I was born in 1938 and my mother always told me that when I was born a nurse came down the ward carrying me singing The Lambeth Walk. Always loved the song.
My parents took me to see this on Broadway when I was a little kid in the 80s. We sat in the front row. Robert Lindsay came down and sat on my moms lap. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen. This is one of my life’s most favorite memories and this song makes me so happy anytime I hear it ❤ much love ❤
This Musical is the reason i fell in love with Musical Theater, i saw this 3 times when it was on tour in Australia in the early 90s and when the paintings started singing i was HOOKED!!!!
Absolutely brilliant to watch.Robert Lindsay is amazing. Good to see James Earl Jones in the audience.Saw him years ago with Angela Lansbury on stage in Sydney doing Driving Miss Daisy.I'm 84 so it was a long time ago.
I'm a cockney and this was widely aired in the late 50's and into the 60's. Went to the West End of London to see the stage show in the early 90's with Brian Conley. This is pure Cockney magic, this is what makes cockneys fun to be around and we always make a good job out of adversity.
You had to lol due to the grey misery of poverty that was and is notorious in the eastend. No different to my story and I love this song and show. One day when it comes back to New Zealand I will go and see it 💕🌹❤️💐💐 Bravo chaps!!!
@@liberte5847 Salut! (from l'Amerique). I always thought of les Titi-Parisians, comme Piaf, et les autres comme elles, étaitient commes les Cockneys. Vous ne croyez pas? Paris me manque... Tout va mieux? Un peu?
Please tell me that 'all that is Cockney' STILL IS, because the world is changing so fast and so much and I couldn't bear it to think that EVERYTHING is disappearing. Especially not something as magical as THIS. The mannerisms, the jokes, CRS, ... the 'all' of it. Please tell me that Cockney London remains intact... (I'm on the west coast of America now, sadly). I had a Cockney friend when I lived in Paris. He was a stellar human being (Mark Bryant. His father was a butcher). I lost contact with him and rue the day. What a fun and intelligent person. Stay well, wherever you are!
@@andreaandrea6716 Andrea, fear not. Cockney isstill around and people use without actually realising. For example, and this is only one of many "use yer loaf" = Loaf of Bread = HEAD. People have been saying for decades, many decades that it's dying out, it isn't it just evolves. Yes new "people" move into the area, their children will grow up having a cockney accent. My sister-in-law was born in Cyprus, moved to London '67 and speaks just like a cockney and the slang has been picked up too.
I remember my aunt & uncle doing "the lambeth walk" when the family would get together on weekends in the late 40's!-i was in my early teens,and fell in love with the ditty: i'm now 85+
This song is linked to one of the first TH-cam poops made. Ironically enough made to make fun of Hitler back in the 40s. Some random editor spliced together footage of his marches to make him and his men dance to the lambeth walk.
This was an absolute joy. I'm only 22, but the sheer nostalgia I just felt- we once preformed Me and My Girl in my primary school when I was about 9, but I completely forgot about this song somehow, right up until the starting notes, and then it all came flooding back in a glorious cheerful and cheeky way. I loved this song when I learnt it, and still do today! Such a wonderful performance of the song too. Absolutely made my morning!
I'm amazed you could have forgotten it in the first place. I think every session of congress; every school day and every important event around the World could start off with a rousing chorus of this...and...NO Wallflowers allowed!
I’m from New England...and this Northerner LOVED it! 😁 First saw it on a DVD of the theater’s finest moments! LOVE it! It’s such a fun song, dancing is fabulous & Lindsey makes it work sooo well! Wish I had seen it in person! ♥️♥️♥️
Best musical ever ! I was lucky enough to play the lead in an amateur show after seeing it done professionally. Still makes me happy remembering the songs
This is incredible. To watch the stern captain of Hornblower's ship singing and dancing a routine that only super professionals can do makes me realise that UK actors are real actors, not just pretty faces.
Amazing, never been able to catch this show but I know most of the songs including this classic. My family came from Lambeth way back in the day. Sadly not an easy life but by God they knew how to have a good time when they could.
