Elsie & Doris Waters - Knees Up Mother Brown / Please Leave My Butter Alone (1940)

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Elsie & Doris Waters - Knees Up Mother Brown / Please Leave My Butter Alone (1940)

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Gert and Daisy were the two characters of a British female comedy act who are particularly remembered for their contribution to film and radio entertainment during World War II. They were stalwarts of the BBC radio variety programme Workers' Playtime, where they would talk about anything and everything, but especially their fictional husbands: Bert and Wally. In the 50s they had their own radio series for Gert & Daisy called Floggits.
The characters of Gert and Daisy were played by Florence Elsie Waters (1893--1990) and Doris Waters (1904--1978), who were sisters of Horace John Waters (1895--1981), better known as Jack Warner of Dixon of Dock Green fame. Elsie and Doris were awarded OBEs in the King's Birthday Honours List in 1946.
They appeared in three films together Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942), Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942) and It's in the Bag (1944), which were all made by Butcher's Film Service. In 1959 they appeared in a television series Gert and Daisy which aired on ITV.

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@patmcdonald4799 7 жыл бұрын

Elsie and Doris are phenonmenal. My family came from Brixton and Dulwich so the memories are VERY special.

@toomaskarmo9435 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely. Just when one is feeling a bit glum over the pandemic, up comes the "Knees" song, to boost morale.

@michaelangood 4 жыл бұрын

this the only time i TAKE THE KNEE NOT THAT CHILDISH DISPLAY. by the way, my ladt friend is black from santo domingo. great song

@michaelangood 4 жыл бұрын

lady, sorry, too much wine here in spain

@ajsmith5295 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was a kid in the late 60s early 70s and at the local pub when my mum and dad were inside I used to sit outside on the step with a glass bottle of Coke and a bag of crisps and I can remember this being son with someone playing the piano

@bluesoulreggae1356 5 жыл бұрын

Superb classic British cultural double entendres from the fantastic ladies 😂😂😂

@TimMartinDesign 9 жыл бұрын

Maureen Parker Colley - posted in the FB Memories of Brixton and Stockwell that "Elsie and Doris were the guests of honour at our V for Victory party - down Dalyell Road. We got the chairs for the party from Stockwell Road school - it included quite a few of the other streets and was set up in the street outside the Marquis of Lorne. After the eating we trouped round to perhaps Burgoyne Road carrying chairs to a makeshift stage at the back of the school where Elsie and Doris gave us a show. When this was finished us kids who wanted to, performed for the crowd. I couldn't wait - I was up there doing My Old Man Said Follow the Van - in my best cockney. I had been evacuated to Blackpool during the war and gone to school there, so I spoke with an accent from up North.

@VintageBritishComedy 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that memory of Elsie & Doris.

@Sarah-vv2sl 6 жыл бұрын

I miss this kind of music ❤️

@medievalist 5 жыл бұрын

I'd never heard of Elisie and Doris before, but they sound marvellous :)

@lynnecooke9461 3 ай бұрын

Legends. Love them ❤

@alexmckenna1171 3 жыл бұрын

Elsie Carlisle's version of Butter (on Rex label) sounds rather suggestive :-) She was always slightly naughty.

@973Marcelino 5 жыл бұрын

It's fantastic ! 😂🤗😍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@londonnodippydolly6635 5 жыл бұрын

Jack Warner's real life sisters, Jack Warner best known as PC George Dixon during the 70's in BBC's 'Dixon of Dock Green'.

@VintageBritishComedy 11 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

@973Marcelino 5 жыл бұрын

I love it !!! 👍🏻❤️💕

@gordonharkerfan 8 жыл бұрын

Best woman double act of all time

@brucer9572 4 жыл бұрын

Okay, okay, I got this much: If he loses it out there there's sure to be a row. Oh my goodness!

@kitkatpattywhack 11 жыл бұрын

My relatives and my mother are from England, I am 25 and they were amazed that I didn't know Cockney Slang.... Even though I had this song on my iPod for years! :-)

@hellfirepictures 2 жыл бұрын

Being from England doesn't mean they'd know cockney slang. They'd specifically have to be from London to know anything more than the basics - and most Londoners today don't know cockney slang! Even those from East London (where true cockneys are from). So they shouldn't be amazed you don't know it as relatively few people do.

@dannylsmith3074 Жыл бұрын

They don't do comedy like this anymore

@VintageBritishComedy 11 жыл бұрын

I've uploaded the full output of Gert & Daisy records, although I have a few radio bits to do still.

@gordonharkerfan 11 жыл бұрын

They were great

@Phrixphrox 11 жыл бұрын

Fantastic - thanks for uploading

@grandslam1998 10 жыл бұрын

Bravo Bravo. Top Class. Thanks

@anfieldrd1892 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha brilliant

@toffeemanlondon5046 10 жыл бұрын

Classic

@karldelavigne8134 2 жыл бұрын

"It's all quiet on the Western Front" 🤣

@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT 8 жыл бұрын

According to my cousin Margaret my father actually DID sing this in the Anderson air raid shelter. This is what people had to put up with before KZfaq. Or in this case on KZfaq.

@hellfirepictures 2 жыл бұрын

This is what people ENJOYED - not 'put up with'.

@sharonritchie812 11 жыл бұрын

lol !

@littleshoemaker 3 жыл бұрын

Blimey, Lady Haw Haw.

@oliveryeomans7758 7 жыл бұрын

Up the football league we go

@Grundsau47 9 жыл бұрын

There were pies?

@HarrySmith-hr2iv 7 жыл бұрын

Today I would be afraid to visit Brixton. They play music there that just isn't for me!

@hellfirepictures 2 жыл бұрын

What an utterly ridiculous comment to make.

@elizabethmalson3338 Жыл бұрын

19/08/23 not quite old enough to remember 1940, however, was taken to local Empire regularly from 1943 onwards.

@brucer9572 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I spoke British English. But I'm a Southern Californian, and I can't understand anything.

@extrude22 3 жыл бұрын

This isn’t British English, it’s cockney (working class London English)

@hellfirepictures 2 жыл бұрын

British English simply means the vocabulary we use (e.g. Trainers, not sneakers) and you can learn that. In terms of accent, there is no such thing as British English - Britain has hundreds of regional accents.

@hellfirepictures 2 жыл бұрын

@@extrude22 It is British English as that means the language we use, not the accents we speak with. Cockney is both British English and a British accent.