Hugh Laurie (Bertie Wooster) sings "Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors."

Hugh Laurie sings "47 Ginger-Headed Sailors." The full score may be found here:
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BONUS: The score for "Oh By Jingo" (also featured in the series - in 2 scenes! - and available elsewhere on KZbin):
nla.gov.au/nla...
KZbin links here:
• Oh, By Jingo by Hugh L...
• Oh, By Jingo by Hugh L...

[@gen1exe]

I love how Bertie keeps on playing the piano with his left hand as he speaks with Jeeves as if it were a talking bit in the middle of the song

[@adventureswithaurora]

Right? XD Hugh Laurie is a very talented man!

[@htc7748]

"Really speaks to me,that song,you know,Jeeves?" "I'm sorry to hear that,sir." Oh how I love Jeeves!

[@k.c1126]

Jeeves is the best.

[@msmltvcktl]

"Would you like to hear the rest of it?" "I wouldn't..like to put you to any trouble, sir." Jeeves is the bitchiest of bitchy queens. I'm sure Stephen Fry was channeling a few in this role; could not ask for a better casting.

[@MrDainBramage]

Like all military men know, you can say anything to an officer if you add a "sir" in the end.

[@ferretcatcher2377]

Jeeves, ever the diplomat.

[@kurtisburtis]

“I shouldn’t like to put you to any trouble, sir ...” the most polite “OMG, NO” I’ve ever heard ...

[@ethelredhardrede1838]

Jeeves is always amazingly polite.

[@sophiaonearth6347]

Bertie: “An old maid down in Devon said ‘my idea of heaven is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors!’” Bertie: Really speaks to me, that song, you know Jeeves?” 😂

[@MsGrapeNehi]

Hugh Laurie singing to a West Highland terrier. Impossible to decide which one is more adorable.

[@dotnb]

i agree!

[@lwoodt1]

Or which sounds better.

[@ellenmarch3095]

@@lwoodt1 I absolutely love Hugh Laurie, own both his music albums, (mostly blues), but this comment made me lol. 😂

[@livb6945]

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[@bink6778]

Hugh Laurie. Hugh Laurie is more adorable.

[@thesovietshooter]

"All the rage at the Drones" "Well, I can't say I'm surprised sir."

[@vmsysprog]

Lol.

[@asterix7842]

Jeeves is the best at being passive aggressive.

[@marydonohoe8200]

Hugh Laurie is a ginger-headed phenom: dramatic actor, comedian, pianist and singer. Time to bring out the Jeeves and Wooster dvds and indulge!!

[@rheailiarome2287]

They were wonderful I never get tired of watching it. The made the book come alive. I spent some wonderful hours watching this series. Congratulations to Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. God bless 🙏

[@LM1313]

Bertie looks so excited when he asks if he'd like to hear the rest of it, like a happy puppy dog.

[@IrishCarney]

And a dumb one too. Laurie is so good

[@potato_kake]

Man child... gorgeous one at that 😂

[@adventureswithaurora]

"I shouldn't like to put you to any trouble, sir."

[@theblackwidower1197]

Gotta admit, this is the main reason why Bertie was my first crush. That and his 1930's style suites.

[@DoubleBread]

The Black Widower Ooh yes, all those suits! He looked great in everything!

[@neptunestardust]

I absolutely admire the way people dressed back then

[@gentillygirl545]

He is adorable.

[@adventureswithaurora]

I don't blame you one bit. Those suits are dashed dapper!

[@Fooma777]

That side shot showing his hands is such a flex. What a good show.

[@sanjukta_basu]

How can Jeeves not like this song or any of Bertie's songs. Bertie is a terrific signer as we see through the series.

[@dirk4926]

I think you're correct, the songs are vulgar, in that they are lacking in cultivation, and plebeian, as well as some of them, like this one, having a bawdy entendre.

[@michellewarns2778]

Every time that happened, I just wish I was there so I can say, "Shut your butt-hole! Bertie,.... proceed." That and ask if he can give me some piano lessons.