Absolutely agree! What a fantastic performance where everyone in the audience is having just as good a time as the performers, especially the sensational Robert Lindsay and Mary Plunkett. Pure Cockney magic, highlighting how they and the east- enders make fun out of adversity. There’s a serious story attached to the Lambeth Walk- during World War 2, and just after the Normandy landing, three young French- speaking British women, members of the SOE were parachuted into France behind enemy lines to support the French resistance. All won the George Medal- the youngest and bravest of them all, Violette Szabo, aged 22 ran into a German patrol. Using a Bren gun, she opened fire, killing several and allowed her French companion to escape. Taken to a concentration camp, she was horribly tortured and abused over several months but never gave up any information or her spirit. Knowing that she and two other female captives were to be shot, she kept up their spirits by teaching them the Lambeth Walk!! It’s near impossible to imagine such absolute courage and spirit from today’s or any generation and Violette was just 22. There can’t ever have been a more deserving winner of the George Cross and to think that she thought of the Lambeth Walk at this time is heart rending.
For those unaware, this was the number that opened the 1987 Tony Awards - a classic year that saw nominees such as "Fences", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Les Miserables." What a year!
Robert Lindsay is UK TV and stage star. Whose career Started on the stage. His TV break came as Wolfie smith in citizen Smith by the UK TV genius john sullivan.
@@mpdalyful1 He also played Captain Sir Edward Pellew in A&E's 'Horatio Hornblower' series in 1999. I was very familiar with this "Lambeth Walk" performance and had NO idea it was the same actor! I was floored!
Oozing talent and charisma, many of these celebrities who rightly made there name in lights ,performed at such a time where standards were at there absolute highest. Nothing today comes close.
This was the year I was born. I did Me and my Girl 8 years ago with my local performing group and loved it. Lambeth Walk was my favourite. But sadly a year ago our company went into liquidation and we no longer perform. This puts a big smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Really hope to do this again sometime.
Me and My Girl, to me anyway, seemed like the clear Number 2 of the new musicals for it's debut Broadway season, and it truly seemed like it was a fan favorite at the Tony Awards, if you notice all of the cheering and applause throughout the song, not to mention they got a whole theater clapping along to the song. Had Les Mis not come onto the scene the same year, I feel like Me and My Girl could have easily won Best Musical that year.
"Lambeth, you've never seen, the skies ain't blue the grass ain't green", sounds like the neighborhood I grew up in back in Oakland, California in the 1950's.
Lambeth Walk is tradition no way and in France we DO love it To NO WAY, in stereophonic sound To! BRAVO and MERCI BEAUCOUP. No Breakit no Way. No words for this no way. Emmanuel from Paris France
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
Huge fan of Robert Lindsay performing Lambeth Walk and Sutton Foster whom I saw in Anything Goes a few years ago. I’d happily fly from Australia to well, anywhere to see these two great, exuberant stars perform together!
I remember watching the Munsters And mister gateman Herman's boss at the funeral parlor said he hated these modern dances like the lambouth Walk I laughed my head off because The lambouth walk was a dance in the 1920s. I laughed so hard so that is why I looked this video up Thank you for posting this video 🎉❤🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😁😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💋💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Givemethevalium Givemethevalium that came before Jacko, though! This was from the 90’s, but the original in the 30’s I think! And 1 in the 50’s! The move preceeds MJ!
'Jacko' ??? As in Michael Jackson? Are you mad? Michael Jackson wasn't born yet when this stuff was was all over the streets. Before television, before the internet, there was musical comedy and there was VAUDEVILLE... there was something called The American Songbook ... in the UK, there were songs sung in pubs by people who came in and sang for each other, just to amuse each other... as for Dance, check out The Nicholas Brothers (black counterparts to contemporaries Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly... Fred and Gene admired them tremendously)... following the Nicholas Brothers, there was Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice; their grandmother danced at The Cotton Club in Harlem. Gregory was born in '46 ... about a dozen years older than Michael. ALL OF THESE people were amazing ... dance is so joyful and just downright sexy. (but please... Michael did NOT invent that stuff. Give credit where credit.... you know the rest).
I saw Robert Lindsay on the sitcom My family and he once danced with some cleaning tool. It was immediately apparent that the dance floor was his natural environment.
