John Reed - Nightmare Song (Iolanthe).avi
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- čas přidán 31. 12. 2011
- With barely time for a breath, John Reed--as Lord Chancellor--describes a pretty tough night. It's related to--of course--unrequited love.
From the 1978 album, under the direction of Dame D'Oyly Carte. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Royston Nash. - Hudba
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Unparalleled delivery, for me it's perfection. This is a very useful song to try and sing mentally while you're at the dentist's or having some unpleasant procedure done. I find it very helpful 🙂
This patter song is so intensely packed with brilliant descriptive verbosity. I've listened to several people attempting it and they must dread it. It's almost impossible to get the exact words in without stumbling or changing a few by mistake and most make quite a few mistakes with it if you listen carefully, but this comes very close to perfect
Check out Richard Stuart with the Winnepeg Symphony.
John Reed had lots of time to practice this and all the 'patter' songs. He was the 'comic lead' for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for twenty years and was known for his, "crystal clear diction" in all the patter songs and his amusing character voice.
John Reed what a man, superb pronunciation superb voice we will never see his like again❤❤
I have had the privilege of seeing John Reed who was magnificent.
Not only did we see him, but we also got to meet him when he was directing musicals at CU Boulder during the summers. He was a very nice guy.
I’m very jealous. He sounds amazing. May he rest in piece knowing he’s changed the lives of millions..
@@caldodge I did too -- sat and spoke with him in his dressing room for quite a long time. A lovely, lovely man.
"You haven't been sleeping in clover"
I don't know why, but that line always cracks me up.
The large bathing machine and a very small second class carriage always gets me 😂
Brings back memories--I grew up listening to Martyn Greene's performance of this piece (perhaps a bit older than this recording.)
This whole song is one brilliant tongue twister! 😄
Perfection. Why does this not have more likes?
John Reed, Valerie Masterson, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - no-one has ever come up to their standard (incl ENO).
Quite a legacy isn't it, Eliza. So enjoyable.
Thank you for stopping by!
Best Regards,
David
1:36 listen to the music behind the words, and you begin to realise just how great a composer Sullivan was.
And 3:06, just to round it off :)
I didn't begin to realize it at 1:36
I always knew how great of a composer Sullivan was :).
perfection
Thanks! I love it, and I`m finnish.
I saw John Reed in person in 1976, at the D.C. Kennedy Center. D'Oyly Carte was doing its BiCenntial Tour, and he performed in H.M.S. Pinafore. He was spectacular. But strange: afterwards, my girlfriend and I saw the troupe in the parking lot: they were acting rather trashy. But still, John Reed was great; and it was only 6 years later that D'Oyly Carte disbanded.
just learnt this one too! I have Jack Point's song learnt so I wanted something else to learn too, so I chose this one xD
My favourite singer by MILES. Such good diction.
Proper speed! x
favourite version - lightness of touch
@UnclaimedFr8 Happy new year too. Reed is great.
Out of curiosity, I timed the fastest part of the song and it's only 12 seconds from "you're a regular wreck..." to "...clover"! IMHO he sacrificed some clarity which I enjoyed very much on Martyn Green's version, but this is still a gem, if not a record (pardon the pun). I don't think even his own 1960's recording was that fast. Is this version available on CD?
Could be, adarkerlight. I think this is still enjoyable, though. I haven't heard them all--working on it.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Best Regards,
David
Here are the lyrics!
(Recitative)
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
(Song)
When you're lying awake
With a dismal headache
And repose is taboo'd by anxiety
I conceive you may use
Any language you choose
To indulge in, without impropriety;
For your brain is on fire
The bedclothes conspire
Of usual slumber to plunder you:
First your counterpane goes
And uncovers your toes
And your sheet slips demurely from under you;
Then the blanketing tickles
You feel like mixed pickles
So terribly sharp is the pricking
And you're hot, and you're cross
And you tumble and toss
Till there's nothing ‘twixt you and the ticking
Then the bedclothes all creep
To the ground in a heap
And you pick 'em all up in a tangle;
Next your pillow resigns
And politely declines
To remain at its usual angle!
