That's so great a story, and utterly believable because this tune was such a hit. Thanks for sharing this!

As dementia progresses, playing music from their pre-teens through mid 20's gets big smiles from them.

He is a star of stage, screen and TV. Very versatile performer.

This was great!

Robert Lindsay was also in the Ricky Gervais brilliant series "EXTRAS". ❤ x

I thought that was him!

How has life been

That’s so wonderful! I wish I’d seen him in this! He’s fabulous!!

I'm amazed you could have forgotten it in the first place. I think every session of congress; every school day and every important event around the World could start off with a rousing chorus of this...and...NO Wallflowers allowed!

Just watched this video as l borni n East London and now living in Cornwall it brought back happy memories.

What a souvenir! Thanks for yur pure statement! MERCI BEAUCOUP, I DO LOVE that Lambeth Walk TO! Emmanuel from Paris France

You had to lol due to the grey misery of poverty that was and is notorious in the eastend. No different to my story and I love this song and show. One day when it comes back to New Zealand I will go and see it 💕🌹❤️💐💐 Bravo chaps!!!

@@liberte5847 Salut! (from l'Amerique). I always thought of les Titi-Parisians, comme Piaf, et les autres comme elles, étaitient commes les Cockneys. Vous ne croyez pas? Paris me manque... Tout va mieux? Un peu?

Please tell me that 'all that is Cockney' STILL IS, because the world is changing so fast and so much and I couldn't bear it to think that EVERYTHING is disappearing. Especially not something as magical as THIS. The mannerisms, the jokes, CRS, ... the 'all' of it. Please tell me that Cockney London remains intact... (I'm on the west coast of America now, sadly). I had a Cockney friend when I lived in Paris. He was a stellar human being (Mark Bryant. His father was a butcher). I lost contact with him and rue the day. What a fun and intelligent person. Stay well, wherever you are!

@@andreaandrea6716 Andrea, fear not. Cockney isstill around and people use without actually realising. For example, and this is only one of many "use yer loaf" = Loaf of Bread = HEAD. People have been saying for decades, many decades that it's dying out, it isn't it just evolves. Yes new "people" move into the area, their children will grow up having a cockney accent. My sister-in-law was born in Cyprus, moved to London '67 and speaks just like a cockney and the slang has been picked up too.

IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake' or any contemporary style today's chaps are dancing with.

hamerdow same here...once saw it on a DVD from a library here in New England! LOVE this fun song & scene & Robert Lindsey makes it! ♥️♥️♥️

Absolutely agree! What a fantastic performance where everyone in the audience is having just as good a time as the performers, especially the sensational Robert Lindsay and Mary Plunkett. Pure Cockney magic, highlighting how they and the east- enders make fun out of adversity. There’s a serious story attached to the Lambeth Walk- during World War 2, and just after the Normandy landing, three young French- speaking British women, members of the SOE were parachuted into France behind enemy lines to support the French resistance. All won the George Medal- the youngest and bravest of them all, Violette Szabo, aged 22 ran into a German patrol. Using a Bren gun, she opened fire, killing several and allowed her French companion to escape. Taken to a concentration camp, she was horribly tortured and abused over several months but never gave up any information or her spirit. Knowing that she and two other female captives were to be shot, she kept up their spirits by teaching them the Lambeth Walk!! It’s near impossible to imagine such absolute courage and spirit from today’s or any generation and Violette was just 22. There can’t ever have been a more deserving winner of the George Cross and to think that she thought of the Lambeth Walk at this time is heart rending.

Ben Robertson Northerners most likely disliked it

I’m from New England...and this Northerner LOVED it! 😁 First saw it on a DVD of the theater’s finest moments! LOVE it! It’s such a fun song, dancing is fabulous & Lindsey makes it work sooo well! Wish I had seen it in person! ♥️♥️♥️

Ben Robertson pretty crazy...it’s a blast!

Love this!!!!

I am from Canada and I loved this!

The one done by Hitlers uniformed Nazis is hysterical, “assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats”. 😂😂

Of course - couldn't place the gentleman until you typed his name. Great actor.

Stratford did a amazing job I loved it.

Do you go to Roblox High School?