@@Elstree Yep, me too. Came from his video about the Lambeth Walk at .... th-cam.com/video/1iL3jKrWaDA/w-d-xo.html Glad I did.😁 I'm guessing Mr Lindsay replied to an ad for someone to "wear a hat and whistle a lot." 😂
A lot of mileage out of what is essentially a one verse song. A lot of work for the composer and choreographer to extend 30 seconds into 5 minutes. Note James Earl Jones in the audience at 4:03
James Horn there are a couple more actors...another on an end seat was a soap opera star, same side as JEJ but closer to the stage & younger & gorgeous! He’s at 4:15-4:17 on the left in the end seat! There’s one further up, but harder to see...it’s easier to see in a dvd of great theater moments!
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert! Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
I AM HERE THROUGH LOOKING UP HIS MASTER'S VOICE' RECORDS, POSTERS ETC. GREAT FUN. OF COURSE BEING 83 THE MUSIC IS NOT NEW TO ME. ENJOY. BLESSINGS. TRIXIE
I had no knowledge of this play or this song until I saw the war film of the SS doing their normal marching but a British filmmaker set it to this music and rigged the film to show them do steps backwards, with Hitler shouting at different times. When Goebbels saw it, he tore out of the theatre cussing and yelling. I heard he put a price on the filmmaker’s head because of it. It is hysterical to watch. Starts off with title “Hitler and the Gestapo Hep Cats” or words to that effect. You can find it on TH-cam by typing in Hitler & the Lambeth Walk. I had commented that I wondered where it all came from and someone directed me to this play/musical. It’s hilarious but this (the above) is quite enchanting and enjoyable.
Spoons? Buy some old EPNS dessert spoons, make sure they RING when struck. Great show! Musicologist Percy Scholes said that the “walk” was a genuine bit of folk-art as everyone could add their own touch to it and remain part of the ensemble.
I was born in 1938 and my mother always told me that when I was born a nurse came down the ward carrying me singing The Lambeth Walk. Always loved the song.
That's so great a story, and utterly believable because this tune was such a hit. Thanks for sharing this!
That's your song!!! ❤❤❤
I love your story about the Lambeth Walk.
Just fantastic
Amazing story❤ love it,God bless London❤
What a star Robert Lindsey is. Great performance By the cast also.
He is a star of stage, screen and TV. Very versatile performer.
This was great!
Power to the people! ❤
My parents took me to see this on Broadway when I was a little kid in the 80s. We sat in the front row. Robert Lindsay came down and sat on my moms lap. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen. This is one of my life’s most favorite memories and this song makes me so happy anytime I hear it ❤ much love ❤
This Musical is the reason i fell in love with Musical Theater, i saw this 3 times when it was on tour in Australia in the early 90s and when the paintings started singing i was HOOKED!!!!
As dementia set in, this was the song my grandmother sang; over and over again. She died in 1988, but I can't stop hearing it when I think about her.
As dementia progresses, playing music from their pre-teens through mid 20's gets big smiles from them.
When my father had dementia remember sitting with him not listening to this but a Charlie Chaplin film - the old familiarities give comfort.
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What Robert Lindsay could do with his hat is very impresive and those fingers make the best whistle I have heard in a long while. 🤣
Robert Lindsay was also in the Ricky Gervais brilliant series "EXTRAS". ❤ x
I thought that was him!
Absolutely brilliant to watch.Robert Lindsay is amazing. Good to see James Earl Jones in the audience.Saw him years ago with Angela Lansbury on stage in Sydney doing Driving Miss Daisy.I'm 84 so it was a long time ago.
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I'm a cockney and this was widely aired in the late 50's and into the 60's. Went to the West End of London to see the stage show in the early 90's with Brian Conley. This is pure Cockney magic, this is what makes cockneys fun to be around and we always make a good job out of adversity.
What a souvenir! Thanks for yur pure statement! MERCI BEAUCOUP, I DO LOVE that Lambeth Walk TO! Emmanuel from Paris France
You had to lol due to the grey misery of poverty that was and is notorious in the eastend. No different to my story and I love this song and show. One day when it comes back to New Zealand I will go and see it 💕🌹❤️💐💐 Bravo chaps!!!