[@ambeckerful]

what if he secretly loves Bertie's singing but can't show it because the songs don't fit the upper class standard?

[@sashaking1111]

mycriminoftogist good point!!!!!

[@liamvnbw]

@@dirk4926 I had never for a moment considered the entendre you are referring to. Can't tell whether it's because of my inattentiveness or rather a lack of "dirty mind" as it is called. Because of your comment I can't seem to succeed in erasing that thought from my mind whenever I listen to this song ;)

[@BenitaPrins]

Hugh Laurie is officially the BEST.

[@saurabhpal8605]

Now there's a good ship, H.M.S. c___-Robin. On her home trip, Up and down she's bobbin' Oh the crew's pretty tough. The sea is so rough. They're all fed up and say That they've had more than enough. She's got a father He's an able seaman And they call him Redhead Tom I wire to say I'll meet you And with your friends I'll treat you So who do you think I've had a message from? Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors Coming home across the briney sea When the anchor's weighed And the jouney's made Yes they'll start the party With a heave-ho, me-hearty Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors You can bet you're going to hear them when they hail us An old maid down in Devon Said my idea of heaven Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors!

[@maxbeale8186]

One of my favourite scenes in the whole series

[@markcarter3617]

Oh god I miss this so much , love them .

[@yerk3]

"Would you like to hear the rest of it?" "I shouldn't like to put you to any trouble, sir."

[@hannahvasby-burnie2477]

0:56 the dog's face tho ♥️ so cute

[@reggiesmith3866]

This was a superb series...

[@janesmith9024]

I got hold of the sheet music for this one so I could sing it at my piano. It was in an Australian library and they supplied it free by email.

[@adventureswithaurora]

That's brilliant!

[@00bean00]

This is the best version on You Tube, Hugh! We _enjoy_ your playing and your singing!

[@censusgary]

P.G. Wodehouse wrote a lot of lyrics for Broadway show tunes. This song, however, was written in 1928 by one Leslie Sarony, about whom I know nothing else. “Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors” was a hit in the late 1920s.

[@inregionecaecorum]

Aha the great Leslie Sarony of "aint it grand to be bloomin well dead" and "hunting tigers out in Indiah" fame. He had a bit part in Monty Python's meaning of life.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@inregionecaecorum and “Tweet Tweet”!

[@jacobjasper8525]

Pt. 2 of 2 Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors, Coming home across the briny sea, When the anchor’s weighed and the journey’s made, Yes they’ll start the party with a “Heave ho, me hearty!” When there’s forty-seven ginger-headed sailors, You can bet you’re going to hear them when they hail us, An old maid down in Devon said, “My idea of heaven Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors.”

[@sidarthur8706]

wodehouse absolutely had these two in mind when he wrote the books

[@georgielancaster1356]

He died in 1975. Didn't know of them. Plum really liked Dennis Price as Jeeves and Ian Carmichael as Bertie - but I think he would have loved Fry and Laurie if he'd seen them. You can hear Ian Carmichael sing What would I do without you, Jeeves? on KZbin, I think. I think only one episode survives of the TV series of Price and Carmichael. All the rest were wiped in the 70's?

[@julieporter7805]

He saw the future!

[@clebras]

I like your singing, Bertie!

[@patrickswan4537]

I've got an old 78 record of this song, by Tommy Handley. Its the B side of Bananas are Coming Back Again. Released by Piccadilly records in 1928

[@dotnb]

My most favourite scene from the series, ever!

[@gundag453]

This song really spoke to Bertie. As it happens this clip really speaks to me ❤

[@ambeckerful]

Good lord, I just noticed that Stephen Fry nearly has to duck when he walks through doorways! Tall, tall man.

[@jadefire2817]

Six feet , five inches!

