Noel Coward: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[SuperBanana4321]

haha if you play it at 1.5 speed, it sounds so funny ;)

[SHiTJuFro743]

wow.

[MRPICKLE65]

poo didnt even ryme he wasnt english most likly a jewish impersonator

[victrolajake]

2 people are natives

[debbiechickie5]

who knew Monty Python was such a Noel Coward fan??

[skippyd89]

"But Englishmen detest a

Siesta--"

Brilliant. Coward stands in a line of British humour and word-play that goes back through W. S. Gilbert (as in Gilbert and Sullivan) all the way back to Shakespeare and beyond.

The English love their English.

[wesmatron]

Great stuff from a legend. His performance in The Italian Job was sublime.

[nachtup]

genteel



[mitsymagicful]

2:06 in the mangrove swamps where the python romps...

....is such a good line;)LOL

[hydfawr]

One of my favourites. Thanks

[boum62]

Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde and Charles Trent ... National icons.. thank goodness for Gay Wits !

[Gavestonful]

Englishmen detest a siesta? Well, this Englishman doesn't mind it too much - it depends on what I've been up to beforehand! Noel Coward had an amazing way with words and how to rhyme them to perfection.....did you know that Noel Coward and the late Queen Mother, our present Queen's mother, were the very best of friends and Noel was a frequent visitor to the Queen Mother's home at Clarence House, London. RIP to them both.

[raptormaster666]

I love the deadpan way this is recited by Noel. "That's the same natives, pay no attention."

[Quarryman99]

I love Noel's face. :)

[Quarryman99]

Makes you proud to be English, despite looking like a daft twit to the rest of the world! ;D

[byline7844]

@Quarryman99 - Bless your hide; I am a native NYer and the English have never looked like daft twits to me. But then I am old enough to remember WWll and I absolutely love the English, and admire their spirit and stoicism during the war. Indeed you should be proud. Forgive me if this, in today's world sounds trite, but it WAS your "finest hour" and I for one am an admirer. Also I love this by Noel Coward.

[Quarryman99]

@byline7844 Thank you!! That's very nice and uplifting to hear. Put a smile on my face. :) And just for the record, I rather like Americans, too! ;D x

[DJJAW11]

@byline7844... Bless you American cuzen, we all have our funny and positive ways. As the Simpsons producer, once put it, Analogy... Britain, the mature adult, and USA the teenager (age of countries), hence, good explanation, for excuses for both, when we do what we do :).

[Quarryman99]

Such a catchy and crazy song! And I love his voice!! :D Thanks for posting.

[gerrykool]

perfect English Men..

[superesonator]

there ain't half been some clever bastards...

[hfelton]

My favorite line: ''In the mangrove swamps, where the python romps.'' Genius.

[DBowie1983]

"isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?"

[MrMmazza]

I wish he was still with us-pure class

[TheSkillzV3]

I typed in my science essay starter "Mad dogs and englishman only go in the sun" and it came up with this LOOOOOL

[FrankieHijackk]

brilliant :3

[davidmcging]

anyone know the one where hes on bout the customers always right

[filmbuff48]

The Astonished Heart - a Coward classic also starring Celia Johnson is at long last being released in January 2011 and will be available on amazon and all good websites

[WillShakespeare2007]

This version is a little fast even he can't fit the words in all the time and changes it a little. I think I prefer the better known version but thanks for posting interesting to hear.

[ifuliki]

Very talented. In Which We Serve was a great movie.

He was gay of course and a list of talented musicians, writers, artists would be very long. I wonder what genius we lose when gay youngsters kill themselves IN THE GREAT UNITED STATES because they lack support when they are bullied.

Aled

[ifuliki]

@ifuliki Because I mentioned those unfortunate young gay Americans who killed themselves due to bullying, it is a great leap of logic to suggest concluded that Mr Noel Coward was a paedophile. There is no doubt he was gay but surely that was his own business. He was a brilliant playwright and performer and that is all we need to know. Why are people so obsessed by a person's sexual identity?

Aled.

[ironwill56]

Quite a succinct, poetic, piece I'm never heard.

[eloisaanguiano]

Must be a zodiac sign of air gemeni? aquarius? Those guys talk 1,000 per minute. Very smart people.