@@liberte5847 Salut! (from l'Amerique). I always thought of les Titi-Parisians, comme Piaf, et les autres comme elles, étaitient commes les Cockneys. Vous ne croyez pas? Paris me manque... Tout va mieux? Un peu?
Please tell me that 'all that is Cockney' STILL IS, because the world is changing so fast and so much and I couldn't bear it to think that EVERYTHING is disappearing. Especially not something as magical as THIS. The mannerisms, the jokes, CRS, ... the 'all' of it. Please tell me that Cockney London remains intact... (I'm on the west coast of America now, sadly).
I had a Cockney friend when I lived in Paris. He was a stellar human being (Mark Bryant. His father was a butcher). I lost contact with him and rue the day. What a fun and intelligent person.
Stay well, wherever you are!
@@andreaandrea6716 Andrea, fear not. Cockney isstill around and people use without actually realising. For example, and this is only one of many "use yer loaf" = Loaf of Bread = HEAD.
People have been saying for decades, many decades that it's dying out, it isn't it just evolves. Yes new "people" move into the area, their children will grow up having a cockney accent. My sister-in-law was born in Cyprus, moved to London '67 and speaks just like a cockney and the slang has been picked up too.
I remember my aunt & uncle doing "the lambeth walk" when the family would get together on weekends in the late 40's!-i was in my early teens,and fell in love with the ditty: i'm now 85+
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This song is linked to one of the first TH-cam poops made. Ironically enough made to make fun of Hitler back in the 40s. Some random editor spliced together footage of his marches to make him and his men dance to the lambeth walk.
This was an absolute joy. I'm only 22, but the sheer nostalgia I just felt- we once preformed Me and My Girl in my primary school when I was about 9, but I completely forgot about this song somehow, right up until the starting notes, and then it all came flooding back in a glorious cheerful and cheeky way. I loved this song when I learnt it, and still do today! Such a wonderful performance of the song too. Absolutely made my morning!
I'm amazed you could have forgotten it in the first place. I think every session of congress; every school day and every important event around the World could start off with a rousing chorus of this...and...NO Wallflowers allowed!
Just watched this video as l borni n East London and now living in Cornwall it brought back happy memories.
How exciting. In the audience was James Earl Jones who spoke with the lead as he walked/bounced through the aisles. That was a big surprise.
Of course - couldn't place the gentleman until you typed his name. Great actor.
Five dislikes? What's the matter with those people? This is fabulous!
Ben Robertson Northerners most likely disliked it
I’m from New England...and this Northerner LOVED it! 😁 First saw it on a DVD of the theater’s finest moments! LOVE it! It’s such a fun song, dancing is fabulous & Lindsey makes it work sooo well! Wish I had seen it in person! ♥️♥️♥️
Ben Robertson pretty crazy...it’s a blast!
Love this!!!!
I am from Canada and I loved this!
Wow I can watch this a million times
Best musical ever ! I was lucky enough to play the lead in an amateur show after seeing it done professionally. Still makes me happy remembering the songs
The Brits have always known how to have outrageous fun. This one has always been one of my favorites.
isnt it a shame that all these songs/traditions/cultural happenings are dying out? ?We need to make sure they're not lost.
@@CR-ty5egwhat do you mean? Go to the west end and you’ll see these sort of “cultural happenings”
Went to see this at the Edinburgh playhouse with Robert Lindsay, absolutely fantastic! Walking home singing the Lambeth walk! What a great memory!
That’s so wonderful! I wish I’d seen him in this! He’s fabulous!!
This is incredible. To watch the stern captain of Hornblower's ship singing and dancing a routine that only super professionals can do makes me realise that UK actors are real actors, not just pretty faces.
I Saw the show in London back then. It was sooo great :-) Loved it
Amazing, never been able to catch this show but I know most of the songs including this classic. My family came from Lambeth way back in the day. Sadly not an easy life but by God they knew how to have a good time when they could.
