Kenneth Williams wrings out every last innuendo from this double entendre laden music hall classic. From the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series Round the Horne.
'Thank Goodness You're Here' for the PS5 bought me here 😂
@jrgboy
11 жыл бұрын
I was in the audience when this was recorded at the BBC Paris studio in Regent Street, it was recorded on a Monday lunchtime so most of the audience was students and OAP's.
@neilbarnes7537
2 жыл бұрын
God bless Kenneth Williams. He was wonderful and is still greatly missed.
@LordGoatAlmighty
12 жыл бұрын
I want this played at my funeral.
@laytonjones2093
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody does double entendre like the great Kenneth Williams
@hughmackay5200
2 жыл бұрын
Truly wonderful! Kenneth Williams was a dear, dear man
@francioishaim1287
3 жыл бұрын
I needed to be able to raise a smile today, this never fails to deliver.
@wezzmusic
3 жыл бұрын
Every time I hear this I can't stop laughing tears of joy 💖🤩😍❤️
@ericbeaton7211
2 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to Round The Horn. The Goonshow and The Navy Lark in the late Fifties and the Sixties. The casts of these shows were geniuses there is no one like them nowadays. Still don't know how they got away with half the stuff they did.
@jamesgower1601
8 жыл бұрын
The funniest radio show ever to this day..and Kenneth , ego driven and frustrated is the God.
@DrDespicable
6 жыл бұрын
He never got properly serviced, you know...
@captainswing4487
3 жыл бұрын
@@DrDespicable He was a cult....
@lacase111
11 жыл бұрын
Its the way he tells it You can't beat real humour!!!
@JimTLonW6
13 жыл бұрын
Amazing that this was staple listening with Sunday Dinner at one time for many British households. Still makes me laugh!
@multimill
10 жыл бұрын
Brilliant performance by the legendary Kenneth Williams. Still miss him! I think I would like this played at my funeral too Lord Goat Almighty!
@stephenguppy8886
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody made it sound quite as filthy as Kenny. Bless him.
@captainswing4487
2 жыл бұрын
The Billy Cotton version of this has no chance in comparison. I want this played at my funeral.
@stephenguppy8886
2 жыл бұрын
@@captainswing4487 A very good choice.
@Itskelendriab
4 жыл бұрын
He was always my fave from Carry On, I remember the day he died, I was only 8 years old. RIP
@DenkyManner
3 жыл бұрын
I remember it too, I was 6. And for some reason I've been fascinated by him my entire life and only find him more interesting and funny now than ever
@supportme123
7 жыл бұрын
Wish somebody would perform this on Britain's Get Talent - just to see Simon Cowell's face!
@stanochocki8984
7 жыл бұрын
thought 'simple' Simon was a Pie Man, with his thumb on his big fat Plumbs......
@colindrhm
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, YES! Oh, please yes!
@underboat96
5 жыл бұрын
That is the best idea in a long time...........It would send all the feminists into a frenzy !
@stephenguppy3466
4 жыл бұрын
I doubt Simon Cowell's face would even move these days.......and can you imagine the OTT campery of Walliams at the sound of this song? Very disturbing.
@supportme123
4 жыл бұрын
@@stephenguppy3466 I say yes!! That would make it even better! :)
@penybontshed
11 жыл бұрын
I am crying laughing ! I remember my Dad singing this!!!
@cerealstudios
Күн бұрын
Thank goodness you're here!
@multimill
8 жыл бұрын
I am an avid listener of R4 extra and on Tuesday this week I turned on the radio and heard applause and what should follow? This very recording! What a fantastic show and what a legend KW was.
@jrgboy
7 жыл бұрын
I was in the audience for the recording..
@timsan55
10 жыл бұрын
Get the contrasts on voice and delivery between first and second verse. A comic genius.
@Ronin777z
7 күн бұрын
I’ve got you a meeting with the Lord Mayor today!
@behindthemirror2215
16 сағат бұрын
Ah thank goodness you're here
@arczeroes
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Meredith Brothers
@CassReidIsSomeone
3 жыл бұрын
Swinging by to comment the same thing!
@captainc6671
Жыл бұрын
I understand that someone complained about this song being broadcast on Round The Horne in the mid-60s, referring to " modern, smutty comedy.". Kenneth Horne pointed out that the song was actually around 70 years old at the time.
@1951GL
7 жыл бұрын
Heard the original broadcast - a complete hoot|| Thanks for posting.