[patmandy2009]

@eloisaanguiano ..hehehehe, We do chatter a lot..I never used my chatter to make the money this guy probably made! :(

[bluexxg]

read The Noel Coward Diaries...700 pages....great¡

[Scripter555]

MAGIC!!!

[asubjectiveopinion]

@kedharf1

I think that would be entirely for you to say, or were you simply being rhetorical?

[luckyowl249]

Immortal & still true. Hurrah!

[waynealarsen]

i listen to this Live Lp all the time

[rearvumirror]

I doubt if there is a single singer today with diction as good as this. "Genius" is an understatement!

[JollyJimJam]

God, who else has to do this for VCE Drama? So glad I found a normal version earlier lol! It's sooo rushed? How would we be expected to sing it!? anyways.. performance is this friday- wish me luck! :P

[alanbstard4]

he was a genius. Was was also a notorious paedophile who should have been imprisoned

[LambrettaSXsepcial]

is that true?

[alanbstard4]

yes, he was a dreadful molester

[sylviajorgentorolaf]

@alanbstard4 I have almost finished reading the book "The Life of Noel Coward" II realize that he was gay that is not a crime, but shocked to know that he was a notorious pedophile it spoils the whole effect.

[alanbstard4]

@sylviajorgentorolaf

sadly true

[waynealarsen]

@sylviajorgentorolaf

whoa, I have only read a short piece in the book CAMP, on Mr. Coward. he was really a ped huh? that's way sad

[racingrubberbiker]

@alanbstard4 . I have never heard that one. I think you are a paedo-obsessive. You are tinking of paediatricians also?

[alanbstard4]

@racingrubberbiker

[asubjectiveopinion]

@alanbstard4

A Daily Mail reader I assume?

[LordProfBear]

@alanbstard4 "Was was also a notorious paedophile"

Yes, absolutely, of course he was. Except that no, he wasn't was he. There are zero contemporary accounts of Coward molesting children. Never even a suggestion of it. He was gay, but that makes him no more a paedophile than being straight would.

Would you care to support your allegation?

[alanbstard4]

@LordProfBear I was watching a documentary on him one time. he had numerous "houseboys". Also one while escorting the Queen Mother to an Opera, they had kids in period costue and and the Queen Mum saw he's roving eye and said 'careful, Noel...they've counted them!

Look out for the doco

[LordProfBear]

@alanbstard4 It's odd then, that there seems to be no contemporary attestation. If he were a "notorious paedophile" you'd think there would be some record of it.

[alanbstard4]

@LordProfBear Yes I can't explain why there isn't.  I gues being an industry standard to be looked up to, there are things you don't say.

I can't explain that myself. I can only go on the doco

[LordProfBear]

@alanbstard4 That's fair enough, but it might be better to do some research before calling someone (even a dead someone) a paedophile.

[alanbstard4]

@LordProfBear i was only repeating what the doco said

[LordProfBear]

@alanbstard4 Yes, but you are repeating it as fact; when there seems to be absolutely no verification. So you saw on a tv show that something he said to the Queen Mother was taken to be a reference to paedophilia, and thus you are now branding him a proven paedophile.

[alanbstard4]

@LordProfBear No you're not reading this properly, and don't turn it into a federal case.

The Queen Mum said it to him, not him to her

The documentary not a TV show, the Simpsons is a TV show, said he was a paedo

If you want more evidence, please go elsewhere. i can't supply further. There seeems little doubt that he was. By the way, in those days, just being homosexual was enough to land you in prison

[LordProfBear]

@alanbstard4 It was a TV show, because you watched it on TV......that's how the term works.

"There seeems little doubt that he was." There seems to be a lot of doubt he was, or rather a complete absence of evidence.

"just being homosexual was enough to land you in prison" Yet people apparently knew he was a paedophile and nothing happened to him?

If you can't substantiate an accusation past "i saw it on TV" then don't make it.

[alanbstard4]

@LordProfBear just watch for the doco

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear Why does it bloodywell matter? Danny Kay was gay and I love him in everything I ever saw him in. Read 'Present Indicative' his (Coward's) autobiography (I think I got the title right)

Aled

[LordProfBear]

@ifuliki Why does what matter? Coward being gay? If that's what you mean then it doesn't matter at all. Someone making a seemingly unfounded accusation of paedophilia against someone does matter.

