I was born in 1938 and my mother always told me that when I was born a nurse came down the ward carrying me singing The Lambeth Walk. Always loved the song.

@MalevEvans-dw3do

Ай бұрын

That's so great a story, and utterly believable because this tune was such a hit. Thanks for sharing this!

Wow I can watch this a million times

The Brits have always known how to have outrageous fun. This one has always been one of my favorites.

As dementia set in, this was the song my grandmother sang; over and over again. She died in 1988, but I can't stop hearing it when I think about her.

@rubytuesday4564

Ай бұрын

As dementia progresses, playing music from their pre-teens through mid 20's gets big smiles from them.

What Robert Lindsay could do with his hat is very impresive and those fingers make the best whistle I have heard in a long while. 🤣

@jackiegeritz5345

Жыл бұрын

Robert Lindsay was also in the Ricky Gervais brilliant series "EXTRAS". ❤ x

@AndyReznov

4 ай бұрын

I thought that was him!

Saw it live. Lindsey was brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant, and I had no idea Robert Lindsay could sing and dance!

"Lambeth, you've never seen, the skies ain't blue the grass ain't green", sounds like the neighborhood I grew up in back in Oakland, California in the 1950's.

I remember my aunt & uncle doing "the lambeth walk" when the family would get together on weekends in the late 40's!-i was in my early teens,and fell in love with the ditty: i'm now 85+

@NikhilMathew122333

8 ай бұрын

How has life been

I'm a cockney and this was widely aired in the late 50's and into the 60's. Went to the West End of London to see the stage show in the early 90's with Brian Conley. This is pure Cockney magic, this is what makes cockneys fun to be around and we always make a good job out of adversity.

@liberte5847

5 жыл бұрын

What a souvenir! Thanks for yur pure statement! MERCI BEAUCOUP, I DO LOVE that Lambeth Walk TO! Emmanuel from Paris France

@harenrussel

5 жыл бұрын

You had to lol due to the grey misery of poverty that was and is notorious in the eastend. No different to my story and I love this song and show. One day when it comes back to New Zealand I will go and see it 💕🌹❤️💐💐 Bravo chaps!!!

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

@@liberte5847 Salut! (from l'Amerique). I always thought of les Titi-Parisians, comme Piaf, et les autres comme elles, étaitient commes les Cockneys. Vous ne croyez pas? Paris me manque... Tout va mieux? Un peu?

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

Please tell me that 'all that is Cockney' STILL IS, because the world is changing so fast and so much and I couldn't bear it to think that EVERYTHING is disappearing. Especially not something as magical as THIS. The mannerisms, the jokes, CRS, ... the 'all' of it. Please tell me that Cockney London remains intact... (I'm on the west coast of America now, sadly). I had a Cockney friend when I lived in Paris. He was a stellar human being (Mark Bryant. His father was a butcher). I lost contact with him and rue the day. What a fun and intelligent person. Stay well, wherever you are!

@user-itschad1954

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 Andrea, fear not. Cockney isstill around and people use without actually realising. For example, and this is only one of many "use yer loaf" = Loaf of Bread = HEAD. People have been saying for decades, many decades that it's dying out, it isn't it just evolves. Yes new "people" move into the area, their children will grow up having a cockney accent. My sister-in-law was born in Cyprus, moved to London '67 and speaks just like a cockney and the slang has been picked up too.

This Musical is the reason i fell in love with Musical Theater, i saw this 3 times when it was on tour in Australia in the early 90s and when the paintings started singing i was HOOKED!!!!

How exciting. In the audience was James Earl Jones who spoke with the lead as he walked/bounced through the aisles. That was a big surprise.

@johnmh1000

Ай бұрын

Of course - couldn't place the gentleman until you typed his name. Great actor.

This was an absolute joy. I'm only 22, but the sheer nostalgia I just felt- we once preformed Me and My Girl in my primary school when I was about 9, but I completely forgot about this song somehow, right up until the starting notes, and then it all came flooding back in a glorious cheerful and cheeky way. I loved this song when I learnt it, and still do today! Such a wonderful performance of the song too. Absolutely made my morning!