Absolutely agree! What a fantastic performance where everyone in the audience is having just as good a time as the performers, especially the sensational Robert Lindsay and Mary Plunkett. Pure Cockney magic, highlighting how they and the east- enders make fun out of adversity. There’s a serious story attached to the Lambeth Walk- during World War 2, and just after the Normandy landing, three young French- speaking British women, members of the SOE were parachuted into France behind enemy lines to support the French resistance. All won the George Medal- the youngest and bravest of them all, Violette Szabo, aged 22 ran into a German patrol. Using a Bren gun, she opened fire, killing several and allowed her French companion to escape. Taken to a concentration camp, she was horribly tortured and abused over several months but never gave up any information or her spirit. Knowing that she and two other female captives were to be shot, she kept up their spirits by teaching them the Lambeth Walk!! It’s near impossible to imagine such absolute courage and spirit from today’s or any generation and Violette was just 22. There can’t ever have been a more deserving winner of the George Cross and to think that she thought of the Lambeth Walk at this time is heart rending.
I was lucky enough to see this with Robert Lindsey and Emma Thompson.
AMAZING.
I just love this number by this cast! ♥️💚💙 An all-time favorite! I wish I had seen this in person!
For those unaware, this was the number that opened the 1987 Tony Awards - a classic year that saw nominees such as "Fences", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Les Miserables." What a year!
I loved Robert Lindsay in that family show on the TV, but seeing this makes me realise just how extremely talented he is!,! More of Robert please.
Robert Lindsay is UK TV and stage star. Whose career Started on the stage. His TV break came as Wolfie smith in citizen Smith by the UK TV genius john sullivan.
He is a terrific actor. I remember is brilliant turn in gbh for Alan bleasdale. He is a fine Shakespeare actor.
Did you see him in Anything Goes last year with Sutton Foster. It was truly amazing. He is such a talent.
@@mpdalyful1 He also played Captain Sir Edward Pellew in A&E's 'Horatio Hornblower' series in 1999. I was very familiar with this "Lambeth Walk" performance and had NO idea it was the same actor! I was floored!
@@mpdalyful1Bella caiou
LOVE Robert Lindsey in this! Fantastic & Fun! ♥️♥️♥️. It must’ve been fun for all of them! The fun is so much in the participation!
I had the great pleasure to see Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett in Me and My Girl on Broadway in 1987 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👀👀
Same. Saw it at the Marriott theater. I have loved it ever since
What a star....such performance skills.....
This is one of the best rendition
The one done by Hitlers uniformed Nazis is hysterical, “assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats”. 😂😂
Oozing talent and charisma, many of these celebrities who rightly made there name in lights ,performed at such a time where standards were at there absolute highest. Nothing today comes close.
IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake' or any contemporary style today's chaps are dancing with.
Love watching this clip. Have seen it at least a dozen times.
hamerdow same here...once saw it on a DVD from a library here in New England! LOVE this fun song & scene & Robert Lindsey makes it! ♥️♥️♥️
Saw it live. Lindsey was brilliant!
This was the year I was born.
I did Me and my Girl 8 years ago with my local performing group and loved it. Lambeth Walk was my favourite. But sadly a year ago our company went into liquidation and we no longer perform. This puts a big smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Really hope to do this again sometime.
There are times when one like is not enough.
Love this song !
What a gift. I was unable to see this fabulous show. You have given me much happiness. Thank you
Wonderful!!!
Love it. Thanks crew. 🌹❤️💕😍😍😍
I feel myself do happy listening and watching this my heart could explode. Let's do the Lambeth Walk
Second! It's three times better than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the Lambeth Walk.
This is the beating heart of a great people....wonderful!
Me and My Girl, to me anyway, seemed like the clear Number 2 of the new musicals for it's debut Broadway season, and it truly seemed like it was a fan favorite at the Tony Awards, if you notice all of the cheering and applause throughout the song, not to mention they got a whole theater clapping along to the song. Had Les Mis not come onto the scene the same year, I feel like Me and My Girl could have easily won Best Musical that year.
This is one of my favourites
"Lambeth, you've never seen, the skies ain't blue the grass ain't green", sounds like the neighborhood I grew up in back in Oakland, California in the 1950's.
