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The Best of Rambling Syd Rumpo | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kenneth Williams
Label: EMI Gold
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4264
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 094633367029
EAN: 0094633367029
ASIN: B000A1OF8M
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Song Of The Australian Outlaw | | • | Song Of The Bogle Clencher | | • | Sussex Whirdling Song | | • | Tinker s Lament | | • | The Ballad Of The Royal Scottish Pretender (Posselwaite Lament) | | • | Pewter Wogglers Bangling Song | | • | Runcorn Splod Cobblers Song | | • | The Ballad Of The Wogglere Moulie | | • | Sea Shanty Medley | | • | Clacton Bogle Pickers Lament | | • | A Lummockshire Air | | • | The Terrible Tale Of The Somerset Nog | | • | Soldier Soldier | | • | The Black Grunger Of Hounslow | | • | Green Grow My Nadgers Oh! | | • | The Drunken Nurker | | • | Don t Put Your Daughter On The Stage Mrs. Worthington | | • | The Facts Of Life | | • | Just Another Girl | | • | Mad Dogs And Englishmen | | • | Why Did It Have to Be Spring | | • | Read All About It | | • | For Adults Only | | • | Finale: Just Pals |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Never mind 5 stars - this deserves TEN January 3, 2007
Alan Sturgess
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
So ---
how are you when it comes to loosening your grussets, traddling your thrums and letting your bossocks down as you consider the stresses of being a bogle clencher?
If none of that makes sense to you, then I'm not sure why you're looking at this CD. Mark you, none of it does make any sense at all; not in the slightest - but it is brilliant beyond belief for just that reason.
Rambling Syd first became a cultural icon when he sang his cordwangler's ballads in the BBC Radio series 'Round the Horne'. His laments and love songs from the long-lost days of fumbling shops and thunder jugs truly captured the essence of Englishness with their poignant tales of love, yearning and unrequited desire - not to mention various forms of unmentionable afflictions of the moolies and lallies.
Take, as a simple example, 'The Sussex Whindling Song' which Syd discovered whilst dipping into his gander bag. (His lengthy introduction is nothing less than pure joy to listen to)
Will you still love me Mary - O
when my grussets be bended low,
when my orbs grow dim and my pubes grow white
and my cordwangle makes an ugly sight
and my grussets be bended low,
and my grussets be bended low.
You ask me if I'll love you - O
though your grussets be bended low,
though your orbs be dim and your pubes be white
and your cordwangle makes an ugly sight.
If I feel the way I do tonight,
my answer will still beeeeeeeeEEeeee - NO!
The fact that all the songs are based on well known traditional melodies makes this whole listening experience even more authentic. Martin Carthy was NEVER like this.
All the songs are introduced by Syd in front of live audiences and are NOT simply lifted out of the 'Round the Horne' tapes.
So, if you want your withers rung and your moolies traddled, this CD just has to be one to add to your collection.
And if you think this review is little more than gibberish, then this CD is definitely not for you!
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If I have any quibbles with this CD it's that it really did need a lyric sheet with references to the tunes used, and it's a shame the various tracks fade in and out rather than being merged to make it sound like a continuous performance in front of a live audience. But those small niggles can be overlooked in the face of such masterful invention and perfect comedic timing and performance.
 Rambling!!! July 24, 2007
H. Davies (Wales)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent if you know what you are getting!! Short traditional folk tunes set with new and - different - words!! Classic Comedy with the emphasis on it all being in your head, and it will be. The last 8 tracks are Kenneth Williams singing other songs, mainly Noel Coward, and are slightly disappointing after the first 16.
Made me clench my artefacts October 12, 2007
Jonny Cowper (London, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Perhaps it's because the original recordings of these songs on "Round the Horne" are more familiar that I found this compilation disappointing. The Syd Rumpo tunes are funny, and at times hilarious but it would seem that the recording is a reprise of the sketches recorded for the radio show and therefore lack the tension and anticipation of the BBC artefacts.
What are glaringly missing are the reluctant and trepidacious introductions from Kenneth Horne. This also means that on this CD you don't get Kenneth Williams fully in the character of Rambling Syd, only singing the songs.
And of course tracks 17 to 24 are fillers and not the wonderful Rambling Syd Rumpo at all, including KW singing very much in the style of Noel Coward as to be almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
A better buy is the cassette compilation "40 Warbles from "Round the Horne's" Doyen of Folk Singers: Starring Kenneth Williams & Kenneth Horne (BBC Radio Collection)"
Who checks these things at EMI? December 29, 2006
JD Hulme (England)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This CD is called The Best of Rambling Syd Rumpo, and, indeed, the first 16 of the tracks are the best of Rambling Syd Rumpo, Kenneth Williams at his finest. However, for some reason best known to the producers the next track is the outstanding Noel Coward song, described carelessly as "Don't put your daughters (sic) on the stage" and sung either by Coward himself or by an exceptional mimic. The remainder of the tracks are also mostly Noel Coward songs, as far as I can tell. Doesn't anyone care?
5 Stars for the ramblings, less for the rest January 17, 2008
Mr. S. Kerfoot (England)
Every time I listen to this CD, I laugh. Really. It's that funny. To a point. Listed as The Best of Rambling Syd Rumpo, this CD is KW at his best, in full flow on Round the Horne, but only up to track 17. The concluding tracks are fine as far as they go, but RSR they aren't. As Noel Coward, KW shows how superb a mimic he was, and the two songs in this style are entertaining. The rest, from a musical I hadn't heard previously, are interesting, but that's all.
The CD, if containing RSR alone, would be worth five stars, without question. Unfortunately, the producers decided to short change us and the result is less than satisfactory. Even so, every time I put this CD on, I laugh. Really, I do. And all without bending my Chord Wangle!
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