Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6162 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Unique
Stanley Unwin's work is unique. He delivered his double talk with charm but also a hint of authority and conviction. Unwin's contribution to the Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake made what was already a brilliant album into major classic, by symathetically weaving his wordplay around the songs and turning side two into something much more worthy than the terrible overblown "rock operas" that Pete Townsend dragged the Who down into.

Here we are presented with Unwin on:

1. The Pidey Pipeload of Hamling
2. Goldyloppers and the Three Bearloaders
3. Olympicold BC
4. Hi-de-Fido
5. Artycraft
6. The Populode of the Musicolly
7. Classicold Musee
8. Professor Unwin answery most questions on manifold subjy

He is on top form and it is clear why he was in demand to add colour to many a British comedy film, radio or television programme. He even appeared as warn up for Steeleye Span on one of a series of televised concerts on BBC in the mid 1970s

Stanley Unwin is British comedy class, buy this and enjoy

They don't make them like Professor Unwin any more
Across several decades "Professor" Stanley Unwin delighted and baffled us with his straight faced and absolutely seriously presented gobbledegook. Having worked on the telephone side of the GPO (British Telecom for anyone under 30), he was able to talk on a vast range of subjects in a stream of words that bore only fleeting similarity to the English language. Memorably he fronted a Pirelli Tyres advertising campaign "Oh, horrendousy expensifold I hear you utterbole, but no!" This is a great little taster of the great man's unique talents. His mangled yet still weirdly understandable versions of well known fairy tales are a joy to listen to, if slightly pedestrian by his usual standards. This is probably due to him performing specifically for a recording with no audience.

Hold on to your hats for the second part of the disc though as we get to hear him in full unrestrained glory addressing audiences and answering their questions. It shows how amazing his skill was that when interacting with an audience he is able to be far more exotic in his verbal dexterity than in the formal setting of the recording studio. It's a fantastic white knuckle ride through the art of public speaking.

" REMARKIBOLD ! "
For those too young to have listened to what we old 'uns called the "wireless" back in the 50s this CD gives you the chance to hear a genius at work ,from an era when entertainment was gentler but nonetheless funny. Stanley Unwin was the inventor of a language known as "Unwinese" which is absolutely hilarious. His inspiration came from his mother who fell over and told her son that she had "falolloped over and grazed my kneeclabbers". What was essentially a vocal talent translated well on film and TV due to Stanley's whimsical appearance and the fact that he put the dialogue across absolutely seriously.His films included "Press For Time",Carry On Regardless" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". It is almost pointless trying to convey how funny he was............buy this CD and just sit back and enjoy. He truly was remarkibold. GOODLIBILODE !