You got here searching for the Oscar Isaac song I assume.

Moon knight somehow brought me here

Oh my goodness. I grew up on Flanders and Swann. My father loved them. I can still hear him singing "Mud, mud, mud ...."

Songs like this are needed to try & keep spirits up in these current times.

I used to listen to these fellows back when I was but a wee lad. I'm so glad that there is an archive here!

Quite fitting for Marc and Steven

Moon Knight bought us here🌙

I remember Flanders and Swan. I was very young but I remember watching them on our old black and white tv. I didn't remember one of them being in a wheel chair though.

Ahhh, so this is where Armstrong and Miller got their "Brabbins and Fyffe" characters.

I'm now 66 years ole (an OAP) and except the hymns at church, this was my earliest musical memory. Thank you for uploading.

Mom and I used to sing this on the bus day trips to Skeggy and Mablethorpe. People thought we were crazy, haha many moons ago

My favourite was the London Omnibus song. Like other commenters I was brought up on these😄 lovely duo.x

Until I retired a few years ago from the pen store I worked at outside of Washington DC, whenever I got an older British customer, I would always sing this song - and they always knew the words. I guess I’m rather unusual on this side of the pond for knowing anything about Flanders and Swann. I miss them.

Brilliant! Those were the days of great language.

Perfection! I used to sing this as a kid and I've never heard the original or knew where it came from until today. Fabulous!

I sing this whenever the dog, kids, or myself, get covered in mud. Had it on a vinyl record of kids songs.

Glorious mud!!! Absolutely outstanding, this is my favourite song.

I just got this recommended to me after watching videos about the ending of Moon Knight's episode 4 which ends on a hippopotamus, lol.

I grew up with these guys, enjoying their music most evenings when staying with good friends during school days!! We used to roar with laughter and total enjoyment, so infections were their songs! Can’t thank you enough for posting, you’ve taken me back to when I about 12, hating boarding school, but loving all things musical. Thanks to this start and with a lot to do with F and S, I wound up at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas Danby and John Russell!!!!! God Bless you and please keep the F and S coming!! Adrian in Bermuda 💕❤️💕

I sang this with the small children of close friends 30 years ago. We all love it!

Hippopotamus hippo-pota-mus! ❤️

Such a catchy song! A truly unique duo! Who else could think to write such clever songs on the most esoteric subjects. " The Slow Train " is one of my favorites, too. I love Michael's reaction when the audience heartily joins in on the first " Mud..."

Saturday morning radio for children brings back memories. Happy Days.

This song we sang at the school concert in 1975 when I was still a pipsqueak.

Oscar Isaac version>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I was trying to find the Oscar Isaac one💀😹

My favourite Flanders and Swan song was the gas man cometh. Life was so much nicer in those days.

I do remember this as a child and it comes across as happily today as it did then , wonderful ..

Wow. I was a very little girl in England when this was a refrain around our house. I’ve never forgotten the chorus. Thankyou so much❤🙏🕊️🦛🦛

High culture indeed! I wonder why they omitted the middle verse in that performance. If memory serves, it goes as follows: "The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice From her seat on the hilltop above, As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice Came tiptoeing down to her love. Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang as they met. His inamorata Adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet."

Liked this. I had never heard of this duo until today

I've been looking for this song for decades. My mom, born and raised in 1934 in Liverpool, used to sing it to us. (I'm American.) It was such a fun song, and she was so silly and joyful singing it to us. Miss you, Mom.

Wonderful! Beats into a top hat a lot of the rubbish on TV today. I first heard this in the 60's on Junior Choice. True talent. See also 'The Gas Man Cometh' & 'I'm A Gnu!'

Michael Flanders a 6 ‘4’ top athlete who went to the navy in WW2 and survived a torpedo attack on his ship then got polio and was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. Shunned by universities for his disability despite giving his life for his country then wrote, acted and performed on stage. An absolute genius who was taken so suddenly! ❤️

That's not what I was searching...

Marvelous fun , I remember this from the early childhood too

At The Drop Of A Hat. One of the greatest Comedy album!

Charming! We have an LP recording of Flanders and Swan, regularly quoting and singing the songs. These two are wonderful! I loved seeing them on video.

Thank you for sharing, Peter. Keep safe.. and here’s to that mud 🍻

As a young child, this was my sisters favourite song.

These guys, Kit and the Widow, Fascinating Aida…an oasis of joy in a swamp full of rubbish….

What a memory ! This reminds me of the song parody's done by Alan Sherman. ". . . so clever, so funny.

