"The Lambeth Walk", from "Me and my girl" (by Noel Gay), 1986, with Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett
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@davidappleton2208Ай бұрын
I was born in 1938 and my mother always told me that when I was born a nurse came down the ward carrying me singing The Lambeth Walk. Always loved the song.
@MalevEvans-dw3doАй бұрын
That's so great a story, and utterly believable because this tune was such a hit. Thanks for sharing this!
@angrytedtalks2 ай бұрын
As dementia set in, this was the song my grandmother sang; over and over again. She died in 1988, but I can't stop hearing it when I think about her.
@rubytuesday4564Ай бұрын
As dementia progresses, playing music from their pre-teens through mid 20's gets big smiles from them.
@user-sm7dr9bk5u14 күн бұрын
The Brits have always known how to have outrageous fun. This one has always been one of my favorites.
@JimmyMarch12 күн бұрын
Wow I can watch this a million times
@mattyboimushroom3 ай бұрын
This Musical is the reason i fell in love with Musical Theater, i saw this 3 times when it was on tour in Australia in the early 90s and when the paintings started singing i was HOOKED!!!!
@terrystaines89036 ай бұрын
What a star Robert Lindsey is. Great performance By the cast also.
@markdaly16484 ай бұрын
He is a star of stage, screen and TV. Very versatile performer.
@feliscorax3 ай бұрын
This was great!
@Jamie_Pritchard5 күн бұрын
Absolutely brilliant, and I had no idea Robert Lindsay could sing and dance!
@vpizzi7 ай бұрын
My parents took me to see this on Broadway when I was a little kid in the 80s. We sat in the front row. Robert Lindsay came down and sat on my moms lap. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen. This is one of my life’s most favorite memories and this song makes me so happy anytime I hear it ❤ much love ❤
@EngineerLewis Жыл бұрын
What Robert Lindsay could do with his hat is very impresive and those fingers make the best whistle I have heard in a long while. 🤣
@jackiegeritz5345 Жыл бұрын
Robert Lindsay was also in the Ricky Gervais brilliant series "EXTRAS". ❤ x
@AndyReznov4 ай бұрын
I thought that was him!
@boblebovidge7049 Жыл бұрын
I remember my aunt & uncle doing "the lambeth walk" when the family would get together on weekends in the late 40's!-i was in my early teens,and fell in love with the ditty: i'm now 85+
@NikhilMathew1223338 ай бұрын
How has life been
@johngalvin3124Ай бұрын
Saw it live. Lindsey was brilliant!
@jonsmum55524 жыл бұрын
Went to see this at the Edinburgh playhouse with Robert Lindsay, absolutely fantastic! Walking home singing the Lambeth walk! What a great memory!
@cynthiaennis31072 жыл бұрын
That’s so wonderful! I wish I’d seen him in this! He’s fabulous!!
@GirlWithTheIpod3 жыл бұрын
This was an absolute joy. I'm only 22, but the sheer nostalgia I just felt- we once preformed Me and My Girl in my primary school when I was about 9, but I completely forgot about this song somehow, right up until the starting notes, and then it all came flooding back in a glorious cheerful and cheeky way. I loved this song when I learnt it, and still do today! Such a wonderful performance of the song too. Absolutely made my morning!
@tqnews22 жыл бұрын
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!
@maureenlivermore3721 Жыл бұрын
Just watched this video as l borni n East London and now living in Cornwall it brought back happy memories.
@SarahB1863 Жыл бұрын
For those unaware, this was the number that opened the 1987 Tony Awards - a classic year that saw nominees such as "Fences", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Les Miserables." What a year!
@jasonfernee24013 жыл бұрын
Makes you proud to be a Londoner when you hear the old cockney songs.
@cynthiaennis31072 жыл бұрын
I just love this number by this cast! ♥️💚💙 An all-time favorite! I wish I had seen this in person!
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
This is the beating heart of a great people....wonderful!
@ninachristensen25993 жыл бұрын
I Saw the show in London back then. It was sooo great :-) Loved it
@RAMROD4708Ай бұрын
"Lambeth, you've never seen, the skies ain't blue the grass ain't green", sounds like the neighborhood I grew up in back in Oakland, California in the 1950's.
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
LOVE Robert Lindsey in this! Fantastic & Fun! ♥️♥️♥️. It must’ve been fun for all of them! The fun is so much in the participation!
@user-itschad19547 жыл бұрын
I'm a cockney and this was widely aired in the late 50's and into the 60's. Went to the West End of London to see the stage show in the early 90's with Brian Conley. This is pure Cockney magic, this is what makes cockneys fun to be around and we always make a good job out of adversity.
