Jeeves & Wooster - We All Wear A Green Carnation

There's something queer about the Drones Club boys...

The song is "We All Wear A Green Carnation" from 'Bitter Sweet,' an operetta by Noel Coward.

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[oneil317]

Anybody know where to find sheet music for this song??

[cheeseballhaggis]

@oneil317 No idea, but it's from the musical "Bittersweet."

[cheeseballhaggis]

It's at the end of "The Delayed Arrival," which is series 4, episode 4. Jeeves also dresses as a woman (and proceeds to flirt with D'arcy Cheesewright). It's classic!

[firth03]

1:38-1:44...what are they doing??

[cheeseballhaggis]

They are doing the male newt mating dance. They just saw Gussie show Bertie what a male newt does during mating season. Oofy and Barmy, being the intellectuals they are, decided that Gussie was showing Bertie a cool new dance.

[GrenvilleT]

This is one of the greatest YouTube compilations: Noel's 'Bitter Sweet' song plus the wonderful creation of the Drones by the great TV Wodehouse adaptations.

I could see it over and over again.

But the mischief behind it is a suggestion that Bertie and the Drones were Wildean gays.

No, I'm afraid not.

They are 1930s ex-public school boys.

I teach at such a school here in the 'noughties' and know it's not necessarily gay.

Between you and me, it's idiocy.

But gays, keep dreaming.

[cheeseballhaggis]

"But the mischief behind it is a suggestion that Bertie and the Drones were Wildean gays.

No, I'm afraid not."

Ah yes, but the humour lies therein. Of course (most of) the Drones weren't gay.

[burnt62]

Lovely ... butch Oscar would have loved this I'm sure !!

[Taskat]

Well, Gussie is the one that started it.  It must be strange!

[Ebrithil89]

does anyone else think that Jeeves looked pretty as a girl?

[rpatient]

@oneil317 I'm in a university light operatic society and we're doing the show this year. We got hold of the scores from the library. If it's any help, the edition we've got (not brilliant however) is published by Chappell & Co.

[PondPratchettShort]

"I say! It's about time someone invented something better than the foxtrot!" the best J&W moment ever! Mating newt dance anyone?

[ShutThatDoor]

I would say Coward wrote this song as a parody of the so-called Bright Young Things whose light shone between then Wars and promptly faded. The "willowy figures" and decadent values for the time would have made them stand apart from what was a very rigid society.

[1938gwen]

@nita2605 I agree absolutely.

[o0SouthparkGirl0o]

I love the Drones in that series. They are so silly and the only thing they care about is having fun. XD Playing cricket in a closed room, hitting badminton balls into a lamp and all that stuff, running around in a circle, dancing. I know a lot of people my age (around 20 or older) who act similar when they are around each other and they end up being called "childish". Well in that case, I'd rather be childish and have fun xD Drones FTW!

[Aaron1912]

The person who sang this song in 1929 has just died. RIP Hugues Cuénod. He was 108 years old and was a leading singer in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet when it was on Broadway in 1929.

[wyles54]

@oneil317

by Noel Coward