The King's Singers - Il Est Bel Et Bon

From Byrd To The Beatles

[@tanishastidwell6316]

In every group of musicians there's always that one dude.

[@tylersutherlin2287]

That one guy is all of them

[@luxinveritate3365]

The guy singing alto lmao. i know.

[@pianopolly]

It's unbelievable how clean and pure their sound is all the time, even more so considering the speed in which they sing this. I really tried to pay attention to when they breathe, but no matter how close you listen, you cannot hear a single sound that's not part of the music itself. Not even natural lip sounds or something. Unbelievable indeed.

[@Quandale_dingus]

I didn't know mr bean did bass...

[@Aarononym]

🤦

[@qingyanghe6580]

it's his cousin

[@adubya818]

My thoughts exactly, LMAO.

[@elchatismiquin6445]

English genetics 🤣🤣

[@ahyusoo]

it's so cool how they can each sing their own part without getting messed up by the other parts... it's so much harder than people think and plus it's a cappella too

[@nicolasmotte2427]

I have to disagree with that, I think it's on the contrary pretty easy. However, singing that well, you have to work hard plus been born with the ability.

[@thegamingkid8224]

The syncopation in the bass part at 0:59 is absolutely amazing. It feels almost satisfying to listen to!

[@CoolnessManifested]

did this song in high school and it is extremely difficult to sing. it is great fun and there are some beautiful parts. one of my favorites.

[@RoseofGilead]

The piece is about a group of women gossiping, basically. I think a faster tempo helps convey this much better than a slower tempo.

[@k9sandcats268]

My very favorite magical of all time. I learned it in high school and I have not forgotten one note of it, however, I would need to return to French class.

[@sierravargas501]

1:26 face tho

[@songbird143]

We performed this song in choir some 15 yrs ago and I've never forgotten it. One of my favorites. It was so hard to concentrate with this man's facial expression😂😂😂

[@Amanda57563]

Is this who I think it is? 🥺🥰

[@Greenpandalovescrush]

1:26 IS NO ONE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS GUY

[@belgiummanbelgium]

Too painful.

[@catherinehershey966]

love this guy

[@unmyth1cal564]

No we dont wanna die

[@shlomitcnaan7123]

He's a sort of cross between Grover and Fozzie.

[@sagarzon]

No worries, he's just the tenor.

[@that.k-pop.trasheu_whoaint8010]

the guys face, lol😂😂

[@thatphangirl7073]

I am singing this song with my chamber choir and we saw the video and died at the facial expressions!!!

[@humanbeing1117]

That Phangirl I’m doing that rn 😭😭😂

[@magicthegatheringcollectiv4024]

Bro same

[@kardelenhanilcetr1938]

0:38 MR.Bean 😂

[@Anon-fp4qh]

From left to right: David Hurley, Paul Phoenix, Phillip Lawson, Stephen Connolly.

[@riasnavolas917]

Their voices are outstanding! Too bad probably I'll never have the chance to enjoy them in person :(

[@garyhinkle5736]

Beautiful Performance Gentlemen🎵

[@unspokenrespect]

It took me years to find this song. Thanks Shazam.

[@shadoworld8468]

Omg leur tête Elle mon tué🤣😂

[@elemmir]

"defeats the chickens!" omfg that's amazing!

[@madisonhofer-holdeman5003]

I've also heard that the "feeding of the chickens" can allude to something else... ;)

[@chandlerallen4625]

oh my gosh hi friend!

[@madisonhofer-holdeman5003]

Hey!!!!!

[@kirkepadgett]

No that's choking the chicken

[@madisonhofer-holdeman5003]

Kirke Padgett I'm talking about what the song implies. Not modern English colloquials.

[@matthieulamiable4757]

The song isn't allusive at all, it says " He feeds the chickens and I take my pleasure so high than the screams of the poultry are nothing to compare with mine". But maybe was it a bit innapropriate to give the real traduction...

[@louispichon901]

its fabulous

[@threegoldmartlets]

I sang this about 55 years ago, but we never quite managed this pace - nor the facial expressions!

[@ashg4906]

this...is....amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xAiiRPLANES]

My favorite metal song.

