JACK BUCHANAN: Everything Stops for Tea

[kenpsteele]

what year was this recorded?

[zytigon]

very clever song, thanks for video

[loytokega2]

buchanan is my scottish clan o.o

[fourwayscottage]

AAAA. 121617Z NOV 2011  Thank you for posting.......AR.

[syncopeter]

It is not so very long ago that every station was littered with empty tea mugs. Nowadays every commuter drinks coffee, I've noticed when I'm in London. I still prefer tea, with just a drop of milk and a squeeze of lemon. And that typical diction with a rolled "R" was very British. Many of our Dutch vocalists also had a somewhat exagarated pronunciation.

[DamastaYo]

I love this song, but I don't even like tea...

[knightal7]

Teatastic

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

Without the slightest hint of irony I can honestly say tea at 4 is the very highest sign of civilisation. What we have lost is now beyond the comprehension of ironic idiots... To be apologetic for being English is not to be English!

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight Behave, most people with a proper job didn't get any civillised tea breaks. In the 1940s and '50s my Grandad had to drink cold or lukewarm tea down the pit, at whatever time the foreman decided was the right time. Fine china on a silver tray at four was for a small elite. The 'Merrie England' view is a distortion.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

Damn right & he should have been glad of it too! His lot was better than 99% of the poor buggers on this Earth at that time. Your prosperity today is built on his & others hard graft – so honour him & his times. Do not seek to denigrate a culture just because the education system you suffered under is a leftist inspired mess of Marxist utopian nonsense! There are those that still suffer for you now...

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight Sod off. There's nothing noble about over 50% (more like 80% in his day) of the labour force breaking their backs and dying young for a little elite of pocket fillers. Only working-man's politics ensured him a decent wage eventually, pit-head baths, a proper lunchtime and holidays. Before that they were like cattle.

Get this foolish delusion you have, that worker politics is some sort of blight on culture, out of your head. Before 1939 being a working man in Britain was shit.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

Was it really? And where pray tell was better for 'the working man' in those days? The Soviet Union? The malaria infested, cannibalistic heart of African darkness? Where?

Methinks the delusion you speak of is your own...

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight Do you think it valid to assert that because another group is even worse off that the conditions for the first group is legitimate? I advise you stay away from political thought, you have no talent for it, you're only making noises based upon a rosy past view of the world which never existed. Where I see 'CelticSaxonKnight' I see 'deluded nationalistic fool'. It stands to reason.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

And the answer to my question as to where in those days was better is... ?

Oh I see you have no answer, just insults.

OK then answer this - how could it have been better in those days for those people? And I mean something substantial – not just Marxist pipe-dreams.

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight You don't want a real answer, you want me to answer it according to a false construct. It could have been better in the ways it was made (marginally) better by later legislation, which arose partly because of economic conditions - increased need for labour which makes labour bargaining stronger - and because of political change during the 1930s.

I'm not really interested in whether you have a negative view of Marxism, since you likely don't even understand it.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

I do want an answer.

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight You've had the answer, twice. Clearly it's too complicated for you.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

Funny you can't respond without attempted insults... You know people will disagree on politics. Yet you don't even have the slightest clue as to mine, still you persist in silliness of name-calling - what am I?

I am happy to debate you in a rational, non-emotional way. If you have given the answer twice prove your honour & worth - give it a third time without the snark. Lay out your argument & I will attend to it with “cold gradation & well-balanced form.”

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight It's already there, just read it. You want me to do something stupid like name a country where working conditions were better, which is irrelavent. A child going somewhat hungry in the uk, for example, is not rendered fortunate by pointing out child hunger in Africa.

You're probably a nice guy IRL, or maybe not, that's not what I'm knocking it's your political assertions, which are common, ignorant right-wing venom claiming the downfall of civilisation from 'Marxist poison'.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo I've read it – I didn't see the answer to either question I posited. Perhaps it's irrelevant to name the working people who were doing better in those days – but humour me. See I think they had hard lives but well – that's life! I don't believe in Utopia. You & I are living comfortable lives today for EXACTLY the same reason as those 'elite' did then - exploitation of others! They say 6 planets are required for everyone alive today to live as the average westerner so how Marxism?

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight Everyone in the West is not living a comfortable life. We can't measure it by the number of inside lavatories and mobile phones. A great deal of people gain very little from third world trade manufacturing exploitation. And even if it were the case that the entire West benefited greatly, it's not a justification or a "that's life" conclusion. Let us simply wait until the Far East is no longer a cheap labour Mecca & the methodology falters, that 'prosperity' will collapse.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo Perhaps not, but I talked of the average westerner. Yet still no answer to either question I posed – OK I give up, forget them. Let's deal with your later points...

Do you welcome the collapse of the cheap external, far eastern labour? If so - why? So all must be on a low par, where all suffer & there be no progress? We know the world cannot sustain all at the AVERAGE western level, so logical the Marxist Utopia is reduction – death, disease, decay & de-evolution for all?

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight Or in reverse, are you saying that the only to sustain a minority under capitalist trade is exploitation and slavery of a labouring minority? Good, you've just vindicated Marx. That collapse of cheap labour is coming whether people desire it or not. If one man is accustomed to having 20 apples against 20 men having one apple, it's not a matter of unsustainably producing more than 40 apples, but asking whether one man needs 20 apples for himself. That's your Western AVERAGE.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

@nakedmambo

No clearly 20 men can't have one apple each - since 6 worlds are required for this if we accept the apple to be the average western lifestyle – which was the point of my question – which it was!

You can reduce all men to poverty if you want, but that will be purely at the expense of progress – since less wealth = less progress! Surely you won't deny that? … Though you probably will, which is why I end the conversation here.