@liberte58475 жыл бұрын
What a souvenir! Thanks for yur pure statement! MERCI BEAUCOUP, I DO LOVE that Lambeth Walk TO! Emmanuel from Paris France
@harenrussel5 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@andreaandrea67164 жыл бұрын
@@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?
@andreaandrea67164 жыл бұрын
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!
@user-itschad19544 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@vagabondrepertorytheaterco84314 жыл бұрын
Me and My Girl, to me anyway, seemed like the clear Number 2 of the new musicals for it's debut Broadway season, and it truly seemed like it was a fan favorite at the Tony Awards, if you notice all of the cheering and applause throughout the song, not to mention they got a whole theater clapping along to the song. Had Les Mis not come onto the scene the same year, I feel like Me and My Girl could have easily won Best Musical that year.
@vickiscaglione71165 жыл бұрын
What a star....such performance skills.....
@graham40066 жыл бұрын
Oozing talent and charisma, many of these celebrities who rightly made there name in lights ,performed at such a time where standards were at there absolute highest. Nothing today comes close.
@LGranthamsHeir2 жыл бұрын
IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake' or any contemporary style today's chaps are dancing with.
@hamerdow9 жыл бұрын
Love watching this clip. Have seen it at least a dozen times.
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
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! ♥️♥️♥️
@philippugsley10453 жыл бұрын
Love this song !
@telemachus533 жыл бұрын
There are times when one like is not enough.
@francescadaniels73563 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!!
@missaj56232 жыл бұрын
Amazing, never been able to catch this show but I know most of the songs including this classic. My family came from Lambeth way back in the day. Sadly not an easy life but by God they knew how to have a good time when they could.
@peterfraser90782 жыл бұрын
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.
@bennyrobertson6 жыл бұрын
Five dislikes? What's the matter with those people? This is fabulous!
@barnetfc48485 жыл бұрын
Ben Robertson Northerners most likely disliked it
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
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! ♥️♥️♥️
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
Ben Robertson pretty crazy...it’s a blast!
@pattimuse14 жыл бұрын
Love this!!!!
@pattimuse14 жыл бұрын
I am from Canada and I loved this!
@christinahitchiner77283 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best rendition
@A2D42 жыл бұрын
The one done by Hitlers uniformed Nazis is hysterical, “assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats”. 😂😂
@rubytuesday4564Ай бұрын
How exciting. In the audience was James Earl Jones who spoke with the lead as he walked/bounced through the aisles. That was a big surprise.
@johnmh1000Ай бұрын
Of course - couldn't place the gentleman until you typed his name. Great actor.
@harenrussel5 жыл бұрын
Love it. Thanks crew. 🌹❤️💕😍😍😍
@singleroach95617 жыл бұрын
I'm Here because I actually skipped school to watch Me and my Girl by Stratford Highschool. IT WAS AMAZING
@livcarmen18936 жыл бұрын
Stratford did a amazing job I loved it.
@HarryMcivor6 жыл бұрын
Do you go to Roblox High School?
@neilcarrington51374 жыл бұрын
Robert Lindsay, legend
@MrJacobs55 Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favourites
@lorrainepaul59283 жыл бұрын
I loved Robert Lindsay in that family show on the TV, but seeing this makes me realise just how extremely talented he is!,! More of Robert please.
@mpdalyful13 жыл бұрын
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.
@mpdalyful13 жыл бұрын
He is a terrific actor. I remember is brilliant turn in gbh for Alan bleasdale. He is a fine Shakespeare actor.
@MissGarland19862 жыл бұрын
Did you see him in Anything Goes last year with Sutton Foster. It was truly amazing. He is such a talent.
@SarahB1863 Жыл бұрын
@@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!
@amonhotepgabriel8750 Жыл бұрын
@@mpdalyful1Bella caiou
@carloshugogeib79614 жыл бұрын
I feel myself do happy listening and watching this my heart could explode. Let's do the Lambeth Walk
@LGranthamsHeir4 жыл бұрын
Second! It's three times better than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the Lambeth Walk.
@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts3 жыл бұрын
Jago Hazzard brought me here
@etymos66443 жыл бұрын
He brought us all here..
@simonf89022 жыл бұрын
Via the Metropolitan Railway.
@joemeehan93294 жыл бұрын
Great memories I have from my evening at the Marquis Theater in 1988!
@MissGarland19863 жыл бұрын
This was the year I was born. I did Me and my Girl 8 years ago with my local performing group and loved it. Lambeth Walk was my favourite. But sadly a year ago our company went into liquidation and we no longer perform. This puts a big smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Really hope to do this again sometime.
