot of service was cut, and a way of life vanished.
We need more passenger rail service in the US!
"The Slow Train," performed by Flanders & Swann.
