Many have sung their song, "The Gas Man Cometh." We first heard it done by Faith Petric.
Songs like "The Hippopotomus Song" and "The Reluctant Cannibal" are true classics of comic writing. Peter Berryman gave us CDs of the complete works of the duo, and they are something to go to school on, both lyrically and melodically. I mentioned in an earlier article that Lou Gottlieb, the spokesman for the Limeliters, gave Michael Flanders credit for his over-the-top professorial introductions to songs like "Have Some Madeira M’Dear?," a song from Flanders and Swann. Occasionally they would delve into a sentimental or sweet song, but mostly their songs are wonderfully funny. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann wrote and performed over a hundred songs together. He “thought he were a goner, but the cat came back.” Even when the cat dropped dead after hearing an organ grinder play "Ta-rah-dah-boom-da-rah," (which I'm guessing was an inside joke to the music hall crowd), the cat's ghost came back.
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But no matter what he did, and this involved a series of escalating measures, the cat always came back. The song told of Old Mister Johnson who had a cat that he tried to get rid of. One famous song which has been a model for these songs is "The Cat Came Back" written by Harry S. It's a song about a cat who has the misfortune to stick his head into the flange of the garbage disposal after a bit of salmon skin, and is not able to pull it out. Lots to be said and written on the subject, but this week's article is about a contemporary song which exhibits some mastery of these traits. Often the last bit will be the topper or capper that Vaudeville and burlesque comics often employed. Many of them rely on a style of story-telling that traces a convoluted series of events, one thing leading to another, the result being consternation and hilarity. The British have a lively tradition of humorous songs. Rudy's Big Adventure Words & Music by Cindy Mangsen
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