The Two Ronnies - Rochdale Ringers

[@MatthewSpencer-zm5lf]

When I was a kid this was sat tv 📺 what a brilliant night rip 🙏

[@ninarizzo7312]

Magnificent, they were so very clever and funny! Loved them to bits!❤❤❤❤❤❤👍💯🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Ignorethisuk]

Shame this doesn't have more views. It certainly deserves them. I was raised on the Two Ronnies and seemingly no one in my generation knows them. Real shame.

[@ThyArchAngel11]

it does now! Not nearly enough as it deserves, still, im glad to see this piece about

[@Dulcimertunes]

I’m American but I loved “Sorry “

[@joshuagarnham9703]

I absolutely love them and it breaks my heart that my friends my age won’t laugh as I have at these two geniuses.

[@croonyerzoonyer]

I’m 29 and my grandparents would watch them on VHS when I was younger. Glad to have discovered them that way.

[@paraumbrella61764]

The Two Ronnies make being in musicals look so easy.

[@ZeroToPatrick]

It's an old-fashioned concept that I think they used to call "talent"...

[@chrishopewynne2845]

And there are NO clangers in ALL the bells

[@jameslevens2773]

Thank you for uploading this video to KZbin. I enjoyed watching the Two Ronnies when I was a boy. I enjoyed their musical routines and this is one of my definite favourites. I've just discovered this video tonight (20/07/17) and I've seen it fifteen times already. It's that good! I'll certainly enjoy watching this sketch again, I can tell you!

[@gordonbaynton9281]

Good collection good to remember .thanks

[@gnewlands5568]

My all time fave Two Ronnie's musical sketch "Reet proper grand are the Rochdale ringers" 😂😂

[@johnboytd]

This is great! I don't recall seeing this on when they were originally broadcast!

[@johnsheen3871]

Brilliant x

[@ZaliGold]

This was a personal favourite of my "end of show musicals" - although picking a fave 2 Ronnies segment reminds me of the old saying "all beer's good but some's better than others."

[@johncallan333]

Pure comedic genius, never to be seen again, sadly

[@PamelaEdwards-x3q]

Ooh how I miss this pair comedy genius 💙🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@kaibroeking9968]

"Ee what a band are the Rochdale Ringers! Ee what a marvellous sound! Reet proper grand are the Rochdale Ringers, Best for miles around! We played Bach at the old folks' suppers, Strauß at the Aldermen's Ball. But, oh, what a twist When we all got Mozart Playing the Temperance Hall!" The little story about the knocker-upper is the best bit, though: "Knock us up, knock us up, When you're out on a spree. Knock us up, knock us up, And the maiden you see Lying flat on her back, Knock us up - let her be!"

[@barbarastepien-foad4519]

wonderful thank you ☺️

[@DieFlabbergast]

This is reet proper grand!

[@jedmartin8338]

So funny I loved the 2 Ronnies

[@roystonbills353]

Jed Martin y

[@jedmartin8338]

Royston Bills cuz they were funny

[@lillianthomas4395]

Eeee bah gum, well ah`ll go to our `ouse!!

[@jerrydowse5061]

Gregory peck at 1.04.?

[@nymphofwater]

@Martino567 it was Ronnie Barker who wrote them

[@ayrshireman1314]

My, what a big girl.

[@MrZOMBIE170]

He name is Yvonne Gallagher

[@ayrshireman1314]

@@MrZOMBIE170 Cheers.

[@ayrshireman1314]

@@MrZOMBIE170 Also known as Lee Richards acc to IMDB

[@terrylick5908]

just orsom . ronnie barker was a orsom writer and a brilliant comedian actor same as ronnie corbet. all the best and take care from Australia.👍

[@DomalomRogers1996]

Nice to see the Scout emblem at 1.04 :)

[@astront917]

Another great sketch by the genius two Ronnie's,I tried to watch another couple of sketches but these were blocked,typical BBC throwing a wobbly. If I had my way like I suspect millions of others I'd shove their licence fee up their fucking arses, Like they don't rob us enough as it is showing crap TV programs without the choice to opt out. Sorry for moaning but if they had decent comedy like this I wouldn't mind. Mr barker,Mr Corbett,you were and still are the greatest.

[@jerrydowse5061]

astront917 quite right.we pay the fee and they block the sailor gals musical set.what right have they?

[@MAte925]

Two many snowflakes controlling media now that's why!

[@martinpowell1111]

The rather chesty & rather pretty lady in this brilliant sketch is also in The 2 Ronnies Seaside Songs sketch.

[@xr6lad]

That chest obviously opened doors for her!!

[@MAte925]

Pollitical correctness to blame i suspect!

[@nigelcullinan5531]

The big girl you are noticing is the great lee Richards.4

[@dukedex5043]

They don't say reet in rochdale. That's yorkshire.