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

Excuse the late comment, but yes, Stephen Fry is quite tall at 6' 4¾" (1.95 m) and so I suppose it's the price of being extremely tall! 😅

[@georgielancaster1356]

I also discovered that Fry must have, every day of his life, visions of balding and dandruffy heads, whenever walking amongst people. He would see tops of heads, not faces - and I was in a rare situation to experience it - I am not tall - and I found it rather unattractive. I gaze up into people's faces, as a rule, but being in a rare situation of being 6" to 12" taller than more than 70% of the population around me, I was not impressed with what I gazed upon. In fact, I suddenly wished the practice of wearing hats, a la 1920's/30's, would come back immediately.

[@oldelephantstew]

Fantastic series; I watched the re-runs on ITV 3 over and over; I wish they'd made more of them; maybe they still could though Fry and Laurie are older now and have moved on to do other things.

[@MinisterAilingTongue]

This role will be remembered longer than House.

[@christophersteen1873]

House is not at all my cup of tea, I've watched most of jeeves and Wooster though.

[@vmsysprog]

I loved Jeeves and Wooster

[@verityg1990]

Macintosh is duetting!

[@haplessasshole9615]

Music hall tune for voice with piano accompaniment with Westie obbligato.

[@milliet1227]

His timing is excellent!

[@electr0lady]

Hugh looks the most ginger he's ever looked in this.

[@ЛидияГромова-ч6ц]

I think he's auburn, actually, brown with a strong red shade

[@domainofthesun4400]

I was laughing at the title even before I rolled the video... it only got better

[@oceandawn26]

Bertie Wooster singing and playing the piano? To an enthusiastic little dog? Frankly, I'm surprised my computer hasn't exploded from all the cuteness. Meanwhile, Jeeves is thinking, "Why, oh why can't he play some Debussy instead? I hate the rich. I really do.". ;) Great clip!

[@anonygent]

Actually, Jeeves was rather dismissive and arrogant towards the working class. He may have found some of the upper class to be downright twits, but they were "his" people.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Jeeves _is_ working class. He works for his money. The only difference between him and the majority of workers is that he works for gentlemen.

[@anonygent]

@@davidwuhrer6704 When the amateur dictator (I forget his name) said to Jeeves, "You're just the kind of man we need, the working class." Jeeves responded, "I hesitate to contradict you, sir, but the working class and I have but a nodding acquaintance."

[@Visplight]

Jeeves very much likes Wooster in the same way Wooster likes the dog. Yes, the noise is dreadful but he's an adorable little idiot - more importantly, he's *Jeeves* little idiot.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@anonygent Nevertheless, Jeeves is working class. He is just not representative of the working class. He is quite exceptional, and knows little about the life of the working class in general. And he doesn't care to.

[@jacobjasper8525]

The Lyrics are as follows: Pt. 1 of 2 There’s a good ship- H.M.S. Cock Robin, On a home trip- up and down she’s bobbin’, Though the crew’s pretty tough, the weather’s so rough, They’re all fed up and say that they’ve had more than enough; I’ve got a brother- he’s an Able Seaman, and they call him ‘Red-head Tom;’ I wire to say, “I’ll meet you, and with your pals I’ll treat you,” So who d’ you think I’ve had a message from?

[@ptz593443x]

had this song in my head all day.

[@TheNinthDoctor]

"Well, at least Macintosh likes my singing."

[@scattygirl1]

Unfairly talented.

[@RabbiHerschel]

Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors, also known as an average Tuesday evening for Stephen Fry.

[@oaf-77]

Hey-oh!

[@julieporter7805]

Maybe not anymore now that he's happily married.

[@RabbiHerschel]

@@julieporter7805 No he's not.

[@audamful]

If only life could be like this today.

[@severiscariot]

Hooray! I was looking for this awhile ago and couldn't find it, and suddenly here it is! Love Bertie singing to the dog, lmao.

[@MonaLisa-zz5cv]

Give him a middle-part and straight-fit jeans and he'll be a hit with Gen Z singin' those sailor songs.

[@carolynargabright8132]

Bertie and his novelty songs.

