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SONGS OF CRICKET
The London Quartet

1 Cricket Theme Medley - Alexander L’Estrange
2 The Cricketers of Hambledon - Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock
3 School Songs Medley - Various
4 The Summer Game - Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber
5 Lillian Thomson - Richard Stilgoe
6 Radnage Cricket Song - Horace Harman
7 Four Jolly Bowlers - The Yetties
8 The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant The London Quartet / W.H. Havergal
9 You’ve Got to be a Cricket Hero - Al Sherman / Buddy Fields / Al Lewis and Fred Tupper / Cliff Nichols
10 Jiggery Pokery - Neil Hannon / Thomas Walsh
11 Village Rondo - Matthew Holst / Chris Hatt
12 Eton and Winchester - R.T. Warner / F.S. Kelly
13 I Made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum’s - Greg Champion
14 Australian Cricket Medley - Various
15 The Barmy Army - Richard Stilgoe
16 That’s Not Cricket – from At Home Abroad Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
17 Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket - The London Quartet
18 Andy Flower Duet - Richard Stilgoe / Léo Delibes
19 Jerusalem - Richard Stilgoe / C. Hubert Parry
20 When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease - Roy Harper
21 ‘Stop it, Aggers!’ - Rory Bremner

Comments

[Harry]

Heard the Andy Flower Duet on Classic FM the other day. That Richard Stilgoe's a genius. Worth a purchase I reckon.

[Tony]

The boss of me and her friend heard the Classic FM segment last week, too. That's what put me onto the album.

[The Don has risen]

You must be too young to remember Here come the Aussies by the 1972 Ashes team to England.

[Professor Rosseforp]

The Don has risen: or the flipside, "Bowl the ball, swing the bat, show the others where it's at" -- or was that part of Here come the Aussies?

[Tony]

"Here comes the Don" (in a funny high-pitched voice.)

[The Don has risen]

it was indeed the B side.

What a record.

The Lyrics written by William Shakespeare.

no he didn't come back from the grave. There was a singer of that name!

[Tony]

I could be wrong, but I reckon William Shakespeare had to change his name to Billy Shake. No mention of a forced change at Wiki, but I have an inkling the bards modern minders drove the name change.

He got convicted of sex with a minor, then it looks like he went the same way as Stevie Wright - drugs, booze, decline, homelessness, a ruin.

He died in 2010.

[Professor Rosseforp]

Can't remember the Billy Shake thing, but I can remember his LP was going to be called The Complete Works but they thought this might offend people in Britain. He had a couple of great pop hits.

[Tony]

Billy released a "greatest hits" single.