[@arthurlanglois-droal9628]

Leur tête sa ma tué X)

[@SugarbabyLA]

I love this sooo much, it makes me smile :) haha I sing this in my choir at school, except its SSAA, I might just do a multitracking video of this!

[@Halichika]

No it's not, but you can still respect the talent they have for singing it fast.

[@hatubassani5247]

J'adore trop, Félicitation !!

[@Cordillera1975]

King Singers can do no wrong...Its a gossiping song...its amazing

[@p.j.madcool2686]

Thank you so much for explaining this to me! I think we sang this in high school(I don’t remember singing the last parts of the song though.)I have been wondering what this song means for several years now!(I graduated High School in 1991.)😊

[@johsgarage9140]

So this is what happens when Franz Kafka and Bernd Stromberg form a band with Mr. Beans brother. Awesome!

[@LucyTenenbaumLNO]

could we sing it this fast and funny? maybe just 4 of us!!LOL

[@olivier2101]

Excellent ! Une très grande version de cette vieille chanson française.

[@StickKingProductions]

@JessieMarie923 It's actually marked to be really fast, and it's in cut time.

[@christianadam1841]

😂😂😂 la tête qu'il sont il mon tuer de rire

[@RoseofGilead]

If this were about a courtly love situation or a motet, I'd probably prefer a slower tempo like the one you linked. But when it's a madrigal about a group of women gossiping about their husbands, while some chickens run around, I think a faster tempo is needed. Good luck on your search for more music!

[@SillyComments]

i've just decided what i want for christmas. the dvd.

[@LaurentMourlat]

years of work !

[@GeeEmOh]

that alto FAREEAKS me out/

[@katerinavicikova519]

Does anyone else thing, that the bass (the guy on the right) looks like Mr. Bean???

[@TheKarolek]

Niesamowite!!!!

[@MonastraOperaSymphonyClassical]

25% ACCELERATED? FPS CUTS? It seems to me that it is artificially accelerated, by video software. I am struck by the body roll (as with FPS cuts), especially the head and shoulder movement of the bass. Try playback at 0.75 and you will see that it sounds more realistic and more musical. If not, if this is a totally real performance, music is no longer music if only speed is sought.

[@catholab]

the translation of the last sentence isn't "and leaves me to do whatever I want" but " and I'm taking pleasure, my dear, I cry louder than all the fowls "

[@hannahbananana1]

@pianopolly I'm not sure they are breathing... I couldn't even see them taking breaths. That 's crazy!

[@LEILAHABACHI]

il est bel et bon mon marie

[@videosdeszinzinsdele]

excellente prestation !

[@zfriderici]

I'm curious, did it say something about presidential elections for you too?

[@ervan3433]

Je doit m'écouter pour l'écol😭😭😠

[@larsdude777]

thumbs up if you watched this like 9 times in a row

[@metalheadofmadness]

Paul is retiring in September. He will be sorely missed. :(

[@ryanandersen7226]

My choir just premiered one of Philip Lawson's brand new compositions two days ago with the men themselves, which was scheduled before Julian made it in the group!

[@SuzetteGrist]

Abs fun❤

[@me_Dya]

I remember performed this and struggled with the cocococococodoc part 😂😂😂

[@zfriderici]

Well, we now know where beat-boxing comes from. All joking aside, very well done of a hard piece; props to the King's Singers!! (Although work on the faces, you're scaring the little ones!)

[@ferraric916]

haah this is the song we r singing but i dont think this fast hahah i love their faces :)

[@elisab7155]

Pour ce qui le souhaite je met à quelle minute sa commence 0:29

[@maxnarau4655]

soprano alto ténor basse

[@pokemagicraft3246]

BON BON BON BON BON

[@Petraphage]

Great interpretation ! Interesting to work on that song...

[@alanchunn610]

Good perfomannce

[@amoxtlacatl]

@doggydude10 OMG - he does! Now all he needs to do is finish singing and go "¡Ay, güey!"

[@jesusIstheWay30]

10-12 is sophomores, juniors, and seniors

[@ecopoliticalczar]

Um, barhocker, maybe because that IS HIM!