[@Emerald_Bandit]

Ah the memories I do miss the old show

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

I think it would be great to do a Jeeves and Wooster where the characters are older (maybe during WWII) so Fry and Laurie could reprise their roles.

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

I think Bertie might have joined the USO and travelled around entertaining the troops. Yeah, Jeeves would probably make a killing in the black market.

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

The USO is the UNited service Organization. Their main function was to entertain the troops. I don't know how strict they are since the USO is an independent organization and not part of the armed forces.

[@stephaniemiller7536]

Except that the USO is an American organisation. They would have been more likely to join the NAAFI,or a 'concert party".

[@Samua3]

I thought about them doing one where they were old together but then the inevitable happens....but which would be the most gutting situation...if Jeeves were to die first or Wooster? Then I could not bear the thought at all, got all sad and tearful and prayed that they never ever do an episode like that! It would destroy me! Why do I torment myself with such horrendous ideas? sheesh! 😭

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

Lately I've had an idea for a story where Bertie is very old (maybe in his eighties) and he's trying to get along on his own as Jeeves has predeceased him. He's inherited the title of Lord Yaxley and lives in the mansion. There's some sort of conflict involving his grand-nieces and nephews (dunno what yet) and he is visited by the ghost of Jeeves to help him sort it out.

[@MrSonofsonof]

Thanks for the link to the sheet music. And it's got ukulele chords!

[@kaf890890]

Thank you for making the link to the sheet music available! Very scholarly of you, and much appreciated.

[@inwit]

You're most welcome. Don't overlook the "extra couplets" addendum on page 4. PS: I've added links for the sheet music to "Oh By Jingo" in the video description.

[@KamexKoopa]

Jeeves dislikes this video.

[@adventureswithaurora]

🤣🤣🤣

[@aprilmay4328]

wish this one was on spotify!!😣

[@ambeckerful]

One of my feel-good go-to faves. :)

[@susanburn6888]

this really speaks to me.......LOL!

[@velvetartdecova5378]

Just watched the brilliant Brandyn Shaw do this at NYMR 1940's weekend but his version was slightly more "risque" . I loved it.

[@jackolas2007]

Jeeves has four youtube accounts.

[@Oiyuki]

Jeeves has no objection to your singing Bertie. Just you song choices.

[@clebras]

I swear this dog is a Westhighland "westie" terrier. but Jeeves in the episode says that "one Aberdeen terrier is much like any other" and buys one for the crazy happenings later in the episode. According to a dog book that I own Aberdeen is an old name for what we call Scottie / Scottish terriers. I love this episode and this show and I love dogs so somehow I just would like someone else to concur or say otherwise about the dog. I love the dog reacting to Bertie's singing!

[@MrAlumni72]

Definitely a Westie. We have two.

[@susieq9801]

@@MrAlumni72 - Late to the conversation but I've had Scotties for 50 years including a wheaten (colored) Scottie. Aberdeen was the original name for a Scottie their place of origin. This is definitely a Westie, smaller, round face and not nearly as ornery as a Scottie (Scotties are tough with big teeth and bred to hunt badgers!). All were derived from the Cairn terrier...Westies, Scotties, Skye.

[@ЛидияГромова-ч6ц]

Yeah, that's a Westie, I know this breed, but Mackintosh was a Scottie in the books.

[@joecoyote42]

One of my most favourite pirate songs

[@MrMakkymakk]

OP thanks for posting the link, I have been looking for the sheet music to this for years!

[@stoneinmybed]

One of my absolute favourite shows ever. I was so happy to find the DVD-Collection in my country, but still searching for the soundtrack, so thank you for uploading this. Unlike Jeeves I love this song. Jeeves is a bit of a snob, I reckon... :)

[@hoodatdondar2664]

He just has standards. In New York, he meets really talented jazz men and gets into it. Junky pop like “Tweet Tweet” and “Nagasaki”, on the other hand, merely elevate one eyebrow.

[@sirvolkerstein]

Funny! Love this guy! I love Jeeves!

