"The Stately Homes Of England"-NOEL COWARD

HMV no.B8722

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Music

Tags:

• gramophone
• phonograph
• Noel
• Coward

[icequeenangel42]

I may be mainly German, half Jewish and living in a 60's ex-council flat in Somerset, but this song, in 2010, is still gert relevant

[gutplucker]

This is just fantastic, he conjures up the essence of the Best of Britain!

[Hazzmania1234]

What a wonderful true song. I tell you what, the playing fields of Eton have made me more frightful than brave!!! I believe the song is being used on an advert however we are on the grand tour!! I could not agree more with gavestonful.

[Gavestonful]

What a wonderful way with the words of our glorious English Language the glorious Noel Coward had. His method of rhyming is absolutely classical and voiced in his impeccably clear and precise diction is pure perfection. They simply do not make them like Noel any more, he belonged to a generation of English people far and away superior to those of today in probably every way possible. They had style, elegance and class, there is no doubt about that. They were gold to today's plastic.

[richmondie]

The best of Britain? You can't have been listening to the words! Inspired to listen by Dan Cruikshank's prog on Easton Neston. Its owners kept filling it with priceless antiques, going bust, selling the antiques, starting again... now owned by a Russian fashion designer. Coward would have loved it.

[colindaleradiosutch]

MY MUM SAID, YOU GO UP THE LADDER, MY SON, YOUV'E GOT NO CHANCE IF YOU WORK FOR SOME OLD BELTED EARL ?. THERES ALWAYS SOME TOFF WHO WANTS YER TO WORK FOR PEANUTS ?. colindaleradiosutch

[racingrubberbiker]

@xaltotunofpython Maybe she would prefer to work for our new gentry, like tony Blair with his property empire. My gran had nothing but good to say about her employers in the thirties. She got a lot more priveliges that if she had worked in any of the factories at the time.

[randomdave30]

The original poem on which this was based was by a lady called Felicia Hemans, and I actually know a couple of her descendants. For what it's worth.

[xaltotunofpython]

My grandmother worked as a maid for the gentry in several country houses. She hated them with a passion. She said that if she ever met any of them again she would spit in their faces. Strong words from my granmother. Nice to see the country houses, but the gentry and the class system they represented would be better off as history.

[Boratlon]

If you're an uncultured pleb, I suppose you're right on the money.