Anyone familiar with Dudley Moore?

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:08pm

I just got a couple of his recordings. They were classical music spoofs. My favorite is "Die Flabbergast" when he alternates between tenor and soprano at an INCREDIBLY alarming rate, while playing a ridiculously fast Schubert-style song on the piano. Also love his Kurt Weill spoof, "The Ballad of Gangster Joe". One of the best.

So sad that we lost him...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:11pm

Are you high? Of course we're familiar with Dudley Moore! Have you ever seen the original Bedazzled with him and Peter Cook? It is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:16pm

Josh is to music as CruelSandwich is to movies.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:22pm

Oh god no, I never have a number 2 pencil.

[pab]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:28pm

If you think that those classical music spoofs are funny then you must listen to PDQ Bach.
http://www.schickele.com/

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 6:36pm

Aw man... you're looking at a HUGE PDQ BACH FAN!!!
I actually saw one of his shows in Symphony Space once.
I love his work.

My favorite of his is definitely the "Liebeslieder Polkas" as well as "Iphigenia In Brooklyn" and "The Seasonings: An Oratorio". I love his work.

I also recommend classical music satirists Victor Borge and Anna Russell.

[alterego]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 7:53pm

Josh, check out Dudley Moore's 'Song For Suzy'. It was something of a minor(jazz classic) hit in the late 1960's.

[DG]

Posted: 2/28/06 at 7:56pm

One of my favorite recordings ever - listening to it now, as a matter of fact.

[cturtle]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 6:49am

i thot dudley was hilarious in FOUL PLAY.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:13am

Eww......PDQ Bach??? How retro

[sabrelady]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:33am

The One Legged Tarzan skit he did w Peter Cook is a classic.
My fav was their Mini cab skit.
Actually, all the Beyond the Fringe cast went on to greatness!

[children&art]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:36am

j'adore PDQ Bach! and Dudley Moore was perfection in "arthur"

[Jon]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:48am

He was a great classical pianist as well. He did a superb rendidtion of Rhapsody in Blue.

[DG]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:56am

Mr. Moore was considered a musical prodigy, and attended Oxford on scholarship, where he eventually received a Master's Degree in Performance.

Like Phyllis Diller (herself an accomplished pianist) he gave concerts off-and-on throughout his career - usually for charitable causes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:33pm

I love Iphegenia in Brooklyn!

....Only the running knows....

Ruuuuuuuun...ruuuuuuuun.....ruuuuuuuuuuuuunning knows!
Run running knows! Run running knows!
Running! (running!) Running! (running!)

And the PDQ Bach madrigals are so much fun.

My favorite Dudley Moore film, however, is Micki and Maude. The first time I saw that, I was crying from laughing so hard.

[BrianWilsonFan]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:48pm

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook had a huge hit on Broadway around 1973, it was the launchpad for Dudley's sucessful U.S. career. If i remember well it was called Good Evening...

Updated On: 3/1/06 at 12:48 PM

[pab]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 2:17pm

Monk’s Aria from Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice

Et expecto resurrecreation;
Et in unum Dominos and checkers;
Qui tollis peccata mundi morning.

Mea culpa kyrie elei-
Sonny Tufts et Allah in Pompeii;
Donna nobis pacem cum what mei;
Agnus and her sister Doris Dei;
Lord, have mercy on my solo.

Et in terra chicken pox romana;
Sic sic transit gloria mañana;
Sanctus estes Kefauviridiana
In flagrante delicto Svetlana;
Lord, have mercy on my solo.

Credo in, at most, unum deum;
Caveat nabisco mausoleum;
Coitus interruptus bonus meum;
Kimo sabe watchum what you sayum;
Lord, have mercy on my soul so low

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 2:50pm

Yeah. "Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice". I really want to play that score so badly. One of my piano teachers played it originally. Yes, the version on the original album had David Oei on piano. He is awesome.

Victor Borge is another one of my idols. I have always dreamed of doing a show like his with his type of patter, like "I have a request tonight. Usually I don't do request numbers... unless, of course, I have been asked to do so..." "...this is a request from a lady... I sincerely hope..." "She's an elderly lady. She's an OLD lady, you might as well face it." "As a matter of fact she's dead now, but..." LMAO... "It's from her son."

It keeps getting weirder and weirder. Also give a listen to Anna Russell. She satirizes the whole soprano's range from coloratura to soubrette to drammatico to Wagnerian and making weird language syllables that sound like opera. She also comedically summarizes "Der Ring Das Nibelungen" in 20 minutes. Check it out.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 4:29pm

I so love Dudley Moore. I didn't discover him really until Arthur 2: On the Rocks. (I loved that they let a fall down drunk that had never been to an AA meeting adopt a child in a few months...lol.) My mother went to our little independent movie rental place (remember those? where they had a "porn room in the back?") and got me Arthur and Micky and Maude and made me watch them. She just adored him.

If you knew Susan, like I knew Susan...Oh! I...need a drink.