That was fantastic, now do the Ilson Walk! XX
Robert Lindsay, legend
Lambeth Walk is tradition no way and in France we DO love it To NO WAY, in stereophonic sound To! BRAVO and MERCI BEAUCOUP. No Breakit no Way. No words for this no way. Emmanuel from Paris France
It's about time we had a revival of this
I wanna do this too! I love this song!!
That was James Earl Jones, there in an aisle seat, being greeted by Robert Lindsay!
Love Robert Lindsay's reaction!
@@Badgersj Thanks for your comment. It brought me back to see this happiness again!
4:05 Darth Vader loves 'the Lambeth Walk' :-)
Contrary to popular belief, it was neither Obi Wan nor Grand Moff Tarkin who introduced him but *C-3PO.*
The Force is strong with this one.
Update (9 Sept '24): RIP James Earl Jones (aka Darth Vader).
Great music and great preformers great song
This needs a revival.
100% Agree This Is Old Musical Comedy and I love it Christian Borle and Laura Michelle Kelly should be in the Revival
A great Classique! Merci from Paris France
So joyous, so gay that I break down in tears when I listen to this (context: rise of fascism in 2024).
Makes you proud to be a Londoner when you hear the old cockney songs.
A very warm place in my heart!
I saw this in the Strand it was fantastic thanks for the video
Lindsay was so talented and versatile.
Still is !!!!
saw him playing Fagin in Oliver....
Proud to be a Londoner
I'm so glad I found this❤
Wonderful dancing and a great song and of course it also has at its heart our UK class system too which is always fun whichever side you are on.
Great memories I have from my evening at the Marquis Theater in 1988!
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
Huge fan of Robert Lindsay performing Lambeth Walk and Sutton Foster whom I saw in Anything Goes a few years ago. I’d happily fly from Australia to well, anywhere to see these two great, exuberant stars perform together!
I'm Here because I actually skipped school to watch Me and my Girl by Stratford Highschool. IT WAS AMAZING
Stratford did a amazing job I loved it.
Do you go to Roblox High School?
3:53 I love the guy in the audience joining in. Thats the way it should be. So much fun and having a good old time. 😁❤
i was born 1958 in the old hospital brooke street but lived in lambeth road
This song increased its fame in the movie The Longest Day.
World War II increased its fame in that same movie.
This was also in Winds of War when Pug meets Pamela and her fiance in the Savoy. They were doing the dance.
My dear mum was born in Lambeth walk thinking of you mum been gone 5years still miss her every day love kitxxxxxx
Jago Hazzard brought me here
He brought us all here..
Via the Metropolitan Railway.
I remember watching the Munsters
And mister gateman Herman's boss at the funeral parlor said he hated these modern dances like the lambouth
Walk I laughed my head off because
The lambouth walk was a dance in the
1920s. I laughed so hard so that is why I looked this video up
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My mom told us about the lambouth walk when we were kids Iiss my mother because she is passed away
Thanks for posting this
Fantastic
Robert Lindsay's got proper Jacko moves there with the hat etc
Givemethevalium Givemethevalium that came before Jacko, though! This was from the 90’s, but the original in the 30’s I think! And 1 in the 50’s! The move preceeds MJ!
'Jacko' ??? As in Michael Jackson? Are you mad? Michael Jackson wasn't born yet when this stuff was was all over the streets. Before television, before the internet, there was musical comedy and there was VAUDEVILLE... there was something called The American Songbook ... in the UK, there were songs sung in pubs by people who came in and sang for each other, just to amuse each other... as for Dance, check out The Nicholas Brothers (black counterparts to contemporaries Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly... Fred and Gene admired them tremendously)... following the Nicholas Brothers, there was Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice; their grandmother danced at The Cotton Club in Harlem. Gregory was born in '46 ... about a dozen years older than Michael. ALL OF THESE people were amazing ... dance is so joyful and just downright sexy. (but please... Michael did NOT invent that stuff. Give credit where credit.... you know the rest).
Bloody hell I didn’t know that guy was Robert Lindsay; the dad from My Family!
What show was this from?
