"The Stately Homes Of England"-NOEL COWARD

Well done, Mr Coward

Another triumph :P

I have a double-side quartet version (HMV plum label B.8741), but didn't know that Coward himself had recorded it as a solo. My version has two extra 'historical' verses ('A note we have from Chaucer contained a bawdy joke...') and the singers are Hugh French, Ross Landon, John Gatrell and Kenneth Carten / His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra, cond. Benjamin Frankel.

What is on the other side of your record?

wow this is so cool

This song sounds so much like Tom Lehrer's 'It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier'! No idea who came first. In any case, fabby, thanks for posting!

"This song sounds so much like Tom Lehrer's 'It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier'! No idea who came first"

Noel Coward wrote the song for his musical "Operette", in 1937.

The Pam Ayres of his day. Excruciating. But even this is better than "I Went to a Marvellous Party", which beggars description.

Pam Eyres is a complete pygmie compared to Noel Coward. She writes doggerels. He wrote plays, operettas, and performed in Las Vegas, produced and directed films, including such war-time morale boosters as , In Which We Serve, and Brief Encounter. He will never be forgotten, unlike Miss Eyres

Oh, and another thing. He was on the Nazi Black List. That says it all.

You can't leave it at that. Please elaborate.

Love this song.