Here you go, guaranteed to clear even the most crowded of rooms in under ten minutes:
Quote: Horseradish @ July 21 2013, 9:34 PM BSTDad still has a Bernard Manning album. I think it is the 1975 one with Joe Piano Henderson - "40 All Time Singalong Party Hits". Certainly it has "Knees Up Mother Brown" and "Lambeth Walk" on it, along with and "If You're Irish Come Into The Parlour" and "Paddy McGinty's Goat".
Amazing. And 'as advertised on TV', too! Such exclusivity.
Quote: Agnes Guano @ July 21 2013, 11:17 PM BSTHere you go, guaranteed to clear even the most crowded of rooms in under ten minutes:
Yes, that's definitely the one! 
As advertised on TV. Ah what happy innocent days they were.
My Dad used to have a record by Lance Percival, the chap in the website header today.
From memory, it went something like - We sat there in this cafe,this riviera cafe,the menu was in French and the plumbing wasn't safe.
'Riviera Cayf', a quite wonderful composition from Lance Percival with the considerable help of George Martin and Myles Rudge : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0PejmFxBE
Agnes, that is such a brilliant collection. I keep coming back to read more.
Wondering how many really old ones you have - ie at least pre 1950s and also quite a lot earlier - and about any venturing you have done into ones from the continent, ie French?
Also, are there any guidelines you stick to - ie does it have to be intentionally funny?
Have you got a copy of the Alan Whicker spoof rap?
(Fare-well and bon-voy-age by the way...)
For fiscal reasons and for sanity's sake I try and stick to British comedy records released on vinyl. A few new releases occasionally trickle out into the shops but the majority is vintage. A few US releases have snuck in over the years and I do actually possess some CDs but by and large I stick to my self-imposed limits. I generally acquire records by comedians that are both funny and serious. Take Dick Emery, today's headlining forum banner star. He released this entirely serious and sincere effort full of love songs to stroke puppy dogs to:
and he also released this entirely silly effort with exactly the same title:
And no, I don't have the Alan Whicker rap. My quest will never end.
Quote: Agnes Guano @ July 29 2013, 9:50 PM BSTFor fiscal reasons and for sanity's sake I try and stick to British comedy records released on vinyl. A few new releases occasionally trickle out into the shops but the majority is vintage. A few US releases have snuck in over the years and I do actually possess some CDs but by and large I stick to my self-imposed limits. I generally acquire records by comedians that are both funny and serious. Take Dick Emery, today's headlining forum banner star. He released this entirely serious and sincere effort full of love songs to stroke puppy dogs to:
and he also released this entirely silly effort with exactly the same title:
And no, I don't have the Alan Whicker rap. My quest will never end.
I am wondering what life would seem like if your records were played from morning to night. Probably more real than being with 24 hour news. That's worth a few bob on its own.
The label saying "hit single" needed checking. "If You Love Her" was, though, number 32 in 1969. That is quite a lot of units but then Ken Dodd's "Tears" had been the biggest selling single in 1965.
If you are thinking of branching out, "The Best of Marcel Marceao" (sic) looks pretty good -
There is also an album called "Marcel Marceau Speaks" but that is essentially an interview.
This album (which I don't own) contained two thirty minutes sides of silence:
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-602752-1218291561.jpeg
And for certain admins of this forum there was always:
This is very odd. The pictures of Margaret, Michael and Roy did not appear on my computer although the other record covers do. It was completely blank. I only managed to discover what they were by following the jpeg links this morning which I obtained by attempting to quote your post. When I went back from Google to the thread, the pictures had miraculously appeared. Anyhow, very many thanks for your reply.
Quote: Agnes Guano @ July 30 2013, 1:22 PM BSTThis album (which I don't own) contained two thirty minutes sides of silence:
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-602752-1218291561.jpeg
And for certain admins of this forum there was always:
Quote: Horseradish @ July 31 2013, 8:11 AM BSTThis is very odd. The pictures of Margaret, Michael and Roy did not appear on my computer although the other record covers do. It was completely blank. I only managed to discover what they were by following the jpeg links this morning which I obtained by attempting to quote your post. When I went back from Google to the thread, the pictures had miraculously appeared. Anyhow, very many thanks for your reply.
The website that hosts them has blocked other sites from using its images, to save on its own data transfer costs. Your computer then sees them because, by going direct to the image, it loads into your browser's memory.
That would never have happened under an SDP government!