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear Even if he was a paedophile and loved boys I really don't think that mattered as long as he did not hurt anybody. Rumour and reliable eye witnesses report that he and Ernest Lough were very much in love. Lough was a popular boy treble. Lough used to visit him in Coward's holiday home in Jamaica.

Aled

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear Yes he liked boys and had a relationship with Ernest Lough but Lough was over 18 at this time and if they were lovers & that was their business and I could NOT care less. He was a brilliant man by all accounts and made a huge contribution to the British (and every other) stage. Eat your hearts out you US religious and YT maniacs. He and Gertie Lawrence were marvellous together I hear. I have seen Blythe Spirit 5 times. I don't care what he or anybody else was.

Aled

[LordProfBear]

@ifuliki What on earth are you talking about? I'm English and I served on the sexual equality council for the University of London for 4 years, this is not about him being gay. The other poster suggested he abused children, I challenged that assertion as there is no evidence for it.

Did you even read the prior conversation?

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear I agree; there is no evidence that he abused any child. There was never any doubt that he was gay but that doesn't suggest he abused kids. I personally do not believe that he was a paedophile. I don't understand how you could have concluded from my posts that I thought he did. I admired his talent and the last thing I wish to do is to denigrate him. I believe along with the rest of the world that he was gay. So what and who cares? A persons sexual ID is their own business.Aled

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear Someone, a friend, I forget who now, visited him in Jamaica and Lough who was NOT repeat NOTa boy at the time & who was a close friend of Noel holidayed with him there. You can research no doubt what that person said about the visit since she did make it public. What on earth has that to do with you being English or being on the SEC of the U of London? I too am English and was at the LSE and that too has nothing to do with the question.

Aled

[LordProfBear]

@ifuliki Aled. You seem to have completely misread the conversation I had prior to your first post. Another poster claimed Coward abused children and I challenged them. I suggest you take the time to read the previous posts as what you are saying makes no sense whatsoever in relation to my replies to that poster.

You said "Eat your hearts out you US religious and YT maniacs." so I thought I would point out that I am neither American nor a religious nut/homophobic.

[LordProfBear]

@ifuliki I will repeat, you posts to me make absolutely no sense whatsoever given the context of my posts on here and I completely fail to understand what popint you are trying to make. You keep saying it doesn't matter that he was gay; if you had bothered to read my original posts you would find I said that myself. What did matter was that someone claimed he abused children and I was asking them to either prove it or stop claiming it.

None of your clarifications have helped your case.

[ifuliki]

@LordProfBear @LordProfBear OK , you said,"What did matter was that someone claimed he abused children and I was asking them to either prove it or stop claiming it."I agree, they and and they won't .What more is there to be said? I agree with Coward when he asserted."I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

[ifuliki]

Tautology is as well you know Nothingless than a mortal sin You can Try to get to heaven But they'ee not going tolet you in Unnecessary repetition is worse than sedition And saying things twice is really not nice So my words you must mark, to my message please hark To you my friendst These words I send I really, really, really, must forbid it Oh heavens. I just went and did it Aled Sept 2010

[rrsmac]

Why does he have to rush it? Genius lyrics. I think this is the Ed Sullivan Show version. Why not sing it properly? Americans did and do appreciate intelligent lyrics too!

[rafhenlow]

magic!

[edmame]

about his fitness...wasn't tennis or badminton or something a big sport within his circle? he was a jet setter for years and needed to be in good condition for it.

[Legatoazul]

Without Bioshock I wouldn't have known this great singer existed. Thank God for Bioshock.

[shadowhouou]

Freddie Mercury wrote Killer Queen as if Noel Coward were singing it. If you look up "Killer Queen" and listen to how Freddie Mercury sings, you can hear it.

[lee11991964]

Quintessentially English.

[Fuzzbabby]

lol hes rapping ...is this wehre nicki minaj gets her inspiration....all jokes aside i like this

[sigft25]

Noel Coward: a genius....

[burnt62]

Thanks for posting !!!