@RaymondJones-kh6pp Жыл бұрын
Great music and great preformers great song
@liberte58475 жыл бұрын
Lambeth Walk is tradition no way and in France we DO love it To NO WAY, in stereophonic sound To! BRAVO and MERCI BEAUCOUP. No Breakit no Way. No words for this no way. Emmanuel from Paris France
@billparrish61134 жыл бұрын
Lindsay was so talented and versatile.
@girlfriendisbetter3 жыл бұрын
Still is !!!!
@glen7318 Жыл бұрын
saw him playing Fagin in Oliver....
@LGranthamsHeir6 жыл бұрын
4:05 Darth Vader loves 'the Lambeth Walk' :-)
@henridelagardere2645 жыл бұрын
Contrary to popular belief, it was neither Obi Wan nor Grand Moff Tarkin who introduced him but *C-3PO.*
@kayjohnston11325 жыл бұрын
The Force is strong with this one.
@Richard195513 жыл бұрын
A very warm place in my heart!
@pamelaennels67805 жыл бұрын
i was born 1958 in the old hospital brooke street but lived in lambeth road
@dougkoehler11515 жыл бұрын
This song increased its fame in the movie The Longest Day.
@jimrouthier90973 жыл бұрын
World War II increased its fame in that same movie.
@pamelarossell7027Ай бұрын
This was also in Winds of War when Pug meets Pamela and her fiance in the Savoy. They were doing the dance.
@CAPDude443 жыл бұрын
Who else is here because of Jago Hazard?
@Elstree3 жыл бұрын
Aye
@2H80vids3 жыл бұрын
@@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." 😂
@OverBearin3 жыл бұрын
Who?
@MrPaulMorris3 жыл бұрын
Yep - he's leading us down some strange byways...
@2H80vids3 жыл бұрын
@@OverBearin Not only is this explained in the reply above yours, but a link is provided - Simples really.
@maryjarrett40869 күн бұрын
I absolutely love
@ImpureForce2 жыл бұрын
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
@peterfraser9078 Жыл бұрын
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!
@givemethevalium7 жыл бұрын
Robert Lindsay's got proper Jacko moves there with the hat etc
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
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!
@andreaandrea67164 жыл бұрын
'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).
@nigelkthomas95013 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell I didn’t know that guy was Robert Lindsay; the dad from My Family! What show was this from?
@2H80vids3 жыл бұрын
@@nigelkthomas9501 Me and my girl, like it says at the start of the video, under the video, and in many of the comments.
@nigelkthomas95013 жыл бұрын
@@2H80vids Yes, yes. I saw that after I’d added my comment. It wasn’t very clear on a mobile.
@belizetobali Жыл бұрын
That was James Earl Jones, there in an aisle seat, being greeted by Robert Lindsay!
@BadgersjАй бұрын
Love Robert Lindsay's reaction!
@belizetobaliАй бұрын
@@Badgersj Thanks for your comment. It brought me back to see this happiness again!
@philippugsley10454 жыл бұрын
Classic song Noel ! Robert does well too.
@vichamby42173 жыл бұрын
I wanna do this too! I love this song!!
@jeanetteconnolly9823 Жыл бұрын
My granddad could play the spoons. Love this .
@MissGarland19862 жыл бұрын
3:53 I love the guy in the audience joining in. Thats the way it should be. So much fun and having a good old time. 😁❤
@davidsirett55603 жыл бұрын
Jago Hazard sent me here.
@liberte58474 жыл бұрын
A great Classique! Merci from Paris France
@maureen19382 ай бұрын
BRILLIANT...!!!!!
@colinrixen-grandpop86974 жыл бұрын
This needs a revival.
@zackstark246014 жыл бұрын
100% Agree This Is Old Musical Comedy and I love it Christian Borle and Laura Michelle Kelly should be in the Revival
@tonyleedham5462 Жыл бұрын
Pure talent
@thespanishinquisition86173 жыл бұрын
Came here from the nazi meme, found out it’s actually a bop on its own
@theishaanandankitashow2 жыл бұрын
Same!
@svetlin_dp2 жыл бұрын
its not even a meme, its british propaganda
@jakerussell1352 жыл бұрын
"general adolph takes over" by British Pathe?
@theishaanandankitashow2 жыл бұрын
@@jakerussell135 Yes!
@theishaanandankitashow2 жыл бұрын
@@svetlin_dp That’s True.
@JimPianoGibson6 жыл бұрын
wonderful!!
