'Three Little Maids From School Are We' (stereo version) The Mikado 1966 Gilbert & Sullivan
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2020
- As the soundtrack to the 1967 film 'The Mikado' is mono and quite crackly sounding, I thought it would be interesting to synchronise the picture with a stereo studio recording of the same song to give a much cleaner sound.
Footage taken from 'The Mikado' filmed in 1966.
Audio taken from a 1965 studio recording with Sir Malcolm Sargent available on the 'Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular' LP.
Featuring Valerie Masterson, Peggy Ann Jones and Pauline Wales. - Zábava
And as luck would have it I was in an all-male version of "The Mikado" at Oxford. People still ask to see my Yum Yum.
Matron!
Fraser Crane!! Lmao!!!
I Think any man Who would Quote Frasier Crane would get along quite well with me 😀 BC I’m his number one Fan In The Black Community
What’s Yum Yum Doing Here? LOL Sorry I Could not! Resist
Thank you, Frasier.
Rewatching Frasier in 2023 brought me here. I was not disappointed.
I just remembered the scene in "Chariots of Fire" where one of the runners who will compete in the 1924 Olympics goes to a theater and sees this song being performed, and immediately falls in love with one of the "three little maids".
The lyrics are so amazingly timeless, perfectly describing those three appalling girls you knew years ago.
Gilbert pulled no punches!
Can’t quite curb my enthusiasm over this…
Well played.
What a brilliant trio of singers. Valerie Masterson was probably the finest soprano the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ever had.
"Hey look. The FBI Light Opera Society sings the Complete Gilbert & Sullivan."
First place my mind goes when hearing this. Immediately followed by Bob stepping on a bunch of garden rakes. The first 10 seasons were probably the greatest thing ever produced for the small screen.
Where's that from?
@@Mike-zh1ew The Simpsons Cape Feare Season 5 episode 2
@@LSDforEveryone
Very nice one Three girls
HAHAHAHAHA
I have legit listened to this for an hour and a half, just on repeat. The first 20 times was learning the song, the rest of it was pure enjoyment.
I agree Valerie Masterson was stunning in all her roles with The D’Oyly Carte.
The first time I heard this song, I thought they were singing:
Three little maids who, all unwary
Come from a ladies’ cemetary
At the time, the audio was bad but it gave me the idea that they subtly admitted to eliminating school rivals 😅
That was the funniest! Seriously, I never laughed so much
At last an original horror movie plot!
Yes, those ladies seminaries from Meiji period Japan had utterly cut throat rivalries. Buuuuut, small price to pay for Hibachi's and toy robots
And so cheerfully 😂
@@RaptorFromWeegee#久野一
Well, the verdict is in. Of the many renditions of "Three Little Maids" I've watched on You Tube, this version is indeed the best!
Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school
Everything is a source of fun
Nobody's safe, for we care for none
Life is a joke that's just begun
Three little maids from school
Three little maids who, all unwary
Come from a ladies' seminary
Freed from its genius tutelary
Three little maids from school
Three little maids from school
One little maid is a bride, Yum-Yum
Two little maids in attendance come
Three little maids is the total sum
Three little maids from school
Three little maids from school
From three little maids take one away
Two little maids remain, and they
Won't have to wait very long, they say
Three little maids from school
Three little maids from school
D’oyly Carte is always the definitive production when it comes to Gilbert & Sullivan. D’oyly Carte actually brought Gilbert & Sullivan together in the first place back in the 19th century. They even built the Savoy Theatre in London to provide a venue for Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas. The first ever use of electricity in a theater can also be credited to D’oyly Carte to enhance those Gilbert & Sullivan works. I was lucky enough in my youth to actually see D’Oyly Carte productions of The Mikado and HMS Pinafore at the opera house in New York. (One of the perks of growing up in such a great cultural center).
It's a shame they had to fold eventually. It seems the British arts council is only interested in subsidising miserable, hate and politics infused things, of which I have been dragged along to a couple.
@@nostromoau At least we still have recordings of those great performances, and I'll never forget the ones I was actually able to attend when I was young.
@@zetaprime You're absolutely right, CZcams is a blessing.
Do you think D'Oyly Carte sounded as good toward the end as they did when you first heard them in the 1880s?
@@RaptorFromWeegee I wasn't around in the 1880s to hear them, so it's impossible to say. The oldest recordings I've heard are from the 1940s.