Well, you get some repose
In the form of a doze
With hot eyeballs and head ever aching
But your slumbering teems
With such horrible dreams
That you'd very much better be waking;
For you dream you are crossing
The Channel, and tossing
About in a steamer from Harwich
Which is something between
A large bathing machine
And a very small second-class carriage
And you're giving a treat
(Penny ice and cold meat)
To a party of friends and relations
They're a ravenous horde
And they all came on board
At Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations
And bound on that journey
You find your attorney
(Who started that morning from Devon);
He's a bit undersized
And you don't feel surprised
When he tells you he's only eleven
Well, you're driving like mad
With this singular lad
(By the by, the ship's now a four-wheeler)
And you're playing round games
And he calls you bad names
When you tell him that "ties pay the dealer";
But this you can't stand
So you throw up your hand
And you find you're as cold as an icicle
In your shirt and your socks
(The black silk with gold clocks)
Crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle:
And he and the crew
Are on bicycles too
Which they've somehow or other invested in
And he's telling the tars
All the particulars
Of a company he's interested in
It's a scheme of devices
To get at low prices
All goods from cough mixtures to cables
(Which tickled the sailors)
By treating retailers
As though they were all vegetables
You get a good spadesman
To plant a small tradesman
(First take off his boots with a boot-tree)
And his legs will take root
And his fingers will shoot
And they'll blossom and bud like a fruit-tree
From the greengrocer tree
You get grapes and green pea
Cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries
While the pastry-cook plant
Cherry brandy will grant
Apple puffs, and three corners, and Banburys
The shares are a penny
And ever so many
Are taken by Rothschild and Baring
And just as a few
Are allotted to you
You awake with a shudder despairing
You're a regular wreck
With a crick in your neck
And no wonder you snore
For your head's on the floor
And you've needles and pins
From your soles to your shins
And your flesh is a-creep
For your left leg's asleep
And you've cramp in your toes
And a fly on your nose
And some fluff in your lung
And a feverish tongue
And a thirst that's intense
And a general sense
That you haven't been sleeping in clover;
But the darkness has passed
And it's daylight at last
And the night has been long
Ditto, ditto my song
And thank goodness they're both of them over!
@tannerfani91
Hello tannerfani91
You're most welcome, and I'm very happy to hear from you! Thank you for commenting. I've enjoyed John Reed and G&S for decades, and thought that this vinyl merited posting. Labor of love, you know.
Best Regards and Happy New Year!,
David
hello again, i just responded to this with my version! :D hope you enjoy it!
@Th0ughtf0rce
Greetings, and thank you for your comments! Wonderful to hear your perspective, and expertise. One of a kind, was John Reed.
I'm not aware of a CD of this album.
Best Regards,
David
There is a CD of Iolanthe with the DC company with John Reid. I also got the same CD as a down load, I think off iTunes. I think it was recorded in London in the early 1980s.
I went to this and wow it is old also does anyone know a different the nightmare song that is SUPER hard to find?
Like you, I, too, grew up with the Martyn Green performances. Couldn't get enough of them. Great pity the recordings were all mono. Isn't Sullivan's orchestration superb, especially in this particular song. By the way, I've always thought that Isidore Godfrey's tempi were spot on. Malcolm Sargent, on the other hand, tended to be a bit too slow for my taste.
I also grew up with Martyn Greens rendition. In my opinion, he was the best.
@92NordicQueen Hieno homma! Uskoin olevani Suomen ainoa G&S-fani!
0:55 for the when your lying awake part
Hello Gordon,
Wow, that's ambitious! Not an easy piece--good for you.
I'm glad you enjoy this--Best of luck! (Or is is 'break a leg', already?
Best Regards,
David
@92NordicQueen Joo, ne on ne kolme suosituinta. Itse olen Suomessa syntynyt, mutta jotenkin löytänyt nämä. Ensin Pinafore, sitten Pirates, sitten Mikado ja pikkuhiljaa kaikki muut. Tosi hyvää musiikkia!
I would have really loved seeing Martyn Green doing this number, Nightmare Song. Just listen to his LP patter song recording, if you can find it, and dig the difference between Green's character-filled performance with the SQUARE Reed interpretation, especially but not solely the triple rolled Rs' from Reed. Sorry, all you Reed fans, but in my judgement John Reed is a (not-even-close) second to Martyn Green. What a tragedy was Green's accident in the elevator!
This is a really slow version. I thought I had the John Reed version. guess not...
2:53
Hello, and thank you for commenting! Haven't heard the Martyn Greene version yet--on my list. Great music.
Best Regards,
David
Mike Leigh did a terrible disservice to W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy by portraying him as something of an ogre. The many humorous lyrics written by Gilbert belie that characterisation.
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