@lindastarling84723 ай бұрын
That was fantastic, now do the Ilson Walk! XX
@urbanvoice8318 Жыл бұрын
Proud to be a Londoner
@sandraclowdus6549 Жыл бұрын
Lifts my Heart !! Oyy😄😁😊 HEY Lambeth walk EVEY DAY🤣😅🙃😀
@ramenlover8434 жыл бұрын
I’m doing this for my school show just now and this song is too catch
@ImpureForce2 жыл бұрын
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert! Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
@ITSJUSTUS7978 Жыл бұрын
He worked so hard❤he should be prouder of his masterpiece
@trixiepettman-south85003 жыл бұрын
I AM HERE THROUGH LOOKING UP HIS MASTER'S VOICE' RECORDS, POSTERS ETC. GREAT FUN. OF COURSE BEING 83 THE MUSIC IS NOT NEW TO ME. ENJOY. BLESSINGS. TRIXIE
@joannclune64232 жыл бұрын
He is so tweety
@enriquegarces79404 жыл бұрын
¡Estupendo baile!
@spleeeen4it7 жыл бұрын
wonderful
@A2D42 жыл бұрын
I had no knowledge of this play or this song until I saw the war film of the SS doing their normal marching but a British filmmaker set it to this music and rigged the film to show them do steps backwards, with Hitler shouting at different times. When Goebbels saw it, he tore out of the theatre cussing and yelling. I heard he put a price on the filmmaker’s head because of it. It is hysterical to watch. Starts off with title “Hitler and the Gestapo Hep Cats” or words to that effect. You can find it on KZfaq by typing in Hitler & the Lambeth Walk. I had commented that I wondered where it all came from and someone directed me to this play/musical. It’s hilarious but this (the above) is quite enchanting and enjoyable.
@lkrnpk3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact - Doing the Lambeth Walk was banned in Nazi Germany
@discoman23583 жыл бұрын
All jazz music was
@boblebovidge7049 Жыл бұрын
Of course the nazi's banned it,they had no sense of humor,-only murder on their sick & demented minds!
@irenedavo37683 ай бұрын
Fantastic
@jameshorn2706 жыл бұрын
A lot of mileage out of what is essentially a one verse song. A lot of work for the composer and choreographer to extend 30 seconds into 5 minutes. Note James Earl Jones in the audience at 4:03
@neildhan5 жыл бұрын
Too true. If you don't end this video with full knowledge of the lyrics, may I recommend referral to a memory clinic. =)
@neildhan5 жыл бұрын
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.
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
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!
@cynthiaennis31074 жыл бұрын
Neil Hansford I’m assuming it was written with audience participation in mind! Therein lies the most fun!
@jrgboy4 жыл бұрын
The show first appeared in the West End in 1937 , the composer Reginald Armitage aka Noel Gay died in 1954.
@balgrantango460Ай бұрын
Nice to see James Earl Jones in the audience!!!
@jeremyrobarts8673 жыл бұрын
I found this song from the book "Mr. Churchill's Secretary" by Susan Ella Macneal. The main characters listen to the song at a party.
@kanie2011 Жыл бұрын
The best musical ever shame it can't be re released umo can see a few people doing the song ie bradly Walsh etc😊
@Ahoma894 жыл бұрын
I'm from Germany and now end up here, don't no why that's relevant, but this Song is great.
@sannimcable3 жыл бұрын
Me and my girl
@urakunt8665 жыл бұрын
I’m a Lambeth Boy . Clapham Common
@kayjay123414 жыл бұрын
Lotta Krap love Clapham Common. Lived there for years
@LGranthamsHeir2 жыл бұрын
IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the 'Lambeth Walk.'
@simonf89022 жыл бұрын
Luvvely
@Lil-Len10 Жыл бұрын
We had to sing this in my school😂.
@Dianaemanuel12 жыл бұрын
What ever happened to Maryann Plunkett? I love her performance here.
@edwardcricchio61067 ай бұрын
I saw this musical in London.
@tobymoyo56887 жыл бұрын
what made me listen to this song again is i just conquered lambeth 100% in assassins creed syndicate
@RossComposeАй бұрын
A real upper....... this is SHOW BIZ!
@Thot_Patrol_USA2 жыл бұрын
A certain 1940’s ww2 comedy film brought me here
@BarbaraEdelman-in9toАй бұрын
well, hello there mr james earl jones & your red evening scarf!
@ellenthorne81810 күн бұрын
Did I see James Ear! Jones in the audience?
@CliffRichardFan20016 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where I can find a full version with Tim Curry?
@carbugnov19527 күн бұрын
English football fans should do the Lambeth walk when facing opposition fans especially the Scots.
@dianascrimger28410 ай бұрын
The song starts outs slow then becomes faster in tone for dancing!
@daninbox2 жыл бұрын
Five Graves to Cairo brought me here.
@bobbydazzler94822 жыл бұрын
my father used to drink in the pub called 'the Lambeth walk'. went there once myself. wonder if its still there?