Martyn Green: Patter Songs By Gilbert and Sullivan | Omnibus With Alistair Cooke

[@OmnibusWithAlistairCooke]

Want to see more of Martyn Green on Omnibus? Here he performs the Major General Song from "The Pirates Of Penzance"! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKG0qqV6iNeMf7s

[@megbailey8567]

I certainly will.. thank you

[@dad675]

As a G&S Fundi, I have recordings of Martyn Green but never seen a video. Thank you. I started my G&S adventure when I was about 10 so came in with Peter Pratt and subsequently John Reed, Thomas Round etc. Now I'm 73 and still listen to my records and watch the D'Oyle Carte videos I have gathered over the years. Problem is..... no one to leave them to. Now I'm In SA it's a different culture. I guess they will end up on a dump somewhere. Sad, ain't it?

[@TheMikester307]

Oh! Leave them to a library or music school!

[@margueritejohnson8373]

Deep joy! Martyn Green and Alastair Cooke!! Great unmodified rapture!

[@jensonbaron239]

Thank you for sharing this priceless footage of the great Martyn Green.

[@maxchodos7256]

I had the privialage of performing in HMS Pinafore in San Diego directed by Martyn Green. It started my love of G & S

[@TheMikester307]

Way back in Grade School I read Green's "Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan" in the library! I have a copy now, 50+ years later!

[@timetravellingblockhead2122]

This is a natiional treasure to be honest

[@jacksoniswacky8432]

Good song

[@Marius011]

This was my first direct exposure to Gilbert and Sullivan. I'm very grateful for hearing this expert rendition by Martyn Green, although there are better fidelity recordings of him on YT! It's cool that the Omnibus series was produced a long time ago; we should rehash it. Also, Alistair Cooke's narration and interaction is great. How often do the hosts get so involved in a performance like this, without being campy or attempting to upstage the talent? Thank you for freely sharing this content. I can't get Ruddigore's (Robin's) song out of my head!

[@kensmith5094]

He was the Caruso of G&S patter singers!!

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Wow, excellent. This is a true master. Watch how well, and simply, he acts the words. And watch how unafraid he is to use parlando in order to better tell the story. Superb.

[@sandrashevey8252]

Very good-looking!

[@rsalceda]

Mordin Solus brought me here!!!

[@seemaoraon4578]

I like this style of song. It'd be fun singing patter song.

[@aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930]

The giant flower on Martyn's shirt is probably a reference to Oscar Wilde, a popular cartoon in Punch depicted him as an overly aesthetical overly poetical magical mystical quite artistical ornately fanciful checkered pantsiful nincompoop of a man with a large flower pinned on his shirt.

[@warpigeonofdoom]

The pace is a little bit slow. I increased the playback to 1.25 for the proper patter song tempo.

[@alberttatlock1541]

Reginald Bunthorne singing Robin Oakapple's song. :)

[@th2184_cma_.]

That's because Martyn Green was putting on his Bunthorne outfit while singing it.

[@lotteweill]

Green never hams it up.! Well, hardly ever.

[@Lalaland-q2z]

I see in this video that he still has both legs as I remember his one leg was crushed in a car garage elevator ,not sure when that was.

[@AlphaLackey]

A time when "I Am The Monarch of the Seas" would be thought of as the most famous, and not "Modern Major-General"!

[@musimages23]

sounds like the original "RAP"

[@edmondscott7444]

Could do without dreadful Alistair Cooke. Martyn Greene a great singer of G & S.