[@johnmanno2052]

MY idea of heaven is 47 ginger headed sailors!!!!

[@Peacepuppy5]

"Would u like to hear the rest of it?" "I shouldn't like to put you to any trouble sir."

[@charmlaughton5525]

best thing on tv.

[@MayPhoenix]

Happy Birthday, Hugh Laurie!

[@lauraarcher6996]

Love it!!!🤩

[@Pianoguy32]

Thanks for linking the score !

[@SrinivasRamajayam]

liked this very much. thank you for posting it.

[@konstantineguruli]

Much better than Jack Hylton and so is Oh by Jingo as well.

[@tedthesailor172]

Trying singing that at a university or Labour party bash these days! There'd be 47 Safe Space marshalls mobbing you in no time...

[@Whippodopolous]

@lillyshak Haha! Believe me! Me too! i think apart from "Poirot," Wooster and Jeeves is my favourite series!

[@MariaTitor]

Oh, i love this song and this film a lot)))

[@carolynzaremba5469]

It was a television series. And it was brilliant right down to the theme music and the opening titles.

[@ABCDEFGHI3295]

MY idea of heaven is 47 ginger headed sailors ;)

[@ambeckerful]

heave ho me hearTY!

[@matis511]

Oo proszę jak ładnie West śpiewa :D

[@Jordan781]

Oh Bertie. I love you.

[@oltedders]

Ginger boys! Mmmmm.

[@LizNeedle]

Great fun.

[@werfox666]

I like your singing to!!

[@AndroidLust7]

@TheAlienesque haha there is an episode where one of the characters compares bertie (Hugh Laurie) to jack buchanan

[@inwit]

The link for the sheet music is in the video description above.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

Aw they cut the next bit of dialouge about this song! From memory. “Shall I play this for the Glossops when they come to visit?” “I could not advise it, sir. Mr. Glossop is not musical.” “Ah, but Mrs. Glossop is!” (pause) “There is, also, *that* to be considered, sir.” What a burn.

[@janetbeebe8499]

I'm all for Jeeves. I like a man with a brain.

[@dudesayingthings]

Im sorry to hear that, sir 😂😂😂

[@CupcakeGalLurvRupert]

AHAH, WHAT IS THIS SONG SO FUNNY FOR?! maybe cos it like.. hugh laurie?!

[@haranoe]

@kitticrase2 Yeah, an adorable tadpole... that should have given to you some hint about what he was bound to become.

[@hermajesty52]

🥰🥰🥰

[@Woolfie3Paws]

Hot Ginger and Dynamite!

[@zonked1200]

But...but...what was on the note?

[@ABCDEFGHI3295]

@CupcakeGalLurvRupert It's just because the song lyrics go 'my idea of heaven is 47 ginger headed sailors' I was just saying I agree basicly.

[@richmondie]

In the books Jeeves tells Bertie he has a "pleasant light baritone" - Hugh is more of a bass!

[@00bean00]

richmondie yes, he even says that later in Episode 2, whence this is taken

[@carolynzaremba5469]

No he isn't.

[@4bibimimi]

sounds like the jingle for 'Kenner's Give-a-Show Projector'.

[@jackolas2007]

McIntosh dislikes this.

[@truffle_and_sony]

Excuse me, what type of dog is Machintos?

[@inwit]

A West Highland Terrier, apparently. www.google.com/search?q=west+highland+terrier+images

[@truffle_and_sony]

inwit Big thanks!!! You Tube didn’t informed me about your answer :( sorry, for the late thank you

[@jackolas2007]

I'd guess atleast 50,000 of these views are me!!

[@UrbsDei21]

@jackolas2007 It's an oven vent, I think.

[@CupcakeGalLurvRupert]

@MinisterAilingTongue i agree :D

[@Mousy677]

ah, a duet

[@user-jt1wz6gd5s]

Dabbler..

[@tamhaswoods9056]

This guy and Tim Nice But Dim should hang out some time.