[@MakerfieldConsort]

I can't speak for Rochdale specifically, but 'reet' can definitely be heard in Lancashire. A lot of words and phrases that people think are uniquely Yorkshire or uniquely Lancashire are in fact common to both.

[@dizwell]

I always enjoyed Morecambe and Wise, but the Two Ronnies on BBC2 were much cleverer, I always thought as a kid. I was never a fan of the armchair monologue but put up with it because the big musical number always followed ...and those were always witty, clever, nicely pergormed and hugely funny. Used to watch them with my dad. Great times.

[@albion.hlafweard]

Anyone know a website were I can find the words?

[@JHolan-dw8kd]

Complete text under post by sachseco (S in green disc) above.

[@MAte925]

Are there ringers clubs like this in real life?

[@lomax343]

Not a single bell has a clapper....

[@BadWebDiver]

I think the people in the back were professional ringers, they seemed to be following a score. The two ronnies were doing fake bells tho. :-D

[@albion.hlafweard]

😂😂

[@nztv8589]

They pre-recorded the music professionally in a sound studio. Then when they came to perform it in front of live audience, they muted the performers instruments who then mimed to the backing tape. Often the only "live" sound was the two Ronnies singing the song.

[@nymphofwater]

@acesiren I believe that the 8th series was broadcast in the 1980's

[@MrZOMBIE170]

The woman's name is Yvonne Gallagher

[@MAte925]

Well endowd indeed❤

[@Grundsau47]

Healthy gel in't she?

[@MrZOMBIE170]

Her name is Yvonne Gallagher

[@terrybutler1231]

Clappers all removed, and Bell sounds dubbed on - safest way

[@jerrydowse5061]

They did a sketch a two navy girls,it was removed anyone know which series it was please ?.Thanks

[@MAte925]

Is there anything like the ringers in real life?

[@bonniebianco5918]

Is that yvonne gallagher from the jui jitsu sketch . lovely eyes.

[@ianwinterbottom9539]

I am from Shaw and was a Rochdale bus conductor for years! where do the Buses come in now, if they have opened up the River?

[@Sion.Ryan.Green.]

Ian Winterbottom The new bus station is opposite where it was, they drive in there.

[@MAte925]

Back when people just had a laugh , not looking for something to be offended with!!

[@jamesbaker8831]

What is the name of the tune parodied around 3:12 ? I've heard it in several places but can't place the original

[@Mspig1965]

James Baker it’s a Welsh song called Llwyn Onn ( Ash Grove) 😀

[@jamesbaker8831]

@@Mspig1965 Thanks

[@markbond-kr7im]

What is the overall tune called ?

[@adelaidekavaclub4864]

​@Mark Bond there are a few of them, the first/main tune being the two-step march Whistling Rufus. I've been trying to get details of the rest (The Ash Grove excepted)

[@sachseco]

IF ANYONE KNOWS THE LYRICS TO THIS HYSTERICAL SONG, PLEASE PUBLISH. WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT ALL THE WORDS ARE ABOUT, THANKS!

[@chrisnorton4382]

