THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY

Disc 1:

Frank Sinatra & Celeste Holm - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (from 'High Society') / Michael Flanders & Donald Swann - A Transport Of Delight / Stanley Holloway - Brahn Boots /

George Formby - With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock / Gracie Fields - Walter Walter (Lead Me To The Altar) / Groucho Marx - Hooray For Captain Spaulding /

Laurel and Hardy - The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / Max Miller - Mary From The Dairy /

Frank Crumit - Abdul Abulbul Amir / Noel Coward - Mrs. Worthington / Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison - The Rain In Spain (My Fair Lady) /

Peter Sellers - Party Political Broadcast / Spike Jones and his City Slickers - Cocktails For Two / Stan Freberg - Heartbreak Hotel /

The Stargazers - I See The Moon / Frankie Howerd & Margaret Rutherford - Nymphs And Shepherds / The Goons - A Russian Love Song / Lena Horne - A New Fangled Tango /

Gerard Hoffnung - French Widows / Phil Harris - The Darktown Poker Club / Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation / Tom Lehrer - Be Prepared / Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom – Narcissus

Disc 2:

Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - Cigareetes Whusky and Wild Wild Women / Danny Kaye - Lobby Number (Manic Depressive Presents) / The Pied Pipers - Mairzy Doats /

Frankie Howerd - Three Little Fishes / Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Harry Roy and his Band - She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor / George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows /

Noel Coward - Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans / Stanley Holloway – Old Sam (Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket) / Bernard Miles - Me an' Old Charlie / Joyce Grenfell - Nursery School /

Reginald Gardiner - Trains (Parts 1 & 2) / Noel Coward - Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Frank Crumit - Song Of The Prune / Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big /

Tex Williams - Life Gets Tee-j'us Don't It? / Al Read - You're Seeing Too Much Of The Telly / Cyril Fletcher - The Tale Of Hector Cramp /

Cicely Courtneidge Ivor McLaren & Lawrence Green - Double Damask / Spike Jones and his City Slickers - You Always Hurt The One You Love /

Douglas Byng - Doris The Goddess Of Wind / Phil Harris - The Thing / Jimmy Durante - I'm The Guy Who Found The Lost Chord Disc 3: Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman /

Ernest Butcher - Peaceful Street / Max Miller - The Woman Improver / Stanley Holloway - The Lion And Albert / Bernard Miles - Over The Gate / Joyce Grenfell - Shirley's Girl Friend /

Danny Kaye - Triplets / Bing Crosby & Al Jolson - The Spaniard That Blighted My Life / Peter Sellers - Auntie Rotter / Peter Ustinov & Anthony Hopkins - Mock Mozart /

Tom Lehrer - The Old Dope Peddler / Stan Freberg - John and Marsha / Burl Ives - I Know An Old Lady / Ian Wallace – The Hippopotamus Song / Michael Flanders & Donald Swann - The Gnu Song /

The Goons - The Ying Tong Song / Victor Borge - Inflationary Language / Gerard Hoffnung – The Bricklayer / Al Read - The Wife / Peter Sellers - Balham Gateway to the South /

Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky / Peter Ustinov - Phoney Folk Lore / Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O)

Laugh out loud with some of the best and funniest moments from the finest comedy entertainers of all time. From the gentle, satirical humour of Noel Coward to the outrageous antics of Spike Jones, the wide, diverse world of comedy is yours to explore on this truly hilarious and side-splitting collection.

Drawing on the funny, the amusing and the downright laughable this collection brings the great entertainers from 1926 to 1958 back to life. Each one of these tracks comes from an age when humour had to find expression without vulgarity: indeed, in that sense alone ‘The Golden Age of Comedy’ offers a refreshing change and more than an appreciative glance back to the good old days of genuine comic genius and talent! Featuring a roll call of comedy greats, including: Stanley Holloway, Flanders & Swann, Max Miller, Peter Sellers, Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Stan Freberg, Spike Jones, Gerard Hoffnung,

Tom Lehrer, The Goons, Phil Harris, Joyce Grenfell, Norman Wisdom, Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx and more.

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