@ameliaquartermain4220
9 жыл бұрын
Love this song and kenny R.I.P KENNY AND THE CREW
@DenkyManner
3 жыл бұрын
There are quite a few different versions of this, all with the same lyrics, yet none of them are near as filthy or hilarious as this one. All down Williams's suggestive delivery. He could make anything sound rude. So when the material is actually rude it's a wonder he wasn't banned
@BethDiane
6 ай бұрын
I think Tim Curry gives him a run for his money--he performed it on Saturday Night Live, where it was called The Zucchini Song.
@rossmcl177
6 жыл бұрын
Listen to this from start to finish, but without smiling. Go on. I dare you.
@davidlondon778
9 жыл бұрын
She is probably Betty Marsden, who appeared with Kenneth Williams in radio4's Round the Horne between 1965 and 1968. The bald guy is Kenneth Horne.
@LordGoatAlmighty
11 жыл бұрын
I am so jealous! I first heard Round The Horne when I was a teenager in the 1990's and was surprised at how relatively well it's aged. Even now it's funnier than just about every alleged comedy programme on Radio Four.
@Longshanks1956
12 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, wonderful.
@rossmcl1776
3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the vids I come back to whenever I'm feeling a bit down. It never fails to cheer me up. Thanks KW.
@rolandscales9380
3 жыл бұрын
I heard this on the radio when I was a kid. My mum wasn't a bit pleased.
@JimTLonW6
12 жыл бұрын
Amazing that this was broadcast at Sunday Lunch-times up to the death of Kenneth Horne. Most vintage comedy tends to leave me cold, but this one is the exception.
@supportme123
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it switched to Saturdays at a certain point? I may be wrong
@TheDripSpotter
Жыл бұрын
God given talent.
@grandslam1998
11 жыл бұрын
I should be so lucky to have a marrow as big as that!
@andymassingham
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the old double entendre…it can only mean one thing!
@peterwatt5905
5 ай бұрын
sometimes you don't realise it's a double entendre but inevitably you get it in the end....
@youngyoungmcgurn5088
Жыл бұрын
I MEAN ME MARRAH
@jrgboy
6 жыл бұрын
The song was recorded by Billy Cotton & his band in 1955 featuring Alan Breeze on vocals.
@onlyapawn4371
Жыл бұрын
Lmao i thought you said Billy Corgan 😂😂😂
@22Yeller
10 жыл бұрын
3 people are jealous cos they've only got small marrows....
@hirdy6
7 жыл бұрын
Zucchinis, if you will.
@timsan55
7 жыл бұрын
Courgettes if you pick them early.........................
@stanochocki8984
7 жыл бұрын
love zucchinis...since I was a boy....
@cameronrich3627
6 жыл бұрын
22Yeller now it's 15
@katewild2194
4 жыл бұрын
Nice one
@199422adam
12 жыл бұрын
Great stuff from a great crew
@tigerlion30
6 жыл бұрын
"Ab....sol.....utely Fab..u........lous , darlings.............!!!" Am I referring to the Marrow? Or Marrows!!!!! God Bless You Kenneth
@richardgrant5105
5 жыл бұрын
Superb !!
@cloinduncan
8 жыл бұрын
Magic Kenneth at his cam pest best
@ChrisTobinSingerGuitarist
5 жыл бұрын
When we had a sense of humour! :-)
@johnf3326
2 жыл бұрын
Inuendo! Out the other! 🤣🤣🤣
@johnofbristol
9 жыл бұрын
L to R: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Douglas Smith
@stevemanleycbg.5232
5 жыл бұрын
The wonderful betty marsden brilliant in carry on camping .her laugh! 😂
@richardmoon1852
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@SOOPERPOOK
11 жыл бұрын
OH. What a beauty.
@sidscrote4378
5 жыл бұрын
Classic!
@robp75
12 жыл бұрын
Round The Horne series 4 episode 5 - currently available on the BBC Radio i-player
@TheSorub
12 жыл бұрын
bbc 7 is now bbc 4 extra still broacasting this great stuff
@1968davidcassin
10 жыл бұрын
brilliant
@EliezerPennywhistler
11 жыл бұрын
It's still there. It's now called Radio 4 Extra.
@BiffChunksteak
12 жыл бұрын
rightfully immortalized by dr alex patterson in 'toxygene'
@fairsfair6622
6 жыл бұрын
I wish I was in the audience to see what made them laugh.
@anonUK
2 жыл бұрын
The campery, the overacting and the fact that a song about a massive knob was being broadcast by the BBC on a Sunday lunchtime.
@MegaStig25
6 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for the other one he did Hawkin' Me Greens About. Not sure if thats what its called but any help appreciated. Thanks
@lucyfisher8347
9 жыл бұрын
Definitely Douglas Smith on the right. Now HE was funny. ("Smith! Smith! Have you taken leave of your senses?")