Magnifique! ❤️😍
We practice for months songs from the Mikado and had a school concert in 1991. We painted our faces white with zinc and wore yukata. It was entirely culturally inaccurate but good fun to the parents. I don't have any photos of the event, I wonder if I could find images from the school archive.
This is just brilliant big fan of Gilbert & Sullivan myself and my six siblings were weaned on all the opera's by Mum & Dad in the 1950,s
It sparkles!
Me too!
Me too! My Dad in Canterbury Operatic, so glad he introduced me to it all starting in 1958 💕
You had an exceptional childhood
Valerie Masterson is beauty herself
I remember when they did this on suite life
Beautiful spirit
screen? ;)
This adaptation has so much more personality than the later one
Why the fuck do I, a 25 year old dude from fucking sweden know about this play and have known about this play since I was like 9.
I still don’t get the hype around playing yum yum.
In the 80's, Alvin & The Chipmunks did this very song on Saturday Morning, even dressed the part & everything...not bad. That was my 1st exposure to this very song.
Same, it's cool seeing the original song, but I can't help but like the Chipmunks' version more, haha
@@SoupyDaze IKR. It happens. Imprinting in a way.
And I seem to recall that The Animaniacs performed this song as well, in full costume and hair. :)
Fabulous!
Well done, my good man!
Hey kids....wanna drive through that cactus patch?
Pretty, pretty, prettyyy good...
Tonight is our premiere from the Micado.
I cannot see nothing because i play in the orchestra.
Frasier brought me here.
Thanks
Wow what a great song, hopefully my coworker who's named after a dog breed at a radio station won't prank me by making me sing this song live.
If you don't get this reference you clearly haven't watched Frasier S3.
I remember this music from suit life of zack and cody on Disney channel the episode from japanese convencion at the tipton hotel
Nice😻
Well, Frasier's falsetto isn't what it used to be
The oboe in this orchestration is perfection! Sullivan cut it perfectly.
Frasier sent me here.
Me and the girls on spring break
Is anyone else here because of frasier? Lol
People still ask to see my Yum-Yum :p
Hey Kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch?
@@michaellyden2580 *sip “Ahh! This coffee’s too hot!”
Damn Bart was carrying this song. Milhouse was really letting the side down
She's magnificent!
Chariots of fire, anyone?
I was cracking up watching an old version of Magnum p.i. in which Higgins forced TC and Rick to replace two women who had quit for a performance for a diplomat..
So I looked it up on here to see if there was any such song lol!
Princess Diaries 2 led me here!!!
Doctor Fraiser crane lol 😆
I like the Joan Sutherland, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Shore version it's absolutely hilarious
Dr. Julius Irving
This is theme music for Curb Your Enthusiasm. Who knew?!
It's not the theme but it is played in the show an awful lot
Where’s Larry?
Ok, this doesn’t sound as cringe and weird as when I heard it on Frasier 😂
Like our forbeears said "walk softly and carry a bif stick". (three little brats from hell)
Which one is YumYum?
Always see Larry David when I hear this.
they killed three little maids, to see what was in their hearts.
What's yum yum doing here?
And then Larry David bought the rights and set it as the background music to all of his hijinx
Cuando bart Simpson cantó está canción para desenmascarar a bob patiño
"Hey kids! Wanna drive through that cactus patch?"
"Yeah!" Yeah!"
"NO!"
Welp two against one
why are they singing in unison ?
They are singing it as written.
Well, maybe because the lyric is "are we" ... not "am I".
The Simpsons
Three Little maids from Mocha Joe's
Henry Danger led me here
On curb your enthusiasm 😮😅
thumbs if Frankini brought you here.
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s version is better.
What great taste!! You're the only one aside from me who has mentioned it!
全然日本っぽく無い
好きになれない😐
Meh
it feels kinda racist? also a bit mysoginistic?
Yes, yes, everything before 1990 was like that--- film, teleivsion, radio shows, literature. It was wrong. We move on, though--- rather than cancel or erase every single questionable thing in entertainment.
This play is satirising English high society culture, through the guise of the Japanese shogunate.
@@MrSeekerOfPeace People don't realize today that all of Gilbert and Sullivan was satirizing English high society.
thats racist
Not at all. This is a satire of Britain, in Japanese costume, and of Western orientalism. You need to put it into context.
Oh this is so bad. 😂🤦♂️
How so?