Flanders and Swann

Flanders and Swann were a musical comedy duo, popular when I was young. They are sadly underrepresented on YouTube. There is, however, their charming Hippopotamus song:




And the immortal "The Gasman Cometh" which is so extremely British. How could you not love it?




Apparently the muppets were fans, too:




And I will close by stealing a quote:

Architecture, said Hegel, is frozen music, as you'll remember; Donald Swann's music is often being compared with defrosted architecture.