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At the Drop of a Hat Free FREE AT THE DROP OF A HAT PDF Jenn McKinlay | 304 pages | 03 Feb 2015 | Berkley Books | 9780425258910 | English | United States At the drop of a hat | Definition of At the drop of a hat at Providing expert support for your administrative and organisational needs. Logos, branding, photography and website design to elevate your branding. Recruitment, Executive search projects, together with support and consultancy for start-up businesses. Using our 20 years of business and recruitment experience, we hand pick our specialist Virtual Assistants so that they are perfectly matched with your needs. By hiring a specialist virtual assistant so that you can concentrate on At the Drop of a Hat generating tasks to move your business forward. Once you have our flexible support you will be able to concentrate your efforts on the exciting areas of your business. Specialist Virtual Assistants. Helping your business thrive. Scroll down to find out more. 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''At the Drop of a Hat' | Phrase Definition, Origin, & Examples At the Drop of a Hat is a musical revue by Flanders and At the Drop of a Hatdescribed by them as "an after-dinner farrago". The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann had performed together as schoolboys, collaborating in on a revue at Westminster School. Flanders found that his spoken introductions were as well received by the audience as the songs themselves. Swann recalled:. The show opened on 31 December at the New Lindsey. No West End shows were opening on that evening, and consequently, as Swann put it, "quite a number of critics turned up on spec. Swann, bent over his piano like a small mad scientist agog over some wild experiment, ideally complements the bearded suavity of Mr. Flanders, who exudes from his wheelchair the robust authority of him who At the Drop of a Hat to dinner. The two-man show was performed with Flanders in At the Drop of a Hat wheelchair as a result of polio contracted in and Swann at a grand piano on an otherwise empty stage. A second revue called At the Drop of Another Hat was produced in Each performance ended with the "Hippopotamus" song, in which the audience was encouraged to join in, followed, in Britain, by a musical rendition of the Lord Chamberlain's regulations. Most of the numbers were performed as duets. Solos are noted in the table below. The numbers for the original performances were:. Source: The Donald Swann Website [14]. During the run of At the Drop of a Hatthe writers added new songs and dropped others. These included:. The first PMCin mono, consisted of recordings made at the show's 50th performance at the Fortune Theatre on 21 February and another show on 25 February. The numbers on the LP are. The numbers on the LP were the same as those on the earlier recording, with the exceptions of "Kokoraki" and "The Public May Leave", which were omitted. After the deaths of Flanders and Swann many private recordings came to light in their personal collections and elsewhere. Two substantial CD sets have been assembled drawing on these, At the Drop of a Hat the original EMI recordings, together with a BBC radio programme in which the writers revived some of their neglected numbers. The sets are:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Musical revue by Flanders and Swann. This article is about musical revue. See Flanders and Swann, p. Flanders and Swann. At the Drop of a Hat Flanders Donald Swann. Categories : musicals Revues. Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata CS1 maint: extra text: authors list Commons category link is on Wikidata Articles with IBDb links. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Add links. Opening night programme. Monologue by Flanders purportedly explaining the history of the tune " Greensleeves ". Dropped from the first show; restored in At the Drop of Another Hat. Song about the delights of sleep and laziness; soon dropped from the show, supposedly as it was making the audience nod off. Sung by Flanders. The last rhyme requires "the girl in my arms" to be a boy, but the Lord Chamberlain wouldn't allow this. Words by Sydney Carter. Live undated recording released in on Parlophone NTS Topical song, originally for the London show but adopted for any city with unfinished building projects e. Recorded live April or May and issued in October Wikimedia Commons has media related to At the Drop of a Hat. At the Drop of a Hat - English Idioms & Slang Dictionary It ran for three weeks and then moved to At the Drop of a Hat Fortune Theatre where it prevailed from to At the Drop of a Hat In the ultra- conventional s theirs was considered a brave undertaking; " Their first album, recorded in May ofbore the same name as their increasingly popular revue. Five years later, after touring the show literally around the world, a sequel LP appeared bearing the deliberately predictable title At the Drop of Another Hat. Produced by George Martinthis enjoyable smorgasbord of early- to mid-'60s British humor holds its own in comparison with its predecessor. Flanderswho was an accomplished actor, is at his very best in "New Built Up Area," a soliloquy expressing the viewpoint of a disgruntled denizen of Salisbury Plain who is faced with the newly erected Stonehenge. Note that Flanders practiced the piece using a turntable that spun Mozart 's record too speedily. This accounts At the Drop of a Hat the superhuman tempo as Flanders obsesses over a pilfered horn and Swann races to keep up with him. Generations of listeners have learned to savor and cherish the combination of Flanders ' satiric wit and Swann 's virtuosic piano technique. Ina three-CD set combined their live albums with additional material including a studio-recorded Bestiary. Hopefully that compilation will resurface to carry their artistry forward into the 21st century where it is sure to be sorely needed. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy At the Drop of a Hat Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. Track Listing. The Gas-Man Cometh. Sounding Brass. Los Olividados. In the Desert. Horn Concerto No. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. First and Second Law. This Old Man, children's song. English Traditional. Friendly Duet. Bedstead Men. By Air. Michael Flanders. Slow Train. A Song of Patriotic Prejudice. Built up Area. In the Bath. Sea Fever. Hippo Encore. This Old Man, children's song English Traditional. By Air Michael Flanders..
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