[nakedmambo]

@CeltoSaxonKnight 6 worlds? What are you wittering on about? Making up your own irrelevant, idiotic rules.

Who need to work out a new way to reduce the majority of the world into unnecessary poverty and hardship when the current system does it so well? Anyone who measures progress on the back of only wealth needs to stop here as you have done; they have nothing of value to say.

[terencenunn35]

@MindCrazed Banjo. No doubt you are an American and thus cannot detect the Edinburgh in Jack Buchanan's accent?

[MindCrazedBanjo]

oh I say! what a frightfully good ditty.

[501darth]

Drinking tea right now :D

[DharmaxWay]

Wonfderful! How could we survive without the thought of the next cup of tea? Loose tea of course, not horrible tea bags.

[LePrince1890]

Best known in the U.S. for playing "Geoffrey De Cordova" the modern genius of the theater in the M G M musical THE BAND WAGON (1953) where he did a famous pair of numbers, "The Triplets" with Fred Astaire and Nanette Fabray, and "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans" with Astaire (both equally elegant in top hat, white tie, tails, and canes). He also was in BREAK THE NEWS with Maurice Chevalier in the 1930s. But his was a mostly British career.

[TheMusicman12ize]

my god i love this song i love the very old music from 40 30s and the 20s this is amazing

[Archbeship1Maths3Log]

Working Tea Breaks? Who came up with them? They had their Good Points but now they should be Abolished

[priapus56]

@Archbeship1Maths3Log ...DIE!!!!!



[Archbeship1Maths3Log]

@priapus56 No

[Archbeship1Maths3Log]

Working Tea Breaks? Abolish them.

[Piccadillyo]

this should be our national anthem

[babydavidsonxxx]

That's my grandpas (William Buchanan) dad's (Arthur Buchanan) second cousin :D!

Jack was also best friends with the man who invented the television (John Logie Baird)

[vertxxgg]

English Tea Party Hymn

[europa999999]

lovely!

[louisa1832]

He was wonderful.

[AaronIzzard]

Personaly i'd listen to Mr Buchanan rather than all the factory made pop drpbble that gets transmitted over the air waves nowa days.

[ShutThatDoor]

Does anyone else see a strong resemblance between Jack Buchanan's debonair and laid-back manner and that of the actor John Le Mesurier - who played Sgt. Wilson in Dad's Army? In fact there is a reference to JB in Dad's Army when Mainwairing says to Wilson that he doesn't approve of all this Jack Buchanan stuff! It seems John le Mesurier, who I greatly like, was influenced by JB? I

[Knobbynomates]

Do you know old man thats exactly what I thought too.

I always listened to this little ditty on radio2 back in the good old 70s

[pinki3o8]

I'm related to him :)

[oliva77]

I'm going to have to cast my vote for the Jack Hylton version.

[christophleclerc14]

Oh, a relative of mine. Exciting. We still live in his old house. Mummy loved him :)

[ihateallschools]

this songs realy funny

[HarborGuy]

Nothing like a good "cup of"..........

[rhomp2002]

Agree on the Long John Baldry version also. One of the best versions around.

[ninj4ferret]

pip pip hazzah!

[maxinfidel]

Jolly good tune.Oh!..... I beg you pardon, Tea Time; Care to join me?

Love the" Long" John Baldry version also.

[dorisboy52]

What a jolly song...charming

[racingrubberbiker]

Thanks to Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan will always be remembered from the MGM movie "The Bandwagon" - God Bless

[LouiseOC1]

A wonderful song from the incomparable Jack Buchanan, thanks so much for posting it.

[9KKrmp]

TEA !!!

spread the plague

[maxi1crawf]

More Tea Vicar?

[BoredOfThisSite]

I love this song, and I fervently abide by its central message.

[screamingargonaunts]

Smashing song.

[bouncysmile]

you cant beat a nice hot cuppa..aaaaah.

[jackbuchanancheshire]

same name wow!!

[rego21a]

Re[Pardon me, but is this a Noel Coward song?

In fact it was written by some Yank's for the film Come Out of the Pantry (1935)

"Everything Stops for Tea"

by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart and Maurice Sigler

from the film Come Out of the Pantry

[tootles4u]

Pardon me, but is this a Noel Coward song?...would love to know....signed, A Yank

[mannuber]

JACK BUCHANAN, I hearby call out your name!

you and your ilk shall never be forgotten!

They really are from a golden time, I love all of the vintage performers. big ups for all of them.the most sincere performers, with personality shining through.

My heartiest Thanks to terencenunn for uploading stuff for us to appreciate.

[antandshar]

@mannuber Here, Here!! Jolly good show! Keep it up!

I agree completely.

[barcyorky]

How frightfully good! More tea dear? Cucumber sandwich perhaps??

[narsdolcevita]

tea rules!

[porkwizard]

that felt like the longest three minutes of my life - but in the best way possible!

[HarborGuy]

Wonderful!!

[cheekycloe14]

Im Doing This Song In My Drama Group! Its Great! Im Doing The First Verse About Factorys Roaring!

[GrenvilleT]

This is wonderful.

The British Fred Astaire.

He should be adored more. My Auntie Mavis loved him...

[lordoftheteapot]

FANTASTIC!

[prideparkheroes]

simply marvellous,great video clips,keep em coming.

[tdub1941]

By jove, its' oh so delightful. Tom Warner

[2ekan]

I didn´t discover Jack Buchanan until a few years ago, and now I enjoy him so very much. It would be a pity if he should be forgotten.

[idasynco]

I love it! And I also love tea!

[whispperson]

This is great, ive been a fan of this singer for a couple of years now and its wonderful to have this on her.

[HarborGuy]

Love it..says a lot even for today's 800 phone numbers...