@tqnews2

2 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed you could have forgotten it in the first place. I think every session of congress; every school day and every important event around the World could start off with a rousing chorus of this...and...NO Wallflowers allowed!

@maureenlivermore3721

Жыл бұрын

Just watched this video as l borni n East London and now living in Cornwall it brought back happy memories.

What a star Robert Lindsey is. Great performance By the cast also.

@markdaly1648

4 ай бұрын

He is a star of stage, screen and TV. Very versatile performer.

@feliscorax

4 ай бұрын

This was great!

For those unaware, this was the number that opened the 1987 Tony Awards - a classic year that saw nominees such as "Fences", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Les Miserables." What a year!

My parents took me to see this on Broadway when I was a little kid in the 80s. We sat in the front row. Robert Lindsay came down and sat on my moms lap. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever seen. This is one of my life’s most favorite memories and this song makes me so happy anytime I hear it ❤ much love ❤

Went to see this at the Edinburgh playhouse with Robert Lindsay, absolutely fantastic! Walking home singing the Lambeth walk! What a great memory!

@cynthiaennis3107

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so wonderful! I wish I’d seen him in this! He’s fabulous!!

Five dislikes? What's the matter with those people? This is fabulous!

@barnetfc4848

5 жыл бұрын

Ben Robertson Northerners most likely disliked it

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

I’m from New England...and this Northerner LOVED it! 😁 First saw it on a DVD of the theater’s finest moments! LOVE it! It’s such a fun song, dancing is fabulous & Lindsey makes it work sooo well! Wish I had seen it in person! ♥️♥️♥️

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Robertson pretty crazy...it’s a blast!

@pattimuse1

4 жыл бұрын

Love this!!!!

@pattimuse1

4 жыл бұрын

I am from Canada and I loved this!

I Saw the show in London back then. It was sooo great :-) Loved it

I just love this number by this cast! ♥️💚💙 An all-time favorite! I wish I had seen this in person!

Makes you proud to be a Londoner when you hear the old cockney songs.

There are times when one like is not enough.

This is the beating heart of a great people....wonderful!

Amazing, never been able to catch this show but I know most of the songs including this classic. My family came from Lambeth way back in the day. Sadly not an easy life but by God they knew how to have a good time when they could.

@peterfraser9078

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree! What a fantastic performance where everyone in the audience is having just as good a time as the performers, especially the sensational Robert Lindsay and Mary Plunkett. Pure Cockney magic, highlighting how they and the east- enders make fun out of adversity. There’s a serious story attached to the Lambeth Walk- during World War 2, and just after the Normandy landing, three young French- speaking British women, members of the SOE were parachuted into France behind enemy lines to support the French resistance. All won the George Medal- the youngest and bravest of them all, Violette Szabo, aged 22 ran into a German patrol. Using a Bren gun, she opened fire, killing several and allowed her French companion to escape. Taken to a concentration camp, she was horribly tortured and abused over several months but never gave up any information or her spirit. Knowing that she and two other female captives were to be shot, she kept up their spirits by teaching them the Lambeth Walk!! It’s near impossible to imagine such absolute courage and spirit from today’s or any generation and Violette was just 22. There can’t ever have been a more deserving winner of the George Cross and to think that she thought of the Lambeth Walk at this time is heart rending.

What a star....such performance skills.....

Me and My Girl, to me anyway, seemed like the clear Number 2 of the new musicals for it's debut Broadway season, and it truly seemed like it was a fan favorite at the Tony Awards, if you notice all of the cheering and applause throughout the song, not to mention they got a whole theater clapping along to the song. Had Les Mis not come onto the scene the same year, I feel like Me and My Girl could have easily won Best Musical that year.

I loved Robert Lindsay in that family show on the TV, but seeing this makes me realise just how extremely talented he is!,! More of Robert please.