Here after Oscar Issac's song😁

The was my favorite song in the early 60’s my mom wud throw 45 record & then drag it out of the trash.....West Texas, I’m 72 yr old TODAY 🇨🇱AustinTX “MrDon”

Oh, I remember listening to this whilst very young, and singing the chorus with my lovely Daddy... Happy, happy memories...With

Truly the last, greatest, gentaly (howsoever it is spelled or spoken) English musical duo; the truest summary of British Culture that faded into the realms of nostalgia of lost Empire before the 60s resurgence of Beatlemania and its ilk.

Happy 100th birthday, Donald Swann.

Oh such memories,loved them.It is a shame that we don't have songs with stories now.

An absolutely stupendous song !

That ain’t Oscar Isaac

Am I only one who get this recommend after Oscar Isaacs's Hippopotamus song?

Bless their hearts . Wonderful.

You came here because​ Oscar Issac yeah me too.

My 4 year old grandsons love this, and mud itself!

Heres the lyrics for your sing a long! The Hippopotamus Song Ian Wallace With Donald Swann A bold hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay By the light of the evening star Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair hippopotami maid The hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade Mud, mud, glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow, down to the hollow And there let me wallow in glorious mud The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice From her seat on that hilltop above As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice Came tiptoeing down to her love Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang as they met His inamorata adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet Kranz, kranz schmoodliger kranz, Holudshia shretsaca coldliger kranz Heckvas lees fer you dawgo Follow me follow Begeelio bedabo Down to the hollow Wenyou taub me aput in some true gulio kranz That will prove our cultural relations. Now more hippopotami began to convene On the banks of that river so wide I wonder now what am I to say of the scene That ensued by the Shalimar side They dived all at once with an ear-splitting sposh Then rose to the surface again A regular army of hippopotami All singing this haunting refrain Mud, mud, glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow, down to the hollow And there let us wallow in glorious mud!

YEAH ,I LEARNT THIS SONG FROM MY MAM AND DADA WHEN I WAS 4 OR 5 yrs OLD THAT WAS 1972 -- 73 AND I AM 52 yrs OLD AND IM STILL SINGING IT....I LOVE THIS SONG 👍😁🍺❤️❤️🇬🇧 STAY SAFE WORLD 🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🌈🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🇧🇴🇧🇴🇷🇺🇬🇧

God, they were wonderful! I had a wonderful two-cassette set that I made the mistake of loaning, and never saw it again. These two were geniuses! Now, onto "The Gas Man Cometh!"

From a time when people and MPs could safely walk the streets.

Hahaha love the song but LOOVE that intentional mistake at @2:38 😂😂😂 great voice and piano bit amazing performers these two! Good shit!

I grew up on this. I was singing mud mud as soon as Icould talk.

Wonderful. Has lightened my mood today. Thank you.

Oscar fan ?

My grandad used to play this for me on cassette in his car whenever we went on trips, I was 4. 27 now and it hasn’t left my mind❤

How glorious! I have two well used LP's of Flanders and Swan.

The gas man song, was brilliant!

Wonderful... I remember it well

and now everyone wants a "House Hippo!"

A. Favourite song of mine!

How absolutely lovely!

,,, ✨SPLENDIFEROUSLY FANTABULOUS✨ ,,, ✅✅✅

My Dad used to sing this. I've only just looked it up. Good memories.

Wonderful and priceless!!!!

An anthology called A Poet for Every Day of the Year has led me there😊

My husband bought this with money from his Gran, happy days

Just great!

Thank you to the algorithm for selecting this for me! Great fun.

Shameless sentimentality. There's nothing quite like it. Thanks for putting this on here.

Wonderful.

Singing silly songs, great for the heart and smiles.

Who else came from Oscar Isaac?

Absolutely classic

Usually rendered at the end of the interminable stories of Ian Wallace...they are as clear as mud and known as the Mysteries of Ian Wallace.

🎵Isn't it awfully nice to have a...

For anyone who wants it, we are selling not one but 2 copies of this in the records section of the thrift store 2339 Ogilvie Rd Ottawa. Hope they both find homes.

Glorious family sing ins.

Love it!

Love this song so funny

This is other level. Is so cool

I almost forgot that song but I remember, "Mud, Glorious Mud..

I listened to all the editions of this on You Tube. However I remember it being sung by a bass, where the finals words, 'where we shall wallow in glorious mud,' is sung slowly with descending notes, finishing on 'mud 'which only the deepest voices can sing.

My late mother had this ❤

He talks like Stephen Fry

What great fun!

A good hiking song

I’m envisioning Alice in the Wonderland 1951 Lewis Carroll’s world of imagination ❤

Pure silly fun...👍

Charming.

Sounds very much like it should have come from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

I loved those days when we could sing without having to think P.C. My favourite has always been. The English, the English, the English are best. I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The very first record I owned which Santa brought :-)