词条 | Rambling Syd Rumpo |
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HistoryThe Rambling Syd sketches generally began with a short discourse on the nature of the song, which would inexorably follow; these discourses and the songs involved suggestivity and double entendre. For this, Rambling Syd was customarily introduced by Kenneth Horne, who would set things up by (for example) inquiring as to the nature and origin of the song. Rambling Syd would (usually) respond with an "Ello, me dearios", before launching into the ensuing detailed explanation which left a great deal to the imagination. The songs themselves pushed and extended boundaries of sexual suggestivity, using nonsense (or little-known) words such as 'moolies' and 'nadgers' in suggestive contexts.[2] Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round the Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the majority of the songs' lyrics, based upon traditional folk songs.[3] Some were existing words used in a suggestive context, such as 'artefacts' (often used in an archaeological context for things such as grave goods) and 'nadgers', which had already appeared in The Goon Show. On 3 July 1967, Williams, in the guise of Rambling Syd, recorded a series of the songs before a live audience at Abbey Road Studios.[4] In his diary, Williams wrote that "the laughter was so intrusive it broke up the rhythm of some of the songs". One of the producers told Williams that the audience had been given a party before the recording and most were drunk.[5] Here is a lyrical excerpt from a Christmas episode, Cinderella, first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1967, of "Good King Boroslav": Good King Boroslav looked out, On the night of grungers, Saw them wurdling round about, Armed with rubber plungers, Brightly shone their artefacts, Red their possets glowing, He knew not from whence they came, (switches back into suggestive accent) But 'e knew where they were going![6] In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It (based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.[6] Songs{{col-begin}}{{col-3}}
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Two Rambling Syd Rumpo songs, "The Ballad of the Woggler's Moulie" and "Green Grow My Nadgers Oh", were also included in the 1971 compilation album, Oh! What a Carry On!. References1. ^{{cite book |last= Stevens |first= Christopher|title= Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams|publisher= John Murray|year= 2010|isbn = 1-84854-195-3|page=206}} 2. ^'Nadgers' is one of many words with sexual innuendo which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s to evade strict BBC censorship. The etymology is uncertain, but possibly based on 'gonad'. When Rambling Syd Rumpo on Round the Horne asked "What shall we do with the drunken nurker?", the answer he gave was "Hit him in the 'nadgers' with the bosun's plunger...'til his 'bogles' dangle". 3. ^1 {{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=the-best-of-rambling-syd-rumpo-mw0000384835|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Best of Rambling Syd Rumpo|author= |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=13 June 2012}} 4. ^{{cite book |last= Stevens |first= Christopher|title= Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams|publisher= John Murray|year= 2010|isbn = 1-84854-195-3 |page=225}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=The Kenneth Williams Diaries|page=618|author=Kenneth Williams|publisher=HarperCollins|year=1984|isbn=0006380905}} 6. ^{{cite book |last= Stevens |first= Christopher|title= Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams|publisher= John Murray|year= 2010|isbn = 1-84854-195-3|page=282}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://freespace.virgin.net/a.del-manso/RamblingSyd'sGanderbag.html|title=Rambling Syd's Ganderbag|publisher=Freespace.virgin.net|accessdate=13 June 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927223312/http://freespace.virgin.net/a.del-manso/RamblingSyd'sGanderbag.html|archivedate=27 September 2011|df=}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Rambling-Syd-Rumpo/dp/B000A1OF8M|title=The Best Of Rambling Syd Rumpo|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=13 June 2012}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Kenneth-Williams-The-Best-Of-Rambling-Syd-Rumpo-/release/1989191 |title=The Best of Rambling Syd Rumpo |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Discogs.com |accessdate=13 June 2012}} External links
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