Talk:Have Some Madeira M'Dear

Here's the link for the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zi8n4HDQ&feature=related

--86.181.31.88 (talk) 00:57, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

The song ends, "Until she awoke the next morning in bed/ with a smile on her lips and an ache in her head/ and a beard in her earhole that tickled and said/ "Have some Madeira, m'dear". It seems that despite her earlier flight from the dirty old man's flat, the girl somehow found herself in bed with him. I've altered the description to reflect that. WikiwikiwikiwikiWildWildWest (talk) 21:12, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Tony Randall on The Boston Pops

Hello all

I won't edit or add anything anymore on this site -- but maybe one of the poohbahs who edit here with impunity can add that Tony Randall 'sang' it with The Boston Pops Orchestra, with Arthur Feidler conducting. It was about 1972 or later. Dim recollection from my teens. Maybe someone can look it up and find a "secondary" source, because actual fact, like PRIMARY sources are not accepted in this non-scholarly website. Try it again, wikipedia. Start over. Thanks. I was there, but that doesn't matter. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.204.160.140 (talk) 23:20, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

This is an interesting page because I'd only heard the song referenced on Radio 3 by a critic of a piece for piano that had been played with too much affected elegance, and I took it to be a Noel Coward reference. This page, however, throws some correct light on it, and I think the R3 music critic may have boobed. FangoFuficius (talk) 15:38, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

"All unperforated"

Is "all unperforated" a reference to virginity? It gets a laugh from the audience that suggests that it is. But it seems out of character for F and S. S C Cheese (talk) 10:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

I suppose the age of the woman makes this probable.Johnsoniensis (talk) 18:26, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't think so. My parents (who are roughly the right age to have been consuming this material "new") thought that it is a continuation of the "collection of stamps" joke. Explaining jokes rather ruins them, but inviting a 17 year old to "see my stamp collection" would, even in the late 1950s have been so utterly lame a suggestion as to be hard to believe. In other words: it's a joke. It is just implausible and therefore funny (in very much the F&S style). Then we discover that this rascal hasn't even got a decent stamp collection - as a stamp collector will tell you an unperforated stamp is worth very much less and a real collector just wouldn't bother for an entire collection. I could of course be wrong. Who knows, but that's what they thought. I think the remark is only in the earlier (1957 Fortune Theatre) performance, which is far the best, but because it was a mono recording, less well known. Francis Davey (talk) 02:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)