@MegaStig25
6 жыл бұрын
Lucy Fisher Dobbiroids
@tonysheridan5359
3 жыл бұрын
This, I think, would fit the tune of Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler pretty well.
@BlaiyND
5 жыл бұрын
im from kes
@bigmull
11 жыл бұрын
Check out Radio 4 Xtra,all the old shows are on there now!
@DrDespicable
6 жыл бұрын
I don't suppose you have Wallace Greenslade singing "Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's 40"?
@jrgboy
3 жыл бұрын
I think you mean Douglas Smith, Wallace was the announcer for The Goon Show, he died in 1961
@EarlJohn61
11 ай бұрын
#"Oh, what a beauty, I've never seen one as big as that before, Oh, what a beauty, it must be six foot round, or even more... He's big, he's round, he's ugly... He's very very fat, I never knew a peanut could grow as big as that..."
@baward
Жыл бұрын
Kenneth Williams loved to hold court with a pub singalong, as can be seen here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yKOn2mSboKdzjKg
@nrellis666
13 жыл бұрын
@mintystick anything can be made to sound as if it has a double meaning ... if you know how ...
@getinthevantim
13 жыл бұрын
@TheRickynow it's just a shame the ruddy BBC won't broadcast BBC7 anymore. philistines !
@northstar1950
13 жыл бұрын
@mintystick Yes:)
@Sabatinitennis
13 жыл бұрын
The Wurzels do a good version of this too!
@damonturnbull5903
6 жыл бұрын
Hi All, Where can I buy this?
@porthrepta
12 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's really "Music Hall". The song is on a record by The Wurzels, attributed to Edrich Siebert (1952). Though it certainly does sound like something from the age of Marie Lloyd. Whatever the song's origin, Williams turns in a wonderful performance.
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
It was written in the 1950s in the style of Marie Lloyd and other risqué music-hall acts of pre- 1914 London. Of course, if this song had been around in 1900 and Lloyd had sung it anything like this, the theatre would have been closed down instantly and there would have been a riot, followed by her imprisonment for public obscenity. They were kind of strict back then...
@chrisavery5980
4 жыл бұрын
There's actually a third verse which Williams could have made all his own, really wrung out the innuendo, but great to hear it done by one of the masters, all the same.
@gdj6298
4 жыл бұрын
I dunno, this probably would be allowed - that's the whole point of innuendo. I seem to remember a story that Marie Lloyd ( or one of her contemporaries) wrote a song called "She sits among the cabbages and leeks", which she was told was too suggestive. She rewrote it as "She sits among the cabbages and peas" - and that was fine ! No accounting sometimes, eh.
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
@@gdj6298 That was the thing- staying one step ahead of the censors!
@yate0128
12 сағат бұрын
Ten bob? Thas a bit steep that
@davegroom7083
9 жыл бұрын
Do anyone know who the female is in the picture?
@gamewizard7562
9 жыл бұрын
dave groom Looks like Betty Marsden.
@oswaldodominguez5337
8 жыл бұрын
+dave groom Betty Marsden, yes.
@MegaStig25
8 жыл бұрын
It's Fiona
@DrMGoesWild
7 жыл бұрын
I know you know!
@colindrhm
6 жыл бұрын
But why didn't he sing the 3rd verse?
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
It doesn't really add anything.
@colindurham5085
6 жыл бұрын
Why, oh why, oh why didn't he sing the 3rd verse?
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
There was only so much you could get past the censor in 1967.
@colindurham5085
4 жыл бұрын
@@anonUK True, sad but true.
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
@@colindurham5085 Actually I just listened to the Billy Cotton 78 on YT and tbh, the third verse doesn't really add anything in terms of comedy- they're just repeating that the song really is about an award-winning vegetable and not a knob at all (as if!)
@colindurham5085
4 жыл бұрын
@@anonUK Well, of course, what sort of person has so filthy a mind as to imagine it's about anything other than a garden vegetable? (coff, coff).
@victoriareece2811
8 жыл бұрын
Yank dol dandy To Tina Turner Neil Diamond
@spmoran4703
5 ай бұрын
He is not singing about vegetables.
@bellendcottage8820
9 жыл бұрын
That's Bill Pertwee, not Douglas Smith.
@ghughesarch
9 жыл бұрын
syd reinarz It's definitely Douglas Smith, as an image search for "Douglas Smith BBC Announcer" will show
@neils1726
7 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's certainly nothing like Bill Pertwee. Bill Pertwee was the air raid warden in Dad's Army
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