Life and Vincent: The Lion and Albert

Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Lion and Albert

What with all this talk about lions (and I'm off to show the cubs to my friend tomorrow) I was put in mind of one of my favourite monologues of all time. I was also reminded of it when a recent TV programme featured Blackpool Zoo and it's young male lion called Wallace.

For those who are not familiar with the narrator, Stanley Holloway was a lovely actor and song-and-dance man who recorded a great many monologues. He was Alfred Dolittle in My Fair Lady, and in my opinion was the best thing in it. Just watch "I'm Getting Married in the Morning".

4 comments:

jazzy said...: It always amazes me that British English sounds soooo different from American English.; 9:23 pm
Anonymous said...: Ah, this takes me back to 'Children's Favourites' on the radio when I was a kid :0); 3:28 pm
judith said...: oh! val. i have'nt heard that in ages. thanks so much for sharing.x; 7:09 pm
Eliza said...: I don't remember it from 'Children's Favouries', but I do remember it from Sunday lunchtime radio when I listened with my grandad...this was one of his favourites, along with 'Murphy and the bricks' and something about a fly in a grocers(?)

Thank you for bringing back a happy memory...off to youtube now to see if I can find the others :-D; 8:31 pm

Life and Vincent

Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Lion and Albert

4 comments:

Blog Archive

About Me