😅Ee what a band are the Rochdale Ringers Ee what a marvellous sound Reet proper grand are the Rochdale Ringers Best for miles around We give 'em Bach at the old folks' suppers Strauss at the Aldermens' Ball But oh what a twist when we all got Mozart Playing the Temperance Hall There's Mr Holden, his tone is golden His bell's a whopper, and made of copper Goes white with anger, when he drops a clanger On Friday night at the Temperance Hall Ee what a band are the Rochdale Ringers Ee but we're champion type Reet proper grand are the Rochdale Ringers All black pudding and tripe We ring the change with the bobs and triples Up on the clarion call But we had trouble so we downed two doubles Playing the Temperance Hall Thursday night we joined the local Philharmonic Have a Ring that's quite Teutonic They play Wagner They play chronic After that we're off to do a small Masonic With a little gin and tonic sol fa We're keen on Handel, and Elsie Randall We play Messiah, I play with fire She likes Elijah, and I'll oblige 'er On Friday night at the Temperance Hall Tingaling, tingaling, we've bells on the brain And we can't sleep a wink for the tinkly refrain Then we get a ratatat on the old window pane It's our local knocker-upper Billy Hardwick Half asleep, in a heap, in your vest and your socks Nearly eight, don't be late, ratatat Billy knocks Guess who'll get a thick ear for his next Christmas box It's our local knocker-upper Billy Hardwick Though he was a bandy chap, his little handicap, Didn't stop his larks, with the lasses in the parks He was so passionate, he couldn't ration it They called him willy nilly Billy Hardwick Now he had a happy life, not so his little wife She took it very bad and got very very mad She grabbed a carving knife, cut off his social life Silly bIlly nilly willy Hardwick Knock us up, knock us up, when you're out on a spree Knock us up, knock us up, and a maiden you see Lying flat on her back, knockers up, let her be That's the moral of the tale of Billy Hardwick We play far from Rochdale on civic occasions We're going to Oldham on Saturday night We ring for the mayors and the big corporations We're going to Oldham on Saturday night The Lady Mayoress there, is known as Big Bess there The front of her dress there, is bulging and tight We'll have a right gala, in Bessie's front parlour Cause we're going to 'old 'em on Saturday night Ringers born and bred, Higginbottom Ted Higginbottom Sam and Higginbottom Fred Higginbottom Jim who is slightly dim When he's up the spout Sidebottom Ted with a big bass clef And Obadaiah Dutton, who's a little Mutt and Jeff With t'Bottom Dan, he's a colster man And they're all clapped out There is poor old Eli, getting in a twitter For he's had a lot of bitter for a Friday night And he lifts his bell his brow begins to wrinkle When he has a little tinkle and he's quite alright So we ring them in and we ring them out And we do the hokey-cokey and we shake 'em all about There's a note or two, doesn't quite ring true And we say by 'eck Is it Arthur Twist with his limp right wrist He's a real damp, high camp, campanologist If it's Harold Boyes, you can shut that noise Or we'll wring his neck Alderman Toothill, living in Bootle, got three things with graft and skill Management class, and plenty of brass, and a lass in trouble off her pill Now he's defunct, his widow has plunked, a statue of him gaunt and grim And what he did to other people, corporation pigeons do on 'im Ee what a band are the Rochdale Ringers Ee but we're nimble and spry Reet proper grand are the Rochdale Ringers Ding dong merrily high Tight as a newt at the Fur and Feather We play the thingy from Saul Smart and dapper with a well-oiled clapper Playing the Temperance Hall Smart and dapper with a well-oiled clapper Playing the Temperance Hall (*** For non-Brits, Mozart [and Liszt] is rhyming slang for pissed [drunk]; tight as a newt [drunk]; Mutt and Jeff is rhyming slang for deaf; Fur and Feather is a pub name; 'bobs and triples' are genuine bell ringing terms; a knocker-upper was a real job - a human alarm clock that tapped on windows with a long cane to get factory workers up for early shifts; knockers - slang for womens' breasts; willy - slang for vital part of masculine anatomy; silly billy = term for foolish).

[@josephdolman]

@@chrisnorton4382 can't fault you except for its mutton Jeff not mutt and Jeff for deaf other than that everything is grand.

[@chrisnorton4382]

@@josephdolman - it's really Mutt 'n' Jeff from old comic characters, shortened sometimes to mutton, google it.

[@josephdolman]

@@chrisnorton4382 ok sorry my mistake.

[@JHolan-dw8kd]

@@chrisnorton4382Many thanks. That's a very long text, and it goes by fast.

[@swimasfastasyoucan]

Omg

[@FallNorth]

I remember this well, it really seems to have stuck in people's mind for some reason! Only just realised the melody is a MUCH older song probably well known to older generations back then called "whistling rufus". kzbin.info/www/bejne/qInEkop-lrx7qtU

[@Martinio567]

I don't know who wrote their song sketches, But they're all very funny

[@BrettIIXIIVIV]

Martinio567 I believe they wrote their own material. Comedy gold.

[@petertaylor4980]

Brett II XXI IV IV, they wrote some of it, but they had a lot of writers supplying material.

[@MakerfieldConsort]

@@petertaylor4980 In addition to the many writers, the vocal arrangements were by Fred Tomlinson, who appears in this as "Mr Holden". He and his group, the Fred Tomlinson Singers, worked extensively with the Two Ronnies, and before that Monty Python (he most famously wrote the music for the "Lumberjack Song").

[@panowa8319]

I couldn't get into "The Two Ronnies" but this skit was memorable.

[@croonyerzoonyer]

Uncultured swine!

[@suzannesadiiqa]

This was not easy to do...

[@StanleypeterDickinson]

Mike Harding? Long live Jo Cox.

[@acesiren]

This was on in the 1970's ish.

[@maddog7139]

More like late 80s

[@MakerfieldConsort]

@@maddog7139 It was in fact broadcast on 29 November 1980.

[@iannichol8989]

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[@artsed08]

Excuse me... there are no Muslims or vegans in this video, so I think it should be taken down. English culture offends me.

[@ArtyJerjerrod]

Bill Holland oh fuck off with your reactionary nonsense

[@blipdriver]

Oh Bill, that’s a bad take.

[@tsrgoinc]

You can’t beat our comedy, especially the sarcasm!

[@chrisbradley1629]

How do you know that there are no vegans?

[@chrisprior2870]

Get al