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 Flanders and Swann
| First, according to Michael Flanders, where does the Rain in Spain stay? | Flanders and Swann
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Almost invariably in the hills.. "My Fair Lady" was still a smash hit on stage when Flanders and Swann recorded "At the Drop of a Hat" in 1959.
They had the same record producer, George Martin.. George Martin recorded "At the Drop of a Hat" in 1959, several years before he started recording the Beatles.
| Flanders and Swann wrote "Ill Wind", about the narrator's attempts to learn to play the french horn. What music did they use to set the words? | Flanders and Swann
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Mozart's fourth horn concerto. They used the rondo, including cadenzas. The song begins
"I once had a whim, and I had to obey it, to buy a french horn in a second hand shop".
It's on the "At the Drop of Another Hat" album.
The Gnu. "I'm a gnu, spelled g n u. The (g)nicest work of (g)nature in the zoo." From "At the Drop of a Hat".
A tennis umpire. "The British Umpire, on whom the sun never sets."
| In "Sounding Brass", what is "more fun than playing polo with the Duke?" | Flanders and Swann
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Playing on the status symbols. "The object is to Gunga-Din your neighbor.
'I'm a better man than you's the acid test.
So man the good ship one-up
Let's do a social ton-up
And bang our status symbols with the best."
From "At the Drop of Another Hat"
| Flanders and Swann called their first show "At the Drop of a Hat". What did they call their second show? | Flanders and Swann
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At the Drop of Another Hat. "At the Drop of Another Hat" opened in 1963, three years after "At the Drop of a Hat" closed.
Russian. Swann also wrote one verse of the Hippo song in Russian. He was a skilled Russian translator, and wrote an English translation of "Peter and the Wolf".
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