@mpdalyful1

3 жыл бұрын

Robert Lindsay is UK TV and stage star. Whose career Started on the stage. His TV break came as Wolfie smith in citizen Smith by the UK TV genius john sullivan.

@mpdalyful1

3 жыл бұрын

He is a terrific actor. I remember is brilliant turn in gbh for Alan bleasdale. He is a fine Shakespeare actor.

@MissGarland1986

2 жыл бұрын

Did you see him in Anything Goes last year with Sutton Foster. It was truly amazing. He is such a talent.

@SarahB1863

Жыл бұрын

@@mpdalyful1 He also played Captain Sir Edward Pellew in A&E's 'Horatio Hornblower' series in 1999. I was very familiar with this "Lambeth Walk" performance and had NO idea it was the same actor! I was floored!

@amonhotepgabriel8750

Жыл бұрын

@@mpdalyful1Bella caiou

Love watching this clip. Have seen it at least a dozen times.

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

hamerdow same here...once saw it on a DVD from a library here in New England! LOVE this fun song & scene & Robert Lindsey makes it! ♥️♥️♥️

Oozing talent and charisma, many of these celebrities who rightly made there name in lights ,performed at such a time where standards were at there absolute highest. Nothing today comes close.

@LGranthamsHeir

2 жыл бұрын

IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake' or any contemporary style today's chaps are dancing with.

I feel myself do happy listening and watching this my heart could explode. Let's do the Lambeth Walk

@LGranthamsHeir

4 жыл бұрын

Second! It's three times better than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the Lambeth Walk.

Love this song !

Jago Hazzard brought me here

@etymos6644

3 жыл бұрын

He brought us all here..

@simonf8902

2 жыл бұрын

Via the Metropolitan Railway.

Wonderful!!!

This is one of the best rendition

@A2D4

2 жыл бұрын

The one done by Hitlers uniformed Nazis is hysterical, “assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats”. 😂😂

I absolutely love

LOVE Robert Lindsey in this! Fantastic & Fun! ♥️♥️♥️. It must’ve been fun for all of them! The fun is so much in the participation!

Who else is here because of Jago Hazard?

@Elstree

3 жыл бұрын

Aye

@2H80vids

3 жыл бұрын

@@Elstree Yep, me too. Came from his video about the Lambeth Walk at .... kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y52AlcyEorrHdKQ.html Glad I did.😁 I'm guessing Mr Lindsay replied to an ad for someone to "wear a hat and whistle a lot." 😂

@OverBearin

3 жыл бұрын

Who?

@MrPaulMorris

3 жыл бұрын

Yep - he's leading us down some strange byways...

@2H80vids

3 жыл бұрын

@@OverBearin Not only is this explained in the reply above yours, but a link is provided - Simples really.

I'm Here because I actually skipped school to watch Me and my Girl by Stratford Highschool. IT WAS AMAZING

@livcarmen1893

6 жыл бұрын

Stratford did a amazing job I loved it.

@HarryMcivor

6 жыл бұрын

Do you go to Roblox High School?

Love it. Thanks crew. 🌹❤️💕😍😍😍

Robert Lindsay, legend

Lindsay was so talented and versatile.

@girlfriendisbetter

3 жыл бұрын

Still is !!!!

@glen7318

Жыл бұрын

saw him playing Fagin in Oliver....

4:05 Darth Vader loves 'the Lambeth Walk' :-)

@henridelagardere264

5 жыл бұрын

Contrary to popular belief, it was neither Obi Wan nor Grand Moff Tarkin who introduced him but *C-3PO.*

@kayjohnston1132

5 жыл бұрын

The Force is strong with this one.

That was fantastic, now do the Ilson Walk! XX

'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!

@peterfraser9078

Жыл бұрын

Huge fan of Robert Lindsay performing Lambeth Walk and Sutton Foster whom I saw in Anything Goes a few years ago. I’d happily fly from Australia to well, anywhere to see these two great, exuberant stars perform together!

