How great to have Michael Flanders and Donald Swann sung at the Proms! Memories of my childhood! Both brilliant!
@miken8913 жыл бұрын
I doubt if Michael Flanders or Donald Swan ever imagined that that song would one day be featured at The Proms!
@miken8913 жыл бұрын
Apologies to Donald Swann for misspelling his name.
@FromtheHerts812 жыл бұрын
As featured in the children’s song treasury All Aboard, alongside The Gnu Song, The Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Sparky’s Magic Piano and many others. That’s why I sing the chorus with such delight.
@ruthbarron6259 жыл бұрын
Delightful.
@stefvonte29873 жыл бұрын
This should have 10 million views! 😊😆😂👍🏻🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛
@hughx52352 жыл бұрын
Why on earth did they leave out the third verse, "Now more hippopotami began to convene on the bank of the river so wide. I wonder now what am I to say of the scene that ensued by the Shalimar side?"(beautiful alliteration) when the audience would know the words and let 'em rip? Was it perhaps sung as the encore?
@cogidubnus19532 жыл бұрын
Lovely to hear such a tribute at the Proms, but I'll stick with the original if you please!
@iain8602 жыл бұрын
Sue can sing! 🥰
@inesdeerausquin56587 жыл бұрын
they didn't sing the third verse! But still charming! :)
@YAmateurP3 жыл бұрын
No, they didn't. I've also got a Flanders and Swann CD with the reprise of the Hippopotamus song which tells of the hippopotamus being 'married and father of ten' (!) but I can't find that on KZfaq!
@albion.hlafweard3 жыл бұрын
@@YAmateurP Its called The Hippo Encore kzfaq.info/get/bejne/maebbMaSxM6ddGg.html
@YAmateurP3 жыл бұрын
@@albion.hlafweard That's brilliant, thank you..
@5610winston2 жыл бұрын
@@YAmateurP The amorous hippopotamus whose love song we know is now married and father of ten. He murmurs "God rot 'em" as he watches them grow, And he longs to be single again. He gambols no more on the banks of the Nile (Which Nasser is flooding next spring), With hip-po-po-ta-mas in silken pajamas, No more does he teach them to sing [CHORUS]
@5610winston2 жыл бұрын
"Now more hippopotami began to convene On the banks or that river so wide. I wonder now what am I to say of the scene That ensued on the Shalimar side? They dived all at once with an ear-splitting SPLASH [dramatic fortissimo dominant minor piano chord] Then rose to the surface again: A regular army Of hippopotami, All singing this haunting refrain: [CHORUS accompanied by virtuosic improvisation at the piano]