Have a banana! from Stanley Holloway to Cabin Pressure
I've been playing around with Spotify recently. I'd stared with You Tube music, but it proved unable to find one of my favourite CDs (an old collection of relaxation music called Zen Garden), so when I finally located it on Spotify, Spotify won.
I've been looking up all my old favourites in order to add them to my Spotify playlists and to let it know what I like.
My dad was a fan of Stanley Holloway and it rubbed off on me. (If you've ever watched "My Fair Lady", he plays Eliza Dolittle's father, where his rendition of "I'm getting married in the Morning" is an absolute corker.
Monologues like Three Ha'Pence a Foot are still funny, even this many years later. It's very deadpan humour, and I just love the ending.
Click to viewWell, from there, it started showing me other Stanley Holloway songs and monologues and eventually got round to "Let's all go down the Strand".
Which got me wondering why on Earth it has "Have a Banana" as a chorus phrase!
Apparently, it wasn't in the original lyrics, but got added in by a drunken audience member became really popular!
But, of course, Cabin Pressure also came up on the search. The clip in question is hysterically funny.
And by way of a bonus, here's Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady. Pure delight!
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