At The Drop of A Hat - Unreleased Songs

Unreleased Songs

A number of songs didn't make it to disc or were released elsewhere. These include;

• "The Wompom" (released in the Bestiary of Flanders and Swann)
• "Grandma" (originally part of an extensive Seven Ages of Women from the revue Airs on a shoestring(1953)
• "In the Bath" (later reused in At the Drop of Another Hat)
• "The Warthog" (released in the Bestiary)
• "The Whale (Mopy Dick)" (released in the Bestiary)
• "The Elephant" (released in the Bestiary)
• "Miranda" (Swann's setting of a Greek poem about the Shakespearian character Miranda, precedes "to Kokoraki")
• "Down Below" (written by Sydney Carter/Swann)
• "The 100 Song" (part of the "Songs for our Time" set that never made it to disc, this started out as one of the "Bottom Five" for the revue "Fresh Airs" (1955). It was included out of context in the Extiary)
• "The Great New Motorway" (topical song, originally for the London Show but adopted for any city with unfinished building projects e. g. "The Great New Gardiner Expressway" when in Toronto, 1961, or "The Great New Sydney Opera House" when in Adelaide, 1964)
• "Good Literature" (written by Carter/Swann)
• "Say who you are" (Carter/Swann)
• "Topical Song (Harold Macmillan)" (following Eden's resignation over the Suez Crisis)
• "Sing a Song of Fivepence" (about decimalisation, sung in Australia)
• "Russia is Red, Dilly Dilly" (Sydney Carter, about space race)
• "Commonwealth Fair" (released in the "Extiary")
• "The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations" (A setting to three of the Lord Chamberlain's Regulations; Smoking is Permitted in the Auditorium, The Safety Curtain Must Be Raised and The Public May Leave at the End of Each Performance. Used as encores. Originally from the Revue "Fresh Airs" (1955))