Robert Lindsay is UK TV and stage star. Whose career Started on the stage. His TV break came as Wolfie smith in citizen Smith by the UK TV genius john sullivan.

He is a terrific actor. I remember is brilliant turn in gbh for Alan bleasdale. He is a fine Shakespeare actor.

Did you see him in Anything Goes last year with Sutton Foster. It was truly amazing. He is such a talent.

@@mpdalyful1 He also played Captain Sir Edward Pellew in A&E's 'Horatio Hornblower' series in 1999. I was very familiar with this "Lambeth Walk" performance and had NO idea it was the same actor! I was floored!

@@mpdalyful1Bella caiou

Second! It's three times better than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the Lambeth Walk.

He brought us all here..

Via the Metropolitan Railway.

Still is !!!!

saw him playing Fagin in Oliver....

Contrary to popular belief, it was neither Obi Wan nor Grand Moff Tarkin who introduced him but *C-3PO.*

The Force is strong with this one.

World War II increased its fame in that same movie.

This was also in Winds of War when Pug meets Pamela and her fiance in the Savoy. They were doing the dance.

Aye

@@Elstree Yep, me too. Came from his video about the Lambeth Walk at .... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z898Zs18173FdHU.html Glad I did.😁 I'm guessing Mr Lindsay replied to an ad for someone to "wear a hat and whistle a lot." 😂

Who?

Yep - he's leading us down some strange byways...

@@OverBearin Not only is this explained in the reply above yours, but a link is provided - Simples really.

Huge fan of Robert Lindsay performing Lambeth Walk and Sutton Foster whom I saw in Anything Goes a few years ago. I’d happily fly from Australia to well, anywhere to see these two great, exuberant stars perform together!

Givemethevalium Givemethevalium that came before Jacko, though! This was from the 90’s, but the original in the 30’s I think! And 1 in the 50’s! The move preceeds MJ!

'Jacko' ??? As in Michael Jackson? Are you mad? Michael Jackson wasn't born yet when this stuff was was all over the streets. Before television, before the internet, there was musical comedy and there was VAUDEVILLE... there was something called The American Songbook ... in the UK, there were songs sung in pubs by people who came in and sang for each other, just to amuse each other... as for Dance, check out The Nicholas Brothers (black counterparts to contemporaries Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly... Fred and Gene admired them tremendously)... following the Nicholas Brothers, there was Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice; their grandmother danced at The Cotton Club in Harlem. Gregory was born in '46 ... about a dozen years older than Michael. ALL OF THESE people were amazing ... dance is so joyful and just downright sexy. (but please... Michael did NOT invent that stuff. Give credit where credit.... you know the rest).

Bloody hell I didn’t know that guy was Robert Lindsay; the dad from My Family! What show was this from?

@@nigelkthomas9501 Me and my girl, like it says at the start of the video, under the video, and in many of the comments.

@@2H80vids Yes, yes. I saw that after I’d added my comment. It wasn’t very clear on a mobile.

Love Robert Lindsay's reaction!

@@Badgersj Thanks for your comment. It brought me back to see this happiness again!

100% Agree This Is Old Musical Comedy and I love it Christian Borle and Laura Michelle Kelly should be in the Revival

Same!

its not even a meme, its british propaganda

"general adolph takes over" by British Pathe?

@@jakerussell135 Yes!

@@svetlin_dp That’s True.

All jazz music was

Of course the nazi's banned it,they had no sense of humor,-only murder on their sick & demented minds!

Too true. If you don't end this video with full knowledge of the lyrics, may I recommend referral to a memory clinic. =)

If you're old enough, it reminds me of the old Skol advert from the 80s, the "why aren't you singing along?" "I don't know the words" one.

James Horn there are a couple more actors...another on an end seat was a soap opera star, same side as JEJ but closer to the stage & younger & gorgeous! He’s at 4:15-4:17 on the left in the end seat! There’s one further up, but harder to see...it’s easier to see in a dvd of great theater moments!

Neil Hansford I’m assuming it was written with audience participation in mind! Therein lies the most fun!

The show first appeared in the West End in 1937 , the composer Reginald Armitage aka Noel Gay died in 1954.

Lotta Krap love Clapham Common. Lived there for years