This is one of my favourites

Lambeth Walk is tradition no way and in France we DO love it To NO WAY, in stereophonic sound To! BRAVO and MERCI BEAUCOUP. No Breakit no Way. No words for this no way. Emmanuel from Paris France

This was the year I was born. I did Me and my Girl 8 years ago with my local performing group and loved it. Lambeth Walk was my favourite. But sadly a year ago our company went into liquidation and we no longer perform. This puts a big smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Really hope to do this again sometime.

Jago Hazard sent me here.

That was James Earl Jones, there in an aisle seat, being greeted by Robert Lindsay!

@Badgersj

Ай бұрын

Love Robert Lindsay's reaction!

@belizetobali

Ай бұрын

@@Badgersj Thanks for your comment. It brought me back to see this happiness again!

I wanna do this too! I love this song!!

i was born 1958 in the old hospital brooke street but lived in lambeth road

This song increased its fame in the movie The Longest Day.

@jimrouthier9097

3 жыл бұрын

World War II increased its fame in that same movie.

@pamelarossell7027

2 ай бұрын

This was also in Winds of War when Pug meets Pamela and her fiance in the Savoy. They were doing the dance.

Great memories I have from my evening at the Marquis Theater in 1988!

Robert Lindsay's got proper Jacko moves there with the hat etc

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

Givemethevalium Givemethevalium that came before Jacko, though! This was from the 90’s, but the original in the 30’s I think! And 1 in the 50’s! The move preceeds MJ!

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

'Jacko' ??? As in Michael Jackson? Are you mad? Michael Jackson wasn't born yet when this stuff was was all over the streets. Before television, before the internet, there was musical comedy and there was VAUDEVILLE... there was something called The American Songbook ... in the UK, there were songs sung in pubs by people who came in and sang for each other, just to amuse each other... as for Dance, check out The Nicholas Brothers (black counterparts to contemporaries Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly... Fred and Gene admired them tremendously)... following the Nicholas Brothers, there was Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice; their grandmother danced at The Cotton Club in Harlem. Gregory was born in '46 ... about a dozen years older than Michael. ALL OF THESE people were amazing ... dance is so joyful and just downright sexy. (but please... Michael did NOT invent that stuff. Give credit where credit.... you know the rest).

@nigelkthomas9501

3 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell I didn’t know that guy was Robert Lindsay; the dad from My Family! What show was this from?

@2H80vids

3 жыл бұрын

@@nigelkthomas9501 Me and my girl, like it says at the start of the video, under the video, and in many of the comments.

@nigelkthomas9501

3 жыл бұрын

@@2H80vids Yes, yes. I saw that after I’d added my comment. It wasn’t very clear on a mobile.

My granddad could play the spoons. Love this .

Great music and great preformers great song

Proud to be a Londoner

A very warm place in my heart!

3:53 I love the guy in the audience joining in. Thats the way it should be. So much fun and having a good old time. 😁❤

Came here from the nazi meme, found out it’s actually a bop on its own

@theishaanandankitashow

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@svetlin_dp

2 жыл бұрын

its not even a meme, its british propaganda

@jakerussell135

2 жыл бұрын

"general adolph takes over" by British Pathe?

@theishaanandankitashow

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakerussell135 Yes!

@theishaanandankitashow

2 жыл бұрын

@@svetlin_dp That’s True.

Classic song Noel ! Robert does well too.

This needs a revival.

@zackstark24601

4 жыл бұрын

100% Agree This Is Old Musical Comedy and I love it Christian Borle and Laura Michelle Kelly should be in the Revival

A great Classique! Merci from Paris France

wonderful!!

BRILLIANT...!!!!!

'Anything Goes' musical brought me here. Robert! Lindsay and Foster Sutton are amazing there but I also wasn't aware that he's been doing theatre for a long time!