[@servaneaubineau7739]

c'est super dur a chanter on le chante au college en 5 eme a 4 voix c'est super dur mais c'est bien

[@hyper5652]

Salut la prof de musique 😂 Mme Julian

[@jesusIstheWay30]

Lol we're singing this in our high school ensemble and we don't take it nearly as fast holy cow I could barely keep up!

[@mouthmouse]

@aukmandude I'm sorry but it's impossible to understand the lyrics! I'm french, I knew this song before, and except il est bon commere mon mari it's impossible to understand the rest! And a song you can't understand lyrics is not very pleasant to listen to!

[@quite1enough]

Ah, that what you mean. Dunno, it sounds so spiritually :) I'm trying to find another performances of that ensemble now, and no luck :(

[@actuallybee2184]

and not a single breath was taken that day.

[@briannahayes790]

I have to sing this for a UIL concert and doing the alto part l, I laughed so hard at the guys face when he sang!!!!!!! Even agreed that we would do that when we sing, we became the chicken choir!!!!!!!

[@mouthmouse]

Is it a new mentality to sing faster and faster? For exemple another video of KS singing the same aria about 17 years ago was slower! Sad!

[@Mark26111984]

@drmgrl11 Paul will often give a strange look at the end of a song, especially when it's a happy one.

[@MrTaurus511]

@GeeEmOh IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!

[@somethinggtwo]

you know whats funny is that they're like flutes. she shortest has the highest pitch and the tallest the lowest . lol

[@quite1enough]

Why so fast again? Also this version: /watch?v=I-SRFinO9XU

[@martingutierrez4301]

John Smith it’s meant to be fast cus of the coco (chicken part) because it need to be fast to have any effect

[@uzKantHarrison]

Epic. I love their tenor!

[@severinebarle6326]

ok boomer ok

[@alanchunn610]

That's a good husband:)

[@icguy]

Or is that the women themselves :D

[@musicrocksmysoul96]

I love how at the end they go to the guy with the big eyes xD

[@Frabjous1]

SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES

[@jonathaneennewton9869]

1:26 priceless

[@Halichika]

Awww I did this song when I was in Grade 9! ^.^ It's so good!

[@clarkpalace]

excellent

[@saintgermaine33]

wow

[@wenglishsal]

There is a posting by @kingsingers showing a very young David and Stephen singing this very song.. have a look they are so young... David has a very fetching RED tank-top on and Stephen a Tweed jacket? It looks like they are singing in a sports centre???... Aww bless 'em :0)x

[@EmanuelWecker]

Beautiful, it's a shame they're british.

[@MrPenguinInATux]

How many of these videos did you comment that exact joke on?

[@dengarbazzari3713]

It's so fun i love it😙♥️

[@billfrisell8360]

La tête du bonhomme à 1:27 en dit long sur ce qui se passe dans les douches des prisons!

[@ethalinia]

@sethriogrande107 He reminds me of Big from Sex and the City :P

[@ladybugmarinettemiraculous8763]

BANDE DE CONSTIPÉ ☺️♥️

[@LiaHeintjes77]

the dude all the way on the right looks like Mr.Bean

[@clefbor]

each one of these guys could have had a good career as a soloist and yet they came together for the sake of being greater than the sum of the parts. Sort of like the Dallas Mavericks. Only different :) I do like the earlier recording of this at the slower tempo un peu better, but hell, i aint gonna complain. Thanks for committing your lives to this music. Thanks for posting this.

[@dnebdal]

@Mrdavidgarcia12777 I quite like it - much slower, and you lose the the way some parts are meant to sound like clucking hens. :)

[@mouthmouse]

@ChessiePieces Sorry I was mistaken, I thought that a madrigal was an aria! but it doesn't change anything from what I said before! Thanks for the information!

[@RoseofGilead]

The version you linked to is very nice, and you can hear some good musicianship, for sure. But it just doesn't capture the mood of the text.

[@kaiquestumpf1]

Bailie Belle Bon bon bon

[@danielleparker6845]

im siNGING THIS IN CHOIR HELP

[@WhaitWhattt]

hAa its the wiggles!!! minus the asian guy

[@mar1na1993]

@spoogeworthy You have no idea how many times I rewatched this video JUST for him... Not to mention the great song but... GREAT intro!