The Stanley Holloway Monologues

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From "The Mikado" By W.S.Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan; with Groucho Marx, Barbara Meister, Robert Rounseville and Sharon Randal By George Randell. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. By Charles Pond 1906. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim; originally performed by Zero Mostel

British Transport Films Volume 3". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on June 6, 2008 . Retrieved 8 August 2013.By Edward German. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. By Billy Murray. Popularised by Florrie Forde. The song was written about The Old Bull and Bush public house in Hampstead Heath, London By Charles J. Winter 1910; first recorded by Bransby Williams c.1914. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. By Greatrex Newman and Wolseley Charles. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957.

By Kate Emily Barkley ("Katie") Moss. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. By Marriott Edgar. Previously recorded by Holloway in 1939. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. From Hiawatha's Wedding Feast music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor based on the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By Ernest Melvin (1922). Previously recorded by Holloway In 1930. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. Gaining an American audience through repeated showings of his films on early-'50s TV, Holloway took New York by storm as Alfred P. Doolittle in the stage smash My Fair Lady - a role he'd repeat in the 1964 film version (after James Cagney had turned it down), and win an Oscar in the bargain.

JUDSON (Wonderland Series) J 3026 Reissued as "Elephant Alphabet" - 1960 and "What Happened At The Zoo" - 1968

Of course there were many other great monologists (sic) and hindsight and poor memories have confused who did what in the minds of many people. The Lion and Albert has been performed many times by other entertainers and in 1991 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of programmes with well-known comedians performing Marriot’s monologues, including Thora Hird, Les Dawson, Roy Hudd, Bernie Clifton and Roy Castle.

STANLEY HOLLOWAY

Written by Frederic Edward Weatherly& Adrian Ross. Music by André Messager. For the 1894 opera Mirette. With Arthur Lief (conductor and pianist) and the Concert Party Four. Recorded in New York, November 1957. Holloway's career would never have been so strong had it not eben for his monologues. Some he "borrowed" some he wrote and some were written for him. Over the years there were many writers. These are based on the lists given in "The Stanley holloway Monologues" Ed Michael Marshall Pub Elm Tree Books 1979