@@nigelkthomas9501 Me and my girl, like it says at the start of the video, under the video, and in many of the comments.
@@2H80vids Yes, yes. I saw that after I’d added my comment. It wasn’t very clear on a mobile.
Classic song Noel ! Robert does well too.
pure class xx
My granddad could play the spoons. Love this .
Pure talent
been working actually on lambeth walk opp the lambeth walk pub at the lambeth mission
wonderful!!
I saw Robert Lindsay on the sitcom My family and he once danced with some cleaning tool. It was immediately apparent that the dance floor was his natural environment.
Jago Hazard sent me here.
I’m doing this for my school show just now and this song is too catch
Timeless x
Who else is here because of Jago Hazard?
Aye
@@Elstree Yep, me too.
Came from his video about the Lambeth Walk at ....
th-cam.com/video/1iL3jKrWaDA/w-d-xo.html
Glad I did.😁
I'm guessing Mr Lindsay replied to an ad for someone to "wear a hat and whistle a lot." 😂
Who?
Yep - he's leading us down some strange byways...
@@OverBearin Not only is this explained in the reply above yours, but a link is provided - Simples really.
A lot of mileage out of what is essentially a one verse song. A lot of work for the composer and choreographer to extend 30 seconds into 5 minutes.
Note James Earl Jones in the audience at 4:03
Too true. If you don't end this video with full knowledge of the lyrics, may I recommend referral to a memory clinic. =)
If you're old enough, it reminds me of the old Skol advert from the 80s, the "why aren't you singing along?" "I don't know the words" one.
James Horn there are a couple more actors...another on an end seat was a soap opera star, same side as JEJ but closer to the stage & younger & gorgeous! He’s at 4:15-4:17 on the left in the end seat! There’s one further up, but harder to see...it’s easier to see in a dvd of great theater moments!
Neil Hansford I’m assuming it was written with audience participation in mind! Therein lies the most fun!
The show first appeared in the West End in 1937 , the composer Reginald Armitage aka Noel Gay died in 1954.
'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert! Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!
Came here from the nazi meme, found out it’s actually a bop on its own
Same!
its not even a meme, its british propaganda
"general adolph takes over" by British Pathe?
@@jakerussell135 Yes!
@@svetlin_dp That’s True.
I worked in the Jolly Cockney in the Lambeth Walk back in the 1970's
¡Estupendo baile!
BRILLIANT...!!!!!
I saw this musical in London.
Lifts my Heart !! Oyy😄😁😊 HEY Lambeth walk EVEY DAY🤣😅🙃😀
The best musical ever shame it can't be re released umo can see a few people doing the song ie bradly Walsh etc😊
He worked so hard❤he should be prouder of his masterpiece
wonderful
I AM HERE THROUGH LOOKING UP
HIS MASTER'S VOICE' RECORDS, POSTERS ETC. GREAT FUN. OF COURSE BEING 83 THE MUSIC IS NOT NEW TO ME. ENJOY. BLESSINGS. TRIXIE
I had no knowledge of this play or this song until I saw the war film of the SS doing their normal marching but a British filmmaker set it to this music and rigged the film to show them do steps backwards, with Hitler shouting at different times. When Goebbels saw it, he tore out of the theatre cussing and yelling. I heard he put a price on the filmmaker’s head because of it. It is hysterical to watch. Starts off with title “Hitler and the Gestapo Hep Cats” or words to that effect. You can find it on TH-cam by typing in Hitler & the Lambeth Walk. I had commented that I wondered where it all came from and someone directed me to this play/musical. It’s hilarious but this (the above) is quite enchanting and enjoyable.
I found this song from the book "Mr. Churchill's Secretary" by Susan Ella Macneal. The main characters listen to the song at a party.
Did I see James Ear! Jones in the audience?
Yes. He was there & enjoying it.
I absolutely love
I'm from Germany and now end up here, don't no why that's relevant, but this Song is great.
Spoons? Buy some old EPNS dessert spoons, make sure they RING when struck. Great show! Musicologist Percy Scholes said that the “walk” was a genuine bit of folk-art as everyone could add their own touch to it and remain part of the ensemble.