Pure talent

Lifts my Heart !! Oyy😄😁😊 HEY Lambeth walk EVEY DAY🤣😅🙃😀

wonderful

I had no knowledge of this play or this song until I saw the war film of the SS doing their normal marching but a British filmmaker set it to this music and rigged the film to show them do steps backwards, with Hitler shouting at different times. When Goebbels saw it, he tore out of the theatre cussing and yelling. I heard he put a price on the filmmaker’s head because of it. It is hysterical to watch. Starts off with title “Hitler and the Gestapo Hep Cats” or words to that effect. You can find it on KZread by typing in Hitler & the Lambeth Walk. I had commented that I wondered where it all came from and someone directed me to this play/musical. It’s hilarious but this (the above) is quite enchanting and enjoyable.

I’m doing this for my school show just now and this song is too catch

He worked so hard❤he should be prouder of his masterpiece

Did I see James Ear! Jones in the audience?

I AM HERE THROUGH LOOKING UP HIS MASTER'S VOICE' RECORDS, POSTERS ETC. GREAT FUN. OF COURSE BEING 83 THE MUSIC IS NOT NEW TO ME. ENJOY. BLESSINGS. TRIXIE

He is so tweety

¡Estupendo baile!

Nice to see James Earl Jones in the audience!!!

I'm from Germany and now end up here, don't no why that's relevant, but this Song is great.

I found this song from the book "Mr. Churchill's Secretary" by Susan Ella Macneal. The main characters listen to the song at a party.

The best musical ever shame it can't be re released umo can see a few people doing the song ie bradly Walsh etc😊

A real upper....... this is SHOW BIZ!

Me and my girl

Fantastic

Luvvely

A lot of mileage out of what is essentially a one verse song. A lot of work for the composer and choreographer to extend 30 seconds into 5 minutes. Note James Earl Jones in the audience at 4:03

@neildhan

5 жыл бұрын

Too true. If you don't end this video with full knowledge of the lyrics, may I recommend referral to a memory clinic. =)

@neildhan

5 жыл бұрын

If you're old enough, it reminds me of the old Skol advert from the 80s, the "why aren't you singing along?" "I don't know the words" one.

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

James Horn there are a couple more actors...another on an end seat was a soap opera star, same side as JEJ but closer to the stage & younger & gorgeous! He’s at 4:15-4:17 on the left in the end seat! There’s one further up, but harder to see...it’s easier to see in a dvd of great theater moments!

@cynthiaennis3107

4 жыл бұрын

Neil Hansford I’m assuming it was written with audience participation in mind! Therein lies the most fun!

@jrgboy

4 жыл бұрын

The show first appeared in the West End in 1937 , the composer Reginald Armitage aka Noel Gay died in 1954.

well, hello there mr james earl jones & your red evening scarf!

We had to sing this in my school😂.

IMO 'Lambeth Walk' has more class than the 'Harlem Shake.' I'll walk into my wedding doing the 'Lambeth Walk.'

Fun fact - Doing the Lambeth Walk was banned in Nazi Germany

@discoman2358

3 жыл бұрын

All jazz music was

@boblebovidge7049

Жыл бұрын

Of course the nazi's banned it,they had no sense of humor,-only murder on their sick & demented minds!

what made me listen to this song again is i just conquered lambeth 100% in assassins creed syndicate

I’m a Lambeth Boy . Clapham Common

@kayjay12341

4 жыл бұрын

Lotta Krap love Clapham Common. Lived there for years

I saw this musical in London.

What ever happened to Maryann Plunkett? I love her performance here.

A certain 1940’s ww2 comedy film brought me here

been working actually on lambeth walk opp the lambeth walk pub at the lambeth mission

The song starts outs slow then becomes faster in tone for dancing!

Does anyone know where I can find a full version with Tim Curry?

my father used to drink in the pub called 'the Lambeth walk'. went there once myself. wonder if its still there?

@mnwla she's currently working on an HBO original series. hopefully it gets picked up!

Check out the original too.